Beautiful & Pointless
Title | Beautiful & Pointless PDF eBook |
Author | David Orr |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 161 |
Release | 2011-04-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0062079417 |
"David Orr is no starry-eyed cheerleader for contemporary poetry; Orr’s a critic, and a good one. . . . Beautiful & Pointless is a clear-eyed, opinionated, and idiosyncratic guide to a vibrant but endangered art form, essential reading for anyone who loves poetry, and also for those of us who mostly just admire it from afar." —Tom Perrotta Award-winning New York Times Book Review poetry columnist David Orr delivers an engaging, amusing, and stimulating tour through the world of poetry. With echoes of Francine Prose’s Reading Like a Writer, Orr’s Beautiful & Pointless offers a smart and funny approach to appreciating an art form that many find difficult to embrace.
Anthology of Modern American Poetry
Title | Anthology of Modern American Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Cary Nelson |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 1249 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780195122701 |
Bringing together over 100 years of creative and vital American poetry in one volume, Anthology of Modern American Poetry includes over 750 poems by 161 American poets ranging from Walt Whitman to Sherman Alexie. It represents not only the traditionally familiar poetic works of the last hundred years but also includes numerous poems by women, minority, and progressive writers only rediscovered in the past two decades. It is also the first anthology to give full treatment to American long poems and poetic sequences.
A History of Modern Poetry
Title | A History of Modern Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | David Perkins |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 712 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780674399471 |
This study of British and American poetry from the mid-1920s to the recent past, clarifies the complex interrelations of individuals, groups, and movements, and the contexts in which the poets worked.
The Writer of Modern Life
Title | The Writer of Modern Life PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Benjamin |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780674022874 |
"In this book Benjamin reveals Baudelaire as a social poet of the very first rank. More than a series of studies of Baudelaire, these essays show the extent to which Benjamin identifies with the poet and enable him to explore his own notion of heroism."--BOOK JACKET.
The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry
Title | The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | J. D. McClatchy |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 690 |
Release | 1996-06-25 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0679741151 |
This groundbreaking volume may well be the poetry anthology for the global village. As selected by J.D. McClatchy, this collection includes masterpieces from four continents and more than two dozen languages in translations by such distinguished poets as Elizabeth Bishop, W.S. Merwin, Ted Hughes, and Seamus Heaney. Among the countries and writers represented are: Bangladesh--Taslima Nasrin Chile--Pablo Neruda China--Bei Dao, Shu Ting El Salvador--Claribel Alegria France--Yves Bonnefoy Greece--Odysseus Elytis, Yannis Ritsos India--A.K. Ramanujan Israel--Yehuda Amichai Japan--Shuntaro Tanikawa Mexico--Octavio Paz Nicaragua--Ernesto Cardenal Nigeria--Wole Soyinka Norway--Tomas Transtromer Palestine--Mahmoud Darwish Poland--Zbigniew Herbert, Czeslaw Milosz Russia--Joseph Brodsky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko Senegal--Leopold Sedar Senghor South Africa--Breyten Breytenbach St. Lucia, West Indies--Derek Walcott
Four Quartets
Title | Four Quartets PDF eBook |
Author | T. S. Eliot |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 65 |
Release | 2014-03-10 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0547539703 |
The last major verse written by Nobel laureate T. S. Eliot, considered by Eliot himself to be his finest work Four Quartets is a rich composition that expands the spiritual vision introduced in “The Waste Land.” Here, in four linked poems (“Burnt Norton,” “East Coker,” “The Dry Salvages,” and “Little Gidding”), spiritual, philosophical, and personal themes emerge through symbolic allusions and literary and religious references from both Eastern and Western thought. It is the culminating achievement by a man considered the greatest poet of the twentieth century and one of the seminal figures in the evolution of modernism.
Inquire Within
Title | Inquire Within PDF eBook |
Author | In-Q |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2020-03-31 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0062954717 |
Contemplating universal issues of love, loss, forgiveness, transformation, and belief, Inquire Within shines a light on our lives and provides a wholly unique and dynamic lens through which to think about ourselves and our world. Rhythmic. Original. Authentic. Inspiring. A journey to the center of the soul, Inquire Within is a provocative and entertaining debut from an award-winning poet. You’ll never look at poetry the same way again.