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A Poet's Glossary

Author : Edward Hirsch
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 683 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780547737461

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A Poet's Glossary by Edward Hirsch Pdf

A major addition to the literature of poetry, Edward Hirsch’s sparkling new work is a compilation of forms, devices, groups, movements, isms, aesthetics, rhetorical terms, and folklore—a book that all readers, writers, teachers, and students of poetry will return to over and over. Hirsch has delved deeply into the poetic traditions of the world, returning with an inclusive, international compendium. Moving gracefully from the bards of ancient Greece to the revolutionaries of Latin America, from small formal elements to large mysteries, he provides thoughtful definitions for the most important poetic vocabulary, imbuing his work with a lifetime of scholarship and the warmth of a man devoted to his art. Knowing how a poem works is essential to unlocking its meaning. Hirsch’s entries will deepen readers’ relationships with their favorite poems and open greater levels of understanding in each new poem they encounter. Shot through with the enthusiasm, authority, and sheer delight that made How to Read a Poem so beloved, A Poet’s Glossary is a new classic.

The Essential Poet's Glossary

Author : Edward Hirsch
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780544932098

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The Essential Poet's Glossary by Edward Hirsch Pdf

A Poet’s Glossary was an extraordinary achievement that continues to stand as a definitive source for poets and poetry lovers alike. Here, The Essential Poet’s Glossary gleans the very best from that extraordinary volume. "An instant classic that belongs on the bookshelf of every serious poet and literature student."—Washington Post Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets Edward Hirsch has compiled poetic terms spanning centuries and continents, including forms, devices, movements, aesthetics, rhetorical terms, and folklore. Knowing how a poem works is crucial to unlocking its meaning—entries will deepen readers’ relationships with their favorite poems and open greater levels of understanding in each new poem they encounter. Shot through with the enthusiasm, authority, and sheer delight that made A Poet’s Glossary and How to Read a Poem so beloved, this Essential edition is the book that all readers, writers, teachers, and students of poetry will return to again and again.

Poet's Choice

Author : Edward Hirsch
Publisher : Ecco
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0156032678

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Poet's Choice by Edward Hirsch Pdf

A collection of revised and expanded writings culled from the author's popular Washington Post Book World "Poet's Choice" column demonstrates how poetry responds to world challenges and introduces the work of more than 130 writers.

How To Read A Poem

Author : Edward Hirsch
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780547543727

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How To Read A Poem by Edward Hirsch Pdf

A masterful work by a master poet, this brilliant summation of poetry and human nature will speak to all readers who long to place poetry in their lives. How to Read a Poem is an unprecedented exploration of poetry and feeling. In language at once acute and emotional, National Book Critics Circle award-winning distinguished poet and critic Edward Hirsch describes why poetry matters and how we can open up our imaginations so that its message can make a difference. In a marvelous reading of verse from around the world, including work by Pablo Neruda, Elizabeth Bishop, Wallace Stevens, and Sylvia Plath, among many others, Hirsch discovers the true meaning of their words and ideas and brings their sublime message home into our hearts. "The answer Hirsch gives to the question of how to read as poem is: Ecstatically."—Boston Book Review

Hermetic Definition: Poetry

Author : Hilda Doolittle
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1972-01-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780811222389

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Hermetic Definition: Poetry by Hilda Doolittle Pdf

This late collection, written in the last years of H.D.'s life, is a testament to the fine ear and mythic sense of a poet who is now recognized as one of the greatest of her generation. H. D.’s (Hilda Doolittle, 1884-1961) late poems of search and longing represent the mature achievement of a poet who has come increasingly to be recognized as one of the most important of her generation. The title poem and other long pieces in this collection ("Sagesse" and "Winter Love") were written between 1957 and her death four years later, and are heretofore unpublished, except in fragments. We can see now in proper context her fine ear for the free line, and understand why other poets, such as Denise Levertov, Robert Creeley, and Robert Duncan, find so much to admire in H. D.’s work. As in her earlier books, one level of H.D.’s significant poetic statement derives from her intimate knowledge of and identification with classical Greek and arcane cultures; taken together, these elements make up the poet’s own personal myth. Norman Holmes Pearson, H. D’s friend and literary executor, has contributed an illuminating foreword to this impressive collection. H. D.’s (Hilda Doolittle, 1884-1961) late poems of search and longing represent the mature achievement of a poet who has come increasingly to be recognized as one of the most important of her generation. The title poem and other long pieces in this collection ("Sagesse" and "Winter Love") were written between 1957 and her death four years later, and are heretofore unpublished, except in fragments. We can see now in proper context her fine ear for the free line, and understand why other poets, such as Denise Levertov, Robert Creeley, and Robert Duncan, find so much to admire in H. D.’s work. As in her earlier books, one level of H.D.’s significant poetic statement derives from her intimate knowledge of and identification with classical Greek and arcane cultures; taken together, these elements make up the poet’s own personal myth. Norman Holmes Pearson, H. D’s friend and literary executor, has contributed an illuminating foreword to this impressive collection.

