Author : Claude Julien Rawson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 20,10 MB
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521874343
This volume provides essays by twenty-nine leading scholars and critics on the best English poets from Chaucer to Larkin.
Author : Andrew Hodgson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,78 MB
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108906710
At the heart of this book is a belief that poetry matters, and that it enables us to enjoy and understand life. In this accessible guide, Andrew Hodgson equips the reader for the challenging and rewarding experience of unlocking poetry, considering the key questions about language, technique, feeling and subject matter which illuminate what a poem has to say. In a lucid and sympathetic manner, he considers a diverse range of poets writing in English to demonstrate how their work enlarges our perception of ourselves and our world. The process of independent research is modeled step-by-step, as the guide shows where to start, how to develop ideas, and how to draw conclusions. Providing guidance on how to plan, organise and write essays, close readings and commentaries, from initial annotation to final editing, this book will provide you with the confidence to discover and express your own personal response to poetry.
Author : John Sitter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 48,71 MB
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139502468
For readers daunted by the formal structures and rhetorical sophistication of eighteenth-century English poetry, this introduction by John Sitter brings the techniques and the major poets of the period 1700–1785 triumphantly to life. Sitter begins by offering a guide to poetic forms ranging from heroic couplets to blank verse, then demonstrates how skilfully male and female poets of the period used them as vehicles for imaginative experience, feelings and ideas. He then provides detailed analyses of individual works by poets from Finch, Swift and Pope, to Gray, Cowper and Barbauld. An approachable introduction to English poetry and major poets of the eighteenth century, this book provides a grounding in poetic analysis useful to students and general readers of literature.
Author : Christopher Beach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 31,11 MB
Release : 2003-10-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521891493
The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry is designed to give readers a brief but thorough introduction to the various movements, schools, and groups of American poets in the twentieth century. It will help readers to understand and analyze modern and contemporary poems. The first part of the book deals with the transition from the nineteenth-century lyric to the modernist poem, focussing on the work of major modernists such as Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, and W. C. Williams. In the second half of the book, the focus is on groups such as the poets of the Harlem Renaissance, the New Critics, the Confessionals, and the Beats. In each chapter, discussions of the most important poems are placed in the larger context of literary, cultural, and social history.
Author : Michael O'Neill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1117 pages
File Size : 34,65 MB
Release : 2010-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521883067
A literary-historical account of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon writings to the present.
Author : Mark Richardson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 32,29 MB
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107123828
This Companion brings together essays on some fifty-four American poets, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry as modernism, the Harlem (or New Negro) Renaissance, "confessional" poetry, the Black Mountain School, the New York School, the Beats, and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry.
Author : Peter Howarth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 24,30 MB
Release : 2011-11-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139502328
Modernist poems are some of the twentieth-century's major cultural achievements, but they are also hard work to read. This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. In-depth chapters on Pound, Eliot, Yeats and the American modernists outline how formal experiments take on the new world of mass media, democracies, total war and changing religious belief. Chapters on the avant-gardes and later modernism examine how their styles shift as they try to re-make the community of readers. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English.
Author : Judith Ryan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 50,41 MB
Release : 2012-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521867665
Exploring traditional poems alongside new examples, this Introduction conveys the rich rewards that come with reading German poetry.
Author : Timothy Yu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 17,24 MB
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108482090
This book offers a comprehensive introduction to studying the diversity of American poetry in the twenty-first century.
Author : Alfred Bendixen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1326 pages
File Size : 26,7 MB
Release : 2014-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107003361
The Cambridge History of American Poetry offers a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their beginnings until the end of the twentieth century. Bringing together the insights of fifty distinguished scholars, this literary history emphasizes the complex roles that poetry has played in American cultural and intellectual life, detailing the variety of ways in which both public and private forms of poetry have met the needs of different communities at different times. The Cambridge History of American Poetry recognizes the existence of multiple traditions and a dramatically fluid canon, providing current perspectives on both major authors and a number of representative figures whose work embodies the diversity of America's democratic traditions.
