A collection of revised and expanded writings culled from the author's popular Washington Post Book World "Poet's Choice" column demonstrates how poetry responds to world challenges and introduces the work of more than 130 writers.

over emergent literature and will show him to be a major figure in the conflict between tradition and contemporary cultural identity.

“Poems of Peace” is a 1909 collection of poetry by British writer James Allen. Contents include: “Buddha”, “If Men Only Understood”, “Practice and Perception”, “Liberty”, “Long I Sought Thee”, “Reality”, “To-morrow and To-day”, “Star of Wisdom”, “Would you Scale the Highest Heaven”, “To Them That Seek the Highest Good”, “One Thing Lacking”, “Yashas”, “The Lowly Way”, “The Music of the Sea”, “Love's Conquest”, etc. This wonderful collection will appeal to all lovers of the form and is not to be missed by fans of Allen's seminal work. James Allen (1864–1912) was a British writer most famous for his inspirational poetry and being an early leader of the self-help movement. “As a Man Thinketh” (1903), his best known work, has been a significant source of inspiration for many self-help authors. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with an essay by Henry Thomas Hamblin.

Lyrical Strategies advances the highly original idea that not all literary fiction should be read as a novel. Instead, Katie Owens-Murphy identifies a prominent type of American novel well suited to the reading methods of lyric poetry and exhibiting lyric frameworks of structural repetition, rhythm, figurative meaning, dramatic personae, and exclusive address. Owens-Murphy surveys a broad array of writers: poets from the lyrical transatlantic tradition, as well as American novelists including Gertrude Stein, Jean Toomer, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Louise Erdrich, and Cormac McCarthy. Through a masterful reexamination of canonical works of twentieth-century American fiction through the lens of lyric poetry, she reveals how many elements in these novels can be better understood as poetic and rhetorical figures (metaphysical conceit, polysyndeton, dramatic monologue, apostrophe, and so on) than as narrative ones. Making fresh contributions to literary theory and American fiction, Lyrical Strategies will fascinate readers and scholars of the American novel, fiction, poetry, and poetics alike.