The History Of English Poetry
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Author | : Michael O'Neill |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1117 |
Release | : 2010-04-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521883067 |
A literary-historical account of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon writings to the present.
Author | : Thomas Warton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1824 |
Genre | : English poetry |
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Author | : Richard Bradford |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2005-07-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1134911726 |
This introductory book takes the reader through literary history from the Renaissance to Postmodernism, and considers individual texts as paradigms which can both reflect and unsettle their broader linguistic and cultural contexts. Richard Bradford provides detailed readings of individual texts which emphasize their relation to literary history and broader socio-cultural contexts, and which take into account developments in structuralism and postmodernism. Texts include poems by Donne, Herbert, Marvell, Milton, Pope, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Keats, Hopkins, Browning, Pound, Eliot, Carlos Williams, Auden, Larkin and Geoffrey Hill.
Author | : Thomas Warton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 654 |
Release | : 1774 |
Genre | : English poetry |
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Author | : Michael Alexander |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780520015043 |
Author | : Colin A. Ireland |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 2022-01-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1501513931 |
Seventh-century Gaelic law-tracts delineate professional poets (filid) who earned high social status through formal training. These poets cooperated with the Church to create an innovative bilingual intellectual culture in Old Gaelic and Latin. Bede described Anglo-Saxon students who availed themselves of free education in Ireland at this culturally dynamic time. Gaelic scholars called sapientes (“wise ones”) produced texts in Old Gaelic and Latin that demonstrate how Anglo-Saxon students were influenced by contact with Gaelic ecclesiastical and secular scholarship. Seventh-century Northumbria was ruled for over 50 years by Gaelic-speaking kings who could access Gaelic traditions. Gaelic literary traditions provide the closest analogues for Bede’s description of Cædmon’s production of Old English poetry. This ground-breaking study displays the transformations created by the growth of vernacular literatures and bilingual intellectual cultures. Gaelic missionaries and educational opportunities helped shape the Northumbrian “Golden Age”, its manuscripts, hagiography, and writings of Aldhelm and Bede.
Author | : Catherine Bates |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 775 |
Release | : 2022-03-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0192678876 |
The Oxford History of Poetry in English is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry, Anglo-American colonial and post-colonial poetry, and poetry in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, India, Africa, Asia, and other international locales. The series both synthesises existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge research, employing a global team of expert contributors for each of the volumes. Sixteenth-Century British Poetry features a history of the birth moment of modern 'English' poetry in greater detail than previous studies. It examines the literary transitions, institutional contexts, artistic practices, and literary genres within which poets compose their works. Each chapter combines an orientation to its topic and a contribution to the field. Specifically, the volume introduces a narrative about the advent of modern English poetry from Skelton to Spenser, attending to the events that underwrite the poets' achievements: Humanism; Reformation; monarchism and republicanism; colonization; print and manuscript; theatre; science; and companionate marriage. Featured are metre and form, figuration and allusiveness, and literary career, as well as a wide range of poets, from Wyatt, Surrey, and Isabella Whitney to Ralegh, Drayton, and Mary Herbert. Major works discussed include Sidney's Astrophil and Stella, Spenser's Faerie Queene, Marlowe's Hero and Leander, and Shakespeare's Sonnets.
Author | : Derek Attridge |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2014-07-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1317869516 |
Examines the way in which poetry in English makes use of rhythm. The author argues that there are three major influences which determine the verse-forms used in any language: the natural rhythm of the spoken language itself; the properties of rhythmic form; and the metrical conventions which have grown up within the literary tradition. He investigates these in order to explain the forms of English verse, and to show how rhythm and metre work as an essential part of the reader's experience of poetry.
Author | : Thomas Earle Welby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : John Carey |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2020-04-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0300252528 |
A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature The Times and Sunday Times, Best Books of 2020 “[A] fizzing, exhilarating book.”—Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times What is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. It does not always work—over the centuries countless thousands of poems have been forgotten. But this Little History is about some that have not. John Carey tells the stories behind the world’s greatest poems, from the oldest surviving one written nearly four thousand years ago to those being written today. Carey looks at poets whose works shape our views of the world, such as Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Whitman, and Yeats. He also looks at more recent poets, like Derek Walcott, Marianne Moore, and Maya Angelou, who have started to question what makes a poem “great” in the first place. For readers both young and old, this little history shines a light for readers on the richness of the world’s poems—and the elusive quality that makes them all the more enticing.