Critical Survey of Poetry

Critical Survey of Poetry
Author: Rosemary M. Canfield Reisman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781587657634

Contains 72 essays on poetry from around the world.

Critical Survey of American Literature

Critical Survey of American Literature
Author: Steven G. Kellman
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2016
Genre: American literature
ISBN: 9781682171295

The new edition of Critical Survey of American Literature, previously published as Magill's Survey of American Literature in 2006, offers detailed profiles of major American authors of fiction, drama, and poetry, each with sections on biography, general analysis, and analysis of the author's most important works.

Feeling as a Foreign Language

Feeling as a Foreign Language
Author: Alice Fulton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1999-03
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN:

In Feeling as a Foreign Language, Alice Fulton considers poetry's uncanny ability to access and recreate emotions so wayward they go unnamed. Fulton contemplates topics ranging from the intricacies of a rare genetic syndrome to fractals from the aesthetics of complexity theory to the need for "cultural incorrectness." Along the way, she falls in love with an outrageous 17th century poet, argues for a Dickinsonian tradition in American letters, and calls for a courageous poetics of inconvenient knowledge.

Beautiful & Pointless

Beautiful & Pointless
Author: David Orr
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 159
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.

Critical Survey of Young Adult Literature

Critical Survey of Young Adult Literature
Author: Amy Pattee
Publisher: Salem Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Authors, American
ISBN: 9781619259713

Provides thoughtful examination of the authors, works, genres, themes and film adaptations that have contributed to the popularity and success of the young adult genre.

Critical Survey of Poetry

Critical Survey of Poetry
Author: Philip K. Jason
Publisher:
Total Pages: 648
Release: 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Presents alphabetized profiles of nearly seven hundred significant poets from around the world, providing biographies, primary and secondary bibliographies, and analysis of their works.

The Hatred of Poetry

The Hatred of Poetry
Author: Ben Lerner
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2016-06-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0865478201

"The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance"--