Conversant Essays
Author : James McCorkle
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 43,21 MB
Release : 1990
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 9780814321003
Author : James McCorkle
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 43,21 MB
Release : 1990
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 9780814321003
Author : Denise Levertov
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 30,98 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811212182
"Denise Levertov fulfills the eternal mission of the true Poet: to be a receptacle of Divine Grace and a 'spendor of that Grace to humanity.'" --World Literature Today
Author : John Dryden
Publisher : London : J. M. Dent, [1912, reprinted 1931]
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 18,4 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Criticism
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Author : W. F. Bolton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 38,14 MB
Release : 1966-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521042802
This is a collection of essays about the English language by English and American men of letters, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries; that is, until the rise of formal linguistic studies. The writers represented are concerned with the history, the use, the reform or the changing nature of English. Topics discussed include the defence of English as a literary language; the relationship with other languages; propriety in literary style; the psychological bases of speech; the relationship between words and things; usage; the need for academies and standards of correctness; the rise of lexicography; spelling reform; prescriptive grammar. These essays are the most important serious attempts to consider the language from various standpoints. Students of English in university departments will find this a convenient and comprehensive collection. It is also in itself an illustration of the development of the literary language.
Author : Francis Bacon
Publisher :
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 33,35 MB
Release : 1858
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN :
Author : Suzanne Ferguson
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 33,4 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781572332294
Jarrell, Bishop, Lowell, & Co.: Middle-Generation Poets in Context Takes on the oft-noted but little explored friendship of three of the most respected poets of the twentieth century. Editor Suzanne Ferguson collects eighteen essays that explore the literary, personal, and political affiliations of Randall Jarrell, Elizabeth Bishop, and Robert Lowell, influential literary figures who flourished in the periods between modernism and postmodernism. Essay in the first section of the book directly compare the subjects, while sections on each of the poets follow. The contributors unpack received wisdom on the poets, revising and updating our conceptions. The multiple viewpoints reflect on one another, shedding provocative light on the group as a whole, and revealing the ways the study of poets in their historical context helps make them not only accessible but also relevant to today's reader. The Contributors: Edward Hirsch, Steven Gould Axelrod, Jeredith Merrin, Thomas Travisano, Diederik Oostdijk, Richard Flynn, Nelson Hathcock, Florian Hild, Stephen Burt, James McCorkle, Ross Leckie, Meg Schoerke, Lurel Kornhiser, Francesco Rognoni, Christian Sisack, Ernest J. Smith, and Elise Partridge. The Editor: Suzanne Ferguson is Samuel B. and Virginia C. Knight Professor of Humanities, Emerita, at Case Western Reserve University. She is author of The Poetry of Randall Jarrell, editor of Critical Essays on Randall Jarrell, and coeditor of Literature and the Visual Arts in Contemporary Society. Her articles have appeared in Georgia Review, Modern Fiction Studies, Word and Image, and other journals.
Author : Jeffrey Gray
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 18,13 MB
Release : 2016-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0472053183
A groundbreaking collection explores contemporary American poetry's relation to social critique and the public sphere
Author :
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Page : 338 pages
File Size : 15,80 MB
Release : 1855
Category :
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Author : Francis Bacon
Publisher :
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 15,73 MB
Release : 1884
Category :
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Author : Thomas Reid
Publisher :
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 15,37 MB
Release : 1843
Category : Education
ISBN :