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Popular Songs and Ballads of Han China
Anne Birrell;Anne Birrell
The oral factor in Chinese literature, although critically important, has been largely...
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Popular Songs and Ballads of Han China
2019
The oral factor in Chinese literature, although critically important, has been largely neglected in the scholarship of the last generation. In this study, one of the leading specialists in classical Chinese literature introduces readers to a repertoire of seventy-seven songs and ballads of early imperial China. Each song -text is newly translated and fully annotated and explicated. Anne Birrell deals systematically with problems of the earliest sources, attribution, textual variants, meter, and structure. Her introductory essay provides a valuable sociohistorical context for this material. First published in 1988, this important study of the folk song has become standard reading for students of oral literature and Chinese folklore and popular culture.
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Chinese poetry--Qin and Han dynasties, 221 B.C.-220 A.D.--Translations into English - Yue fu (Chinese poetry)--History and criticism - Yue fu (Chinese poetry)--Translations into EnglishContent provider:
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The New American Poetry and Cold War Nationalism.
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Journal of Modern Literature. Fall2023, Vol. 47 Issue 1, p180-191. 12p.
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Kimmelman, Burt
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The New American Poetry and Cold War Nationalism.
Journal of Modern Literature. Fall2023, Vol. 47 Issue 1, p180-191. 12p.
Stephan Delbos's deeply researched historical analysis provides new insight into American avant-garde poetry and art after World War II when, in its aftermath and the ensuing Cold War, certain poets and artists set American poetics on a new course. Delbos evaluates this movement from the perspective of recent Anglophone poetry whose concerns for identity and biography have left it oblivious to what was a fierce contest over a half century ago. Yet the famous anthology, The New American Poetry , 1945–1960, has changed the terms of American poetry even into the present. The poets and editors involved in that bygone struggle were not immune to the Cold War's effects both at home and abroad; in fact both the avant-garde poetry and the contemporaneous avant-garde art , in being appropriated for the global struggle, also directly or indirectly reflected that struggle in the work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Mike Chasar;Mike Chasar
It's become commonplace in contemporary culture for critics to proclaim the death of p...
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2020
It's become commonplace in contemporary culture for critics to proclaim the death of poetry . Poetry , they say, is no longer relevant to the modern world, mortally wounded by the emergence of new media technologies. In Poetry Unbound, Mike Chasar rebuts claims that poetry has become a marginal art form, exploring how it has played a vibrant and culturally significant role by adapting to and shaping new media technologies in complex, unexpected, and powerful ways.Beginning with the magic lantern and continuing through the dominance of the internet, Chasar follows poetry's travels off the page into new media formats, including silent film, sound film, and television. Mass and nonprint media have not stolen poetry's audience, he contends, but have instead given people even more ways to experience poetry . Examining the use of canonical as well as religious and popular verse forms in a variety of genres, Chasar also traces how poetry has helped negotiate and legitimize the cultural status of emergent media. Ranging from Citizen Kane to Leave It to Beaver to best-selling Instapoet Rupi Kaur, this book reveals poetry's ability to find new audiences and meanings in media forms with which it has often been thought to be incompatible. Illuminating poetry's surprising multimedia history, Poetry Unbound offers a new paradigm for understanding poetry's still evolving place in American culture.
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Things in Poems
Hrdlička, Josef;Machová, Mariana;Hrdlička, Josef;Machová, Mariana
In this volume, fifteen scholars and poets, from Austria, Britain, Czechia, France, Ge...
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Things in Poems
2022
In this volume, fifteen scholars and poets, from Austria, Britain, Czechia, France, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, and Russia, explore the topic of things and objects in poetry written in a number of different languages and in different eras. The book begins with ancient poetry , then moves on to demonstrate the significance of objects in the Chinese poetic tradition. From there, the focus shifts to things and objects in the poetry of the twentieth and the twenty-first century, examining the work of Czech, Polish, and Russian poets alongside other key figures such as Rilke, Francis Ponge, William Carlos Williams, and Paul Muldoon. Along the way, the reader gets an introduction to key terms and phrases that have been associated with things in the course of poetic history, such as ekphrasis, objective lyricism, and hyperobjects.
