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Poetry

Srngaraprakasa of Bhoja, Part 1,: Venkatarama Raghavan; This edition is based on new manuscripts of this important treatise on classical Sanskrit poetics. It was composed by the famous eleventh-century King Bhoja of Malwa (W. India), a patron of traditional learning. The text has never received a complete critical edition. It is important not only because of the theoretical treatment of the erotic sentiment (srngara) in classical Sanskrit texts. It is also a mine of quotations from extant and also from lost Sanskrit and Prakrit poetical texts.; Hardcover 1999

Alexander Pope: John Paul Russo; Hardcover 1972

American Poetry and Culture, 1945-1980: Robert Von Hallberg; Hardcover 1985 / Paperback 1988

An Appetite for Poetry: Frank Kermode; This is a book in which Kermode asks the reader to share his pleasure in the literature of a set of major writers--Milton, Eliot, Stevens. Other essays draw our attention to debates on the literary canon and problems of biblical criticism and their implications for the study of narrative in particular and the interpretation of secular literary texts in general.; Hardcover 1989

The Anglo-Saxon Poems in Bright's Anglo-Saxon Reader: Francis Peabody Magoun; Hardcover 1969

Antonio Machado: Alan S. Trueblood, Translator; Antonio Machado; Hardcover 1982 / Paperback

Art Inscribed: Emilie L. Bergmann; Hardcover

Arthur Hugh Clough: Evelyn Greenberger; In this fresh examination of Clough, Greenberger traces the intellectual development of a poet who was considered a brilliant failure in his own day, a reputation that still persists despite the fact that Clough is now attracting considerable critical attention. Her study contradicts this traditional view of him as ineffectual and uncommitted and reveals instead a complex figure whose varied interests enriched his prose and poetry.; Hardcover 1970

The Bab Ballads: W. S. Gilbert; James Ellis, Editor; W. S. Gilbert, renowned author of the Savoy Operas, was also the creator of the Bab Ballads--"possibly the best comic verse--and surely the best illustrated--in the English language," according to James Ellis. Gilbert published these poems, together with his own, grotesque drawings signed "Bab," a childhood nickname, in Fun and other magazines in the late nineteenth century. In 1898, the older and by then distinguished Gilbert substituted pallid and inoffensive drawings for the originals, which he had come to believe "erred gravely in the direction of unnecessary extravagance." Since then the ballads have been collected and published in various editions, most of which have featured the revised drawings and only a selection of the poems. This is the only book to offer the complete collection of ballads with all original illustrations, a tribute to the comic genius of a writer known as "the most original dramatist of his generation."; Hardcover 1970 / Paperback 2003

Baldo, Volume 1, Books I-XII: Teofilo Folengo; Translated by Ann E. Mullaney; Folengo (1491-1544) was a native of Mantua and a member of the Benedictine order, later to become a runaway monk and satirist. Blending Latin and various Italian dialects in a deliberately droll manner, Baldo follows a sort of French royal juvenile delinquent through imprisonment, fantastical adventures, and a journey to the underworld. This edition provides the first English translation of this hilarious send-up of the ancient epic and Renaissance chivalric romance traditions.; Hardcover 2007

The Book the Poet Makes: Peter Nohrnberg; Peter Nohrnberg asks the largely unexplored question of how and why a collection of lyrics is transformed into a unified book. Nohrnberg's subject is not the lyric sequence, a recognized form, but the ordinary collections of poems. For his examples the author dwells on Yeats's The Tower and Lowell's Life Studies.; Paperback

The Breaking of Style: Helen Vendler; Opening fresh perspectives on the work of three very different poets, Helen Vendler's masterful study of changes in style yields a new view of the interplay of moral, emotional, and intellectual forces in a poet's work. Throughout, Vendler reminds us that what distinguishes successful poetry is a mastery of language at all levels--including the rhythmic, the grammatical, and the graphic.; Hardcover 1995 / Paperback

Browning's Youth: John Maynard; Hardcover 1977

The Canon: Constantine Cavafy; Translated by Stratis Haviaras; Foreword by Seamus Heaney; This volume of 154 poems by Constantine Cavafy is the entire body of work by the artist widely considered a master of modern Greek poetry. Published here in the original Greek, with a new English translation by the noted poet Stratis Haviaris on each facing page, and with a foreword by Seamus Heaney, The Canon is Cavafy, familiar and fresh, seen through new eyes, yet instantly recognized.; Paperback 2007

