The Penguin Book Of Modern African Poetry

Author : Gerald Moore
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141912905

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The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry by Gerald Moore Pdf

'Poetry, always foremost of the arts in traditional Africa, has continued to compete for primacy against the newer forms of prose fiction and theatre drama.' This wonderfully comprehensive anthology of African poetry has been expanded to include ninety-nine poets from twenty-seven countries, thirty-one of whom appear for the first time. Equally wide-ranging is the content of the poetry itself: war songs and political protests jostle with poems about human love, African nature and the surprises that life offers; all are represented in these rich and colourful pages.

Author : Gerald Moore,Ulli Beier
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780140424720

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The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry by Gerald Moore,Ulli Beier Pdf

A new edition of the definitive collection of modern poetry from Africa "Poetry, always foremost of the arts in traditional Africa," writes Gerald Moore, "has continued to compete for primacy against the newer forms of prose fiction and theatre drama." Now revised and expanded, this comprehensive anthology features the work of ninety-nine poets from twenty-seven countries; thirty-one of the poets appear here for the first time. War songs, satires, and political protests jostle with poems about love, nature, and the surprises of life, offering a rich and wide-ranging body of creative work. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Gerald Moore,Ulli Beier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : African poetry
ISBN : OCLC:829231450

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Modern Poetry from Africa; by Gerald Moore,Ulli Beier Pdf

Author : Adewale Maja-Pearce
Publisher : Heinemann International Incorporated
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Humor
ISBN : UOM:39015021862910

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The Heinemann Book of African Poetry in English by Adewale Maja-Pearce Pdf

This anthology represents some of the best African poetry written in English in the last 30 years. The poets include Wole Soyinka, Dennis Brutus, Kojo Laing, Chenjerai Hove and Gabriel Gbadamosi.

Author : Gerald Moore,Ulli Beier
Publisher : Penguin (Non-Classics)
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UVA:X000234651

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Modern Poetry from Africa by Gerald Moore,Ulli Beier Pdf

Author : Rita Dove
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 9780143106432

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The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-century American Poetry by Rita Dove Pdf

An anthology of twentieth-century American poetry, featuring Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Hayden, Gwendolyn Brooks, Derek Walcott, Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, Anne Sexton, and many others.

Author : Robert Fraser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1986-09-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 052131223X

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West African Poetry by Robert Fraser Pdf

Previous studies of African poetry have tended to concentrate either on its political content or on its relationship to various European schools. This book examines West African poetry in English and French against the background of oral poetry in the vernacular. Do the roots of such poetry lie in Africa or in Europe? In committing their work to writing, do poets lose more than they gain? Can the immediacy of oral performance ever be recovered? Robert Fraser's account of two centuries of West African verse examines its subjugation to a succession of international styles: from the heroic couplet to the austerity of experimental Modernism. Successive chapters take us through the Négritude movement and the emergence of anglophone free verse in the 1950s to the rediscovery in recent years of the neglected springs of orality, which is the subject of the concluding chapter.

Author : Ulli Beier,Gerald Moore
Publisher : Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ; New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UCSC:32106010313093

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The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry by Ulli Beier,Gerald Moore Pdf

Offers a selection of African poetry arranged by country.

Author : Frank M Chipasula
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780809386383

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Bending the Bow by Frank M Chipasula Pdf

From the ancient Egyptian inventors of the love lyric to contemporary poets, Bending the Bow: An Anthology of African Love Poetry gathers together both written and sung love poetry from Africa. This anthology is a work of literary archaeology that lays bare a genre of African poetry that has been overshadowed by political poetry. Frank Chipasula has assembled a historically and geographically comprehensive wealth of African love poetry that spans more than three thousand years. By collecting a continent’s celebrations and explorations of the nature of love, he expands African literature into the sublime territory of the heart. Bending the Bow traces the development of African love poetry from antiquity to modernity while establishing a cross-millennial dialogue. The anonymously written love poems fromPharaonic Egypt that open the anthology both predate Biblical love poetry and reveal the longevity of written love poetry in Africa. The middle section is devoted to sung love poetry from all regions of the continent. These great works serve as the foundation for modern poetry and testify to love poetry’s omnipresence in Africa. The final section, showcasing forty-eight modern African poets, celebrates the genre’s continuing vitality. Among those represented are Muyaka bin Hajji and Shaaban Robert,two major Swahili poets; Gabriel Okara, the innovative though underrated Nigerian poet; Léopold Sédar Senghor, the first president of Senegal and a founder of the Negritude Movement in francophone African literature; Rashidah Ismaili from Benin; Flavien Ranaivo from Madagascar; and Gabeba Baderoon from South Africa. Ranging from the subtly suggestive to the openly erotic, this collection highlights love’s endurance in a world too often riven by contention. Bending the Bow bears testimony to poetry’s role as conciliator while opening up a new area of study for scholars and students.