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Object (Aesthetics) in literature - Material culture in literature - Poetry--Themes, motives - Poetry--History and criticismContent provider:
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The Garden of Divine Songs and Collected Poetry of Hryhory Skovoroda
SKOVORODA, HRYHORY;SKOVORODA, HRYHORY
Hryhory Skovoroda is considered by many as the first great Slavic philosopher and poet...
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The Garden of Divine Songs and Collected Poetry of Hryhory Skovoroda
2016
Hryhory Skovoroda is considered by many as the first great Slavic philosopher and poet. Written over a period stretching from the 1750s until 1785, his The Garden of Divine Songs is a unique collection of 30 poems , featuring a complex system of strophic structures and with only a few of the songs written in a traditional way. Skovoroda never repeats one and the same strophic structure; this being the case, his Garden of Divine Songs according to writer-scholar Valery Shevchuk functions as a “practical guide to the art of poetry ”, exemplifying all the meters and strophic patterns that were possible in Ukrainian poetry of that time. The poet makes masterful use of the accomplishments of academic poetry ; the so-called “songs of the world” are the most prominent poems in this collection. These songs are an expression of Skovoroda's views in poetic form, and many ideas from The Garden of Divine Songs , such as the search for happiness in the world in song 21, would later form the basis for some of Skovoroda's philosophical treatises. Skovoroda's originality, and his ability to approach the most cardinal problems of human existence, stem from his capacity to combine known motifs, borrowed from literary sources such as classical texts, the Bible, and ancient Ukrainian poetic works, with his own system of thinking that focuses on his philosophy of the heart. The complete poems of Skovoroda are appearing in their entirety here in English for the first time, accompanied by a guest introduction by prominent Ukrainian writer Valery Shevchuk. This title has been realised by a team of the following dedicated professionals: Translated by Michael M. Naydan with an introduction by Valery Shevchuk Translations Edited by Olha Tytarenko Maxim Hodak - Максим Ходак (Publisher), Max Mendor - Макс Мендор (Director), Ksenia Papazova (Managing Editor).
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Tennyson’s Poems : New Textual Parallels
R. H. Winnick;R. H. Winnick
In Tennyson's Poems: New Textual Parallels, R. H. Winnick identifies more than a thous...
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Tennyson’s Poems : New Textual Parallels
2019
In Tennyson's Poems : New Textual Parallels, R. H. Winnick identifies more than a thousand previously unknown instances in which Tennyson phrases of two or three to as many as several words are similar or identical to those occurring in prior works by other hands—discoveries aided by the proliferation of digitized texts and the related development of powerful search tools over the three decades since the most recent major edition of Tennyson's poems was published. Each of these instances may be deemed an allusion (meant to be recognized as such and pointing, for definable purposes, to a particular antecedent text), an echo (conscious or not, deliberate or not, meant to be noticed or not, meaningful or not), or merely accidental. Unless accidental, Winnick writes, these new textual parallels significantly expand our knowledge both of Tennyson's reading and of his thematic intentions and artistic technique. Coupled with the thousand-plus textual parallels previously reported by Christopher Ricks and other scholars, he says, they suggest that a fundamental and lifelong aspect of Tennyson's art was his habit of echoing any work, ancient or modern, which had the potential to enhance the resonance or deepen the meaning of his poems . The new textual parallels Winnick has identified point most often to the King James Bible and to such canonical authors as Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Thomson, Cowper, Shelley, Byron, and Wordsworth. But they also point to many authors rarely if ever previously cited in Tennyson editions and studies, including Michael Drayton, Richard Blackmore, Isaac Watts, Erasmus Darwin, John Ogilvie, Anna Lætitia Barbauld, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, John Wilson, and—with surprising frequency—Felicia Hemans. Tennyson's Poems : New Textual Parallels is thus a major new resource for Tennyson scholars and students, an indispensable adjunct to the 1987 edition of Tennyson's complete poems edited by Christopher Ricks.
