Master Poems of the English Language
Author : Oscar Williams
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,31 MB
Release : 1968
Category : American poetry
ISBN :
Author : Oscar Williams
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,31 MB
Release : 1968
Category : American poetry
ISBN :
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 1012 pages
File Size : 38,53 MB
Release : 2007-08-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0060540427
This comprehensive anthology attempts to give the common reader possession of six centuries of great British and American poetry. The book features a large introductory essay by Harold Bloom called "The Art of Reading Poetry," which presents his critical reflections of more than half a century devoted to the reading, teaching, and writing about the literary achievement he loves most. In the case of all major poets in the language, this volume offers either the entire range of what is most valuable in their work, or vital selections that illuminate each figure's contribution. There are also headnotes by Harold Bloom to every poet in the volume as well as to the most important individual poems. Much more than any other anthology ever gathered, this book provides readers who desire the pleasures of a sublime art with very nearly everything they need in a single volume. It also is regarded as his final meditation upon all those who have formed his mind.
Author : Oscar Williams
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 38,35 MB
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1982191546
A timeless and comprehensive anthology of enduring English language poetry, featuring entries from 150 British and American poets, including Alexander Pope, Lord Byron, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Emily Dickinson. The last six hundred years in British and American literature have given us some of the most moving and memorable poems in all literature. Now, discover many of these same works in one gorgeously wrought collection, featuring entries from poets as legendary and beloved as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, John Keats, Rudyard Kipling, Ralph Waldo Emerson, D.H. Lawrence, and many more. From Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberywocky” to Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” and from Shakespeare’s sonnets to anonymous classics, this is the ultimate gift for poetry lovers of all ages and backgrounds. Arranged chronologically, the 150 poems featured in this stunning collection reflect the immortality of the poetic soul.
Author : Mick Short
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 41,99 MB
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1317887808
Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose examines how readers interact with literary works, how they understand and are moved by them. Mick Short considers how meanings and effects are generated in the three major literary genres, carying out stylistic analysis of poetry, drama and prose fiction in turn. He analyses a wide range of extracts from English literature, adopting an accessible approach to the analysis of literary texts which can be applied easily to other texts in English and in other languages.
Author : Antonio Machado
Publisher :
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 38,18 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN :
"Antonio Machado (1875-1939) was a member of Spain's famous "Generation of '98," and one of the great poets of the twentieth century. Intensely introspective and mediative, his poetry is grounded in the Spanish landscape and deeply influenced by his wife's early death, his own uprootedness, and the civil war and severe poverty which afflicted Spain."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Michael Alexander
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 30,46 MB
Release : 2008-05-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0141918764
This selection of the earliest poems in English comprises works from an age in which verse was not written down, but recited aloud and remembered. Heroic poems celebrate courage, loyalty and strength, in excerpts from Beowulf and in The Battle of Brunanburgh, depicting King Athelstan’s defeat of his northern enemies in 937 AD, while The Wanderer and The Seafarer reflect on exile, loss and destiny. The Gnomic Verses are proverbs on the natural order of life, and the Exeter Riddles are witty linguistic puzzles. Love elegies include emotional speeches from an abandoned wife and separated lovers, and devotional poems include a vision of Christ’s cross in The Dream of the Rood, and Caedmon’s Hymn, perhaps the oldest poem in English, speaking in praise of God.
Author : Oscar Williams
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 18,4 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0671496107
447 British and American poems by 150 poets, including contemporary poets.
Author : Sara Thorne
Publisher : Red Globe Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 23,38 MB
Release : 2006-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780333698754
Mastering Poetry is a practical book with wide-ranging examples, detailed commentaries and frameworks for analysis. Whether you are studying or reading poetry for pleasure, it will help you to move beyond your first response to an analytical understanding of the relationship between content, language, structure and style.
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 10,24 MB
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0060769661
A paperback original, Bloom's stand–alone introduction to The Best Poems of the English Language. A notable feature of Harold Bloom's poetry anthology The Best Poems English Language is his lengthy introductory essay, here reprinted as a separate book. For the first time Bloom gives his readers an elegant guide to reading poetry––a master critic's distillation of a lifetime of teaching and criticism. He tackles such subjects as poetic voice, the nature of metaphor and allusion, and the nature of poetic value itself. Bloom writes "the work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists of ourselves." This essay is an invaluable guide to poetry. This edition will also include a recommended reading list of poems.
Author : John McRae
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 24,32 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780415169288
This accessible textbook is unique in offering students hands-on, practical experience of textual analysis focused on poetry. It combines activities with texts, commentaries and further activity suggestions.