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Collected Poems, 1917-1982
Author: Archibald MacLeish
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9780395395691
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This expanded volume of the distinguished poet's work contains 29 previously uncollected poems, some that had been published, and some found in manuscript after MacLeish's death in 1982. This is the definitive volume produced by a life that filled several careers as writer, teacher, and public servant, but was devoted above all to poetry.
Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century
Author: Eric L. Haralson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-21
Total Pages: 2479
ISBN-13: 1317763211
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century contains over 400 entries that treat a broad range of individual poets and poems, along with many articles devoted to topics, schools, or periods of American verse in the century. Entries fall into three main categories: poet entries, which provide biographical and cultural contexts for the author's career; entries on individual works, which offer closer explication of the most resonant poems in the 20th-century canon; and topical entries, which offer analyses of a given period of literary production, school, thematically constructed category, or other verse tradition that historically has been in dialogue with the poetry of the United States.
Twentieth-Century Metapoetry and the Lyric Tradition
Author: Daniella Jancsó
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2019-02-19
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 3110631725
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Twentieth-Century Metapoetry and the Lyric Tradition reveals the unique value of metapoems for exploring twentieth-century poetry. By placing these texts into a hitherto barely investigated literary-historical perspective, it demonstrates that modern metapoetry is steeped in the lyric tradition to a much greater extent than previously acknowledged. Since these literary continuities that cut across epochal boundaries can be traced across all major poetic movements, they challenge established accounts of the history of twentieth-century poetry that postulate a radical break with the (immediate) past. Moreover, the finding that metapoems perpetuate traditional forms and topoi distinguishes metapoetry historically and systematically from metafiction and metadrama. After highlighting the most important differences as regards to the function of metareference in poetry on the one side, and in fiction and drama on the other, the book concludes with a discussion of how to account for these generic differences theoretically. With its "extraordinarily subtle and perceptive" (Ronald Bush, St. John's College, Oxford) interpretive readings of over one hundred metapoems by canonical anglophone authors, it offers the first representative selection of twentieth-century poems about poetry in English.
How Poetry Works
Author: Phil Roberts
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2000-04-27
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0141928107
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this refreshing and inspiring book, Phil Roberts asserts that poetry, like music, is based on sound and so close attention should be paid to its rhythms and metrical patterns. He illustrates his points with lively examples ranging from nursery rhymes and limericks to recent experimental forms as well as familiar pieces from over the centuries. The book concludes with a Millennium Anthology, a salute to the poetry of the past thousand years, including pieces from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, as well as Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the USA.
Yeats and American Poetry
Author: Terence Diggory
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2014-07-14
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 140085380X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work is designed to show a double influence: first, that of American poets, especially Whitman, on W. B. Yeats, and, second, of Yeats on a wide range of American poets who began their careers during the first decades of the century. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Writing Back
Author: Susan Winnett
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2012-09-18
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 142140740X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The migration of American artists and intellectuals to Europe in the early twentieth century has been amply documented and studied, but few scholars have examined the aftermath of their return home. Writing Back focuses on the memoirs of modernist writers and intellectuals who struggled with their return to America after years of living abroad. Susan Winnett establishes repatriation as related to but significantly different from travel and exile. She engages in close readings of several writers-in-exile, including Henry James, Harold Stearns, Malcolm Cowley, and Gertrude Stein. Writing Back examines how repatriation unsettles the self-construction of the "returning absentee" by challenging the fictions of national and cultural identity with which the writer has experimented during the time abroad. As both Americans and expatriates, these writers gained a unique perspective on American culture, particularly in terms of gender roles, national identity, artistic self-conception, mobility, and global culture. -- Joseph A. Boone, University of Southern California
Twentieth Century Drama
Author: Simon Trussler
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1983-04-01
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 134917064X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A compendium of information on all the main events, individuals, political groupings and issues of the 20th century. It provides a guide to current thinking on important historical topics and personalities within the period, and offers a guide to further reading.
Poetic Argument
Author: Jonathan Kertzer
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1989-10-01
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 0773561897
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Beginning with an essay on the history and theory of poetic argument, he traces its patterns through Romantic and Modernist literature. He divides his subject into three areas: the paradoxes of reason, language, and argument. Poetic Argument surveys the writings of the five poets in light of what has to be "proved" and identifies the characteristic styles of proof for each. For example, in the chapter on Marianne Moore, Kertzer studies two expressions of poetic argument. The first regards poetry as a waking dream, combining the powers of sleep and calculation. The second, derived from Imagism, treats poetry as a special way of seeing. Kertzer suggests that the combination of these two elements produces Moore's characteristically intricate, but inconclusive, forms of argument.
Veronica Forrest-Thomson and Language Poetry
Author: Alison Mark
Publisher: Writers and Their Work (Paperb
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 0746309120
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study explores the important of, and the relationship between, the work of the innovative poet and literary theorist Veronica Forrest-Thomson (1947-75), and that of the contemporary North American Language poets.
