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Author : David Lehman
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0472066331
An unexpectedly entertaining collection of writing by poets discussing the creative inspiration and artistic form of their work.
Author : David Lehman
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015012872142
Author : Terence Diggory
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 1921 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 9781438140667
Presents an alphabetical reference guide detailing the lives and works of poets associated with the New York Schools of the early twentieth century.
Author : Jennifer Ann Wagner,Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838636306
Seven chapters take up readings of sonnets by Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, D.G. Rossetti, Hopkins, and, to draw out the implications of this study into our own century, Robert Frost. Close readings of individual Wordsworth sonnets in chapter 1 sketch out a constellation of themes and tropes, as well as a fundamental, revisionary poetic that the very form of the sonnet tropes. Both those tropes and that procedure are problematized and, in some cases, deconstructed by subsequent poets. Far from accepting Wordsworth's visionary claim for the sonnet, this study goes on to show how profoundly those claims were critiqued.
Author : Jonathan Post
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191071348
A Thickness of Particulars: The Poetry of Anthony Hecht is the first book-length study of one of the great formal poets of the later twentieth century (1923-2004). Making use of Hecht's correspondence, which the author edited, it situates Hecht's writings in the context of pre- and post-World-War II verse, including poetry written by W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, James Merrill, and Richard Wilbur. In nine chapters, the book ranges over Hecht's full career, with special emphasis placed on the effects of the war on his memory; Hecht participated in the final push by the Allied troops in Europe and was involved in the liberation of the Flossenburg Concentration Camp. The study explores the important place Venice and Italy occupied in his imagination as well as the significance of the visual and dramatic arts and music more generally. Chapters are devoted to analyzing celebrated individual poems (such as " and " the making of particular volumes (such as the Pulitzer-prize-winning The Hard Hours), the poet's mid-career turn toward writing dramatic monologues and longer narrative poems (such as " " and "), the inspiring use he made of Shakespeare, especially in " his delightful riff on A Mid-summer Night's Dream, and his collaboration with the artist Leonard Baskin in the Presumptions of Death Series. The book seeks to unfold the itinerary of a highly civilized mind brooding, with wit, over the dark landscape of the later twentieth century in poems of unrivalled beauty.
Author : Joseph M. Conte
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501703232
Drawing on the work of contemporary American poets from Ashbery to Zukofsky, Joseph M. Conte elaborates an innovative typology of postmodern poetic forms. In Conte's view, looking at recent poetry in terms of the complementary methods of seriality and proceduralism offers a rewarding alternative to the familiar analytic dichotomy of "open" and "closed" forms.
Author : James Merrill
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781101875513
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • The selected correspondence of the brilliant poet, one of the twentieth century's last great letter writers. "I don't keep a journal, not after the first week," James Merrill asserted in a letter while on a trip around the world. "Letters have got to bear all the burden." A vivacious correspondent, whether abroad, where avid curiosity and fond memory frequently took him, or at home, he wrote eagerly and often, to family and lifelong friends, American and Greek lovers, confidants in literature and art about everything that mattered—aesthetics, opera and painting, housekeeping and cooking, the comedy of social life, the mysteries of the Ouija board and the spirit world, and psychological and moral dilemmas—in funny, dashing, unrevised missives, composed to entertain himself as well as his recipients. On a personal nemesis: "the ambivalence I live with. It worries me less and less. It becomes the very stuff of my art"; on a lunch for Wallace Stevens given by Blanche Knopf: "It had been decided by one and all that nothing but small talk would be allowed"; on romance in his late fifties: "I must stop acting like an orphan gobbling cookies in fear of the plate's being taken away"; on great books: "they burn us like radium, with their decisiveness, their terrible understanding of what happens." Merrill's daily chronicle of love and loss is unfettered, self-critical, full of good gossip, and attuned to the wicked irony, the poignant detail—a natural extension of the great poet's voice.
