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Why Write Poetry?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

Why Write Poetry?

Poets have long been defending poetry in prose, and essays by Sidney, Shelley, and others are a familiar and important part of the Anglo-American literary tradition. This book identifies and examines a related genre - the verse defense of poetry - which shares the same impulse that has led to the composition of prose essays: namely, the desire to protect poetry from its detractors and to promote its value as a vital human endeavor. In the last century or so, this impulse to engage questions of poetry's value in poems has become increasingly widespread, and it has dominated the careers of at least five poets: H.D., Wallace Stevens, W. H. Auden, Adrienne Rich, and Geoffrey Hill. Though these p...

The Poetics of Disappointment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 232

The Poetics of Disappointment

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Poetry of Mourning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 436

Poetry of Mourning

Through readings of elegies, self-elegies, war poems and the blues, this book covers a wide range of poets, including Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, W.H. Auden, Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney. It is grounded in genre theory and in the psychoanalysis of mourning.

To Be an Elm Creek Quilter
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 41

To Be an Elm Creek Quilter

To celebrate the release of Circle of Quilters, the 9th novel in the Elm Creek Quilts series, Jennifer Chiaverini launched a quilt block design contest to her fans. The block that best captured the spirit of Elm Creek Quilts would become the series' new logo. Block designs from the top 10 finalists in this contest, never before published, are featured here.

Rosalia de Castro
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 158

Rosalia de Castro

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1986
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  • Publisher: Tamesis

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How to Read and Why
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

How to Read and Why

Bloom, the best-known literary critic of our time, shares his extensive knowledge of and profound joy in the works of a constellation of major writers, including Shakespeare, Cervantes, Austen, Dickinson, Melville, Wilde, and O'Connor in this eloquent invitation to readers to read and read well.

Charles the Second in the Channel Islands
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 422

Charles the Second in the Channel Islands

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1854
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Charles the Second in the Channel Islands
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 438

Charles the Second in the Channel Islands

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1854
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Homiletic Review
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 708

The Homiletic Review

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1885
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Didactic Muse
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 291

The Didactic Muse

Writing with the vigor and elan that readers have come to expect from his many astute reviews and essays, Willard Spiegelman maintains that contemporary American poets have returned to the poetic aims of an earlier era: to edify, as well as to delight, and thus to serve the "didactic muse." What Spiegelman says about individual poets--such as Nemerov, Hecht, Ginsberg, Pinsky, Ammons, Rich, and Merrill, among others--is wonderfully insightful. Furthermore, his outlook on their work--the way he takes quite literally the teacherly elements of their poems--challenges long-standing conceptions both about contemporary writing and about the poetry of the Eliot-Pound-Stevens-Williams generation. Beg...