Modern And Contemporary Poetry And Poetics – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 2

Jenny C Mann

The Trials of Orpheus

A revealing look at how the Orpheus myth helped Renaissance writers and thinkers understand the force of eloquence In ancient Greek mythology, the lyrical songs of Orpheus charmed the gods, and compelled…

Attached to the Living World

More than 150 contemporary poems exploring the intersections of ecological awareness, social justice, and challenges in the world today

Sarah Berry,

Staging the Lyric

Verse drama is not a dead form, but very much alive on the contemporary stage. Drawing on plays from throughout the English-speaking world, including the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, and the Ca…

Ousseynou Wade, Célestin Koffi Yao,

More Than Meets the Eye

Discover a century of African art, from its emergence to today's global success, driven by an ancestral vision and modern expression.The Swiss family-owned banking group CBH Compagnie Bancaire Helvétique …

Charles Taylor

Cosmic Connections

Charles Taylor delves into the poetry of the Romantics and their heirs, a foundation of his distinctive philosophy of language. Taylor holds that Romantic poetry responded to disenchantment: with old cosm…

Colm Tóibín

On Elizabeth Bishop

"This book offers the reader a luminous meditation on Elizabeth Bishop's poetry. It focuses, among other things, on the restraint of her style and the power of the unsaid in her work. But more than t…

John Ashbery

Other Traditions

"An entertaining and shrewd little book ... Ashbery is an accomplished raconteur." -Charles Simic, New York Review of BooksThe most influential American poet of his generation appraises the less…

Philipp Reisner,

Faith in Verse

Examining the profound influence of biblical themes on contemporary poetry written in English, this book explores the work of Brooks Haxton, Suji Kwock Kim, Kevin Hart, and Li-Young Lee. Going beyond a me…

Ryan Cull

Unlimited Eligibility?

Rewrites the dominant narrative of the political work of lyric poetry in the United States since the nineteenth century.What if increased visibility of marginalized identities-a goal of much socially comm…

Historical Performance Practice in Organ Playing. Vol. 1-3 + sheet music volume

Margaret a Brucia

The Key to Everything

"One of the most important and original poets of the twentieth century, May Swenson (1913-1989) was born in Utah to Swedish immigrant parents. After graduating from Utah State University and working …

Amit Majmudar

The Great Game

In this essay collection, Amit Majmudar meditates on the poetic canon of the West and the traditions of world literature.In The Great Game , poet, critic, translator, and literary omnivore Amit Majmudar r…

José Hernández, G J Racz

The Gaucho Martãn Fierro and Martãn Fierro's Return

'Some verses flow on out of men like headstreams course through a canal. The same holds true for mine, old pal- though I can't say they're worth a lick, they still pour out of me real quick, like sheep es…

Carlos F Grigsby

Rediscovering Rubén Darío Through Translation

"How can one of the most important writers of a major world language be almost entirely unknown in the English-speaking world? How is it that other writers of Spanish (e.g., Lorca or Garcâia Mâarquez…

Approaches to Teaching the Works of C. P. Cavafy

A gay poet-historian writing from and about the edges of empiresKnown as a preeminent poet of queer male desire, C. P. Cavafy lived most of his life as part of the Greek minority community in Alexandria, …

Mantra Mukim,

Samuel Beckett's Lyric Failure

Providing one of the first book-length accounts of Samuel Beckett's poetry, this work illustrates how Beckett's poetry, and its failures, reconfigure the lyric form. Reading Beckett alongside nineteenth a…

Rethinking Kerouac

"Esteemed Beat commentators examine Kerouac's classic works, like On the Road, alongside more obscure ones; they bring to light new facets of Kerouac's life and work, including his excursions into pa…

Daniel A Nelson

Seeing to See

Seeing to See focuses on two American authors who are notoriously hard to classify: Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thoreau. Dickinson proves challenging due to her short and obscure poems and Thoreau due…

Lyndall Gordon

T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life

T. S. Eliot was arguably the greatest English-language poet of the twentieth century. In poems such as The Waste Land and Four Quartets, he spoke directly to his times, and his essays influenced a whole s…