Classes on Modern Poets and the Art of Poetry

Classes on Modern Poets and the Art of Poetry PDF Author: James Dickey
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570035289
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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Housman, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Robert Frost, Walter de la Mare, and Robert Bridges.

Classes on Modern Poets and the Art of Poetry

Classes on Modern Poets and the Art of Poetry PDF Author: James Dickey
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570035289
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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Book Description
Housman, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Robert Frost, Walter de la Mare, and Robert Bridges.

The Modern Portrait Poem

The Modern Portrait Poem PDF Author: Frances Dickey
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813932696
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 367

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In The Modern Portrait Poem, Frances Dickey recovers the portrait as a poetic genre from the 1860s through the 1920s. Combining literary and art history, she examines the ways Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Swinburne, and J. M. Whistler transformed the genre of portraiture in both painting and poetry. She then shows how their new ways of looking at and thinking about the portrait subject migrated across the Atlantic to influence Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Amy Lowell, E. E. Cummings, and other poets. These poets creatively exposed the Victorian portrait to new influences ranging from Manet’s realism to modern dance, Futurism, and American avant-garde art. They also condensed, expanded, and combined the genre with other literary modes including epitaph, pastoral, and Bildungsroman. Dickey challenges the tendency to view Modernism as a break with the past and as a transition from aural to visual orientation. She argues that the Victorian poets and painters inspired the new generation of Modernists to test their vision of Aestheticism against their perception of modernity and the relationship between image and text. In bridging historical periods, national boundaries, and disciplinary distinctions, Dickey makes a case for the continuity of this genre over the Victorian/Modernist divide and from Britain to the United States in a time of rapid change in the arts.

If We Had a Lemon We'd Throw It and Call That the Sun

If We Had a Lemon We'd Throw It and Call That the Sun PDF Author: Christopher Citro
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781932418743
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Poetry. IF WE HAD A LEMON WE'D THROW IT AND CALL THAT THE SUN by Christopher Citro was chosen by Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis as the winner of the 2019 Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award. Lee Upton had this to say about it: "In Christopher Citro's IF WE HAD A LEMON WE'D THROW IT AND CALL THAT THE SUN, the kinetic, continually surprising lines of poems contend with the largest questions. The poem title 'An Emergency Every Day of the Week' suggests the sense of threat that veers through these poems in the midst of their bracing comic energy. For Citro, so much depends on the angle at which we view our experiences. Musing on our daily disarrangements and the ways we attempt to lower the temperature on our worry barometers, he makes wildly inventive, exciting, vital poems, working sideways to reveal what we really ought to see at last."

Poet's Work, Poet's Play

Poet's Work, Poet's Play PDF Author: Daniel Tobin
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472069977
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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Book Description
An indispensable resource for anyone interested in the art and craft of contemporary poetry

Twentieth-Century American Poetics: Poets on the Art of Poetry

Twentieth-Century American Poetics: Poets on the Art of Poetry PDF Author: Dana Gioia
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 560

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Book Description
This comprehensive chronological anthology includes 58 essays on poetry by 53 poets. Starting with James Weldon Johnson and Robert Frost, the book offers diverse and often conflicting accounts of the nature and function of poetry. The collection includes rarely anthologized essays by Jack Spicer, Rhina Espaillat, Anne Stevenson, and Ron Silliman, as well as work by some of the finest younger critics in America, including William Logan, Alice Fulton, and Christian Wiman.

The Poet's Work

The Poet's Work PDF Author: Reginald Gibbons
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226290549
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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"This anthology brings together essays by 20th-century poets on their own art: some concern themselves with its deep sources and ultimate justifications; others deal with technique, controversies among schools, the experience behind particular poems. The great Modernists of most countries are presented here—Paul Valéry, Federico García Lorca, Boris Pasternak, Fernando Pessoa, Eugenio Montale, Wallace Stevens—as are a range of younger, less eminent figures from the English-speaking world: Seamus Heaney, Denise Levertov, Wendell Berry. . . . The reader will find here a lively debate over the individualistic and the communal ends served by poetry, and over other issues that divide poets: inspiration and craft; the use or the condemnation of science; traditional and 'organic' form."—Alan Williamson, New York Times Book Review

On the Level Everyday

On the Level Everyday PDF Author: Ted Berrigan
Publisher: Talisman House Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Book Description
Ted Berrigan (1934-1983) is among his generation's most admired writers. In many respects, the directions followed in contemporary poetry were set out in the courses and workshops he taught at the Naropa Institute, the University of Michigan, Yale University, the City University of New York, the Stevens Institute of Technology, the University of Essex in England, Northeastern Illinois University, the Iowa Writers Workshop, and elsewhere. On the Level Everyday brings together key examples of his classroom lectures with other pieces, including two important talks delivered at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in New York. On the Level Everyday provides an introduction not only to Berrigan's poetics but also the problems of surviving as a poet in America today.

Dictee

Dictee PDF Author: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520231122
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Book Description
This autobiographical work is the story of several women. Deploying a variety of texts, documents and imagery, these women are united by suffering and the transcendance of suffering.

Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters

Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters PDF Author: Robert Pinsky
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393050688
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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Book Description
Back cover: "With selections from Elizabeth Bishop, William Blake, Lewis Carroll, Marianne Moore, Frank O'Hara, Sappho, WIlliam Carlos Williams, and many others, "Singing school" offers a bold new approach to writing (and reading) poetry based on great poetry of the past. Instead of offering rules, theories, or recipes, Robert Pinsky's headnotes for each of the eighty poems and brief introductions to each section respect poetry's mysteries, in two senses of the word: techniques of craft and strokes of the inexplicable."

Poetry and Ambition

Poetry and Ambition PDF Author: Donald Hall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Book Description
A compelling collection of essays on the state of contemporary poetry