The Canon of Sir Thomas Wyatt's Poety: Richard Harrier; Hardcover 1975

Charles Olson: Robert Von Hallberg; Hardcover 1978

Children of the Mire: Octavio Paz; Hardcover 1974 / Paperback

The Collected Prose of Robert Frost: Robert Frost; Edited by Mark Richardson; During his lifetime, Robert Frost notoriously resisted collecting his prose--going so far as to halt the publication of one prepared compilation and to "lose" the transcripts of the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures he delivered at Harvard in 1936. This volume allows readers and scholars to discover in the prose that he did make public--in newspapers, magazines, journals, speeches, and books--the wit, force, and grace that made his poetry famous.; Hardcover 2008

Collected Works of Velimir Khlebnikov, Volume III, Selected Poems: Velimir Khlebnikov; Paul Schmidt, Translator; Ronald Vroon, Editor; Dubbed "a Columbus of new poetic continents" because of his search for a poetics as diverse as the universe itself, Velimir Khlebnikov is the creator of some of the most extraordinary poems in the Russian language. Sometimes surreal, sometimes esoteric, but always dazzlingly innovative, the 192 poems in this volume range broadly from the lyrical to the epic.; Paperback 1998 / Hardcover 1998

Coming of Age as a Poet: Helen Vendler; To find a personal style is, for a writer, to become adult; and to write one's first "perfect" poem--a poem that wholly and successfully embodies that style--is to come of age as a poet. By looking at the precedents, circumstances, and artistry of the first perfect poems composed by John Milton, John Keats, T. S. Eliot, and Sylvia Plath, Coming of Age as a Poet offers rare insight into this mysterious process, and into the indispensable period of learning and experimentation that precedes such poetic achievement.; Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2004

Complete Poems: John Keats; Edited by Jack Stillinger; Here is the first reliable edition of Keats's complete poems designed expressly for general readers and students. Jack Stillinger provides helpful explanatory notes to the poems which give dates of composition, identify quotations and allusions, gloss names and words not included in the ordinary desk dictionary, and refer the reader to the best critical interpretations of the poems. The new introduction provides central facts about Keats's life and career, describes the themes of his best work, and speculates on the causes of his greatness.; Hardcover 1982 / Paperback 1991

Consuming Myth: Stephen Yenser; Hardcover

Costly Monuments: Barbara Leah Harman; Harman begins by surveying the critical tradition on Herbert's work in our century--from George Herbert Palmer to Stanley Fish. In this penetrating assessment Harman explores the relationship between critical practice and belief.; Hardcover 1982

The Creative Mind in Coleridge's Poetry: Kathleen M. Wheeler; Hardcover 1982

Dante: John Freccero; Editor and with an introduction by Rachel Jacoff; Freccero enables us to see the Divine Comedy for the bold, poetic experiment that it is. Too many critics have domesticated Dante by separating his theology from his poetics. Freccero argues that to fail to see the convergence of the letter and the spirit, the pilgrim and the poet, is to fail to understand Dante's poetics of conversion.; Hardcover 1986 / Paperback

Death in Quotation Marks: Svetlana Boym; Hardcover 1991

Democracy and Poetry: Robert Penn Warren; Hardcover 1975 / Paperback

The Dhvanyaloka of Anandavardhana with the Locana of Abhinavagupta: Daniel H. H. Ingalls, Ed. and Trans.; Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Translator; M. V. Patwardhan, Translator; Hardcover 1990

Disseminating Whitman: Michael Moon; Hardcover 1991 / Paperback

Edwin Arlington Robinson's Letters to Edith Brower: Edwin Arlington Robinson; Edited by Richard Cary; The letters begin when the twenty-seven-year-old poet writes gratefully to the stranger who has expressed appreciation of his first, privately printed, book of poems. Soon he was carrying on an intense correspondence, baring his soul--safely, he believed, because the woman he described as "infernally bright and not at all ugly," with "something of a literary reputation," was "too old to give me a chance to bother myself with any sentimental uneasiness."; Hardcover 1968

Elizabeth Bishop: Bonnie Costello; In this finely written companion to Elizabeth Bishop's poetry, Bonnie Costello gives a compelling use of Bishop and her ways of seeing and writing.; Hardcover 1991 / Paperback

