Author: Michael O'Neill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-04-29
Total Pages: 1117
ISBN-13: 0521883067
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A literary-historical account of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon writings to the present.
Author: David Fairer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-10-13
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 1317892879
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In recent years the canon of eighteenth-century poetry has greatly expanded to include women poets, labouring-class and provincial poets, and many previously unheard voices. Fairer’s book takes up the challenge this ought to pose to our traditional understanding of the subject. This book seeks to question some of the structures, categories, and labels that have given the age its reassuring shape in literary history. In doing so Fairer offers a fresh and detailed look at a wide range of material.
Author: Derek Attridge
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-07-10
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 1317869516
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines the way in which poetry in English makes use of rhythm. The author argues that there are three major influences which determine the verse-forms used in any language: the natural rhythm of the spoken language itself; the properties of rhythmic form; and the metrical conventions which have grown up within the literary tradition. He investigates these in order to explain the forms of English verse, and to show how rhythm and metre work as an essential part of the reader's experience of poetry.
Author: James Fenton
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 151
ISBN-13: 0374528896
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An introduction to poetry makes use of prisoner's work songs, Broadway show tunes, and the cries of street vendors to introduce readers to the rhythms of poetry.
Author: Janet Schrunk Ericksen
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2020-11-19
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 1487507461
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reading Old English Biblical Poetry considers the Junius 11 manuscript, the only surviving illustrated book of Old English poetry, in terms of its earliest readers and their multiple strategies of reading and making meaning. Junius 11 begins with the creation story and ends with the final vanquishing of Satan by Jesus. The manuscript is both a continuous whole and a collection with discontinuities and functionally independent pieces. The chapters of Reading Old English Biblical Poetry propose multiple models for reader engagement with the texts in this manuscript, including selective and sequential reading, reading in juxtaposition, and reading in contexts within and outside of the pages of Junius 11. The study is framed by particular attention to the materiality of the manuscript and how that might have informed its early reception, and it broadens considerations of reading beyond those of the manuscript's compiler and possible patron. As a book, Junius 11 reflects a rich and varied culture of reading that existed in and beyond houses of God in England in the tenth and eleventh centuries, and it points to readers who had enough experience to select and find wisdom, narrative pleasure, and a diversity of other things within this or any book's contents.
Author: P J Keegan
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2004-09-30
Total Pages: 1184
ISBN-13: 0141941871
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This ambitious and revelatory collection turns the traditional chronology of anthologies on its head, listing poems according to their first individual appearance in the language rather than by poet.
Author: Alphonso Gerald Newcomer
Publisher:
Published: 1910
Total Pages: 776
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ben Hickman
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2012-03-07
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 0748649220
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A study of how we should read one of America's most important poets
Author: Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Publisher:
Published: 1901
Total Pages: 1190
ISBN-13:
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