Poetry For Historians

Author : Carolyn Steedman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 1526125234

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Poetry for Historians by Carolyn Steedman Pdf

This is a book about the conflict between history and poetry - and historians and poets - in Atlantic World society from the end of the seventeenth century to the present day. Blending historiography and theory, it proceeds by asking: what is the point of poetry as far as historians are concerned? The focus is on W. H. Auden's Cold War-era history poems, but the book also looks at other poets from the seventeenth century onwards, providing original accounts of their poetic and historical educations. An important resource for those teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses in historiography and history and theory, Poetry for historians will also be of relevance to courses on literature in society and the history of education. General readers will relate it to Steedman's Landscape for a Good Woman (1987) and Dust (2001), on account of its biographical and autobiographical insights into the way history operates in modern society.

Author : A. J. Woodman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0199608652

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From Poetry to History by A. J. Woodman Pdf

This volume offers twenty-five selected papers by the leading Latin scholar A. J Woodman, and focuses on the close relationship between Latin poetry and historical writing, or ancient history, from the late first century BC to the early second century AD.

Author : John Carey
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300252521

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A Little History of Poetry by John Carey Pdf

A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature The Times and Sunday Times, Best Books of 2020 “[A] fizzing, exhilarating book.”—Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times What is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. It does not always work—over the centuries countless thousands of poems have been forgotten. But this Little History is about some that have not. John Carey tells the stories behind the world’s greatest poems, from the oldest surviving one written nearly four thousand years ago to those being written today. Carey looks at poets whose works shape our views of the world, such as Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Whitman, and Yeats. He also looks at more recent poets, like Derek Walcott, Marianne Moore, and Maya Angelou, who have started to question what makes a poem “great” in the first place. For readers both young and old, this little history shines a light for readers on the richness of the world’s poems—and the elusive quality that makes them all the more enticing.

Author : Carolyn Steedman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 1526125234

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Poetry for Historians by Carolyn Steedman Pdf

This is a book about the conflict between history and poetry - and historians and poets - in Atlantic World society from the end of the seventeenth century to the present day. Blending historiography and theory, it proceeds by asking: what is the point of poetry as far as historians are concerned? The focus is on W. H. Auden's Cold War-era history poems, but the book also looks at other poets from the seventeenth century onwards, providing original accounts of their poetic and historical educations. An important resource for those teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses in historiography and history and theory, Poetry for historians will also be of relevance to courses on literature in society and the history of education. General readers will relate it to Steedman's Landscape for a Good Woman (1987) and Dust (2001), on account of its biographical and autobiographical insights into the way history operates in modern society.

Author : Alex Davis,Lee M. Jenkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107038677

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A History of Modernist Poetry by Alex Davis,Lee M. Jenkins Pdf

A History of Modernist Poetry examines innovative anglophone poetries from decadence to the post-war period. The first of its three parts considers formal and contextual issues, including myth, politics, gender, and race, while the second and third parts discuss a wide range of individual poets, including Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Mina Loy, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, and Marianne Moore, as well as key movements such as Imagism, Objectivism, and the Harlem Renaissance. This book also addresses the impact of both World Wars on experimental poetries and the crucial role of magazines in disseminating and proselytizing on behalf of poetic modernism. The collection concludes with a wide-ranging discussion of the inheritance of modernism in recent writing on both sides of the Atlantic.

Author : Jay Parini
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1993-12-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0585041547

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The Columbia History of American Poetry by Jay Parini Pdf

-- New York Times Book Review

Author : Richard Gray
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781118795422

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A History of American Poetry by Richard Gray Pdf

A History of American Poetry presents a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their pre-Columbian origins to the present day. Offers a detailed and accessible account of the entire range of American poetry Situates the story of American poetry within crucial social and historical contexts, and places individual poets and poems in the relevant intertextual contexts Explores and interprets American poetry in terms of the international positioning and multicultural character of the United States Provides readers with a means to understand the individual works and personalities that helped to shape one of the most significant bodies of literature of the past few centuries

Author : Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477319260

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Clio's Laws by Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo Pdf

Offering a unique perspective on the very notions and practices of storytelling, history, memory, and language, Clio’s Laws collects ten essays (some new and some previously published in Spanish) by a revered voice in global history. Taking its title from the Greek muse of history, this opus considers issues related to the historian’s craft, including nationalism and identity, and draws on Tenorio-Trillo’s own lifetime of experiences as a historian with deep roots in both Mexico and the United States. By turns deeply ironic, provocative, and experimental, and covering topics both lowbrow and highbrow, the essays form a dialogue with Clio about idiosyncratic yet profound matters. Tenorio-Trillo presents his own version of an ars historica (what history is, why we write it, and how we abuse it) alongside a very personal essay on the relationship between poetry and history. Other selections include an exploration of the effects of a historian’s autobiography, a critique of history’s celebratory obsession, and a guide to reading history in an era of internet searches and too many books. A self-described exile, Tenorio-Trillo has produced a singular tour of the historical imagination and its universal traits.

