Milton to Goldsmith

Milton to Goldsmith PDF Author: Wystan Hugh Auden
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 676

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Milton to Goldsmith

Milton to Goldsmith PDF Author: Wystan Hugh Auden
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 676

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Poets of the English Language: Langland to Spenser

Poets of the English Language: Langland to Spenser PDF Author: Wystan Hugh Auden
Publisher: Viking Adult
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 678

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Immortal Poems of the English Language

Immortal Poems of the English Language PDF Author: Oscar Williams
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982191546
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 592

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A timeless and comprehensive anthology of enduring English language poetry, featuring entries from 150 British and American poets, including Alexander Pope, Lord Byron, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Emily Dickinson. The last six hundred years in British and American literature have given us some of the most moving and memorable poems in all literature. Now, discover many of these same works in one gorgeously wrought collection, featuring entries from poets as legendary and beloved as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, John Keats, Rudyard Kipling, Ralph Waldo Emerson, D.H. Lawrence, and many more. From Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberywocky” to Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” and from Shakespeare’s sonnets to anonymous classics, this is the ultimate gift for poetry lovers of all ages and backgrounds. Arranged chronologically, the 150 poems featured in this stunning collection reflect the immortality of the poetic soul.

The Best Poems of the English Language

The Best Poems of the English Language PDF Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060540427
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1012

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This comprehensive anthology attempts to give the common reader possession of six centuries of great British and American poetry. The book features a large introductory essay by Harold Bloom called "The Art of Reading Poetry," which presents his critical reflections of more than half a century devoted to the reading, teaching, and writing about the literary achievement he loves most. In the case of all major poets in the language, this volume offers either the entire range of what is most valuable in their work, or vital selections that illuminate each figure's contribution. There are also headnotes by Harold Bloom to every poet in the volume as well as to the most important individual poems. Much more than any other anthology ever gathered, this book provides readers who desire the pleasures of a sublime art with very nearly everything they need in a single volume. It also is regarded as his final meditation upon all those who have formed his mind.

Master Poems of the English Language

Master Poems of the English Language PDF Author: Oscar Williams
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Modern French Poets

Modern French Poets PDF Author: Wallace Fowlie
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486273235
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Treasury of poems and prose extracts by Max Jacob, Saint-John Perse, Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Jean Cocteau, five more. Excellent English translations on facing pages.

The Failure of Poetry, the Promise of Language

The Failure of Poetry, the Promise of Language PDF Author: Laura (Riding) Jackson
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472069576
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Brings together four decades of largely unpublished work by Jackson, exploring the rationale for her renunciation of poetry in 1941 after two decades as a poet

Poets of the English Language

Poets of the English Language PDF Author: W. H. Auden
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Languages : en
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Sleeping with the Dictionary

Sleeping with the Dictionary PDF Author: Harryette Mullen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520927834
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 99

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Harryette Mullen's fifth poetry collection, Sleeping with the Dictionary, is the abecedarian offspring of her collaboration with two of the poet's most seductive writing partners, Roget's Thesaurus and The American Heritage Dictionary. In her ménage à trois with these faithful companions, the poet is aware that while Roget seems obsessed with categories and hierarchies, the American Heritage, whatever its faults, was compiled with the assistance of a democratic usage panel that included black poets Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps, as well as feminist author and editor Gloria Steinem. With its arbitrary yet determinant alphabetical arrangement, its gleeful pursuit of the ludic pleasure of word games (acrostic, anagram, homophone, parody, pun), as well as its reflections on the politics of language and dialect, Mullen's work is serious play. A number of the poems are inspired or influenced by a technique of the international literary avant-garde group Oulipo, a dictionary game called S+7 or N+7. This method of textual transformation--which is used to compose nonsensical travesties reminiscent of Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"--also creates a kind of automatic poetic discourse. Mullen's parodies reconceive the African American's relation to the English language and Anglophone writing, through textual reproduction, recombining the genetic structure of texts from the Shakespearean sonnet and the fairy tale to airline safety instructions and unsolicited mail. The poet admits to being "licked all over by the English tongue," and the title of this book may remind readers that an intimate partner who also gives language lessons is called, euphemistically, a "pillow dictionary."

Cannibal

Cannibal PDF Author: Safiya Sinclair
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803295367
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 117

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Colliding with and confronting The Tempest and postcolonial identity, the poems in Safiya Sinclair's Cannibal explore Jamaican childhood and history, race relations in America, womanhood, otherness, and exile. She evokes a home no longer accessible and a body at times uninhabitable, often mirrored by a hybrid Eve/Caliban figure. Blooming with intense lyricism and fertile imagery, these full-blooded poems are elegant, mythic, and intricately woven. Here the female body is a dark landscape; the female body is cannibal. Sinclair shocks and delights her readers with her willingness to disorient and provoke, creating a multitextured collage of beautiful and explosive poems.