Emily Dickinson: Cristanne Miller; Paperback 1989

Epiloke: Thomas Cole; Hardcover 1988

Essays on Mandel'stam: Kiril Taranovsky; Hardcover 1976

Eugenio Montale: Rebecca J. West; Hardcover 1981

Fleeting Things: Gerald Hammond; Hardcover 1990

A Fugitive from Utopia: Stanislaw Baranczak; Baranczak, himself a poet, critic, and translator, emigrated from Poland in 1981, and is therefore eminently qualified to supply a politico-cultural context for Herbert while describing and analyzing the texts and themes of his poems. Herbert's poetry is based on permanent confrontation--the confrontation of Western tradition with the experience of a "barbarian" from Eastern Europe, of the classical past with the modern era, of cultural myth with a practical, empirical point of view.; Hardcover 1987

The Given and the Made: Helen Vendler; To explore how a poet repeatedly makes art over a lifetime out of an arbitrary assignment of fate, Helen Vendler looks at the work of four American poets--Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Rita Dove and Jorie Graham--and suggests a new way of understanding poetic strategies.; Paperback 1995 / Hardcover 1995

Greek Iambic Poetry: Douglas E. Gerber, Ed. and Trans.; Archilochus; Semonides; Hipponax; The 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 festivals--for example, those honoring Dionysus and Demeter. In this completely new Loeb Classical Library edition of early Greek iambic poetry, Douglas Gerber provides a faithful and fully annotated translation of the fragments that have come down to us.; Hardcover 1999

A History of Modern Poetry, Volume I, From the 1890s to the High Modernist Mode: David Perkins; This book embraces an era of enormous creative variety--the formative period during which the Romantic traditions of the past were abandoned or transformed and a major new literature created. More than a hundred poets are treated in this volume, and many more are noticed in passing. Perkins discusses each poet and type of poetry with keen critical appreciation.; Hardcover 1976 / Paperback

A History of Modern Poetry, Volume II, Modernism and After: David Perkins; Perkins discusses some 160 poets, mentioning many others more briefly, and does not hesitate to explain, to criticize, to admire, to render judgments. He clarifies the complex interrelations of individuals, groups, and movements and the contexts in which the poets worked: not only the predecessors and contemporaries they responded to but the journals that published them, the expectations of the audience, changing premises about poetry, the writings of critics, developments in other arts, and the momentous events of political and social history.; Hardcover 1987 / Paperback

Homer and the Nibelungenlied: Bernard Fenik; Hardcover 1986

Homer's Odyssey: John H. Finley; Throughout his book, Finley applies a lifetime's learning to a work that is universally recognized as one of the highest achievements of our civilization. At a time when Homer is in danger of being swallowed by specialists, it is important to recognize and uphold the poet's basic concern for life and myth and legend. Such sympathy combined with knowledge is Finley's fine achievement.; Hardcover 1978

Iliad, I: Homer; William Wyatt, Translator; A. T. Murray, Translator; The works attributed to Homer include the two oldest and greatest European epic poems, the Odyssey and the Iliad. These have been published in the Loeb Classical Library for three quarters of a century, the Greek text facing a faithful and literate prose translation by A. T. Murray. William F. Wyatt brings the Loeb's Iliad up to date, with a rendering that retains Murray's admirable style but is written for today's readers.; Hardcover 1924

Introspection and Contemporary Poetry: Alan Williamson; Hardcover 1984

Is Milton Better than Shakespeare?: Nigel Smith; Smith makes a compelling case for Milton’s relevance to our present situation. In direct and accessible terms, he shows how the seventeenth-century poet, while working to write the greatest heroic poem in the English language, also managed to theorize about religious, political, and civil liberty in ways that matter as much today as they did in Puritanical times.; Hardcover 2008

John Keats: Walter Jackson Bate; Since most of Keats's early poetry has survived, his artistic development can be observed more closely than is possible with most writers; and there are times during the period of his greatest creativity when his personal as well as his artistic life can be followed week by week. Bate has been concerned to show the organic relationship between the poet's art and his larger, more broadly humane development. This is a book of many dimensions, not a restricted critical or biographical study but a fully integrated whole.; Hardcover 1963 / Paperback 1979

John Keats: John Keats; With an essay by Helen Vendler; Jack Stillinger, Editor; Hardcover 1990

