The Paperbook of South African English Poetry

The Paperbook of South African English Poetry PDF Author: Michael Chapman
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Category : South African poetry (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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The Paperbook of South African English Poetry

The Paperbook of South African English Poetry PDF Author: Michael Chapman
Publisher:
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Category : South African poetry (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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The Earliest English Poems

The Earliest English Poems PDF Author: Michael Alexander
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520015043
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789

English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789 PDF Author: David Fairer
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317892879
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 390

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In recent years the canon of eighteenth-century poetry has greatly expanded to include women poets, labouring-class and provincial poets, and many previously unheard voices. Fairer’s book takes up the challenge this ought to pose to our traditional understanding of the subject. This book seeks to question some of the structures, categories, and labels that have given the age its reassuring shape in literary history. In doing so Fairer offers a fresh and detailed look at a wide range of material.

Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English, 1500-2001

Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English, 1500-2001 PDF Author: Carolyn Forché
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393347664
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 704

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A groundbreaking anthology containing the work of poets who have witnessed war, imprisonment, torture, and slavery. A companion volume to Against Forgetting, Poetry of Witness is the first anthology to reveal a tradition that runs through English-language poetry. The 300 poems collected here were composed at an extreme of human endurance—while their authors awaited execution, endured imprisonment, fought on the battlefield, or labored on the brink of breakdown or death. All bear witness to historical events and the irresistibility of their impact. Alongside Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth, this volume includes such writers as Anne Askew, tortured and executed for her religious beliefs during the reign of Henry VIII; Phillis Wheatley, abducted by slave traders; Samuel Bamford, present at the Peterloo Massacre in 1819; William Blake, who witnessed the Gordon Riots of 1780; and Samuel Menashe, survivor of the Battle of the Bulge. Poetry of Witness argues that such poets are a perennial feature of human history, and it presents the best of that tradition, proving that their work ranks alongside the greatest in the language.

An Introduction to English Poetry

An Introduction to English Poetry PDF Author: James Fenton
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141944234
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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James Fenton's An Introduction to English Poetry offers a master class for both the reader and writer of poetry. Simply and elegantly written and discussing the work of poets as wide ranging as W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Tennyson, Kipling, Milton and Blake, it covers all varieties of poetic practice in English. 'It is hard to imagine a beginner who could not learn from [this book]. If you know a young poet, give them this' The Times Literary Supplement

The Cambridge History of English Poetry

The Cambridge History of English Poetry PDF Author: Michael O'Neill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521883067
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1117

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A literary-historical account of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon writings to the present.

The Treasury of English Poetry

The Treasury of English Poetry PDF Author: Mark Caldwell
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ISBN: 9780760711590
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 774

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Gathers a wide variety of poems by British authors ranging from Geoffrey Chaucer and William Shakespeare to W.H. Auden and Dylan Thomas.

A Book of English Poetry

A Book of English Poetry PDF Author: G. B. Harrison
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Complete English Poems

The Complete English Poems PDF Author: George Herbert
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 014196586X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 385

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George Herbert combined the intellectual and the spiritual, the humble and the divine, to create some of the most moving devotional poetry in the English language. His deceptively simple verse uses the ingenious arguments typical of seventeenth-century 'metaphysical' poets, and unusual imagery drawn from musical structures, the natural world and domestic activity to explore a mosaic of Biblical themes. From the wit and wordplay of 'The Pulley' and the formal experimentation of 'Easter Wings' and 'Paradise', to the intense, highly personal relationship between man and God portrayed in 'The Collar' and 'Redemption', the works collected here show the transcendental power of divine love.

Broken English

Broken English PDF Author: Heather McHugh
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819562722
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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A leading American poet reclaims the realm of criticism in distinctive and impassioned readings of poems and other works of art.