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The Poetry of Cao Zhi
Robert Joe Cutter;Paul W. Kroll;Robert Joe Cutter;Paul W. Kroll
This book provides a translation of the complete poems and fu of Cao Zhi (192–232), on...
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The Poetry of Cao Zhi
2021
This book provides a translation of the complete poems and fu of Cao Zhi (192–232), one of China's most famous poets. Cao Zhi lived during a tumultuous age, a time of intrepid figures and of bold and violent acts that have captured the Chinese imagination across the centuries. His father Cao Cao (155–220) became the most powerful leader in a divided empire, and on his death, Cao Zhi's elder brother Cao Pi (187–226) engineered the abdication of the last Han emperor, establishing himself as the founding emperor of the Wei Dynasty (220–265). Although Cao Zhi wanted to play an active role in government and military matters, he was not allowed to do so, and he is remembered as a writer. The Poetry of Cao Zhi contains in its body one hundred twenty-eight pieces of poetry and fu. The extant editions of Cao Zhi's writings differ in the number of pieces they contain and present many textual variants. The translations in this volume are based on a valuable edition of Cao's works by Ding Yan (1794–1875), and are supplemented by robust annotations, a brief biography of Cao Zhi, and an introduction to the poetry by the translator.
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Chinese poetry--221 B.C.-960 A.DContent provider:
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Music, Art and Emotion: Depictions of the Night Inspired by Romantic Art Song
Conroy Cupidol (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6813-6877);Jaco Meyer (https://...
This book explores the ways in which four visual artists make sense of referentialism ...
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Music, Art and Emotion: Depictions of the Night Inspired by Romantic Art Song
2022
This book explores the ways in which four visual artists make sense of referentialism and emotion in music. By listening to five art songs by Schubert, Strauss, Fauré and Berlioz they were inspired to create new artworks as a result of their understanding of the meaning of the art songs . This was done without an understanding of the text, and the artists had to rely on referential meaning in music as well as the perceived or evoked emotions elicited by listening to the art songs . The artworks created as a result of this project were exhibited at the Aardklop National Arts Festival, entitled Nagmusiek. This was a multi-modal exhibition featuring music, art and text. This book employs Artistic Research and Phenomenology in order to understand this phenomenon, as I explored the artists'creative processes, experiences and the tacit knowledge embedded in their artefacts. This book would provide readers access to 20 new artworks, each created as a result of the artists'interpretation of the meaning they ascribed to art song . Their creative process is also examined and synthesised with existing literature on emotion and referentialism in music.
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Emotions in music - Music, Influence of - Art and musicContent provider:
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The Poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Volume I : The Hanging of the Crane & Other Poems
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow;Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born on February 27th, 1807 in Portland, Maine. As a yo...
