The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose
Title | The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Kinzie |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 1993-07-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780226437361 |
The role of the poet, Mary Kinzie writes, is to engage the most profound subjects with the utmost in expressive clarity. The role of the critic is to follow the poet, word for word, into the arena where the creative struggle occurs. How this mutual purpose is served, ideally and practically, is the subject of this bracingly polemical collection of essays. A distinguished poet and critic, Kinzie assesses poetry's situation during the past twenty-five years. Ours, she contends, is literally a prosaic age, not only in the popularity of prose genres but in the resultant compromises with truth and elegance in literature. In essays on "the rhapsodic fallacy," confessionalism, and the romance of perceptual response, Kinzie diagnoses some of the trends that diminish the poet's flexibility. Conversely, she also considers individual poets—Randall Jarrell, Elizabeth Bishop, Howard Nemerov, Seamus Heaney, and John Ashbery—who have found ingenious ways of averting the risks of prosaism and preserving the special character of poetry. Focusing on poet Louise Bogan and novelist J. M. Coetzee, Kinzie identifies a crucial and curative overlap between the practices of great prose-writing and great poetry. In conclusion, she suggests a new approach for teaching writers of poetry and fiction. Forcefully argued, these essays will be widely read and debated among critics and poets alike.
The Romantic Age in Prose
Title | The Romantic Age in Prose PDF eBook |
Author | Alan W. Bellringer |
Publisher | Rodopi |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | English prose literature |
ISBN | 9789062039814 |
The Broadview Anthology of Sixteenth-Century Poetry and Prose
Title | The Broadview Anthology of Sixteenth-Century Poetry and Prose PDF eBook |
Author | Marie Loughlin |
Publisher | Broadview Press |
Pages | 1333 |
Release | 2011-10-24 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 1551111624 |
The Broadview Anthology of Sixteenth-Century Poetry and Prose makes available not only extensive selections from the works of canonical writers, but also substantial extracts from writers who have either been neglected in earlier anthologies or only relatively recently come to the attention of twentieth- and twenty-first-century scholars and teachers. Popular fiction and prose nonfiction are especially well represented, including selections from popular romances, merchant fiction, sensation pamphlets, sermons, and ballads. The texts are extensively annotated, with notes both explaining unfamiliar words and providing cultural and historical contexts.
English Literature: From the age of Johnson to the age of Tennyson, by Edmund Gosse
Title | English Literature: From the age of Johnson to the age of Tennyson, by Edmund Gosse PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Garnett |
Publisher | |
Pages | 600 |
Release | 1904 |
Genre | English literature |
ISBN |
The English Language; Its Grammar, History and Literature
Title | The English Language; Its Grammar, History and Literature PDF eBook |
Author | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn |
Publisher | |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 1890 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN |
The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott
Title | The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Scott |
Publisher | |
Pages | 484 |
Release | 1834 |
Genre | Chivalry |
ISBN |
The Juvenile Elocutionist ... a Series of Exercises in Prose and Verse, Etc
Title | The Juvenile Elocutionist ... a Series of Exercises in Prose and Verse, Etc PDF eBook |
Author | John Hall HINDMARSH |
Publisher | |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 1828 |
Genre | |
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