Modern And Contemporary Poetry And Poetics – Bücher, LPs, Blu-ray Discs und mehr, Seite 2

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…

Samia Rahimtoola

Poetry from Spaceship Earth

In the early decades of the postwar period, the planetary metaphor of "spaceship Earth" was everywhere in the West. It exerted its power on sites as various as Caribbean research stations, the s…

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 …

Jenny Messenger,

Kathleen Raine

For the poet and scholar Kathleen Raine, ancient texts were not obsolete, but vital handbooks for reading reality . Drawing on Graeco-Roman philosophy alongside modernist receptions of the ancient world, …

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…

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 …

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…

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, …

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…

Alexis Chema

Adorned

Ornamental verses abound in Romantic-era commonplace books, albums, epitaphs, pamphlets, personal and commercial anthologies, newspapers, magazines, and periodicals -- that is, in the repositories where h…

Alexis Chema

Adorned

Ornamental verses abound in Romantic-era commonplace books, albums, epitaphs, pamphlets, personal and commercial anthologies, newspapers, magazines, and periodicals -- that is, in the repositories where h…

Arriel Vinson

Under the Neon Lights

Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award In this sparkling and heartfelt debut YA novel in verse by a Reese's Book Club LitUp fellow, a young Black girl discovers first love, self-worth, and the p…

Nicholas Jenkins

The Island

Nicholas Jenkins explores war, love, and politics in the early works of W. H. Auden, one of the twentieth century's most controversial and moving poets. Auden's poems embraced both haunted meditations on …

Harold Bloom

The Western Canon

The literary critic defends the importance of Western literature from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Kafka and Beckett in this acclaimed national bestseller."An impressive work...deeply, rightly passiona…

Barbara Lamprecht

Neutra

In der Architektur von Richard Neutra (1892-1970) finden Inneres und Äußeres ihren vollkommenen modernistischen Einklang: Glänzende, klare Gebäudefassaden reflektieren die kalifornische Sonne, und riesige…

Sophie Edina

Wild World Words

'Come feed me tales of truth and bravery, I want my own story to begin.'This Collection of Modern Poetry contains three previously published books: Wild Fire Flies, Wild Heart Beats and Wild Joy Riders, e…

Walter Dean Myers

Handbook for Boys

In the groundbreaking tradition of his award-winning Monster and Bad Boy: A Memoir, Walter Dean Myers fashions a highly readable, powerful novel about the rules for success for young men, especially those…