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The Poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Volume I : The Hanging of the Crane & Other Poems
2017
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born on February 27th, 1807 in Portland, Maine. As a young boy, it was obvious that he was very studious and he quickly became fluent in Latin. He published his first poem ,'The Battle of Lovell's Pond', in the Portland Gazette on November 17th, 1820. He was already thinking of a career in literature and, in his senior year, wrote to his father: “I will not disguise it in the least... the fact is, I most eagerly aspire after future eminence in literature, my whole soul burns most ardently after it, and every earthly thought centers in it....” After graduation travels in Europe occupied the next three years and he seemed to easily absorb any language he set himself to learn. On September 14th, 1831, Longfellow married Mary Storer Potter. They settled in Brunswick. His first published book was in 1833, a translation of poems by the Spanish poet Jorge Manrique. He also published a travel book, Outre-Mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea. During a trip to Europe Mary became pregnant. Sadly, in October 1835, she miscarried at some six months. After weeks of illness she died, at the age of 22 on November 29th, 1835. Longfellow wrote'One thought occupies me night and day... She is dead — She is dead! All day I am weary and sad'. In late 1839, Longfellow published Hyperion, a book in prose inspired by his trips abroad. Ballads and Other Poems was published in 1841 and included'The Village Blacksmith'and'The Wreck of the Hesperus'. His reputation as a poet, and a commercial one at that, was set. On May 10th, 1843, after seven years in pursuit of a chance for new love, Longfellow received word from Fanny Appleton that she agreed to marry him. On November 1st, 1847, the epic poem Evangeline was published. In 1854, Longfellow retired from Harvard, to devote himself entirely to writing. The Song of Haiwatha, perhaps his best known and enjoyed work was published in 1855. On July 10th, 1861, after suffering horrific burns the previous day. In his attempts to save her Longfellow had also been badly burned and was unable to attend her funeral. He spent several years translating Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. It was published in 1867. Longfellow was also part of a group who became known as The Fireside Poets which also included William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Snr. Longfellow was the most popular poet of his day. As a friend once wrote to him,'no other poet was so fully recognized in his lifetime'. Some of his works including'Paul Revere's Ride'and “The Song of Haiwatha” may have rewritten the facts but became essential parts of the American psyche and culture. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow died, surrounded by family, on Friday, March 24th, 1882. He had been suffering from peritonitis.
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How to Read a Japanese Poem
Steven D. Carter;Steven D. Carter
How to Read a Japanese Poem offers a comprehensive approach to making sense of traditi...
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How to Read a Japanese Poem
2019
How to Read a Japanese Poem offers a comprehensive approach to making sense of traditional Japanese poetry of all genres and periods. Steven D. Carter explains to Anglophone students the methods of composition and literary interpretation used by Japanese poets, scholars, and critics from ancient times to the present, and adds commentary that will assist the modern reader.How to Read a Japanese Poem presents readings of poems by major figures such as Saigyō and Bashō as well as lesser known poets, with nearly two hundred examples that encompass all genres of Japanese poetry . The book gives attention to well-known forms such as haikai or haiku, as well as ancient songs , comic poems , and linked verse. Each chapter provides examples of a genre in chronological order, followed by notes about authorship and other contextual details, including the time of composition, physical setting, and social occasion. The commentaries focus on a central feature of Japanese poetic discourse: that poems are often occasional, written in specific situations, and are best read in light of their milieu. Carter elucidates key concepts useful in examining Japanese poetics as well as the technical vocabulary of Japanese poetic discourse, familiarizing students with critical terms and concepts. An appendix offers succinct definitions of technical terms and essays on aesthetic ideals and devices.
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Japanese poetry--History and criticism - Japanese poetry--AppreciationContent provider:
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The Poetry and Prose of Wang Wei : Volume II
Paul Rouzer;Christopher Nugent;Paul Rouzer;Christopher Nugent
Wang Wei has traditionally been considered one of the greatest of Tang dynasty poets, ...
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The Poetry and Prose of Wang Wei : Volume II
2020; Vol. 00002
Wang Wei has traditionally been considered one of the greatest of Tang dynasty poets, together with Li Bo and Du Fu. This is the first complete translation into English of all of his poems , and also the first substantial translation of a selection of his prose writings. For the first time, readers encountering his work in English translation will get a comprehensive understanding of Wang Wei‘s range as a poet and prose writer. In spite of the importance of Wang Wei's poetry in the history of Chinese literature, no one has attempted a complete translation of all of his surviving poems ; moreover, even though he was known for his skill in composing prose pieces in the recognized genres of his day (especially as a writer of commissioned compositions), very little of his prose has been translated. This translation will enable students with limited or no knowledge of Chinese to get a full sense of Wang Wei's compositional range. Moreover, since Wang Wei was known for being a devout Buddhist, having the complete poetry available in reliable translation as well as all of the prose that is connected to the Buddhist faith will be useful to students of Chinese religion.
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Shared Religious Soundscapes: Indian Rāga Music in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Devotion in South Asia.
