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The Work of Poetry
Häftad, 1998
727 kr
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New and classic essays by one of America's most distinguished contemporary poet-critics, The Work of Poetry surveys an extraordinary range of poets, from Dante to May Swenson, and George Meredith to Marianne Moore, as well as works from the Psalms to A Child's Garden of Verses. By turns generous …
Animal Poems
Inbunden, 1994
152 kr
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This is a collection of classic animal poems. The poems include: Robert Burns's "To a Mouse"; Ted Hughes's "Hawk Roosting"; Christopher Smart's "My Cat Jeoffry"; and e.e. cummings's grasshopper-shaped poem.
Bewitched And Haunted
Inbunden, 2005
166 kr
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In time for this year's Halloween revels comes a horrible array of spectres and sorcerers, ghosts and demons, hags and apparitions. From Homer and Horace via Pope and Poe to Graves and Hardy, Poems Bewitched and Haunted draws on three thousand years of poetic forays into the supernatural. Ovid …
Sonnets
The Pelican Shakespeare
Av William Shakespeare, John Hollander
Häftad, 2017
115 kr
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The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series design Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books | 50 Covers competition Gold Medal Winner of the 3x3 Illustration Annual No. 14 A Penguin Classic This edition of The Sonnets is edited with an introduction by John …
Substance of Shadow
A Darkening Trope in Poetic History
Av John Hollander, Kenneth Gross
Inbunden, 2016
311 kr
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John Hollander, poet and scholar, was a master whose work joined luminous learning and imaginative risk. This book, based on the unpublished Clark Lectures Hollander delivered in 1999 at Cambridge University, witnesses his power to shift the horizons of our thinking, as he traces the history of …
The Work of Poetry
Inbunden, 1997
2737 kr
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New and classic essays by one of America's most distinguished contemporary poet-critics, The Work of Poetry surveys an extraordinary range of poets, from Dante to May Swenson, and George Meredith to Marianne Moore, as well as works from the Psalms to A Child's Garden of Verses. By turns generous …
Melodious Guile
Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language
Häftad, 1990
394 kr
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Demonstrating a poet’s imaginative ear and a critic’s range of concern, John Hollander here writes about the "melodious guile" with which poetry speaks to us. Through analysis of formal and rhetorical patterns in examples chosen from the whole spectrum of English and American poetry, Hollander …
Reflections on Espionage
The Question of Cupcake
Häftad, 1999
333 kr
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This book-length poem by one of the major poets of our era is structured as a series of messages transmitted by a master spy to the director of spy operations and to a number of his fellow spies. The spy speaks of his own alienation and sense of purposelessness as a secret agent—a metaphor for a …
Rhyme's Reason
A Guide to English Verse
Häftad, 2014
158 kr
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In this classic text, the distinguished poet and critic John Hollander surveys the schemes, patterns, and forms of English verse, illustrating each variation with an original and witty self-descriptive example. In new essays for this revised edition, J. D. McClatchy and Richard Wilbur each offer a …
Draft of Light
Poems
E-bok, 2012
95 kr
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A glorious new collection from one of our most distinguished poets. Here are poems that explore the ways in which ordinary objects open doors to the more hidden, subconscious truths of our inner selves: a bird of “countless colors” calls to mind “the echo . . . / of an inner event / From my …
Picture Window
Poems
E-bok, 2012
95 kr
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In this deeply philosophical and highly inventive new collection, John Hollander, the distinguished author of numerous books of poetry, offers profound yet playful meditations on the reflective mind and on the words with which we come to know the world. In forms as varied as sonnets, songs, and …
Figurehead
And Other Poems
E-bok, 2009
156 kr
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In a major review in The New Republic of John Hollander''s two earlier books, Tesserae and Selected Poetry (both 1993), Vernon Shetley said, "John Hollander''s poetry has shown a visionary power just often enough to secure him a place as one of the major figures of our moment." Figurehead, a …
Selected Poetry
E-bok, 2012
156 kr
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“Perfection is a rare accomplishment, particularly in American poetry, and the perfection of much of Hollander’s work makes it essential reading for anyone who genuinely cares for the craft of poetry. But in our fallen world we seem fated to value power of perfection, and John Hollander’s poetry …
