Author: William H. PritchardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
A classic study of nine modern poets by a major critic and biographer.
Lives of the Modern Poets
Author: William H. PritchardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
A classic study of nine modern poets by a major critic and biographer.
Lives of the Poets
Author: Michael SchmidtPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0375706046
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist In this stunning volume of epic breadth, Michael Schmidt connects the lives and works of more than 300 poets over the last 700 years--spanning distant shores from Scotland to Australia to the Caribbean, all sharing the English language. Schmidt reveals how each poet has transformed "a common language of poetry" into the rustic rhythms and elegiac ballads, love sonnets, and experimental postmodern verse that make up our lyrical canon. A comprehensive guided tour that is lively and always accessible, Lives of the Poets illuminates our most transcendent literary tradition.
The Great Modern Poets
Author: Michael SchmidtPublisher: Greenfinch
ISBN: 1529434165
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
An essential introduction to the most significant poems and their works since 1900 Reproduced within this collection are some of the greatest poems of the 20th century, featuring works from major writers such as T.S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath to Langston Hughes and W.B. Yeats. For each, Michael Schmidt provides an insight into their themes and the background to their work, opening for the reader a deeper understanding and enjoyment of these extraordinary poems. Poets include: W.B. Yeats Robert Frost Edward Thomas Philip Larkin T.S. Eliot Ted Hughes Langston Hughes Sylvia Plath C.S Sisson Derek Walcott Ezra Pound & many more!
How Poets See the World
Author: Willard SpiegelmanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190291834
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Although readers of prose fiction sometimes find descriptive passages superfluous or boring, description itself is often the most important aspect of a poem. This book examines how a variety of contemporary poets use description in their work. Description has been the great burden of poetry. How do poets see the world? How do they look at it? What do they look for? Is description an end in itself, or a means of expressing desire? Ezra Pound demanded that a poem should represent the external world as objectively and directly as possible, and William Butler Yeats, in his introduction to The Oxford Book of Modern Verse (1936), said that he and his generation were rebelling against, inter alia, "irrelevant descriptions of nature" in the work of their predecessors. The poets in this book, however, who are distinct in many ways from one another, all observe the external world of nature or the reflected world of art, and make relevant poems out of their observations. This study deals with the crisp, elegant work of Charles Tomlinson, the swirling baroque poetry of Amy Clampitt, the metaphysical meditations of Charles Wright from a position in his backyard, the weather reports and landscapes of John Ashbery, and the "new way of looking" that Jorie Graham proposes to explore in her increasingly fragmented poems. All of these poets, plus others (Gary Snyder, Theodore Weiss, Irving Feldman, Richard Howard) who are dealt with more briefly, attend to what Wallace Stevens, in a memorable phrase, calls "the way things look each day." The ordinariness of daily reality is the beginning of the poets' own idiosyncratic, indeed unique, visions and styles.
Classes on Modern Poets and the Art of Poetry
Author: James DickeyPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570035289
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Housman, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Robert Frost, Walter de la Mare, and Robert Bridges.
Lives of the Modern Poets
Author: William H. PritchardPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Provides introductions to the nine most interesting and important poets writing in English in the first part of this century.
Strong Words
Author: W. N. HerbertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
As well as representing many of the most important poets of the last 100 years, Strong Words charts many different stances and movements, from modernism to postmodernism, from futurism to the future theories of poetry.
The Modern Poets
Author: M. L. RosenthalPublisher:
ISBN: 9780758170941
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Beautiful & Pointless
Author: David OrrPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062079417
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
"David Orr is no starry-eyed cheerleader for contemporary poetry; Orr’s a critic, and a good one. . . . Beautiful & Pointless is a clear-eyed, opinionated, and idiosyncratic guide to a vibrant but endangered art form, essential reading for anyone who loves poetry, and also for those of us who mostly just admire it from afar." —Tom Perrotta Award-winning New York Times Book Review poetry columnist David Orr delivers an engaging, amusing, and stimulating tour through the world of poetry. With echoes of Francine Prose’s Reading Like a Writer, Orr’s Beautiful & Pointless offers a smart and funny approach to appreciating an art form that many find difficult to embrace.
A Survey of Modernist Poetry
Author: Laura (Riding) JacksonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description