Kalevala: Francis Peabody Magoun, Translator; Compiled by Elias Lönnrot; The national folk epic of Finland is here presented in an English translation that is both scholarly and eminently readable. To avoid the imprecision and metrical monotony of earlier verse translations, Magoun has used prose, printed line for line as in the original so that repetitions, parallelisms, and variations are readily apparent. The lyrical passages and poetic images, the wry humor, the tall-tale extravagance, and the homely realism of the Kalevala come through with extraordinary effectiveness.; Paperback

The King of Time: Velimir Khlebnikov; Paul Schmidt, Translator; Charlotte Douglas, Editor; Hardcover 1985 / Paperback 1990

Language in Literature: Roman Jakobson; Krystyna Pomorska, Editor; Stephen Rudy, Editor; This book is the first comprehensive presentation in English of Jakobson's major essays on the intertwining of language and literature: here the reader will learn how it was that Jakobson became legendary. This will become a basic book for contemplating the function of language in literature--a project that will continue to engross the keenest readers.; Hardcover 1988 / Paperback 1990

The Lunar Light of Whitman's Poetry: M. Wynn Thomas; In this many-sided analysis Thomas relates Whitman's work to American painting of the period; examines the poet's evocation of nature, which he sometimes saw as a challenge to man's confidence in himself; documents the revisions and additions Whitman made to Leaves of Grass in order to demonstrate that "my Book and the War are One"; and pays sympathetic attention to the postwar poetry, usually slighted.; Hardcover 1987

Mi-lou: Stephen Owen; Hardcover 1989

Minotaur: Tom Paulin; Hardcover 1992

The Music of What Happens: Helen Vendler; Insight and wit distinguish these essays, in which Vendler elucidates the function of criticism as well as different critical methods and styles. Poets commented on range from Seamus Heaney and Czeslaw Milosz to Silvia Plath, James Merrill, and Amy Clampitt.; Hardcover 1988 / Paperback

Mythology and the Romantic Tradition in English Poetry: Douglas Bush; A brilliant study of the continuing and changing uses of classical mythology in English poetry, this book treats most of the major and many of the minor English poets since 1680 and includes a chapter on the use of myth in American verse. It provides an illuminating overview of English poetry since the end of the Renaissance.; Hardcover 1969

The Odes of John Keats: Helen Vendler; Vendler widens her exploration of lyric poetry with a new assessment of the six great odes of John Keats and in the process gives us, implicitly, a reading of Keats's whole career. She proposes that these poems, usually read separately, are imperfectly seen unless seen together--that they form a sequence in which Keats pursued a strict and profound inquiry into questions of language, philosophy, and aesthetics.; Hardcover 1983 / Paperback

On Extended Wings: Helen Vendler; Paperback

On the Outside Looking Out: John Shoptaw; Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1995

Our Secret Discipline: Helen Vendler; The fundamental difference between rhetoric and poetry, according to Yeats, is that rhetoric is the expression of one's quarrels with others while poetry is the expression (and sometimes the resolution) of one's quarrel with oneself. This is where Vendler's Our Secret Discipline begins. Through exquisite attention to outer and inner forms, Vendler explores the most inventive reaches of the poet's mind.; Hardcover 2007

Part of Nature, Part of Us: Helen Vendler; The poets nearest to us in time often seem the most remote and difficult. Helen Vendler closes the distance. She keeps the poet in view not only as thinker and artist, but as a man or woman whose humanity never disappears in her analysis. With her penetrating critical gift, Vendler assesses American poets from T. S. Eliot to Charles Wright.; Hardcover 1980 / Paperback

The Past That Poets Make: Harold Toliver; This is an analysis of the literary art of recapturing the past as the artist perceives it. It examines such questions as how a fictional narrative differs from other ways of seeing a past time; to what extent literature is nontemporal, transcending its time, and to what extent it is tied to the institutions and traditions of its era; how given works conjure up a sense of time; and how fictional narratives function as transmitters of ideas to societies prepared to absorb them.; Hardcover 1981

Petrarch’s Lyric Poems: Francesco Petrarch; Robert M. Durling, Translator; For teachers and students of Petrarch, Durling's edition of the poems has become the standard one. Readers have praised the translation as both graceful and accurate, conveying a real understanding of what this difficult poet is saying. The literalness of the prose translation makes this beautiful book especially useful to students who lack a full command of Italian. And students reading the verse in the original will find here an authoritative text.; Hardcover 1976 / Paperback

