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Carol of the Brown King: Nativity PoemsThe wonder of Christmas never ceases. Each year the holiday comes and its story seems fresh and new. The ways of telling about the very first Christmas are as many and as varied as the stars in the sky. And so it was for...
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Fooling with Words: A Celebration of Poets and Their CraftA Celebration of Poets and Their CraftColeman BarksLorna Dee CervantesMark DotyDeborah GarrisonJane HirshfieldStanley Kunitz Kurtis LamkinShirley Geok-Lin LimPaul MuldoonMarge PiercyRobert PinskyAuthor: Bill MoyersPublisher: William Morrow & CompanyPublished: 12/26/2000Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 7.20h x 5.14w x 0.60dISBN: 9780688177928About the AuthorMoyers, Bill: - Bill Moyers's...
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The Collected PoemsThe definitive anthology of Reynolds Price's accomplishments in poetry over four decades, The Collected Poems opens with a preface that discusses his beginnings, guides, and methods; it then includes his first three collections in their entirety -- Vital Provisions, The Laws of Ice, and...
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Forewords and AfterwordsThe essays in this collection were written as reviews, mainly for The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker, on books by or about Alexander Pope, Vincent van Gogh, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, and A. E. Housman, or as introductions...
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Ride A-Cock-Horse and Other Rhymes and StoriesFirst published in 1878, this collection of comic poems and traditional rhymes for very young children is outstanding for its delightful watercolor illustrations by the great children's book illustrator Randolph Caldecott.Author: Randolph CaldecottPublisher: Everyman's LibraryPublished: 11/21/1995Pages: 256Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 8.32h x 6.40w x...
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Greek Iambic Poetry: From the Seventh to Fifth Centuries BCThe poetry of the archaic period that the Greeks called iambic is characterized by scornful criticism of friend and foe and by sexual license. The purpose of these poems is unclear, but they seem to have some connection with cult songs used in religious...
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Spenserian MomentsFrom the distinguished literary scholar Gordon Teskey comes an essay collection that restores Spenser to his rightful prominence in Renaissance studies, opening up the epic of The Faerie Queene as a grand, improvisatory project on human nature, and arguing--controversially--that it is Spenser, not Milton,...
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The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar: Essays on Poets and PoetryA Times Higher Education Book of the Week One of our foremost commentators on poetry examines the work of a broad range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century English, Irish, and American poets. The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar gathers two decades' worth of Helen...
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The Use of Poetry and Use of Criticism: Studies in the Relation of Criticism to Poetry in EnglandThe 1932-33 Norton Lectures are among the best and most important of T. S. Eliot's critical writings. Tracing the rise of literary self-consciousness from the Elizabethan period to his own day, Eliot does not simply examine the relation of criticism to poetry, but invites...
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Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost, Second Edition with a New PrefaceIn 1967 the world of Milton studies was divided into two armed camps: one proclaiming (in the tradition of Blake and Shelley) that Milton was of the devil's party with or without knowing it, the other proclaiming (in the tradition of Addison and C....
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Poet Edgar Allan Poe: Alien AngelThe poetry of Edgar Allan Poe has had a rough ride in America, as Emerson's sneering quip about "The Jingle Man" testifies. That these poems have never lacked a popular audience has been a persistent annoyance in academic and literary circles; that they attracted...
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Emily Dickinson: A Poet's GrammarIn this inventive work on Emily Dickinson's poetry, Cristanne Miller traces the roots of Dickinson's unusual, compressed, ungrammatical, and richly ambiguous style, finding them in sources as different as the New Testament and the daily patterns of women's speech. Dickinson writes as she does...
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Fiammetta. ParadiseUgolino Verino (1438-1516) was among the principal Latin poets in the Florence of Lorenzo de'Medici. A student of Cristoforo Landino, whose youthful love poems Verino imitated, Verino was a leading figure in the Renaissance revival of ancient Latin elegy. He blended Propertius, Ovid's Amores,...
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Why Lyrics Last: Evolution, Cognition, and Shakespeare's SonnetsIn Why Lyrics Last, the internationally acclaimed critic Brian Boyd turns an evolutionary lens on the subject of lyric verse. He finds that lyric making, though it presents no advantages for the species in terms of survival and reproduction, is "universal across cultures because...
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The Works of Anne BradstreetAnne Bradstreet was one of our earliest feminists and the first true poet in the American colonies. This collection of her extant poetry and prose, scrupulously edited by Jeannine Hensley, has long been the standard edition of Bradstreet's work. Hensley's introduction sketches the poet's...
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Delirious Milton: The Fate of the Poet in ModernityComposed after the collapse of his political hopes, Milton's great poems Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes are an effort to understand what it means to be a poet on the threshold of a post-theological world. The argument of Delirious Milton, inspired in...
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Notebooks of Robert FrostRobert Frost is one of the most widely read, well loved, and misunderstood of modern writers. In his day, he was also an inveterate note-taker, penning thousands of intense aphoristic thoughts, observations, and meditations in small pocket pads and school theme books throughout his...
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Sappho in the Making: The Early ReceptionThis book offers the first interdisciplinary and in-depth study of the cultural practices and ideological paradigms that conditioned the politics of the reading of Sappho's songs in the early and most pivotal stages of her reception. In this wide-ranging synthesis, Dimitrios Yatromanolakis investigates visual...
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Selected Letters of John Keats (Revised)The letters of John Keats are, T. S. Eliot remarked, what letters ought to be; the fine things come in unexpectedly, neither introduced nor shown out, but between trifle and trifle. This new edition, which features four rediscovered letters, three of which are being...
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Other TraditionsOne of the greatest living poets in English here explores the work of six writers he often finds himself reading in order to get started when writing, poets he turns to as a poetic jump-start for times when the batteries have run down. Among...
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