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On Modern Poetry

Author : Guido Mazzoni
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674249035

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On Modern Poetry by Guido Mazzoni Pdf

Guido Mazzoni tells the story of poetry's revolution in the modern age. The chief transformation was the rise of the lyric as it is now conceived: a genre in which a first-person speaker talks about itself. Mazzoni argues that modern poetry embodies the age of the individual and has wrought profound changes in the expectations of readers.

Beautiful & Pointless

Author : David Orr
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780062079411

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Beautiful & Pointless by David Orr Pdf

"David Orr is no starry-eyed cheerleader for contemporary poetry; Orr’s a critic, and a good one. . . . Beautiful & Pointless is a clear-eyed, opinionated, and idiosyncratic guide to a vibrant but endangered art form, essential reading for anyone who loves poetry, and also for those of us who mostly just admire it from afar." —Tom Perrotta Award-winning New York Times Book Review poetry columnist David Orr delivers an engaging, amusing, and stimulating tour through the world of poetry. With echoes of Francine Prose’s Reading Like a Writer, Orr’s Beautiful & Pointless offers a smart and funny approach to appreciating an art form that many find difficult to embrace.

Strong Words

Author : W. N. Herbert,Matthew Hollis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015049687265

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Strong Words by W. N. Herbert,Matthew Hollis Pdf

As well as representing many of the most important poets of the last 100 years, Strong Words charts many different stances and movements, from modernism to postmodernism, from futurism to the future theories of poetry.

On Modern Poetry

Author : Robert Rowland Smith
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441174222

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On Modern Poetry by Robert Rowland Smith Pdf

Including applied readings, this book explores the divide between practical criticism and theory in 20th century criticism to propose a new way of reading poetry.

Modern Poetry in China

Author : Paul Manfredi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1604978627

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Modern Poetry in China by Paul Manfredi Pdf

This book is in the Cambria Sinophone World Series (general editor: Victor H. Mair). *Includes rare color images. Chinese poetry, along with many other art forms in China, underwent a highly self-conscious transformation in the first decades of the twentieth century. Poetry, perhaps more than any other art form, did so under the heavy burden of a voluminous literary precedent, a precedent which was in its very format of patterned words inscribed on scrolls--a mark of the Chinese literati tradition. Turning away from this tradition seemed necessary in the context of a political, social, and cultural reform movement (which was designed to strengthen China in the face of increasing international pressure as well as domestic breakdown). At the same time, reforming a poetic tradition which had served as a principal touchstone of aesthetic accomplishment--from its role in Confucian canon as object of contemplation for correct action, to its function as a test of candidate's qualifications to govern through the civil service examination, to its function as national past-time in all manner of social gathering--was a major challenge. The result of such a predicament for poets throughout the twentieth century has been the compulsion to discover a poetic style which resonates with the modern world and yet is rooted in Chinese cultural experience. One way in which poets have been able to accomplish this is by relying on poetry's visuality, be it in the graphic properties of the writing system itself, the visual context of the presentation of the poetic texts, or the acute image details in the poems. The history of approximately one century of modern Chinese poetry production has been addressed broadly in scholarship, but such broad strokes tend to miss important dynamics which fall outside of general narratives. The importance of Chinese visual tradition to modern Chinese poets is a good case in point. Accordingly, this book addresses specific manifestations of the nexus connecting modernity and visuality in Chinese poetry. It begins with a discussion of May Fourth poetics as exemplified in the groundbreaking work of Li Jinfa, China's first "Symbolist" poet. From there the book traces notable developments of visuality in the new form or free verse writing (called Xinshi or "New Poetry") through mid-century modernist experiments in Taiwan (focusing on Ji Xian). From there the book then explores the avant-garde poetry of Luo Qing and Xia Yu before returning to mainland Chinese developments of Misty poets Yan Li and his contemporaries. The work concludes with a wide variety of poet-artists writing and exhibiting in the twenty-first century. Looking across this period of modern Chinese poetry's development, one is able to observe how important the visual-verbal dynamic has been to the innovation of poetic style and method. From the twenty-first century on, such multi-media expressions will likely continue to grow; this is a function of a Chinese aesthetic tradition pairing word and image and will continue to manifest in new and more inventive ways. This is an important book for Asian literary and art history studies and history collections

The Universal Deep Structure of Modern Poetry

Author : John A.F. Hopkins
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781527549104

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The Universal Deep Structure of Modern Poetry by John A.F. Hopkins Pdf

With something of a poetry renaissance currently under way worldwide, there is now, more than ever, a need for a solidly-based methodology for interpreting poems: something more empirical than traditional ‘lit-crit’ approaches, and something more linguistically-informed than the version of ‘postmodernism’ rampant in certain Anglophone universities. The latter approach, which tends to allow the individual reader to do what he/she likes with a poetic text, is inadequate to interpret modernist poetry, whose English-language precursors may be found in the late Romantics; its pioneers were already writing (in France) as early as 1840. What is so different about the modernists? Most importantly, their works are monumental, in that they are strongly resistant to deconstruction. Contributing to this resistance is the fact that they are built around two deep-level propositions, each of which generates a set of indirectly-signifying images, sharing the same internal structure, but having a different vocabulary. Thus, they do not signify according to linear narrative, but according to these propositions—and the relation between them—which may be reconstructed by a careful comparison of images on the textual surface. Every text—as subject-sign—refers to an intertextual object-sign, which is usually another poem, but may also be a film or other form of art. Mediating between these two signs is their reader-constructed interpretant, which completes the semiotic triad. As this book shows, the novelty of this sign is thrown into relief by the contrast it makes with a lexical counterpart from the reader’s experience, which differs from the interpretant in structure. The book’s inclusion of French and Japanese, as well as English poems, shows that deep-level signifying mechanisms may well be universal, with considerable research and pedagogical implications.

