Download or read book A Bibliographical Description of Books and Pamphlets of American Verse Printed from 1610 Through 1820 written by Roger Eliot Stoddard and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A bibliography of poetry composed in what is now the United States of America and printed in the form of books or pamphlets before 1821"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book The Quiet Life and Other Verses written by Irving Sidney Dix and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English Verse Lyrics of the XIXth century written by William James Linton and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Telephone Poles and Other Poems written by John Updike and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second collection of John Updike's poetry is equally divided between poems that, in their verbal jugglery and humorous bias, seem to qualify as “light” and poems that, one way or other, cross the problematic border into the general realm of poetry. The distinction cannot be clear-cut. The poet is consistently concerned with Man’s cosmic embarrassment, and the same vision illuminates the creatures of “The High Hearts” and “Seagulls.” Science and religion, so frequently and variously invoked, frame a single paradox, the paradox of the mundane; and each poem, whether inspired by an antic headline or a suburban landscape, rejoices in the elusive surface of created things. When The Carpentered Hen, John Updike’s first collection of verse, was published, Phyllis McGinley wrote: “I have been happily reading Mr. Updike in The New Yorker for some time and am happy, now, to own him collected. When he first appeared in that magazine, I was so elated to see a new name in light verse that I felt like crying with the Ancient Mariner ‘A Sail, A Sail!’ His is what poetry of this sort exactly out to be—playful but elegant, sharp-eyed, witty.” In the Saturday Review, David McCord wrote: “Furthermore, he is a graceful border-crosser (light verse to poem) as Auden has been; as Betjeman and McGinley frequently are.”
Download or read book English Verse written by William James Linton and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays Brown University Library Providence Rhode Island written by Brown University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of Poetry in the English Language written by Grosvenor Library and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hazard s Register of Pennsylvania written by Samuel Hazard and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poetic Imagination in Proverbs written by Knut Martin Heim and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No fewer than 223 verses in Proverbs appear two times (79 sets), three times (15 sets), or even four times (5 sets) in identical or slightly altered form--more than 24% of the book. Heim analyzes all of these, presenting them in delineated Hebrew lines and in English translation. Where appropriate, the translations are followed by textual notes that discuss uncertainties regarding the textual witnesses (textual criticism) and explore lexical, grammatical, and syntactical problems. Heim also analyzes the way the parallelism in each verse of a variant set has been constructed, presenting diagrams and tables with columns that highlight the corresponding similarities and differences among repeated verses. Key to this investigation is the search for links between the variants and their surrounding verses, such as repetitions of sound and sense. Heim shows that most variant repetitions result from skillful poetic creativity. Reconstruction of the editorial and creative poetic process highlights what poets did, how they did it, and why they did it. He develops criteria for determining the direction of borrowing between the verses and demonstrates that the phenomenon of variant repetition is an editorial concern that operates on the level of the book as a whole. He develops and refines a range of interpretive techniques and skills, arrives at fresh interpretations, and shows that ancient proverbial wisdom is relevant to modern societies. This study sheds new light on the nature of biblical poetry and on the methods and virtues best suited for its study. While specific to the book of Proverbs in the first instance, the findings in this study apply to poetry elsewhere. Three fundamental insights should inform future work on poetry: the creative combination of repetition with variation is the very essence of poetry; what has been written with imagination should be read with imagination; imaginative interpretation values the normal features of poetic expression and celebrates the truly unusual.
Download or read book Pennsylvania School Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Midpoint and Other Poems written by John Updike and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the boldly eclectic title poem of his collection, John Updike employs the meters of Dante, Spenser, Pope, Whitman, and Pound, as well as the pictographic tactics of concrete poetry, to take an inventory of his life at the end of his thirty-fifth year—at midpoint. These cantos form both a joke on the antique genre of the long poem and an attempt to write one: an earnest meditation on the mysteries of the ego, lost time, and the mundane. The remainder of the volume is a six years’ harvest of light verse and incidental lyrics—poems dealing with love and death, animals and angels, places and persons, dream artifacts and the naked ape. As a writer of humorous verse Mr. Updike is alone in his generation; to serious poetry he brings the vision and warmth characteristic of his prose.
Download or read book Anthology of Magazine Verse and Anthology of Poems from the Seventeen Previously Published Braithwaite Anthologies written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1913 29 and Yearbook of American Poetry written by William Stanley Braithwaite and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Second Book of Modern Verse written by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Manuscript Verse Collectors and the Politics of Anti Courtly Love Poetry written by Joshua Eckhardt and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-05-21 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reappraises the work of early-seventeenth-century collectors of English Renaissance poetry in manuscript. The verse miscellanies, or poetry anthologies, of these collectors have long attracted the attention of literary editors looking for texts by individual, major authors, and they have more recently interested historians for their poems on affairs of state, called verse libels. By contrast, this book investigates the relationships that the compilers of miscellanies established between such presumably literary and political texts. It focuses on two of the most popular, and least printable, literary genres that they collected: libels, and anti-courtly love poetry, a literary mode that the collectors of John Donne's poems played a major role in establishing. They made Donne the most popular poet in manuscripts of the period, and they demonstrated a special affinity for his most erotic or obscene poems, such as 'To his Mistress going to bed' and 'The Anagram'. Donne collectors also exhibited the similarities between these Ovidian love elegies and the sexually explicit or counter-Petrarchan verse of other authors, thereby organizing a literary genre opposed to the conventions of courtly love lyrics. Furthermore, collectors politicized this genre by relating examples of it to libels. In so doing, manuscript verse collectors demonstrated a type of literary and political activity distinct from that of authors, stationers, and readers. Based on a thorough investigation of manuscript verse miscellanies, the book appeals to scholars and students of early modern English literature and history, Donne studies, manuscript studies, and the history of the book.
Download or read book John G Whittier the Poet of Freedom written by William Sloane Kennedy and published by New York : Funk & Wagnalls Company. This book was released on 1892 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dictionary of American Authors written by Oscar Fay Adams and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