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Religions. Nov2023, Vol. 14 Issue 11, p1406. 17p.
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Beck, Guy L.
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Religions. Nov2023, Vol. 14 Issue 11, p1406. 17p.
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Jim Harrison: Complete Poems
Jim Harrison;Joseph Bednarik;Jim Harrison;Joseph Bednarik
Starred Review from Booklist:'This robust volume is a testament to the fortitude of a ...
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Jim Harrison: Complete Poems
2021
Starred Review from Booklist:'This robust volume is a testament to the fortitude of a great American poet's work... [a] landmark collection.'From the Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams:'Jim Harrison...was among the great ones—an elevated soul in all his unruliness who favored his senses and courted the wild on the page and in the world. His was a storied life that loomed large, and we are the beneficiaries.'Such a powerful wounded poet—wrote as if he had to sing with a cut throat... and he did have to sing,'said Jorie Graham.'Jim Harrison: Complete Poems is the definitive collection from one of America's iconic writers. Introduced by activist and naturalist writer Terry Tempest Williams, this tour de force contains every poem Harrison published over his fifty-year career, as well as a section of previously unpublished'Last Poems .'Here are the nature-based lyrics of his early work, the high-velocity ghazals, a harrowing prose-poem “correspondence” with a Russian suicide, the riverine suites, fearless meditations inspired by the Zen monk Crazy Cloud, and a joyous conversation in haiku-like gems with friend and fellow poet Ted Kooser. Weaving throughout these 1000 pages are Harrison's legendary passions and appetites, his love songs and lamentations, and a clarion call to pay attention to the life you are actually living. Jim Harrison: Complete Poems confirms that Jim Harrison is a talented storyteller with a penetrating eye for details, or as Publishers Weeklycalled him, “an untrammeled renegade genius… a poet talking to you instead of around himself, while doing absolutely brilliant and outrageous things with language.”NOTE:Jim Harrison: Complete Poems also appears as a three-volume box set. Print run limited to 750 copies. Each volume is introduced by a different writer: Colum McCann, Joy Williams, and John Freeman. The box set retails for $85 and ISBN is 9781556596414.
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The Poetry of Claude McKay.
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Masterplots II: African American Literature, Revised Edition. Dec2008, p1-5. 5p.
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McLeod, A. L.
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A summary and analysis of the poetry of Claude McKay. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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The Poetry of Claude McKay.
Masterplots II: African American Literature, Revised Edition. Dec2008, p1-5. 5p.
A summary and analysis of the poetry of Claude McKay. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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The Lyric Poem and Aestheticism : Forms of Modernity
Thain, Marion;Thain, Marion
This study explores lyric poetry's response to a crisis of relevance in Victorian Mode...
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The Lyric Poem and Aestheticism : Forms of Modernity
2016
This study explores lyric poetry's response to a crisis of relevance in Victorian Modernity, offering an analysis of literature usually elided by studies of the modern formation of the genre and uncovering previously unrecognized discourses within it. Setting the focal aestheticist poetry (c. 1860 to 1914) within much broader historical, theoretical and aesthetic frames, it speaks to those interested in Victorian and modernist literature and culture, but also to a burgeoning audience of the ‘new lyric studies'. The six case studies introduce fresh poetic voices as well as giving innovative analyses of canonical writers (such as D. G. Rossetti, Ezra Pound, A. C. Swinburne).
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Lyric poetry--19th century--History and criticism - Aesthetics in literatureContent provider:
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The Collected Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett;Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue Elizabeth Barrett Browning was such...