Author : Neil Roberts
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470797471

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A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry by Neil Roberts Pdf

In the twentieth century more people spoke English and more people wrote poetry than in the whole of previous history, and this Companion strives to make sense of this crowded poetical era. The original contributions by leading international scholars and practising poets were written as the contributors adjusted to the idea that the possibilities of twentieth-century poetry were exhausted and finite. However, the volume also looks forward to the poetry and readings that the new century will bring. The Companion embraces the extraordinary development of poetry over the century in twenty English-speaking countries; a century which began with a bipolar transatlantic connection in modernism and ended with the decentred heterogeneity of post-colonialism. Representation of the 'canonical' and the 'marginal' is therefore balanced, including the full integration of women poets and feminist approaches and the in-depth treatment of post-colonial poets from various national traditions. Discussion of context, intertextualities and formal approaches illustrates the increasing self-consciousness and self-reflexivity of the period, whilst a 'Readings' section offers new readings of key selected texts. The volume as a whole offers critical and contextual coverage of the full range of English-language poetry in the last century.

Author : Jeremy Noel-Tod,Ian Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 727 pages
File Size : 50,9 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.

Author : Penguin Classics
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780718193478

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Penguin Classics: The Catalogue by Penguin Classics Pdf

'From books, all I seek is to give myself pleasure by an honourable pastime' Michel de Montaigne In 1946, E. V. Rieu's groundbreaking translation of The Odyssey established a cultural legacy that would bring the world's most compelling and influential literature to millions of readers around the globe. For over sixty-five years, Penguin Classics have been making works that were once the sole preserve of academics accessible to everyone; this catalogue offers a complete list of all titles in print across the list - more than 1,200 books, from Aristotle and Austen, to Zola and Zamyatin. It also features Michel de Montaigne's enchanting essay 'On Books'. 'The Penguin Classics, though I designed them to give pleasure even more than instruction, have been hailed as the greatest educative force of the twentieth century. And far be it for me to quarrel with that encomium, for there is no one whom they have educated more than myself' E. V. Rieu

Author : R. Victoria Arana
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438108377

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The Facts on File Companion to World Poetry by R. Victoria Arana Pdf

The Facts On File Companion to World Poetry : 1900 to the Present is a comprehensive introduction to 20th and 21st-century world poets and their most famous, most distinctive, and most influential poems.

Author : Fred S. Moramarco,Al Zolynas
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0820326496

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The Poetry of Men's Lives by Fred S. Moramarco,Al Zolynas Pdf

Alive with the wisdom, artistry, and emotion of more than 250 poets from nearly one hundred countries, this anthology celebrates the multifaceted experience of contemporary manhood. The lives into which these poems invite us reveal the influences of culture, heredity, personal experience, values, beliefs, wishes, desires, loves, and betrayals. Men are notoriously reluctant to open up and discuss these things; and yet when they do--as in these poems--they tell us about their families, lovers, relationships, political and religious beliefs, sexuality, and childhoods. There is much to learn here about who men are and how they see their worlds. Collects close to three hundred poems, in English or English translation, by more than 250 poets. Nearly one hundred countries are represented, from Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Africa, South America, Central America and the Caribbean, North America, and Oceania (including Australia and New Zealand). Organized in topical sections: Boyhood and Youth; Families; Identities: Cultural, Personal, Male; Men and Women; Myth, Archetypes, and Spirituality; Politics, War, and Revolution; Sex and Sexuality; Poets and Poetry, Artists and Art; Brothers, Friends, Mentors, and Rivals; Work, Sports, and Games; Aging, Illness, and Death.

Author : Gerald Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1087804013

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Modern Poetry from Africa by Gerald Moore Pdf