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The Twentieth Century in Poetry

Peter Childs
The Twentieth Century in Poetry Book PDF

Author : Peter Childs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134696604

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Until now, most teaching has focused on the novel as the most useful way of raising issues of gender, ethnicity, theory, nationality, politics and social class. In The Twentieth Century in Poetry Peter Childs places literature in a wider social context and demonstrates that all poetry is historically produced and consumed and is part of our understanding of society and identity. This student-friendly critical survey includes chapters on: * the Georgians * First World War poetry * Eliot * Yeats * the thirties * post-war poetry * contemporary anthologies * women's poetry * Northern Irish and black British poets It builds a narrative not of poetry in the twentieth century, but of the twentieth century in poetry.

Who's Who in Twentieth Century World Poetry

Alan Parker,Mark Willhardt
Who s Who in Twentieth Century World Poetry Book PDF

Author : Alan Parker,Mark Willhardt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781134713752

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Who's Who in Twentieth Century World Poetry by Alan Parker,Mark Willhardt Pdf

The definitive biographical guide to poetry throughout the world in the twentieth century and the only book of its kind to look at non-English language poets in such detail. Written in lively prose, with over 900 entries by over 75 international contributors, it brings a uniquely global perspective to bear on modern verse, encapsulating the lives and works of a vast array of poets in precise, compact detail alongside expert critical comment. Who's Who in Twentieth Century World Poetry is a scholarly and hugely enjoyable guide through the diverse arena of modern international poetry.

The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-century American Poetry

Rita Dove
The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth century American Poetry Book PDF

Author : Rita Dove
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 47,9 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.

The 20th Century in Poetry

Michael Hulse,Simon Rae
The 20th Century in Poetry Book PDF

Author : Michael Hulse,Simon Rae
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 1140 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781453299050

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The 20th Century in Poetry by Michael Hulse,Simon Rae Pdf

A historical timeline of more than four hundred 20th-century poems. “[A] prodigious harvest . . . an entire universe of poetry lives here” (Booklist, starred review). This groundbreaking anthology presents in chronological order over four hundred poems written during the twentieth century. The authors, both published poets themselves, give an overview of each period of history, while notes to the poems place each one in its historical context and trace the century’s poetic development. Concise biographies for each poet complete the anthology. By organizing the poems in chronological order, readers will see poets in a new light. Here A. E. Houseman, for example, rubs shoulders with T. S. Eliot, showing that traditional forms can hold their own against the modernist orthodoxy. All the major events of the twentieth century are reflected in the choice of poems within these pages. Including poems by Noël Coward, Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Robert Frost, G. K. Chesterton, Ezra Pound, Philip Larkin, T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, William Carlos Williams, W. H. Auden, e. e. cummings, Dylan Thomas, Kingsley Amis, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Frank O’Hara, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, John Updike, Robert Penn Warren, among a host of others, this richly rewarding collection captures the history of the twentieth century within one monumental volume.

The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry

Ilan Stavans
The FSG Book of Twentieth Century Latin American Poetry Book PDF

Author : Ilan Stavans
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780374533182

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The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry by Ilan Stavans Pdf

Presents a diverse sample of twentieth century Latin American poems from eighty-four authors in Spanish, Portuguese, Ladino, Spanglish, and several indigenous languages with English translations on facing pages.

Who's who in Twentieth-century World Poetry

Mark Willhardt,Alan Michael Parker
Who s who in Twentieth century World Poetry Book PDF

Author : Mark Willhardt,Alan Michael Parker
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0415163560

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Who's who in Twentieth-century World Poetry by Mark Willhardt,Alan Michael Parker Pdf

Brings a uniquely global perspective to bear on modern verse. Readers will be delighted with this comprehensive volume, providing biographical information on the greatest poets of the century, and critical accounts of their work.

The Random House Book of 20th Century French Poetry

Paul Auster
The Random House Book of 20th Century French Poetry Book PDF

Author : Paul Auster
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1984-01-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780394717487

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The Random House Book of 20th Century French Poetry by Paul Auster Pdf

During the 20th Century, France was home to many of the world’s greatest poets. This collection highlights some of the very best verse that came out of a country and century defined by war and liberation. Let Paul Auster guide you through some of the best poetry that 20th century France has to offer. “Indispensable . . . a book that everyone interested in modern poetry should have close to hand, a source of renewable delights and discoveries, a book that will long claim our attention . . . To my knowledge, no current anthology is as full and as deftly edited.”—Peter Brooks, The New York Times Book Review “One of the freshest and most exciting books of poetry to appear in a long while . . . Paul Auster has provided the best possible point of entry into this century's most influential body of poetry.”—Geoffrey O'Brien, The Village Voice

