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Twenty Questions
by J D Mcclatchy  Publisher Comments One of America's finest poet-critics leads readers into the mysteries of poetry: how it draws on our lives, and how it leads back into them. In a series of linked essays progressing from the autobiographical to the critical--and closing with a remarkable...
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Modernist Alchemy: Poetry and the Occult
by Timothy Materer Publisher Comments The occult has been a source of both ideas and images for modern poets from W. B. Yeats to James Merrill. Poets as diverse as Ezra Pound, H.D., Sylvia Plath, Robert Duncan, and Ted Hughes were both fascinated by, and skeptical of, such phenomena as...
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Black Chant: Languages of African-American Postmodernism (Cambridge Studies in American Literature & Culture)
by Aldon Lynn Nielsen Publisher Comments This book traces the embrace and transformation of black modernisms and postmodernisms by African-American poets in the decades after World War II....
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Historical Evidence and the Reading of Seventeenth-Century Poetry
by Cleanth Brooks Book News Annotation In a series of case studies, the esteemed critic (rhetoric emeritus, Yale U.) examines the degree and extent to which some dozen particular 17th-century poems deal with the history of the time out of which they came. With the exception of those by...
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The Ghost of Tradition: Expansive Poetry and Postmodernism
by Kevin Walzer Synopsis This compelling book, the first to offer detailed analysis of Expansive Poetry's leading poets, takes readers inside the most influential movement in American poetry since the Beats. Praised and debated in the Times Literary Supplement, The Hudson Review,...
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Interpreting the Indian: Twentieth-Century Poets and the Native American
by Michael Castro Book News Annotation Peplau, a seminal figure in psychiatric nursing, is best known for her theory that the interactive relationship between nurse and patient is itself a part of the therapeutic process. These papers, many not previously published, cover not only...
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Gray Agonistes: Thomas Gray and Masculine Friendship
by Robert F Gleckner Publisher Comments Thomas Gray (1716-1771) had the misfortune to be a poet at a time when English poetry was struggling with an aching question: how to preserve continuity with the great tradition of Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton, yet avoid being merely echoes of them...
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The word woman and other related writings
by Laura Jackso Riding Publisher Comments Important writings on the subject of woman's role in the story of human identity....
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Theory/Culture #10: Contemporary Poetry Meets Mode
by Anthony Easthope Book News Annotation Sixteen original essays explore the hypothesis that the cultural conditions under which our poems are written are the same conditions which have shaped the framework of contemporary critical theory. The 16 authors apply various theoretical approaches...
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Classic Writings on Poetry
by William Harmon Publisher Comments The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty. He is a sovereign, and stands on the centre. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, from The Poet The poet is a seer.... he is individual... he is complete in himself.... the others are as good as he, only he...
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Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets
by Helen H Vendler Publisher Comments Join Professor Helen Vendler in her course lecture on the Yeats poem Among School Children. View her insightful and passionate analysis along with a condensed reading and student comments on the course. The poets nearest to us in time often seem the most...
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De/Compositions: 101 Good Poems Gone Wrong
by W D Snodgrass Publisher Comments This original, illuminating, and sometimes quite funny poetry anthology is primarily concerned with a fundamental and familiar question: How can we tell good poetry from bad? To illustrate precisely why these 101 poems, many of them well-loved classics...
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Poetry as epitaph :representation and poetic language
by Karen Mills-courts Book News Annotation Mills-Courts (English, SUNY at Fredonia) maintains that all poets attempt to embody meaning in words that are inherently epitaphic, and explores the strategies they employ to defend the illusion of voice and presence in their works against the...
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Randell Jarrell: A Literary Life
by William H Pritchard Publisher Comments This elegantly written study concentrates on the complex interaction between Jarrell's life and work, describing and commenting on his most important poems and prose, but also focusing on the significant events and experiences of his life. Pritchard...
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Promethean Politics of Milton, Blake, & Shelley
by Linda M Lewis Book News Annotation Examining the myth of the rebellious Titan who stole fire from the Olympic gods to bestow it upon humanity, as presented in the poetic tradition, Lewis traces Promethean figures and imagery in the major poetry of Milton, Blake, and Shelley...
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Poets on the Peak: Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen and Jack Kerouac in the Cascades
by John Suiter
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Castle of Indolence
by Thomas M Disch
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Patterns of Poetry: An Encyclopedia of Forms
by Miller Williams
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Digital Poetics: The Making of E-Poetries (Modern and Contemporary Poetics)
by Loss Pequen Glazier
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Verbal Icon-Pa
by William K. Wimsatt
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