The Englis Ode
Author : Robert Shafer
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 34,40 MB
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Author : Robert Shafer
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 34,40 MB
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Author : Jack Lynch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 46,9 MB
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0191019682
In the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the poetry published in Britain between the Restoration and the end of the eighteenth century, forty-four authorities from six countries survey the poetry of the age in all its richness and diversity—serious and satirical, public and private, by men and women, nobles and peasants, whether published in deluxe editions or sung on the streets. The contributors discuss poems in social contexts, poetic identities, poetic subjects, poetic form, poetic genres, poetic devices, and criticism. Even experts in eighteenth-century poetry will see familiar poems from new angles, and all readers will encounter poems they've never read before. The book is not a chronologically organized literary history, nor an encyclopaedia, nor a collection of thematically related essays; rather it is an attempt to provide a systematic overview of these poetic works, and to restore it to a position of centrality in modern criticism.
Author : Philip E. Blank
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,62 MB
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3111342484
No detailed description available for "Lyric forms in the sonnet sequences of Barnabe Barnes".
Author : Donald Charles Mell
Publisher : Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 39,57 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Reference
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Page : 404 pages
File Size : 34,53 MB
Release : 1919
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Author : Roland Greene
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 1678 pages
File Size : 44,39 MB
Release : 2012-08-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0691154910
Rev. ed. of: The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics / Alex Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan, co-editors; Frank J. Warnke, O.B. Hardison, Jr., and Earl Miner, associate editors. 1993.
Author : J. Martin Evans
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,87 MB
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813188288
Milton's poems invariably depict the decisive instant in a story, a moment of crisis that takes place just before the action undergoes a dramatic change of course. Such instants look backward to a past that is about to be superseded or repudiated and forward, at the same time, to a future that will immediately begin to unfold. Martin Evans identifies this moment of transition as "the Miltonic Moment." This provocative new study focuses primarily on three of Milton's best known early poems: "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity," "A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle (Comus)," and "Lycidas." These texts share a distinctive perceptual and cognitive structure, which Evans defines as characteristically Miltonic, embracing a single moment that is both ending and beginning. The poems communicate a profound sense of intermediacy because they seem to take place between the boundaries that separate events. The works illuniated here, which also include Samson Agonistes and Paradise Regained, are all about transition from one form to another: from paganism to Christianity, from youthful inexperience to moral maturity, and from pastoral retirement to heroic engagement. This transformation is often ideological as well as historical or biographical. Evans shows that the moment of transition is characteristic of all Milton's poetry, and he proposes a new way of reading one of the seminal writers of the seventeenth century. Evans concludes that the narrative reversals in Milton's poetry suggest his constant attempts to bring about an intellectual revolution that, at a time of religious and political change in England, would transform an age.
Author : Stuart Curran
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,68 MB
Release : 1990-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0195363019
Across Europe, and particularly in Great Britain, the Romantic age coincided with a large-scale revival of lost literatures and the first attempts to create a coherent history of Western literature. Calling into question that history, Stuart Curran demonstrates that the Romantic poets, far from being indifferent or hostile to popular forms of literature were actually obsessed with them as repositories of literary conventions and conveyors of implicit ideological value. Whether in their proccupation with fixed forms, which resulted in the incomparable artistry of Romantic odes, or in their rethinking of major genres like the pastoral, the epic, and the romance, the Romantic poets transformed every element they touched to suit their own democratic, secular and skeptical ethos--a world view recognizably modern in its dimensions.
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Page : 664 pages
File Size : 28,78 MB
Release : 1919
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Author : Patrick Gill
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 19,65 MB
Release : 2022-12-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1000775089
An Introduction to Poetic Forms offers specimen discussions of poems through the lens of form. While each of its chapters does provide a standard definition of the form in question in its opening paragraphs, their main objective is to provide readings of specific examples to illustrate how individual poets have deviated from or subverted those expectations usually associated with the form under discussion. While providing the most vital information on the most widely taught forms of poetry, then, this collection will very quickly demonstrate that counting syllables and naming rhyme schemes is not the be-all and end-all of poetic form. Instead, each chapter will contain cross-references to other literary forms and periods as well as make clear the importance of the respective form to the culture at large: be it the democratising communicative power of the ballad or the objectifying male gaze of the blazon and resistance to same in the contreblazon – the efficacy of form is explored in the fullness of its cultural dimensions. In using standard definitions only as a starting point and instead focusing on lively debates around the cultural impact of poetic form, the textbook helps students and instructors to see poetic forms not as a static and lifeless affair but as living, breathing testament to the ongoing evolution of cultural debates. In the final analysis, the book is interested in showing the complexities and contradictions inherent in the very nature of literary form itself: how each concrete example deviates from the standard template while at the same time employing it as a foil to generate meaning.