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Author : Claude Julien Rawson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521874342
This volume provides essays by twenty-nine leading scholars and critics on the best English poets from Chaucer to Larkin.
Author : Thomas N. Corns
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1993-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521423090
English poetry in the first half of the seventeenth century is an outstandingly rich and varied body of verse, which can be understood and appreciated more fully when set in its cultural and ideological context. This student Companion, consisting of fourteen new introductory essays by scholars of international standing, informs and illuminates the poetry by providing close reading of texts and an exploration of their background. There are individual studies of Donne, Jonson, Herrick, Herbert, Carew, Suckling, Lovelace, Milton, Crashaw, Vaughan and Marvell. More general essays describe the political and religious context of the poetry, explore its gender politics, explain the material circumstances of its production and circulation, trace its larger role in the development of genre and tradition, and relate it to contemporary rhetorical expectation. Overall the Companion provides an indispensable guide to the texts and contexts of early-seventeenth-century English poetry.
Author : Neil Corcoran
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139828109
The last century was characterised by an extraordinary flowering of the art of poetry in Britain. These specially commissioned essays by some of the most highly regarded poetry critics offer a stimulating and reliable overview of English poetry of the twentieth century. The opening section on contexts will both orientate readers relatively new to the field and provide provocative syntheses for those already familiar with it. Following the terms introduced by this section, individual chapters cover many ways of looking at the 'modern', the 'modernist' and the 'postmodern'. The core of the volume is made up of extensive discussions of individual poets, from W. B. Yeats and W. H. Auden to contemporary poets such as Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy. In its coverage of the development, themes and contexts of modern poetry, this Companion is the most useful guide available for students, lecturers and readers.
Author : John Sitter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521658853
This book analyzes major premises and practices of eighteenth-century English poets.
Author : Edward Larrissy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107090668
This Companion brings together sixteen essays that explore the full diversity of British poetry since the Second World War. Focusing on famous and neglected names alike, from Dylan Thomas to John Agard, leading scholars provide readers with insight into the ongoing importance and profundity of post-war poetry.
Author : Gerald Dawe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108420358
A fresh, accessible and authoritative study that conveys the richness and diversity of Irish poets, their lives and times.
Author : Jane Dowson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139824859
This Companion provides new ways of reading a wide range of influential women's poetry. Leading international scholars offer insights on a century of writers, drawing out the special function of poetry and the poets' use of language, whether it is concerned with the relationship between verbal and visual art, experimental poetics, war, landscape, history, cultural identity or 'confessional' lyrics. Collectively, the chapters cover well established and less familiar poets, from Edith Sitwell and Mina Loy, through Stevie Smith, Sylvia Plath and Elizabeth Jennings to Anne Stevenson, Eavan Boland and Jo Shapcott. They also include poets at the forefront of poetry trends, such as Liz Lochhead, Jackie Kay, Patience Agbabi, Caroline Bergvall, Medbh McGuckian and Carol Ann Duffy. With a chronology and guide to further reading, this book is aimed at students and poetry enthusiasts wanting to deepen their knowledge of some of the finest modern poets.
Author : Timothy Yu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108482097
This book offers a comprehensive introduction to studying the diversity of American poetry in the twenty-first century.
Author : Mark Richardson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107123823
This Companion brings together essays on some fifty-four American poets, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry as modernism, the Harlem (or New Negro) Renaissance, "confessional" poetry, the Black Mountain School, the New York School, the Beats, and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry.
Author : Alex Davis,Lee M. Jenkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827645
This Companion offers the most comprehensive overview available of modernist poetry, its forms, its major authors and its contexts. The first part explores the historical and cultural contexts and sexual politics of literary modernism and the avant garde. The chapters in the second part concentrate on individual authors and movements, while the concluding part offers a comprehensive overview of the early reception and subsequent canonisation of modernist poetry. As well as insightful readings of canonical poets, the Companion features extended discussions of poets whose importance is now being increasingly recognised, such as Mina Loy, poets of the Harlem Renaissance, and postcolonial poets in the Caribbean, Africa and India. While modernist poets are often thought of as difficult, these essays will help students to understand and enjoy their experimental, playful and fascinating responses to contemporary social and cultural change and their dialogue with the arts and with each other.
Author : Tadahisa Kuroda
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1994-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015026904980
"Kuroda, in a concise format and readable text, offers a complete assessment of the college from its 1787 inception to its 1804 revision that has long been needed and is well worth reading." New York State Historical Association
Author : Matthew Campbell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521012457
In the last fifty years Irish poets have produced some of the most exciting poetry in contemporary literature, writing about love and sexuality, violence and history, country and city. This book provides a unique introduction to major figures such as Seamus Heaney, but also introduces the reader to significant precursors like Louis MacNeice or Patrick Kavanagh, and vital contemporaries and successors: among others, Thomas Kinsella, Paul Muldoon and Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill. Readers will find discussions of Irish poetry from the traditional to the modernist, written in Irish as well as English, from both North and South. This Companion, the only book of its kind on the market, provides cultural and historical background to contemporary Irish poetry in the contexts of modern Ireland but also in the broad currents of modern world literature. It includes a chronology and guide to further reading and will prove invaluable to students and teachers alike.
Author : Joseph Bristow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521646804
This book provides an introduction to Victorian poetry, and will interest scholars and students alike.
Author : Catherine Bates
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139828277
Every great civilisation from the Bronze Age to the present day has produced epic poems. Epic poetry has always had a profound influence on other literary genres, including its own parody in the form of mock-epic. This Companion surveys over four thousand years of epic poetry from the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh to Derek Walcott's postcolonial Omeros. The list of epic poets analysed here includes some of the greatest writers in literary history in Europe and beyond: Homer, Virgil, Dante, Camões, Spenser, Milton, Wordsworth, Keats and Pound, among others. Each essay, by an expert in the field, pays close attention to the way these writers have intimately influenced one another to form a distinctive and cross-cultural literary tradition. Unique in its coverage of the vast scope of that tradition, this book is an essential companion for students of literature of all kinds and in all ages.
Author : Bernard O'Donoghue
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521838825
An up-to-date overview of Heaney's career thus far, with detailed readings of all his major publications.