Tag: Poetry

Free Download Kornelia Freitag, "Recovery and Transgression: Memory in American Poetry"
English | ISBN: 1443880450 | 2015 | 350 pages | PDF | 2 MB
There is no poetry without memory. Recovery and Transgression: Memory in American Poetry is devoted to the ways in which poetic texts shape, and are shaped by, personal, collective, and cultural memory. It looks at the manifold and often transgressive techniques through which the past is recovered and repurposed in poetry. T.S. Eliot s ‘The Waste Land,’ Susan Howe s THIS THAT, Lyn Hejinian s Writing Is an Aid to Memory, John Tranter s ‘The Anaglyph,’ Amiri Baraka s ‘Somebody Blew Up America,’ and Amy Clampitt s ‘Nothing Stays Put’ are only some of the texts discussed in this volume by a group of international poetry experts. They specifically focus on the effects of the cultural interaction, mixture, translation, and hybridization of memory of, in, and mediated by poetry. Poetic memory, as becomes strikingly clear, may be founded on the past, but has everything to do with the cultural present of poets and readers, and with their hopes and fears for the future.

Free Download Rachel Galvin, "News of War: Civilian Poetry 1936-1945"
English | ISBN: 0190623926 | 2017 | 384 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 15 MB
News of War: Civilian Poetry 1936-1945 is a powerful account of how civilian poets confront the urgent problem of writing about war. The six poets Rachel Galvin discusses-W. H. Auden, Marianne Moore, Raymond Queneau, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, and César Vallejo-all wrote memorably about war, but still they felt they did not have authority to write about what they had not experienced firsthand. Consequently, these writers developed a wartime poetics engaging with both classical rhetoric and the daily news in texts that encourage readers to take critical distance from war culture.

Free Download Elizabethan Poetry in Manuscript: An Edition of British Library Harley MS 7392(2)
by Jessica Edmondes
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1649590202 | 498 Pages | True PDF | 24.6 MB

Free Download Virtual Muse: Experiments in Computer Poetry (Wesleyan Poetry Series) By Charles O. Hartman
1996 | 164 Pages | ISBN: 0819522384 | PDF | 16 MB
Introduces the basics of programming computers to produce poetry and examines several programs the author and his colleagues have developed

Free Download Rodney Stenning Edgecombe, "A Reader’s Guide to the Narrative and Lyric Poetry of Thomas Lovell Beddoes"
English | ISBN: 1443882569 | 2015 | 499 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Beddoes poses a peculiar problem for critics and scholars who wish to redress the marginal position that he occupies in the Romantic canon a problem seemingly unique to him, and created in part by his misconception of his own strengths as a writer. An extremely good poet who, had things turned out differently, might have functioned as a missing link between Keats and Tennyson, he fatally divided his attention between verse and medicine, a discipline that by his own admission (made in the poem composed for Zoë King) served to wither his creative gift. This fission of energy was bad enough, but more damaging still was his misconception of metier, for whatever mental resources remained to Beddoes after gruelling days in the classroom he invested in writing an unstageable drama instead of in his primary gift for lyric verse. Whereas the Beddoes revival that has been gathering momentum in recent years has centred on Death’s Jest-Book, the play onto which the poet directed some might say misdirected so much of his creative energy, this study focuses wholly on his lyric and narrative verse, much of which has received short critical shrift. It follows the sequence of poems set out in the Donner edition, and focuses on their verbal richness and inventiveness as they unspool upon the page.

Free Download Thought and Action in Old English Poetry and Prose
by Eleni Ponirakis
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1501518526 | 217 Pages | PDF/ePUB (True) | 4.57 MB

Free Download Religion and Poetry in Medieval China: The Way and the Words
by Gil Raz and Anna Shields
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9463721177 | 268 Pages | True PDF | 2.8 MB

Free Download The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry by Jonathan Wordsworth, Jessica Wordsworth
English | 2006 | ISBN: 0140435689 | 1005 Pages | EPUB | 3.1 MB
The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spirit, and a celebration of the soul of humanity with its capacity for love.

Free Download The Fall of Troy in Early Greek Poetry and Art by Michael J. Anderson
English | 1997 | ISBN: 0198150644 | 304 Pages | PDF | 10.5 MB
Greek myth-makers crafted the downfall of Troy and its rulers into an archetypal illustration of ruthless conquest, deceit, crime and punishment, and the variability of human fortunes.

Free Download Linda Nicole Blair, "FemPoetiks of American Poetry and Americana Music: A Woman’s Truth"
English | ISBN: 1793621268 | 2021 | 296 pages | EPUB | 450 KB
From the poems of Anne Bradstreet, Phillis Wheatley, and Emily Dickinson emerges what the author calls FemPoetiks, a discourse of female empowerment. Situating the work of these poets in their historical eras, Linda Nicole Blair considers a sampling of their poems side-by-side with a number of song lyrics by singer-songwriters Brandi Carlile, Rhiannon Giddens, and Lucinda Williams, having found commonalities of theme, motif, and language between them. Blair argues that while FemPoetiks has continued to develop in various ways in American poetry by women, the fact that this discourse finds expression in songs by Americana female artists indicates a matrilineal line of influence from the 1630s to today. In order to show the omnipresence of this powerful feminist discourse, she closes this book with eleven interviews she conducted with female singer-songwriters from around the United States. The phenomenon of FemPoetiks is not limited to the arts but extends into all areas of American life, from the domestic to the political. FemPoetiks is a woman’s truth.