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The Collected Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
2015
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue Elizabeth Barrett Browning was such an acclaimed poet in her own lifetime that she was suggested as a candidate for the Poet Laureateship when Wordsworth died in 1850. Yet today we have only a limited knowledge of her considerable life's work as a poet, in part because of a lack of representative but accessible editions of her work. Readers will find here not only her well-known sonnet sequence of love poems , Sonnets From the Portuguese, but also lesser known sonnets, some in praise of the cross-dressing bohemian writer George Sand, others to contemporary poets and artists. Her religious and spiritual poetry echoes that of the Metaphysical poets. A different voice emerges in her social and political protest poems , such as ‘The Cry of the Children'and ‘The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point'. Her experimental ballads allowed her to develop a distinctive way of writing about women within an apparently conventional form. In the outstanding work of her maturity, Aurora Leigh, the woman's voice takes centre stage. This ‘novel-poem 'is full of verve and interest, with a female poet-hero who casts a caustic eye on life and on her fellow men – and women. We all think we know the story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning – the mysterious illness which enclosed her in her room, her over-loving but imperious father, and her romantic, secret marriage to the poet Robert Browning and their life together in Italy. But this comprehensive selection of her poetry tells the real story of her sustained creative life as a poet, which began with her childhood poetic ambitions and ended only with her death. All the major aspects of her poetry are represented in this accessible edition which is well-annotated and contextualised, with a wide-ranging introduction which covers Barrett Browning's poetic and intellectual life as well as her personal one. Recent critical re-readings, including major feminist reassessments, of her poetry are covered in the introduction, with helpful suggestions for further reading.
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A Little History of Poetry
John Carey;John Carey
A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the pre...
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A Little History of Poetry
2020
A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry , from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature--selected as the literature book of the year by the London Times “[A] fizzing, exhilarating book.”—Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times, London“Delightful.'”—New York Times Book Review What is poetry ? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. It does not always work—over the centuries countless thousands of poems have been forgotten. But this Little History is about some that have not. John Carey tells the stories behind the world's greatest poems , from the oldest surviving one written nearly four thousand years ago to those being written today. Carey looks at poets whose works shape our views of the world, such as Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Whitman, and Yeats. He also looks at more recent poets, like Derek Walcott, Marianne Moore, and Maya Angelou, who have started to question what makes a poem “great” in the first place. For readers both young and old, this little history shines a light for readers on the richness of the world's poems —and the elusive quality that makes them all the more enticing.
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The Collected Poetry of Carol Shields
Carol Shields;Nora Foster Stovel;Carol Shields;Nora Foster Stovel
Carol Shields, best known for her fiction writing, received both the Pulitzer Prize an...
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The Collected Poetry of Carol Shields
2021
Carol Shields, best known for her fiction writing, received both the Pulitzer Prize and the Governor General's Award for Fiction for her novel The Stone Diaries. But she also wrote hundreds of poems over the span of her career.The Collected Poetry of Carol Shields includes three previously published collections and over eighty unpublished poems , ranging from the early 1970s to Shields's death in 2003. In a detailed introduction and commentary, Nora Foster Stovel contextualizes these poems against the background of Shields's life and oeuvre and the traditions of twentieth-century poetry . She demonstrates how poetry influenced and informed Shields's novels; many of the poems , which constitute miniature narratives, illuminate Shields's fiction and serve as the testing ground for metaphors she later employed in her prose works. Stovel delineates Shields's career-long interest in character and setting, gender and class, self and other, actuality and numinousness, as well as revealing her subversive feminism, which became explicit in Reta Winter's angry (unsent) letters in Unless and in the stories of poet Mary Swann and Daisy Goodwill in Swann and The Stone Diaries.The first complete collection of her poetry , this volume is essential for all readers of Carol Shields. Stovel's detailed annotations, based on research in the Carol Shields fonds at Library and Archives Canada, reveal the poems in all their depth and resonance, and the dignity and consequence they afford to ordinary people.
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Feminist poetry - Canadian poetry--20th century--History and criticismContent provider:
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The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson;Emily Dickinson
This collection of Emily Dickinson's work contains 444 of the nearly 1,800 poems that ...