The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry

Geoffrey Brock
The FSG Book of Twentieth Century Italian Poetry Book PDF

Author : Geoffrey Brock
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0374105383

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The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry by Geoffrey Brock Pdf

More than a century has now passed since F.T. Marinetti's famous "Futurist Manifesto" slammed the door on the nineteenth century and trumpeted the arrival of modernity in Europe and beyond. Since then, against the backdrop of two world wars and several radical social upheavals whose effects continue to be felt, Italian poets have explored the possibilities of verse in a modern age, creating in the process one of the great bodies of twentieth-century poetry. Even before Marinetti, poets such as Giovanni Pascoli had begun to clear the weedy rhetoric and withered diction from the once-glorious but by then decadent grounds of Italian poetry. And their winter labors led to an extraordinary spring: Giuseppe Ungaretti's wartime distillations and Eugenio Montale's "astringent music"; Umberto Saba's song of himself and Salvatore Quasimodo's hermetic involutions. After World War II, new generations—including such marvelously diverse poets as Sandro Penna, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Amelia Rosselli, Vittorio Sereni, and Raffaello Baldini—extended the enormous promise of the prewar era into our time. A surprising and illuminating collection, The FSG Book of 20th-Century Italian Poetry invites the reader to examine the works of these and other poets—seventy-five in all—in context and conversation with one another. Edited by the poet and translator Geoffrey Brock, these poems have been beautifully rendered into English by some of our finest English-language poets, including Seamus Heaney, Robert Lowell, Ezra Pound, Paul Muldoon, and many exciting younger voices.

The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry in English

Ian Hamilton
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth century Poetry in English Book PDF

Author : Ian Hamilton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0192800426

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The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry in English by Ian Hamilton Pdf

Searchable database of information culled from the 1996 paperback edition of the Oxford companion to twentieth-century poetry in English.

An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Brazilian Poetry

Elizabeth Bishop
An Anthology of Twentieth Century Brazilian Poetry Book PDF

Author : Elizabeth Bishop
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0819560235

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An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Brazilian Poetry by Elizabeth Bishop Pdf

In Portuguese and English.

The Music of Time

John Burnside
The Music of Time Book PDF

Author : John Burnside
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691218861

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"First published in a slight different form in Great Britain in 2019 by Profile Books Ltd."--Title page verso.

Twentieth Century Pleasures

Robert Hass
Twentieth Century Pleasures Book PDF

Author : Robert Hass
Publisher : New York : Ecco Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015005895894

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Twentieth Century Pleasures by Robert Hass Pdf

A selection of essays written during the last five years on the importance and vitality of poetry.

The Age of the Poets

Alain Badiou
The Age of the Poets Book PDF

Author : Alain Badiou
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781685693

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The Age of the Poets by Alain Badiou Pdf

The Age of the Poets revisits the age-old problem of the relation between literature and philosophy, arguing against both Plato and Heidegger’s famous arguments. Philosophy neither has to ban the poets from the republic nor abdicate its own powers to the sole benefit of poetry or art. Instead, it must declare the end of what Badiou names the “age of the poets,” which stretches from Hölderlin to Celan. Drawing on ideas from his first publication on the subject, “The Autonomy of the Aesthetic Process,” Badiou offers an illuminating set of readings of contemporary French prose writers, giving us fascinating insights into the theory of the novel while also accounting for the specific position of literature between science and ideology.

Scanning the Century

Peter Forbes
Scanning the Century Book PDF

Author : Peter Forbes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106015058594

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Scanning the Century by Peter Forbes Pdf

1900-1914 - 1914-1918 - The Russian revolution 1917-1921 - The Jazz age: 1921-1929 - The thirties - Fascism v. Communism 1933-1939 - World War LL 1939-1945 - The Holocaust 1933-1945 - The atomic bomb - The fifties - Communism 1945-1989 - Decolonization 1947- - Rural life - The cold war: 1945-1989 - The sixties - Civil rights 1930s -1968 - Vietnam 1964-1973 - The Middle East 1948- - Politics - The seventies - Ireland - The environment - Travel - Work - Home - Love & sex - Children and family - The individual - Oppression and exile - Crime, vice and low life - The eighties and nineties - The media - The arts - Sport and leisure - Science and technology - The collapse of communism and its consequences 1989- - Existence - Sci-fi and space - 2000-; Newsreel (C. Day Lewis).

The Yale Anthology of Twentieth-century French Poetry

Mary Ann Caws
The Yale Anthology of Twentieth century French Poetry Book PDF

Author : Mary Ann Caws
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780300133158

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The Yale Anthology of Twentieth-century French Poetry by Mary Ann Caws Pdf

An influential social thinker, the late Richard Harvey Brown was professor of sociology at the University of Maryland and the author of Toward a Democratic Science: Scientific Narration and Civic Communication, published by Yale University Press.