Unwritten Poetry

Author : Scott A. Trudell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192571700

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Unwritten Poetry by Scott A. Trudell Pdf

Vocal music was at the heart of English Renaissance poetry and drama. Virtuosic actor-singers redefined the theatrical culture of William Shakespeare and his peers. Composers including William Byrd and Henry Lawes shaped the transmission of Renaissance lyric verse. Poets from Philip Sidney to John Milton were fascinated by the disorienting influx of musical performance into their works. Musical performance was a driving force behind the period's theatrical and poetic movements, yet its importance to literary history has long been ignored or effaced. This book reveals the impact of vocalists and composers upon the poetic culture of early modern England by studying the media through which—and by whom—its songs were made. In a literary field that was never confined to writing, media were not limited to material texts. Scott Trudell argues that the media of Renaissance poetry can be conceived as any node of transmission from singer's larynx to actor's body. Through his study of song, Trudell outlines a new approach to Renaissance poetry and drama that is grounded not simply in performance history or book history but in a more synthetic media history.

Author : William LINWOOD (Dissenting Minister.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018160730

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Unwritten Poetry. Two lectures by William LINWOOD (Dissenting Minister.) Pdf

Author : Scott A. Trudell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192571694

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Unwritten Poetry by Scott A. Trudell Pdf

Vocal music was at the heart of English Renaissance poetry and drama. Virtuosic actor-singers redefined the theatrical culture of William Shakespeare and his peers. Composers including William Byrd and Henry Lawes shaped the transmission of Renaissance lyric verse. Poets from Philip Sidney to John Milton were fascinated by the disorienting influx of musical performance into their works. Musical performance was a driving force behind the period's theatrical and poetic movements, yet its importance to literary history has long been ignored or effaced. This book reveals the impact of vocalists and composers upon the poetic culture of early modern England by studying the media through which—and by whom—its songs were made. In a literary field that was never confined to writing, media were not limited to material texts. Scott Trudell argues that the media of Renaissance poetry can be conceived as any node of transmission from singer's larynx to actor's body. Through his study of song, Trudell outlines a new approach to Renaissance poetry and drama that is grounded not simply in performance history or book history but in a more synthetic media history.

Author : Jeannine Johnson
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0838641059

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Why Write Poetry? by Jeannine Johnson Pdf

Poets have long been defending poetry in prose, and essays by Sidney, Shelley, and others are a familiar and important part of the Anglo-American literary tradition. This book identifies and examines a related genre - the verse defense of poetry - which shares the same impulse that has led to the composition of prose essays: namely, the desire to protect poetry from its detractors and to promote its value as a vital human endeavor. In the last century or so, this impulse to engage questions of poetry's value in poems has become increasingly widespread, and it has dominated the careers of at least five poets: H.D., Wallace Stevens, W. H. Auden, Adrienne Rich, and Geoffrey Hill. Though these poets espouse very different aesthetic principles, they, like many of their contemporaries, have repeatedly turned to apology in their verse. At first glance, this seems an odd gesture, given that the readers and writers of poetry are those who least need convincing of poetry's worthiness. But questioning poetry in verse is a form of lyric introspection that is productive and well-suited for a modern poet. characterized as one of indifference, defense helps these authors make a claim for poetry's cultural relevance, as well as for its private profit. Jeannine Johnson is a Preceptor in Expository Writing at Harvard University.

Author : Mary R. Thornton McAboy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : American poetry
ISBN : NYPL:33433075809271

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Roseheath Poems by Mary R. Thornton McAboy Pdf

Author : Karen McCarthy Woolf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : War poetry, English
ISBN : 1911027298

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Unwritten by Karen McCarthy Woolf Pdf