Author : Annie Finch,Kathrine Varnes
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 0472067257
Fifty poets examine the architecture of poems--from the haiku to rap music--and trace their history
Author : David Caplan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199718407
Questions of Possibility examines the particular forms that contemporary American poets favor and those they neglect. The poets' choices reveal both their ambitions and their limitations, the new possibilities they discover and the traditions they find unimaginable. By means of close attention to the sestina, ghazal, love sonnet, ballad, and heroic couplet, this study advances a new understanding of contemporary American poetry. Rather than pitting "closed" verse against "open" and "traditional" poetry against "experimental," Questions of Possibility explores how poets associated with different movements inspire and inform each other's work. Discussing a range of authors, from Charles Bernstein, Derek Walcott, and Marilyn Hacker to Agha Shahid Ali, David Caplan treats these poets as contemporaries who share the language, not as partisans assigned to rival camps. The most interesting contemporary poetry crosses the boundaries that literary criticism draws, synthesizing diverse influences and establishing surprising affinities. In a series of lively readings, Caplan charts the diverse characteristics and accomplishments of modern poetry, from the gay and lesbian love sonnet to the currently popular sestina.
Author : Susan M. Schultz
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1995-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780817307677
The Electronic Poetry Center (EPC) of the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo presents selections from "Tribe of John: Ashbery and Contemporary Poetry." The book highlights the poetry of American poet and writer John Ashbery (1927- ). EPC offers the text of the introduction and afterword, as well as the table of contents.
Author : Emmanuel S. Nelson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 827 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313348600
In this two-volume work, hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries survey contemporary lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and queer American literature and its social contexts. Comprehensive in scope and accessible to students and general readers, Encyclopedia of Contemporary LGBTQ Literature of the United States explores contemporary American LGBTQ literature and its social, political, cultural, and historical contexts. Included are several hundred alphabetically arranged entries written by expert contributors. Students of literature and popular culture will appreciate the encyclopedia's insightful survey and discussion of LGBTQ authors and their works, while students of history and social issues will value the encyclopedia's use of literature to explore LGBTQ American society. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and lists additional sources of information. To further enhance study and understanding, the encyclopedia closes with a selected general bibliography of print and electronic resources for student research.
Author : Harvey Seymour Gross,Robert McDowell
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0472065173
An updated and expanded version of a classic and essential text on prosody.
Author : Stephen Cushman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400863525
In the 1830s Alexis de Tocqueville prophesied that American writers would slight, even despise, form--that they would favor the sensational over rational order. He suggested that this attitude was linked to a distinct concept of democracy in America. Exposing the inaccuracies of such claims when applied to poetry, Stephen Cushman maintains that American poets tend to overvalue the formal aspects of their art and in turn overestimate the relationship between those formal aspects and various ideas of America. In this book Cushman examines poems and prose statements in which poets as diverse as Emily Dickinson and Ezra Pound describe their own poetic forms, and he investigates links and analogies between poets' notions of form and their notions of "Americanness.". The book begins with a brief discussion of Whitman, who said, "The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem." Cushman takes this to mean that American poetry has succeeded in making fictions about itself which persuade its readers that its uniqueness transcends merely geographical boundaries. He explores the truth of this statement by considering the Americanness of Emily Dickinson, Ezra Pound, Elizabeth Bishop, and A. R. Ammons. He concludes that the uniqueness of American poetry lies not so much in its forms as in its formalism and in the various attitudes that formalism reveals. Originally published in 1993. 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.
Author : Emmanuel S. Nelson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313017094
Gay presence is nothing new to American verse and theater. Homoerotic themes are discernible in American poetry as early as the 19th century, and identifiably gay characters appeared on the American stage more than 70 years ago. But aside from a few notable exceptions, gay artists of earlier generations felt compelled to avoid sexual candor in their writings. Conversely, most contemporary gay poets and playwrights are free from such constraints and have created a remarkable body of work. This reference is a guide to their creative achievements. Alphabetically arranged entries present 62 contemporary gay American poets and dramatists. While the majority of included writers are younger artists who came of age in the post-Stonewall U.S., some are older authors whose work has continued or persisted into recent decades. A number of these writers are well known, including Edward Albee, Harvey Fierstein, and Allen Ginsberg. Others, such as Alan Bowne, Timothy Liu, and Robert O'Hara, merit wider recognition. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of major works and themes, an overview of the author's critical reception, and primary and secondary bibliographies.
Author : Ninke Stukker,Wilbert Spooren,Gerard Steen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110469639
The study of genre is scattered across research disciplines. This volume offers an integrative perspective starting from the assumption that genres are cognitive constructs, recognized, maintained and employed by members of a given discourse community. Its central questions are: What does genre knowledge consist of? How is it organized in cognition? How is it applied in discourse production and interpretation? How is it reflected in language use?