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The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
2016
This collection of Emily Dickinson's work contains 444 of the nearly 1,800 poems that the prolific yet reclusive American poet privately penned during her lifetime. Although her bold and non-traditional writing style met with mixed reviews when first published, Dickinson is now considered one of America's greatest poets. Included here are such famous poems as'Because I could not stop for Death','I'm nobody! Who are you?', and'Hope is the thing with feathers'. Themes of love, loss, death, and immortality imbue Dickinson's work with a timeless quality; her unconventional poetry continues to provide insight into the human condition. This is an unabridged compilation of three series of Dickinson's poetry edited and published by her friends after her death—the first series in 1890, the second in 1891, and the third in 1896.
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Endymion: A Poetic Romance : 'A Thing of Beauty Is a Joy Forever''
John Keats;John Keats
Keats. The name is synonymous with great romantic poetry and great romantic poets. A s...
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Endymion: A Poetic Romance : 'A Thing of Beauty Is a Joy Forever''
2019
Keats. The name is synonymous with great romantic poetry and great romantic poets. A short life but a legacy of works that few, if any, can rival.John Keats was born October 31st, 1795, in London, England, the eldest of four childrenKeats was 8 when his father, trampled by a horse, died. His mother remarried but lost much of the family's assets. When that marriage fell apart she abandoned the family, returning only in 1810 to die of tuberculosis.At Enfield Academy, where he started to study, shortly before his father's death, Keats was a voracious reader. In the fall of 1810, Keats left Enfield to become a surgeon. After studying in a London hospital he became a licensed apothecary in 1816.Even as he studied medicine, Keats'appetite for literature never wavered. Through a friend, he met the publisher, Leigh Hunt of The Examiner.Hunt's radical views and biting pen had seen him incarcerated in 1813 for libelling the Prince Regent. But he had an eye for talent and was quick to recognise the quality of Keats's poetry and became his publisher. He introduced him to other poets, including Percy Bysshe Shelley and William Wordsworth.In 1817 his first volume was published; ‘Poems '. In April, 1818, came ‘Endymion,'a four-thousand line epic based on the Greek myth. It was savaged by England's two most respected publications, Blackwood's Magazine and the Quarterly Review. Keats now departed on a walking tour to the North of England and Scotland. Word that his brother, Tom, had contracted tuberculosis saw him return home to help care for him.With his brother's passing, Keats finally returned to work only in late 1819, rewriting an unfinished work that now became, ‘The Fall of Hyperion,'. ‘To Autumn,'a sensuous work published in 1820 superbly demonstrated the style Keats had now constructed. Surprisingly Keats only published 3 volumes of poetry in his lifetime and they sold a mere 200 copies between them. For Keats, his end was to be tragically romantic. In 1819 he was returning one night to his home in Hampstead when he coughed. He coughed a single drop of blue blood upon his hand and said ‘I know the colour of that blood, it is arterial blood, it is my death warrant, I must die'.And so it was that tuberculosis took its slow, devastating hold. He moved to Rome, in November 1820, hoping the warmer climate would help and for a few weeks it did, but the end was inevitable. John Keats died, at the age 25, in the Eternal City on February 23rd 1821.
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What Ever Became of the Ballad ?
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Parnassus: Poetry in Review. 2004, Vol. 28 Issue 1/2, p1-51. 51p.
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Barber, David
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Presents literary criticism which focuses on the history of ballads. To hear certain p...
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What Ever Became of the Ballad ?
Parnassus: Poetry in Review. 2004, Vol. 28 Issue 1/2, p1-51. 51p.
Presents literary criticism which focuses on the history of ballads . To hear certain purists tell it, the ballad was already on its last breath 250 years ago—from the moment the old ballad lyrics began to be snatched out of the air and set in cold type. They do have a point. Although there can only be educated conjectures about precisely how ballads came into being, there is no question but that they were first made to be heard, not read. Ballads were songs , plain as day, their versification shaped by the demands of musical improvisation and oral transmission, in the interests of both the singer's narrative flow and the listener's immediate comprehension. There are ballads to be bellowed at sea and ballads to be roared in the ale-house. There are ballads , in other words, for all seasons and occasions. There is always a potential audience for the ballad ; but the social conditions of modern society make it difficult for the good ballad to be written.