Skeptical Music

Author : David Bromwich
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226075605

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Skeptical Music by David Bromwich Pdf

Skeptical Music collects the essays on poetry that have made David Bromwich one of the most widely admired critics now writing. Both readers familiar with modern poetry and newcomers to poets like Marianne Moore and Hart Crane will relish this collection for its elegance and power of discernment. Each essay stakes a definitive claim for the modernist style and its intent to capture an audience beyond the present moment. The two general essays that frame Skeptical Music make Bromwich's aesthetic commitments clear. In "An Art without Importance," published here for the first time, Bromwich underscores the trust between author and reader that gives language its subtlety and depth, and makes the written word adequate to the reality that poetry captures. For Bromwich, understanding the work of a poet is like getting to know a person; it is a kind of reading that involves a mutual attraction of temperaments. The controversial final essay, "How Moral Is Taste?," explores the points at which aesthetic and moral considerations uneasily converge. In this timely essay, Bromwich argues that the wish for excitement that poetry draws upon is at once primitive and irreducible. Skeptical Music most notably offers incomparable readings of individual poets. An essay on the complex relationship between Hart Crane and T. S. Eliot shows how the delicate shifts of tone and shading in their work register both affinity and resistance. A revealing look at W. H. Auden traces the process by which the voice of a generation changed from prophet to domestic ironist. Whether discussing heroism in the poetry of Wallace Stevens, considering self-reflection in the poems of Elizabeth Bishop, or exploring the battle between the self and its images in the work of John Ashbery, Skeptical Music will make readers think again about what poetry is, and even more important, why it still matters.

The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English

Author : Jeremy Noel-Tod,Ian Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 727 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199640256

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The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English by Jeremy Noel-Tod,Ian Hamilton Pdf

This impressive volume provides over 1,700 biographical entries on poets writing in English from 1910 to the present day, including T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, and Carol Ann Duffy. Authoritative and accessible, it is a must-have for students of English and creative writing, as well as for anyone with an interest in poetry.

Modern Poetry and the Tradition

Author : Cleanth Brooks
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781469639383

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Modern Poetry and the Tradition by Cleanth Brooks Pdf

This study presents the revolutionary thesis that English poetry and poetic theory were deflected from their richest line of development by the scientific rationalism that came with Hobbes and has continued its restrictive influence to the present day, when such poets as Yeats and Eliot have begun the reestablishment of the earlier line of development. Originally published in 1939. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Modern Poetry After Modernism

Author : James Longenbach
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 9780195101782

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Modern Poetry After Modernism by James Longenbach Pdf

Reading a diverse range of poets - John Ashbery, Elizabeth Bishop, Amy Clampitt, Jorie Graham, Richard Howard, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, Robert Pinsky, and Richard Wilbur - Longenbach reveals that American poets since mid-century have not so much disowned their modernist past as extended elements of modernism that other readers have suppressed or neglected to see.

Sound and Form in Modern Poetry

Author : Harvey Seymour Gross,Robert McDowell
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0472065173

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Sound and Form in Modern Poetry by Harvey Seymour Gross,Robert McDowell Pdf

An updated and expanded version of a classic and essential text on prosody.

Statutes of Liberty

Author : Geoff Ward
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1993-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349224982

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Statutes of Liberty by Geoff Ward Pdf

Statutes of Liberty is the first full-length academic study of the New York School of Poets. It contains an introduction to the work of these writers, followed by chapters on the central figures: Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler and John Ashbery. A postscript examines the continuing and changing influence of the New York School. The book is also concerned with deconstruction, a mode of literary analysis with which Ashbery's work in particular has come to be associated by critics in America.

Anthology of Modern American Poetry

Author : Cary Nelson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1249 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0195122712

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Anthology of Modern American Poetry by Cary Nelson Pdf

Bringing together over 100 years of creative and vital American poetry in one volume, Anthology of Modern American Poetry includes over 750 poems by 161 American poets ranging from Walt Whitman to Sherman Alexie. It represents not only the traditionally familiar poetic works of the last hundred years but also includes numerous poems by women, minority, and progressive writers only rediscovered in the past two decades. It is also the first anthology to give full treatment to American long poems and poetic sequences.

He Spoke of Love

Author : Biharilal
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780674276512

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He Spoke of Love by Biharilal Pdf

The seventeenth-century Hindi classic treasured for its subtle and beautiful portrayal of divine and erotic love’s pleasures and sorrows. The seven hundred poems of the Hindi poet Biharilal’s Satsai weave amorous narratives of the god Krishna and the goddess Radha with archetypal hero and heroine motifs that bridge divine and worldly love. He Spoke of Love brims with romantic rivalries, clandestine trysts, and the bittersweet sorrow of separated lovers. This new translation presents four hundred couplets from the enduring seventeenth-century classic, showcasing the poet’s ingenuity and virtuosity.