Frost: Poems
Av Robert Frost, John Hollander
E-bok, 2012
208 kr
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rom one of the most brilliant and widely read of all American poets, a generous selection of lyrics, dramatic monologues, and narrative poems--all of them steeped in the wayward and isolated beauty of Frost''s native New England. Includes his classics "Mending Wall, " "Birches, " and "The Road Not …
Figure of Echo
A Mode of Allusion in Milton and After
Häftad, 2018
575 kr
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In this essay on "what the imagination has made of the phenomenon of echo,” John Hollander examines aspects of the figure of echo in light of their significance for poetry. Looking at echo in its literal, acoustic sense, echo in myth, and echo as literary allusion, Hollander concludes with a study …
Figure of Echo
A Mode of Allusion in Milton and After
E-bok, 2024
399 kr
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In this essay on "what the imagination has made of the phenomenon of echo,” John Hollander examines aspects of the figure of echo in light of their significance for poetry. Looking at echo in its literal, acoustic sense, echo in myth, and echo as literary allusion, Hollander concludes with a study …
Figure of Echo
A Mode of Allusion in Milton and After
Inbunden, 2024
1767 kr
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In this essay on "what the imagination has made of the phenomenon of echo,” John Hollander examines aspects of the figure of echo in light of their significance for poetry. Looking at echo in its literal, acoustic sense, echo in myth, and echo as literary allusion, Hollander concludes with a study …
Frost: Poems: Edited by John Hollander
Av Robert Frost, John Hollander
Inbunden, 1997
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297 kr
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Blue Wine and Other Poems
Häftad, 1979
394 kr
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John Hollander's "Blue Wine and Other Poems," his first collection of verse since the appearance of his new and selected poems, "Spectral Emanations," shows one of our best poetic craftsmen in America moving into a new phase in his distinguished career. Poems on painting and sculpture, in which …
In Time and Place
Häftad, 1986
397 kr
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In this major new collection, John Hollander displays the elegance, versatility, and wit that mark him as perhaps the most urbane poet in America. "In Time and Place" features a generous offering of new verse, an extended prose piece, and a series of prose poems previously available only in a rare, …
American Poetry 19th Century 2
2 Volume Set
E-bok, 2016
2389 kr
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First Published in 2004. From Philip Freneau to Walt Whitman, Herman Melville to Trumbull Stickney, this collection of two volumes, selected by John Hollander, gives an insight into the artform during the nineteenth century. This collection is sorted by author with focus on American Indian Poetry, …
American Poetry 19th Century 2
2 Volume Set
E-bok, 2016
2389 kr
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First Published in 2004. From Philip Freneau to Walt Whitman, Herman Melville to Trumbull Stickney, this collection of two volumes, selected by John Hollander, gives an insight into the artform during the nineteenth century. This collection is sorted by author with focus on American Indian Poetry, …
American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century
2 Volume Set
Häftad, 2025
2028 kr
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First Published in 2004. From Philip Freneau to Walt Whitman, Herman Melville to Trumbull Stickney, this collection of two volumes, selected by John Hollander, gives an insight into the artform during the nineteenth century. This collection is sorted by author with focus on American Indian Poetry, …
Sonnets
From Dante to the Present
Av John Hollander, John Hollander
Inbunden, 2001
166 kr
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‘‘A sonnet is a moment’s monument,’’ said Dante Gabriel Rossetti in a sonnet about sonnets. The sonnets in this collection – whether they capture moments of perception, recognition, despair or celebration – reveal how great an amount of feeling, insight and experience can be concentrated into a …
Garden Poems
Inbunden, 1996
166 kr
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Contents include poems on Paradises, Gardens of Love, Gardens in the Mind, Gardens and Seasons, Flowers, Gardeners, The Work of the Garden, Gardens of the Wild, City Gardens, Public Gardens, Ruined Gardens, and A Garden of Gardens. Contributors include John Milton, Ovid, E.E. Cummings, Thom Gunn, …
Marriage Poems
Inbunden, 1997
136 kr
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Some of the poets included in this anthology: Theocritus, Edmund Spenser, Edward Lear, Robert Browning, Thomas Hardy, John Donne, Philip Larkin, Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Rossetti, Shelley and Kipling...
