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Poetic Form

Author : Michael D. Hurley

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 259 pages

File Size : 10,60 MB

Release : 2012-10-08

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1107376920

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Michael D. Hurley and Michael O'Neill offer a perceptive and illuminating look into poetic form, a topic that has come back into prominence in recent years. Building on this renewed interest in form, Hurley and O'Neill provide an accessible and comprehensive introduction that will be of help to undergraduates and more advanced readers of poetry alike. The book sees form as neither ornamenting nor mimicking content, but as shaping and animating it, encouraging readers to cultivate techniques to read poems as poems. Lively and wide-ranging, engaging with poems as aesthetic experiences, the book includes a long chapter on the elements of form that throws new light on troubling terms such as rhythm and metre, as well as a detailed introduction and accessible, stimulating chapters on lyric, the sonnet, elegy, soliloquy, dramatic monologue and ballad and narrative.



The Cambridge introduction to poetic form

Author : Michael D. Hurley

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Page : 245 pages

File Size : 18,11 MB

Release : 2012

Category : English language

ISBN : 9781139422475

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"This work provides lucid, elegant, and original analyses of poetic form and its workings in a wide range of poems"--



The Cambridge Introduction to Poetic Form

Author : Michael Dominic Hurley

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Page : 245 pages

File Size : 16,90 MB

Release : 2012

Category : English language

ISBN : 9781139423540

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"This work provides lucid, elegant, and original analyses of poetic form and its workings in a wide range of poems"--



The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry

Author : Christopher Beach

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 236 pages

File Size : 37,71 MB

Release : 2003-10-23

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9780521891493

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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.



The Cambridge Companion to William Blake

Author : Morris Eaves

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 332 pages

File Size : 35,36 MB

Release : 2003-01-23

Category : Art

ISBN : 9780521786775

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Poet, painter, and engraver William Blake died in 1827 in obscure poverty with few admirers. The attention paid today to his remarkable poems, prints, and paintings would have astonished his contemporaries. Admired for his defiant, uncompromising creativity, he has become one of the most anthologized and studied writers in English and one of the most studied and collected British artists. His urge to cast words and images into masterpieces of revelation has left us with complex, forceful, extravagant, some times bizarre works of written and visual art that rank among the greatest challenges to plain understanding ever created. This Companion aims to provide guidance to Blake s work in fresh and readable introductions: biographical, literary, art historical, political, religious, and bibliographical. Together with a chronology, guides to further reading, and glossary of terms, they identify the key points of departure into Blake s multifarious world and work.



The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature

Author : Clare A. Lees

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 910 pages

File Size : 33,32 MB

Release : 2012-11-29

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 131617509X

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Informed by multicultural, multidisciplinary perspectives, The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature offers a new exploration of the earliest writing in Britain and Ireland, from the end of the Roman Empire to the mid-twelfth century. Beginning with an account of writing itself, as well as of scripts and manuscript art, subsequent chapters examine the earliest texts from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and the tremendous breadth of Anglo-Latin literature. Chapters on English learning and literature in the ninth century and the later formation of English poetry and prose also convey the profound cultural confidence of the period. Providing a discussion of essential texts, including Beowulf and the writings of Bede, this History captures the sheer inventiveness and vitality of early medieval literary culture through topics as diverse as the literature of English law, liturgical and devotional writing, the workings of science and the history of women's writing.



Coleridge and the Philosophy of Poetic Form

Author : Ewan James Jones

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 261 pages

File Size : 46,12 MB

Release : 2014-07-31

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1316061833

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Ewan James Jones argues that Coleridge engaged most significantly with philosophy not through systematic argument, but in verse. Jones carries this argument through a series of sustained close readings, both of canonical texts such as Christabel and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and also of less familiar verse, such as Limbo. Such work shows that the essential elements of poetic expression - a poem's metre, rhythm, rhyme and other such formal features - enabled Coleridge to think in an original and distinctive manner, which his systematic philosophy impeded. Attentiveness to such formal features, which has for some time been overlooked in Coleridge scholarship, permits a rethinking of the relationship between eighteenth-century verse and philosophy more broadly, as it engages with issues including affect, materiality and self-identity. Coleridge's poetic thinking, Jones argues, both consolidates and radicalises the current literary critical rediscovery of form.



The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Poetry

Author : Patrick Cheney

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : pages

File Size : 24,97 MB

Release : 2007-01-04

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1139827464

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This Companion provides a full introduction to the poetry of William Shakespeare through discussion of his freestanding narrative poems, the Sonnets, and his plays. Fourteen leading international scholars provide accessible and authoritative chapters on all relevant topics: from Shakespeare's seminal role in the development of English poetry, the wide-ranging practice of his poetic form, and his enigmatic place in print and manuscript culture, to his immersion in English Renaissance politics, religion, classicism, and gender dynamics. With individual chapters on Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Passionate Pilgrim, 'The Phoenix and the Turtle', the Sonnets, and A Lover's Complaint, the Companion also includes chapters on the presence of poetry in the dramatic works, on the relation between poetry and performance, and on the reception and influence of the poems. The volume includes a chronology of Shakespeare's life, a note on reference works, and a reading list for each chapter.



The Cambridge Companion to English Poets

Author : Claude Julien Rawson

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 581 pages

File Size : 15,63 MB

Release : 2011-01-27

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 0521874343

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This volume provides essays by twenty-nine leading scholars and critics on the best English poets from Chaucer to Larkin.



The Cambridge Introduction to Walt Whitman

Author : M. Jimmie Killingsworth

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 123 pages

File Size : 43,19 MB

Release : 2007-03-08

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1139462288

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Walt Whitman is one of the most innovative and influential American poets of the nineteenth century. Focusing on his masterpiece Leaves of Grass, this book provides a foundation for the study of Whitman as an experimental poet, a radical democrat, and a historical personality in the era of the American Civil War, the growth of the great cities, and the westward expansion of the United States. Always a controversial and important figure, Whitman continues to attract the admiration of poets, artists, critics, political activists, and readers around the world. Those studying his work for the first time will find this an invaluable book. Alongside close readings of the major texts, chapters on Whitman's biography, the history and culture of his time, and the critical reception of his work provide a comprehensive understanding of Whitman and of how he has become such a central figure in the American literary canon.