Poems (3 volume boxed set): Emily Dickinson; Thomas H. Johnson, Editor; Hardcover

The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Edited by R. W. Franklin; Emily Dickinson; R. W. Franklin, Editor; In 1955, the first important attempt was made to collect and publish Dickinson's work, edited by Thomas Johnson for the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. After many years of preparation by Ralph Franklin, the foremost scholar of Dickinson's manuscripts, a new comprehensive edition is available. This three-volume work contains the largest number of her poems ever assembled, arranged chronologically and drawn from a range of archives. The text of each manuscript is rendered individually, including, within the capacity of standard type, Dickinson's spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.; Hardcover 1998

The Poet as Mythmaker: George G. Grabowicz; Hardcover 1982

The Poet's Work: Leonard Nathan; Arthur Quinn; Paperback 1991

A Poetics: Charles Bernstein; In a wild variety of topics, polemic, and styles, Bernstein surveys the current poetry scene and addresses many of the hot issues of poststructuralist literary theory. What role should poetics play in contemporary culture? Bernstein finds the answer in dissent, not merely in argument but in form--a poetic language that resists being easily absorbed into the conventions of our culture.; Paperback 1992 / Hardcover 1992

The Poetics of Impersonality: Maud Ellmann; Hardcover 1988

Poetry and Pragmatism: Richard Poirier; Hardcover 1992 / Paperback

The Poetry of George Herbert: Helen Vendler; Hardcover 1975

The Poetry of Pablo Neruda: Pablo Neruda; René de Costa; Hardcover 1979 / Paperback

Preface to Plato: Eric Havelock; Hardcover 1963 / Paperback

The Problem of Shape in The Prelude: Jonathan R. Grandine; Paperback 1968

Rimbaud's Theatre of the Self: James Lawler; In a new interpretation of a poet who has swayed the course of modern poetry--in France and elsewhere--Lawler focuses on what he demonstrates is the crux of Rimbaud's imagination: the masks and adopted personas with which he regularly tested his identity and his art.; Hardcover 1992

Robert Lowell: Vereen M. Bell; Hardcover

Ruin the Sacred Truths: Harold Bloom; Bloom surveys with majestic view the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. In so doing, he uncovers the truth that all our attempts to call any strong work more sacred than another are merely political and social formulations.; Hardcover 1989 / Paperback 1991

Sanskrit Poetry from Vidyakara's Treasury: Daniel H. H. Ingalls, Ed. and Trans.; In this rich collection of Sanskrit verse, the late Daniel Ingalls provides English readers with a wide variety of poetry from the vast anthology of an eleventh-century Buddhist scholar. Although the style of poetry presented here originated at the royal courts, Ingalls shows how it was adapted to all aspects of life, and came to address issues as diverse as love, sex, heroes, nature, and peace. More than thirty years after its original publication, Sanskrit Poetry continues to be the main resource for all interested in this multifaceted and elegant tradition.; Paperback 2000 / Hardcover

Shelley's Major Verse: Stuart M. Sperry; Shelley has long been viewed as a dreamer isolated from reality, a "beautiful and ineffectual angel," in Arnold's words. In contrast, Sperry's book emphasizes the life forces originating in the poet's childhood that impelled and shaped his career, and reasserts Shelley's relevance to the social and cultural dilemmas of contemporary life.; Hardcover 1988

Shifting Ground: Bonnie Costello; Just as the look of the American landscape has changed since the nineteenth century, so has our idea of landscape. Here Bonnie Costello reads six twentieth-century American poets who have reflected and shaped this transformation and in the process renovated landscape by drawing new images from the natural world and creating new forms for imagining the earth and our relation to it.; Hardcover 2003

The Singer of Tales: Albert B. Lord; Stephen Mitchell, Editor; Gregory Nagy, Editor; This 40th anniversary edition of Albert Lord's classic work includes a unique enhancement: a CD containing the original audio recordings of all the passages of heroic songs quoted in the book; a video publication of the kinescopic filming of the most valued of the singers; and selected photographs taken during Milman Parry's collecting trips in the Balkans. Parry began recording and studying a live tradition of oral narrative poetry in order to find an answer to the age-old Homeric Question: How had the author of the Iliad and Odyssey composed these two monumental epic poems at the very start of Europe's literary tradition? Parry's, and with him Lord's, enduring contribution--set forth in Lord's The Singer of Tales--was to demonstrate the process by which oral poets compose.; Mixed 2000