Dictionary Poetics

Author : Craig Dworkin
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780823287994

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Dictionary Poetics by Craig Dworkin Pdf

The new ways of writing pioneered by the literary avant-garde invite new ways of reading commensurate with their modes of composition. Dictionary Poetics examines one of those modes: book-length poems, from Louis Zukofsky to Harryette Mullen, all structured by particular editions of specific dictionaries. By reading these poems in tandem with their source texts, Dworkin puts paid to the notion that even the most abstract and fragmentary avant-garde literature is nonsensical, meaningless, or impenetrable. When read from the right perspective, passages that at first appear to be discontinuous, irrational, or hopelessly cryptic suddenly appear logically consistent, rationally structured, and thematically coherent. Following a methodology of “critical description,” Dictionary Poetics maps the material surfaces of poems, tracing the networks of signifiers that undergird the more familiar representational schemes with which conventional readings have been traditionally concerned. In the process, this book demonstrates that new ways of reading can yield significant interpretive payoffs, open otherwise unavailable critical insights into the formal and semantic structures of a composition, and transform our understanding of literary texts at their most fundamental levels.

L’amour

Author : Shambhavi Mehrotra
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-19
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781648997358

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L’amour by Shambhavi Mehrotra Pdf

Love holds an immense ocean of delicacies and enhanced feelings within us. We either get lost in the reverie or hide from it. Love is an emotion that is hidden in the eyes of a boy born in an untouchable caste falling for a girl from the rich. Love is decorated by the brush of a painter who loses his musing in the smile of his beloved. The purity of love is ignited between two lovers searching for support in each other in their married life, or sitting by the window sill one rainy evening and remembering the lover who has long gone from your arms. There are a hundred moments of love. So escape from your routine and sit with your coffee as you explore the hidden stories of love, or carry these moments through your travelling escapades and enhance your joyful time with yourself and your memories. Go on and explore your world of love and decorate it with your fascinating memories.

The Hatred of Poetry

Author : Ben Lerner
Publisher : FSG Originals
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780374712334

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The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner Pdf

No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: "I, too, dislike it," wrote Marianne Moore. "Many more people agree they hate poetry," Ben Lerner writes, "than can agree what poetry is. I, too, dislike it and have largely organized my life around it and do not experience that as a contradiction because poetry and the hatred of poetry are inextricable in ways it is my purpose to explore." In this inventive and lucid essay, Lerner takes the hatred of poetry as the starting point of his defense of the art. He examines poetry's greatest haters (beginning with Plato's famous claim that an ideal city had no place for poets, who would only corrupt and mislead the young) and both its greatest and worst practitioners, providing inspired close readings of Keats, Dickinson, McGonagall, Whitman, and others. Throughout, he attempts to explain the noble failure at the heart of every truly great and truly horrible poem: the impulse to launch the experience of an individual into a timeless communal existence. In The Hatred of Poetry, Lerner has crafted an entertaining, personal, and entirely original examination of a vocation no less essential for being impossible.

A Glossary of Chickens

Author : Gary J. Whitehead
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780691157467

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A Glossary of Chickens by Gary J. Whitehead Pdf

An inventive and observant collection of lyric poems from the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets With skillful rhetoric and tempered lyricism, the poems in A Glossary of Chickens explore, in part, the struggle to understand the world through the symbolism of words. Like the hens of the title poem, Gary J. Whitehead's lyrics root around in the earth searching for sustenance, cluck rather than crow, and possess a humble majesty. Confronting subjects such as moral depravity, nature's indifference, aging, illness, death, the tenacity of spirit, and the possibility of joy, the poems in this collection are accessible and controlled, musical and meditative, imagistic and richly figurative. They are informed by history, literature, and a deep interest in the natural world, touching on a wide range of subjects, from the Civil War and whale ships, to animals and insects. Two poems present biblical narratives, the story of Lot's wife and an imagining of Noah in his old age. Other poems nod to favorite authors: one poem is in the voice of the character Babo, from Herman Melville's Benito Cereno, while another is a kind of prequel to Emily Dickinson's "She rose to His Requirement." As inventive as they are observant, these memorable lyrics strive for revelation and provide their own revelations.

