Modern Poetry – serie
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11 produkter
Reconfiguring the Modern American Lyric
The Poetry of James Tate
Inbunden, 2011
1188 kr
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James Tate is one of America’s most respected and senior poets, whose influence is increasingly widespread. However, his whimsical play has long challenged critics to read him with any depth. After winning the Yale Prize in 1967 for his first book, The Lost Pilot, published when he was just …
Geoffrey Hill and his Contexts
Av Piers Pennington, Matthew Sperling
Inbunden, 2011
1163 kr
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Geoffrey Hill is one of the most significant poets currently at work in the English language. The essays gathered in this book present a number of new contexts in which to explore a wide range of his writings, from the poems he wrote as an undergraduate to the recent volumes A Treatise of Civil …
Mr and Mrs Stevens and Other Essays
Av Mark Ford
Inbunden, 2011
1061 kr
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This volume brings together sixteen essays on British, Irish and American poets from the late nineteenth century to the present day. It offers a series of entertaining and compelling readings of the lives and works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, W.B. Yeats, Edward Thomas, T.S. Eliot, Hart Crane, …
Enclosure of an Open Mystery
Sacrament and Incarnation in the Writings of Gerard Manley Hopkins, David Jones and Les Murray
Inbunden, 2012
1654 kr
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The similarities and differences between poetry and worship have intrigued writers since at least the nineteenth century, when John Keble declared that poetic symbols could almost partake of the nature of sacraments. Since then poets, philosophers and literary critics alike have evoked the terms …
Of Mermaids and Others
An Introduction to the Poetry of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
Av Cary A. Shay
Inbunden, 2014
1142 kr
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This volume is a critical introduction to the poetry of Irish writer Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill. Writing poetry exclusively in Irish but allowing and overseeing translations of her work into several languages, primarily English, Ní Dhomhnaill is the first Irish-language poet to gain an international …
Geoffrey Hill
The Drama of Reason
Av Alex Pestell
Inbunden, 2016
1142 kr
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Geoffrey Hill (1932–2016) was often hailed as one of the most important – and one of the most difficult – poets of his lifetime. This book is a timely investigation into a writer whose work seems simultaneously to invite analysis and to refuse explanations of its sensuous, allusive language. It …
Voices and Visions
Interviews with the Contemporary English-Language Poets of Wales
Av Kathryn Gray, David Ayers m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1055 kr
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Voices and Visions: Interviews with the Contemporary English-Language Poets of Wales captures the perspectives of key Anglophone Welsh and Wales-associated poets who have emerged in the wake of devolution and Wales’s 1997 «yes» vote – or whose career profiles and development were consolidated in …
Devolutionary Readings
English-Language Poetry and Contemporary Wales
Av Matthew Jarvis, David Ayers m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1167 kr
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The September 1997 vote approving devolution, albeit by a tiny margin, was a watershed moment in recent Welsh history. This volume of essays considers the English-language poetic life of Wales since that point. Addressing a range of poets who are associated with Wales by either birth or residence …
John Berryman
Centenary Essays
Av Philip Coleman, Peter Campion
Inbunden, 2017
1167 kr
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Drawing on the proceedings of two conferences organized to celebrate the centenary of John Berryman’s birth in 2014, John Berryman: Centenary Essays provides new perspectives on a major US American poet’s work by critics from Ireland, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. In addition to …
Reading Error
The Lyric and Contemporary Poetry
Häftad, 2007
921 kr
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This book considers the development of the lyric form in recent American poetry of the past three decades. By concentrating on the writing of three poets associated with language writing, Charles Bernstein, Michael Palmer and Lyn Hejinian, the discussion considers the attempts of contemporary …
Dark Airs
John Berryman and the Spiritual Politics of Cold War American Poetry
Häftad, 2009
792 kr
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In discussions of American poetry since World War II, the work of John Berryman has become increasingly neglected and marginalized. Critics have overwhelmingly chosen to favour the notion that he is an academic, ‘establishment’ poet whose career can comfortably be described as a move from New …
