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The Lives of the English Poets
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The Lives of the Poets
Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191568163
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 559
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'If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.' In the last of his major writings, Samuel Johnson looked back over the previous two centuries of English Literature in order to describe the personalities as well as the achievements of the leading English poets. The major Lives - of Milton, Dryden, Swift, and Pope - are memorable cameos of the life of writing in which Johnson is as attentive to human frailty as to literary prowess. The shorter Lives preserve some of Johnson's most piercing, critical judgements. Unsentimental, opinionated, and quotable, The Lives of the Poets continues to influence the reputations of the writers concerned. It is one of the greatest works of English criticism, but also one of the most humanly diverting. This selection of the Lives of ten of the most important poets draws its text from Roger Lonsdale's authoritative complete edition. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry
Author: Joy HarjoPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393867927
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 309
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A powerful, moving anthology that celebrates the breadth of Native poets writing today. Joy Harjo, the first Native poet to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native poets into a national, fully digital map of story, sound, and space, celebrating their vital and unequivocal contributions to American poetry. This companion anthology features each poem and poet from the project—including Natalie Diaz, Ray Young Bear, Craig Santos Perez, Sherwin Bitsui, and Layli Long Soldier, among others—to offer readers a chance to hold the wealth of poems in their hands. The chosen poems reflect on the theme of place and displacement and circle the touchpoints of visibility, persistence, resistance, and acknowledgment. Each poem showcases, as Joy Harjo writes in her stirring introduction, “that heritage is a living thing, and there can be no heritage without land and the relationships that outline our kinship.” In this country, poetry is rooted in the more than five hundred living indigenous nations. Living Nations, Living Words is a representative offering.
White Buildings
Author: Hart CranePublisher:
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Teach Living Poets
Author: Lindsay IllichPublisher:
ISBN: 9780814152614
Category : Poetry, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Teach Living Poets opens up the flourishing world of contemporary poetry to secondary teachers, giving advice on reading contemporary poetry, discovering new poets, and inviting living poets into the classroom, as well as sharing sample lessons, writing prompts, and ways to become an engaged member of a professional learning community. The #TeachLivingPoets approach, which has grown out of the vibrant movement and community founded by high school teacher Melissa Alter Smith and been codeveloped with poet and scholar Lindsay Illich, offers rich opportunities for students to improve critical reading and writing, opportunities for self-expression and social-emotional learning, and, perhaps the most desirable outcome, the opportunity to fall in love with language and discover (or renew) their love of reading. The many poems included in Teach Living Poets are representative of the diverse poets writing today.
Readings in Poetry. A Selection from the Best English Poets, from Spenser to the Present Times; and Specimens of Several American Poets ... Published Under the Direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education, Appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 7th Ed., with Additions
Author: ReadingsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Readings in poetry: a selection from the best English poets, from Spenser to the present times; and specimens of several American poets
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1
Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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Readings in poetry: a selection from the best English poets, from Spenser to modern times; and specimens of several American poets of deserved reputation, etc
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Languages : en
Pages : 446
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The Bookseller
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1352
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