The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms

Author : Roland Greene,Stephen Cushman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400880645

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The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms by Roland Greene,Stephen Cushman Pdf

An essential handbook for literary studies The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms—drawn from the latest edition of the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics—provides an authoritative guide to the most important terms in the study of poetry and literature. Featuring 226 fully revised and updated entries, including 100 that are new to this edition, the book offers clear and insightful definitions and discussions of critical concepts, genres, forms, movements, and poetic elements, followed by invaluable, up-to-date bibliographies that guide users to further reading and research. Because the entries are carefully selected and adapted from the Princeton Encyclopedia, the Handbook has unrivalled breadth and depth for a book of its kind, in a convenient, portable size. Fully indexed for the first time and complete with an introduction by the editors, this is an essential volume for all literature students, teachers, and researchers, as well as other readers and writers. Drawn from the latest edition of the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics Provides 226 fully updated and authoritative entries, including 100 new to this edition, written by an international team of leading scholars Features entries on critical concepts (canon, mimesis, prosody, syntax); genres, forms, and movements (ballad, blank verse, confessional poetry, ode); and terms (apostrophe, hypotaxis and parataxis, meter, tone) Includes an introduction, bibliographies, cross-references, and a full index

100 Poems to Break Your Heart

Author : Edward Hirsch
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780544931886

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100 Poems to Break Your Heart by Edward Hirsch Pdf

100 of the most moving and inspiring poems of the last 200 years from around the world, a collection that will comfort and enthrall anyone trapped by grief or loneliness, selected by the award-winning, best-selling, and beloved author of How to Read a Poem Implicit in poetry is the idea that we are enriched by heartbreaks, by the recognition and understanding of suffering--not just our own suffering but also the pain of others. We are not so much diminished as enlarged by grief, by our refusal to vanish, or to let others vanish, without leaving a record. And poets are people who are determined to leave a trace in words, to transform oceanic depths of feeling into art that speaks to others. In 100 Poems to Break Your Heart, poet and advocate Edward Hirsch selects 100 poems, from the nineteenth century to the present, and illuminates them, unpacking context and references to help the reader fully experience the range of emotion and wisdom within these poems. For anyone trying to process grief, loneliness, or fear, this collection of poetry will be your guide in trying times.

The Concise Columbia Book of Poetry

Author : William Harmon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : American poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015021587269

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The Concise Columbia Book of Poetry by William Harmon Pdf

An anthology of one hundred poems that have achieved the greatest success for the longest time with the largest number of readers. Includes brief biographies of the poets and an index of titles and first lines.

The Poet's Dictionary

Author : William Packard
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1994-07-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780062720450

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The Poet's Dictionary by William Packard Pdf

Defines and gives examples of words, concepts, and types of information that poets and non-poets will want to have explained.

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Author : John Koenig
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781501153662

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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “It’s undeniably thrilling to find words for our strangest feelings…Koenig casts light into lonely corners of human experience…An enchanting book. “ —The Washington Post A truly original book in every sense of the word, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows poetically defines emotions that we all feel but don’t have the words to express—until now. Have you ever wondered about the lives of each person you pass on the street, realizing that everyone is the main character in their own story, each living a life as vivid and complex as your own? That feeling has a name: “sonder.” Or maybe you’ve watched a thunderstorm roll in and felt a primal hunger for disaster, hoping it would shake up your life. That’s called “lachesism.” Or you were looking through old photos and felt a pang of nostalgia for a time you’ve never actually experienced. That’s “anemoia.” If you’ve never heard of these terms before, that’s because they didn’t exist until John Koenig set out to fill the gaps in our language of emotion. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows “creates beautiful new words that we need but do not yet have,” says John Green, bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars. By turns poignant, relatable, and mind-bending, the definitions include whimsical etymologies drawn from languages around the world, interspersed with otherworldly collages and lyrical essays that explore forgotten corners of the human condition—from “astrophe,” the longing to explore beyond the planet Earth, to “zenosyne,” the sense that time keeps getting faster. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is for anyone who enjoys a shift in perspective, pondering the ineffable feelings that make up our lives. With a gorgeous package and beautiful illustrations throughout, this is the perfect gift for creatives, word nerds, and human beings everywhere.

The Cantos of Ezra Pound

Author : Ezra Pound
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0811213269

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The Cantos of Ezra Pound by Ezra Pound Pdf

The Cantos of Ezra Pound is the most important epic poem of the twentieth century.