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James Longenbach (Author)
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2011-12-01
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In this book, James Longenbach develops a fresh approach to major American poetry after modernism. Rethinking the influential "breakthrough" narrative, the oft-
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Calvert Watkins (Author)
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2011-09-23
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In How to Kill a Dragon Calvert Watkins follows the continuum of poetic formulae in Indo-European languages, from Old Hittite to medieval Irish. He uses the com
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Willard Spiegelman (Author)
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2005-06-23
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Although readers of prose fiction sometimes find descriptive passages superfluous or boring, description itself is often the most important aspect of a poem. Th
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Charles Bernstein (Editor)
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2011-01-24
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Close Listening and the Performed Word brings together seventeen strikingly original essays, especially written for this volume, on the poetry reading, the soun
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Brian A. Bremen (Author)
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2011-11-24
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Bremen's study examines the development of William Carlos Williams's poetics, focusing in particular on Williams's ongoing fascination with the effects of poetr
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David Caplan (Author)
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2006-10-11
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<em>Questions of Possibility</em> examines the particular forms that contemporary American poets favor and those they neglect. The poets'' choices reveal both t
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Peggy Rosenthal (Author)
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2011-12-01
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Poets have always been the medium through which a culture talks of, and to, its gods. Now, in this learned but lively commentary, Peggy Rosenthal shows us the a
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Hermione De Almeida (Author)
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2011-12-01
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Using original research in scientific treatises, philosophical manuscripts, and political documents, this pioneering study describes the neglected era of revolu
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Jack Stillinger (Author)
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2011-11-23
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Jack Stillinger establishes and documents the existence of numerous different authoritative versions of Coleridge's best-known poems: sixteen or more of The Eol
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Susan Eilenberg (Author)
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2011-12-01
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This book explores the relationship between tropes of literary property and signification in the writings and literary politics of Wordsworth and Coleridge. Ei
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Willard Spiegelman (Author)
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2011-12-01
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Spiegelman examines the theme of indolence-- both positive and negative--as it appears in the canonical work of four Romantic poets. He argues for a renewal of
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A. J. Minnis (Author)
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2001-06-28
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The Roman de la Rose was a major bestseller--largely due to its robust treatment of "natural" sexuality. This study concentrates on the ways in which Jean de Me
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Carole Doreski (Author)
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2011-12-01
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This illuminating study examines Elizabeth Bishop's rhetorical strategies and the way they shape the formal and thematic movements of her poetry and stories. Un
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Therese Steffen (Author)
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2001-04-12
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Rita Dove (b. 1952) was elected Poet Laureate--the first ever African-American to hold the position--in 1993, in recognition of work that combines racially sens
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James Edward Smethurst (Author)
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2011-12-01
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The New Red Negro surveys African-American poetry from the onset of the Depression to the early days of the Cold War. It considers the relationship between the
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David S. Reynolds (Editor)
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2011-07-21
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Few authors are so well suited to historical study as Whitman, who is widely considered America's greatest poet. This Guide combines contemporary cultural stud
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Fran Brearton (Author)
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2000-08-10
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The Great War in Irish Poetry explores the impact of the First World War on the work of W. B. Yeats, Robert Graves, and Louis MacNeice in the period 1914-45, an
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Fiona Stafford (Author)
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2011-09-15
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Are literary ideas of originality and imitation, allusion and influence inherently political if the poems emerge from different sides of a border or of a coloni
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