Download or read book Visions Revisions of American Poetry p written by Lewis Turco and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Visions and Revisions written by Lewis Turco and published by . This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... not revisions but one thoroughgoing and far-reaching revision -- of the course of American poetry through centuries, as commonly understood. It is polemical but good-humored, lightly and racily written but with passion, deeply serious, discerning and timely. -- Donald Davie
Download or read book Visions and Revisions written by Robert Burr and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2001-10-04 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology takes a unique approach to the process of poetry. Each poem included in the book is followed by at least one earlier draft or version of that poem. The reader is thus able to explore the development of the poet’s vision and to make a variety of historical, aesthetic, and intellectual comparisons. The poets represented have been chosen both on the basis of the aesthetic strength of their work and on the grounds of the availability of previous versions of their work. The inclusion of a number of selections by poets ranging from Dickinson and Yeats to Larkin, Plath, and P.K. Page allows readers to focus in some depth on the work of these poets. Though the anthology makes no claim to present a selection fully representative of different eras, regions, or poetic styles, the inclusion of a miscellany as a final chapter adds a substantial measure of breadth to the anthology. Each chapter includes brief commentary by the editors, and questions follow each set of poems.
Download or read book Visions and Revisions written by Barry Wallenstein and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern American Poets written by Robert DiYanni and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes selections from the thirteen poets featured in the "Voices and Bisions" series as well as 37 other contemporary poets. Biocritical headnotes precede the poetry selections, with more detail provided for the 13 major poets.
Download or read book The Incorporative Consciousness of Robert Bly written by Victoria Frenkel Harris and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victoria Frenkel Harris traces the aesthetic journey of poet Robert Bly from his early structured works of mystical imagery and lyrical landscapes to his recent explorations of intimate relationships and male socialization. Examining the various ways Bly’s prose poems articulate his opposition to the Vietnam War and his recent writings manipulate more formal patterns in detailing the intricacies of human relationships, Harris labels this evolution in form, subject, and imagery the incorporative consciousness, incorporative because it assimilates Jungian psychological categories, international poetic traditions, and a compelling breadth of topics. Harris relies in part on contemporary feminist theory to throw revealing new light on Bly’s recent works. Though sympathetic to Bly, Harris finds that—in spite of his affirmation of the interaction of psychic, creative, and intellectual energies in both sexes—the poet’s later, erotic poems tend to objectify women in counterproductive ways. Bly’s idealization of woman as a Jungian universal, Harris contends, can blind him toward actual women. Harris is at her best as she delimits with balance and precision the full complexity of the poet’s work.
Download or read book Visions and Revisions written by Terrie Brookins and published by . This book was released on 1997-05-01 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Multiple Authorship and the Myth of Solitary Genius written by Jack Stillinger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991-08-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the collaborative creation behind literary works that are usually considered to be written by a single author. Although most theories of interpretation and editing depend on a concept of single authorship, many works are actually developed by more than one author. Stillinger examines case histories from Keats, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Mill, and T.S. Eliot, as well as from American fiction, plays, and films, demonstrating that multiple authorship is a widespread phenomenon. He shows that the reality of how an author produces a work is often more complex than is expressed in the romantic notion of the author as solitary genius. The cumulative evidence revealed in this engaging study indicates that collaboration deserves to be included in any account of authorial achievement.
Download or read book Poetic Visions of an Uncut Mind written by Will Speakes and published by Will Speakes. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contained within these pages of this book is a collection of written works that could loosely be called poetry. I have spent my life never following the rules and when it comes to writing, it is no different. Therein you will find everything from haiku to prose poems to limericks to narrative poems, to traditional form poetry with meter and rhyme. You will also find a few quips, sayings, and variations on a new form that I have worked at creating. I wish you a safe trip down this poetic trail that I call my life, dreams, ambitions, and nightmares. I hope you laugh, cry, and are mentally and emotionally satisfied when you close this book.