Author : Michael O'Neill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1117 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521883061

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The Cambridge History of English Poetry by Michael O'Neill Pdf

A literary-historical account of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon writings to the present.

Author : Judy Gaudet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 192750290X

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150: Canada's History in Poems by Judy Gaudet Pdf

A powerful memoir of moving past family lies and betrayal This new collection of poems tells the story of 150 years as a country, recreating historical events through the vivid, concrete, human element of our poets' responses to them. Judy Gaudet has collected poems that tell our story in a unique way: through the personal passions and concerns of artists who offer a range of encounters and attitudes. The poets represent a wide variety of Canadian experience: Indigenous, immigrant, and people from every part of the country and period of our history providing a solid representation of Canadian diversity. Poems come from many significant Canadian poets, as well as some lesser known and emerging poets and folk writers. This journey through the works of our greatest poets and thier reflections on their experiences of the events that have shaped Canada, and continue to shape Canada, provide an exciting and lasting addition to our sense of who we are and where we've been, and gives us a basis on which to think about our attitudes and directions for the future. 150: Canada's History in Poems provides Canadians with an alternative history to the one they read about in textbooks. Looking at our history through the eyes of our artists is not only enlightening, but can give insight into the powerful truths of our past.

Author : Rumi
Publisher : Hampton Roads Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 157174682X

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Whispers of the Beloved by Rumi Pdf

April is Poetry Month. A gift from the heart.Breathtaking translation of poems by Rumi, one of the world's most loved mystical teachers. Beautifully packaged and illustrated with Persian calligraphy, this ideal gift book introduces readers to the quatrains, the shorter poems that encapsulate Rumi's timeless appeal. These beautiful, simple translations - 100 in all - demonstrate Rumi's timeless appeal and popularity. Jalal-uddin Rumi was born in what is now Afghanistan in 1207. His poetry has inspired generations of spiritual seekers, both from his own Sufi school and well beyond. His poems speak to the seeker and the lover in all of us. One day you will take my heart completely and make it more fiery than a dragon. Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.

Author : Lee Steinmetz
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781628951646

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The Poetry of the American Civil War by Lee Steinmetz Pdf

Deeply affecting and diverse in perspective, The Poetry of the American Civil War is the first comprehensive volume to focus entirely on poetry written and published during the Civil War. Of the nearly one thousand books of poetry published in the 1860s, some two hundred addressed the war in some way, and these collectively present a textured portrait of life during the conflict. The poets represented here hail from the North and the South, and at times mirror each other uncannily. Among them are housewives, doctors, preachers, bankers, journalists, and teachers. Their verse reflects the day-to-day reality of war, death, and destruction, and it contemplates questions of faith, slavery, society, patriotism, and politics. This is an essential volume for poetry lovers, historians, and Civil War enthusiasts alike.

Author : Siegfried Lienhard
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Indic poetry
ISBN : 3447024259

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A History of Classical Poetry by Siegfried Lienhard Pdf

Author : Ana Sampson
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781529059014

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Wonder: The Natural History Museum Poetry Book by Ana Sampson Pdf

Wonder: The Natural History Museum Poetry Book is a beautiful gift hardback collection of poetry with poems inspired by The Natural History Museum. It covers everything from the depths of space to the very centre of the earth - there are poems about the solar system, planet earth, oceans and rivers, birds, dinosaurs, fossils, wildlife, flowers, fungi, insects, explorers and palaeontologists. Each section includes an introduction and some footnotes about particularly interesting species. The museum has a collection of over eighty million objects and behind the scenes of its twenty-eight galleries crowd kilometres of preserved specimens, libraries of rare books and artworks, wonders gathered on some of the most famous voyages in history, rooms packed with pressed plants, warehouses teeming with stuffed animals and freezers full of DNA. As well as a museum, it is a state-of-the-art centre for discovery with over three hundred resident scientists and over ten thousand visiting researchers each year, investigating everything from dinosaurs to life on other planets. The collection is made up of brand new and classic poems and is illustrated with botanical drawings and engravings from the museum’s collections. This fantastic collection speaks of the wonder of nature and shows us why we need to look after our incredible planet.

Author : Joseph Parisi,Stephen Young
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002-10-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393050929

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Dear Editor by Joseph Parisi,Stephen Young Pdf

Collects more than six hundred letters to and from the editors of "Poetry" that were written about and by such figures as Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Wallace Stevens.