With contributions from Jay Bernard, Malika Booker, Kat Francois, Jay T. John, Anthony Joseph, Ishion Hutchinson, Charnell Lucien, Vladimir Lucien, Rachel Manley, Tanya Shirley and Karen McCarthy Woolf. What does it mean to fight for a 'mother country' that refuses to accept you as one of its own? Britain's First World War poets changed the way we view military conflict and had a deep impact on the national psyche. Yet the stories of the 15,600 volunteers who signed up to the British West Indian Regiment remain largely unknown. Sadly, these citizens of empire were not embraced as compatriots on an equal footing. Instead they faced prejudice, injustice and discrimination while being confined to menial and auxiliary work, regardless of rank or status. As a collaborative project, co-commissioned by 14-18 NOW, BBC Contains Strong Language and the British Council, Unwritten Poems invited contemporary Caribbean and Caribbean diaspora poets to write into that vexed space, and explore the nature of war and humanity - as it exists now, and at a time when Britain's colonial ambitions were still at a peak. Unwritten: Caribbean Poems After the First World War is a result of that provocation and also includes new material written for broadcast and live performance.

Author : The Open University
Publisher : The Open University
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781473006393

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The poetry of Sorley MacLean by The Open University Pdf

This 10-hour free course introduced the poetry of Sorley Maclean, the contexts that inform it and the importance of the Gaelic language to his work.

Author : Ruth Finnegan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1977-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521213169

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Oral Poetry by Ruth Finnegan Pdf

Oral poetry is a wide subject that ranges from American 'folk-songs', Eskimo lyrics or popular songs, to the heroic poems of Homer and distinct epic composers in Asia and the Pacific. Unlike previous works, this book takes a broad comparative view and considers oral poetry from Africa, Asia and Oceania as well as Europe and America. Dr Finnegan includes in her argument the results of topical research from all over the world, thus illuminating and suggesting fresh conclusions to many controversies: the nature of 'oral tradition'; possible connections between types of poetry and types of society; the differences between oral and written communication; and the role of poets in non-literate societies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012048497

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The Christian Parlor Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literature
ISBN : 1610752449

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Lofty Dogmas: Poets on Poetry (p) by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Recitations
ISBN : PSU:000049704754

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One Hundred Choice Selections in Poetry and Prose by Anonim Pdf

Author : D. Schwarz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1993-07-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230374409

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Narrative and Representation in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens by D. Schwarz Pdf

In this study Daniel R. Schwarz argues that the narrative and representational aspects of Stevens's poetry have been neglected in favour of readings that stress his word play and rhetoricity. Schwarz shows how Stevens's concept of representation is deeply influenced by modern painters such as Picasso and Duchamp. He shows that Stevens's poetry needs to be understood in terms of a number of major contexts: the American tradition of Emerson and Whitman, the Romantic movement, and the Modernist tradition.

Author : George Steiner
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0811217035

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My Unwritten Books by George Steiner Pdf

One of the worlds foremost literary critics meditates upon seven books he long had in mind to write but never did. Massively erudite, the essays are also brave, unflinching, and wholly personal.

Author : George Monteiro
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786497898

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Robert Frost's Poetry of Rural Life by George Monteiro Pdf

"Wise old Vergil says in one of his Georgics, 'Praise large farms, stick to small ones,'" Robert Frost said. "Twenty acres are just about enough." Frost started out as a school teacher living the rural life of a would-be farmer, and later turned to farming full time when he bought a place of his own. After a sojourn in England where his first two books were published to critical acclaim, he returned to New England, acquired a new farm and became a rustic for much of the rest of his life. Frost claimed that all of his poetry was farm poetry. His deep admiration for Virgil's Georgics, or poems of rural life, inspired the creation of his own New England "georgics," his answer to the haughty 20th-century modernism that seemed certain to define the future of Western poetry. Like the "West-Running Brook" in his poem of the same name, Frost's poetry can be seen as an embodiment of contrariness.

Author : William A. Katz,Linda Sternberg Katz,Esther Crain
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 023110104X

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The Columbia Granger's Guide to Poetry Anthologies by William A. Katz,Linda Sternberg Katz,Esther Crain Pdf

Reference guide to poetry anthologies with descriptions and evaluations of each anthology.