New & Collected Poems, 1952-1992

New & Collected Poems, 1952-1992 PDF Author: Geoffrey Hill
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618001880
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Geoffrey Hill's poems are like those of no other living poet. Grand in their music, powerful in their impact, they are public poetry, poetry dealing with religion, with the state of England, poetry as a lamentation for the human condition. As A.

New & Collected Poems, 1952-1992

New & Collected Poems, 1952-1992 PDF Author: Geoffrey Hill
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618001880
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Book Description
Geoffrey Hill's poems are like those of no other living poet. Grand in their music, powerful in their impact, they are public poetry, poetry dealing with religion, with the state of England, poetry as a lamentation for the human condition. As A.

New and Collected Poems

New and Collected Poems PDF Author: Professor Geoffrey Hill
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 9780544310865
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Broken Hierarchies

Broken Hierarchies PDF Author: Geoffrey Hill
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199605890
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 989

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Broken Hierarchies brings together twenty books of poems by Geoffrey Hill, offering a complete collection of his poetry from 1952-2012.

The Modern Elegiac Temper

The Modern Elegiac Temper PDF Author: John B. Vickery
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807131423
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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Lamentation of death is the traditional elegiac focus, but in the twentieth century the elegy has become characterized as well by the mourning of other kinds of loss—those personal, familial, romantic, cultural, and philosophical privations and dispossessions that have so greatly shaped the modern sensibility. According to John B. Vickery, a profound elegiac temper is itself the major trait of twentieth-century culture, registered in attitudes ranging from regret, sorrow, confusion, anger, anxiety, doubt, and alienation to outright despair. He transforms our understanding of the elegy and its relation to modernism in The Modern Elegiac Temper. Vickery offers in-depth readings of a broad sampling of British and American poems written from World War I to the present. He considers works of overlooked poets such as Vernon Watkins, George Barker, and Edith Sitwell while also attending to canonical writers such as T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden, and Wallace Stevens. Taking a text-oriented rather than author- or theory-oriented approach, he discusses in turn the personal, love, cultural, and philosophical elegy and shows how war, the Great Depression, the Holocaust, and other major historical events influenced poets’ elegiac expressions. By suggesting ways in which the individual-centered concerns of the traditional elegy metamorphose under the depersonalizing lens of high modernism, Vickery reveals the modern elegy to be a finely calibrated instrument for reading and expressing, absorbing and reflecting, the modern temperament.

New and Collected Poems

New and Collected Poems PDF Author: Richard Wilbur
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156654913
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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A collection including six earlier volumes of Wilbur's poetry, twenty-seven new poems, and a cantata.

The Work of Poetry

The Work of Poetry PDF Author: John Hollander
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231108966
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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The Work of Poetry is organized into three parts. "Poetic Substance" explores the nature of poetry and the poet, with essays that cover the poet "being-and-feeling-at-home" in his or her work and the parallels between dreams and poetry.

Poetry Today

Poetry Today PDF Author: Anthony Thwaite
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134961618
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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This is the most authoritative and up to date survey of contemporary British poetry 1960-1995. It is the third version but second edition published by Longman of a successful survey that first appeared 30 years ago, and provides a succinct and accessible overview of British poets, movements and themes, ideal for English courses and the general reader alike.

Reading Poetry

Reading Poetry PDF Author: Tom Furniss
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317867467
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 748

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Reading Poetry offers a comprehensive and accessible guide to the art of reading poetry. Successive chapters introduce key skills and critical or theoretical issues, enabling users to read poetry with enjoyment, insight and an awareness of the implications of what they are doing. This new edition includes a new chapter on ‘Post-colonial Poetry’, a substantial increase in the number of end-of-chapter interactive exercises, and a comprehensive Glossary of poetic terms. Not just an add-on, the Glossary works as a key resource for the structuring of particular topics in any individual teaching or learning programme. Many of the exercises and interactive discussions develop not only the skills of competent close reading but also the necessary confidence and experience in locating historical and other contextual information through library or internet searches. The aim is to enhance readers' literary and scholarly competence – and to make it fun!

Gospel as Work of Art

Gospel as Work of Art PDF Author: David Brown
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 1467465992
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1057

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A lushly illustrated, magisterial exploration of the imaginative truth of the gospel In the modern academy, truth and imagination are thought to be mutually exclusive. But what if truth can spring from other fonts, like art, literature, and invention? The legacy of the Enlightenment favors historical and empirical inquiry above all other methods for searching for truth. But this assumption stymies our theological explorations. Though the historicity of Jesus’s life, death, and resurrection is important, it is not of sole importance. For instance, is John’s Gospel any less “true” than the Synoptics just because it’s less historically accurate? David Brown challenges us to expand our understanding of the gospel past source criticism and historical Jesus studies to include works of imagination. Reading Scripture in tandem with works of art throughout the centuries, Brown reenvisions the gospel as an open text. Scholars of theology and biblical studies, freed from literalism, will find new avenues of revelation in Gospel as Work of Art. This volume includes over one hundred color illustrations.

Why Write Poetry?

Why Write Poetry? PDF Author: Jeannine Johnson
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838641057
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Poets have long been defending poetry in prose, and essays by Sidney, Shelley, and others are a familiar and important part of the Anglo-American literary tradition. This book identifies and examines a related genre - the verse defense of poetry - which shares the same impulse that has led to the composition of prose essays: namely, the desire to protect poetry from its detractors and to promote its value as a vital human endeavor. In the last century or so, this impulse to engage questions of poetry's value in poems has become increasingly widespread, and it has dominated the careers of at least five poets: H.D., Wallace Stevens, W. H. Auden, Adrienne Rich, and Geoffrey Hill. Though these poets espouse very different aesthetic principles, they, like many of their contemporaries, have repeatedly turned to apology in their verse. At first glance, this seems an odd gesture, given that the readers and writers of poetry are those who least need convincing of poetry's worthiness. But questioning poetry in verse is a form of lyric introspection that is productive and well-suited for a modern poet. characterized as one of indifference, defense helps these authors make a claim for poetry's cultural relevance, as well as for its private profit. Jeannine Johnson is a Preceptor in Expository Writing at Harvard University.