Download or read book American and British Poetry written by Harriet Semmes Alexander and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Voices Visions written by Helen Vendler and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Book Review Index written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Print written by Martha T. Mooney and published by H. W. Wilson. This book was released on 1995 with total page 1288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Excerpts from and citations to reviews of more than 8,000 books each year, from 109 publications. - Electronic version with expanded coverage, and retrospective version available, see p. 5 and p. 31. - Pricing: Service Basis-Books.
Download or read book Library Notes written by North Carolina College for Women. Library and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sincerity s Shadow written by Deborah FORBES and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a work of surprising range and authority, Deborah Forbes refocuses critical discussion of both Romantic and modern poetry. Sincerity's Shadow is a versatile conceptual toolkit for reading poetry. Ever since Wordsworth redefined poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings," poets in English have sought to represent a "sincere" self-consciousness through their work. Forbes's generative insight is that this project can only succeed by staging its own failures. Self-representation never achieves final sincerity, but rather produces an array of "sincerity effects" that give form to poetry's exploration of self. In essays comparing poets as seemingly different in context and temperament as Wordsworth and Adrienne Rich, Lord Byron and Anne Sexton, John Keats and Elizabeth Bishop, Forbes reveals unexpected convergences of poetic strategy. A lively and convincing dialectic is sustained through detailed readings of individual poems. By preserving the possible claims of sincerity longer than postmodern criticism has tended to, while understanding sincerity in the strictest sense possible, Forbes establishes a new vantage on the purposes of poetry. Table of Contents: Introduction 1. The Personal Universal Sincerity as Integrity in the Poetry of Wordsworth and Rich 2. Before and After Sincerity as Form in the Poetry of Wordsworth, Lowell, Rich, and Plath 3. Sincerity and the Staged Confession The Monologues of Browning, Eliot, Berryman, and Plath 4. The Drama of Breakdown and the Breakdown of Drama The Charismatic Poetry of Byron and Sexton 5. Agnostic Sincerity The Poet as Observer in the Work of Keats, Bishop, and Merrill Conclusion Notes Index From the Conclusion "In spite of modern experiments in communal authorship, writing poetry remains one of the most individual of acts, and yet, because it provides the ground upon which the paradoxes of self-consciousness can move most freely, one of the acts most skeptical about the authority of any individual claim to self-understanding. . . . In undertaking its experiments, poetry may separate itself from certain contexts (economic, political, historical), but is itself as local and concrete as these contexts, an experience as well as a meditation on our experiences. In its particularity, its flexibility, its sensual and sonic complexity, its consideration of the extra-rational experiences of pleasure and desire, and above all in the ways in which it speaks with both more and less authority, more and less presence than an actual human voice, poetry offers us the experience of the unknown at the core of proposed self-knowledge. This is lyric poetry's enduring -- though not sole -- claim on us."
Download or read book The Life and Poetry of Manoah Bodman written by Manoah Bodman and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life and Poetry of Manoah Bodman reconstructs the poetry of Manoah Bodman, an important early American poet whose poems have not appeared in over a century and a half. Bodman, considered "a man of great eccentricity," regularly delivered orations in New England towns during the Second Great Awakening of the late nineteenth century. He published two broadsides, two booklets, and one book, all filled with depictions of verbal communication with visions of various kinds possibly brought about by epileptic seizures. Despite his long-winded, turgid prose, Bodman's poems are curiously modern in their diction. He wrote in an ejaculatory manner not seen in America until Emily Dickinson's work was published seventy-five years later, and more idiomatic than anyone else's in America until nearly the end of the nineteenth century. Bodman's inspiration was far less literary than experiential, providing a link between the work of Edward Taylor and Walt Whitman in the chain of the Transcendentalists. Lewis Turco brings together Bodman's curiously modern poems here for the first time, while providing an understanding of his life and family.
Download or read book Visions of America written by David Kherdian and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poetry by twentieth-century American poets grouped under the general areas of "Growing Up, " "In America, " "And Its Cities."