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Essays - Ballad (Literary form) - Lyric poetry - Versification - Social history - SongsContent provider:
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Pastoral Poetry of the English Renaissance : An Anthology
Sukanta Chaudhuri;Sukanta Chaudhuri
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) op...
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Pastoral Poetry of the English Renaissance : An Anthology
2019
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Renaissance pastoral poetry is gaining new interest for its distinctive imaginative vein, its varied allusive content, and the theoretical implications of the genre. This is by far the biggest ever anthology of English Renaissance pastoral poetry , with 277 pieces spanning two centuries. Spenser, Sidney, Jonson and Drayton are amply represented alongside their many contemporaries. There is a wide range of pastoral lyrics, weightier allusive pieces, and translations from classical and vernacular pastoral poetry ; also, more unusually, pastoral ballads and poems set in all kinds of prose works. Each piece has been freshly edited from the original sources, with full apparatus and commentary. This book will be complemented by a second volume, to be published in 2017, which includes a book-length introduction, textual notes and analytic indices.
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English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700 - Pastoral poetryContent provider:
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The Matrix of Lyric Transformation : Poetic Modes and Self-Presentation in Early Chinese Pentasyllabic Poetry
Zong-qi Cai;Zong-qi Cai
Pentasyllabic poetry has been a focus of critical study since the appearance of the ea...
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The Matrix of Lyric Transformation : Poetic Modes and Self-Presentation in Early Chinese Pentasyllabic Poetry
2020
Pentasyllabic poetry has been a focus of critical study since the appearance of the earliest works of Chinese literary criticism in the Six Dynasties period. Throughout the subsequent dynasties, traditional Chinese critics continued to examine pentasyllabic poetry as a leading poetic type and to compile various comprehensive anthologies of it. The Matrix of Lyric Transformation enriches this tradition, using modern analytical methods to explore issues of self-expression and to trace the early formal, thematic, and generic developments of this poetic form. Beginning with a discussion of the Yüeh-fu and ku-shih genres of the Han period, Cai Zong-qi introdues the analytical framework of modes from Western literary criticism to show how the pentasyllabic poetry changed over time. He argues that changing practices of poetic composition effected a shift from a dramatic mode typical of folk compositions to a narrative mode and finally to lyric and symbolic modes developed in literati circles.
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Poetics - Yue fu (Chinese poetry)--History and criticism - Chinese poetry--Qin and Han dynasties, 221 B.C.-220 A.D.--History and criticism - Literature--PhilosophyContent provider:
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Auld Lang Syne : A Song and Its Culture
Morag Josephine Grant;Morag Josephine Grant
In Auld Lang Syne: A Song and its Culture, M. J. Grant explores the history of this ic...
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Auld Lang Syne : A Song and Its Culture
2021
In Auld Lang Syne: A Song and its Culture, M. J. Grant explores the history of this iconic song , demonstrating how its association with ideas of fellowship, friendship and sociality has enabled it to become so significant for such a wide range of individuals and communities around the world. This engaging study traces different stages in the journey of Auld Lang Syne, from the precursors to the song made famous by Robert Burns to the traditions and rituals that emerged around the song in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including its use as a song of parting, and as a song of New Year. Grant's painstaking study investigates the origins of these varied traditions, and their impact on the transmission of the song right up to the present day. Grant uses Auld Lang Syne to explore the importance of songs and singing for group identity, arguing that it is the active practice of singing the song in group contexts that has made it so significant for so many. The book offers fascinating insights into the ways that Auld Lang Syne has been received, reused and remixed around the world, concluding with a chapter on more recent versions of the song back in Scotland. This highly original and accessible work will be of great interest to non-expert readers as well as scholars and students of musicology, cultural and social history, social anthropology and Scottish studies. The book contains a wealth of illustrations and includes links to many more, including manuscript sources. Audio examples are included for many of the musical examples. Grant's extensive bibliography will moreover ease future referencing of the many sources consulted.