Solomon and Marcolf: Translated with commentary by Jan Ziolkowski; Solomon and Marcolf pits wise Solomon, famous from the Bible, against a wily peasant named Marcolf. Cited by Bakhtin in Rabelais and His World, Solomon and Marcolf is widely known by name. But until now it has not been translated into any modern language. The present volume offers an introduction, followed by the Latin and English, detailed commentary, and reproductions of woodcut illustrations from the 1514 edition.; Paperback 2008 / Hardcover 2008

Sor Juana: Octavio Paz; Margaret Sayers Peden, Translator; Mexico's leading poet, essayist, and cultural critic writes of a Mexican poet of another time and another world, the world of seventeenth-century New Spain. His subject is Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the most striking figure in all of Spanish-American colonial literature and one of the great poets of her age.; Hardcover 1988 / Paperback 1990

Soul Says: Helen Vendler; In these eloquent essays on recent American, British, and Irish poetry, Helen Vendler shows us contemporary life and culture captured in lyric form by some of our most celebrated poets. An incomparable reader of poetry, Vendler explains its power; it is, she says, the voice of the soul, rather than the socially marked self, speaking directly to us through the stylization of verse.; Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1996

Tennyson and Tradition: Robert Pattison; Here is an analysis of Tennyson's major poetry that clarifies the poet's relationship to the artistic traditions he so extensively exploited and so radically modified. It is a portrait of Tennyson as manipulator, not mere borrower, of forms.; Hardcover 1980

Thomas Hardy: J. Hillis Miller; Hardcover 1970

Three Classical Poets: Richard Jenkyns; In this engaging essay Jenkyns shows us how to read three quite different ancient poets. In a close and sensitive reading of Sappho, Catullus, and Juvenal, he delineates the uniqueness of the poet's individual voice in relation to poetic traditions. His book constitutes a challenge to the view that one method will suffice for the interpretation of ancient poetry.; Hardcover 1982

Tottel's Miscellany, 1557-1587, Rev. ed: Richard Tottel; Hardcover 1965

The Transmission of the Text of Lucan in the Ninth Century: Harold C. Gotoff; Hardcover 1971

The Use of Poetry and Use of Criticism: T. S. Eliot; The 1932-33 Norton Lectures are among the best and most important of 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 us to "start with the supposition that we do not know what poetry is, or what it does or ought to do, or of what use it is; and try to find out, in examining the relation of poetry to criticism, what the use of both of them is."; Paperback 1986

Verse with Prose from Petronius to Dante: Peter Dronke; Hardcover

The Witness of Poetry: Czeslaw Milosz; A Nobel laureate reflects upon poetry's testimony to the events of our tumultuous time.; Hardcover 1983 / Paperback 1984

Wordsworth: Mark L. Reed; As a poet whose art developed in a remarkably coherent chronological pattern and whose overt use of his own life for the subject matter of his verse was unparalleled in extent, Wordsworth presents an especially compelling claim to such systematic treatment. An invaluable tool for students of this major writer and of the Romantic period generally, this book offers a rapid means of access to factual information for any type of study making use of either the dates or relative order of Wordsworth's writings or personal experiences.; Hardcover 1975

Wordsworth and the Poetry of Sincerity: David Perkins; This book presents not just the Romantic Wordsworth, but Wordsworth as part of a large historical movement in poetry, beginning in the eighteenth century and continuing to the present day. It concentrates on the difficult, much discussed, but little analyzed problem of "sincerity" in poetry, which it treats both critically and historically, as a demand relatively new in Wordsworth's time and still with us.; Hardcover 1964

The Works of Anne Bradstreet: Anne Bradstreet; Edited by Jeannine Hensley; Foreword by Adrienne Rich; Hardcover 1967 / Paperback

i--six nonlectures: e. e. cummings; The author begins his "nonlectures" with the warning "I haven't the remotest intention of posing as a lecturer." These talks contain selections from the poetry of Wordsworth, Donne, Shakespeare, Dante, and others, including e.e. cummings. Together, they form a good introduction to cummings's work.; Hardcover 1953 / Paperback 1991

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