The English Poetic Epitaph

The English Poetic Epitaph
Author: Joshua Scodel
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 448
Release: 1991
Genre: Death in literature
ISBN: 9780801424823
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In the first major study of the genre, Joshua Scodel shows how English poets have used the poetic epitaph to express their views concerning the power and limitations of poetry as a response to human mortality.

William Wordsworth in Context

William Wordsworth in Context
Author: Andrew Bennett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2015-02-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107028418
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This book provides the essential contexts for an understanding of all aspects of the major English Romantic poet, William Wordsworth.

Poetry as Epitaph

Poetry as Epitaph
Author: Karen Mills-Courts
Publisher: LSU Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1990
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780807116579
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Mills-Courts (English, SUNY at Fredonia) maintains that all poets attempt to embody meaning in words that are inherently epitaphic, and explores the strategies they employ to defend the illusion of voice and presence in their works against the disseminative forces of representation. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

First World War Poetry

First World War Poetry
Author: Jon Silkin
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1997-02-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780141180090
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A selection of poetry written during World War I. In the introduction Jon Silkin traces the changing mood of the poets - from patriotism through anger and compassion to an active desire for social change. The book includes work by Sassoon, Owen, Blunden, Rosenberg, Hardy and Lawrence.

Wordsworth's Poetry of Repetition

Wordsworth's Poetry of Repetition
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2023-05-19
Genre: Repetition in literature
ISBN: 0192870483
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This book explores those moments of repetition, placing them in the early nineteenth century context from which they emerged, and teasing out through extended close attention to the poetry itself the complexities of repetition and recapitulation.

Wordsworth and the Poetry of What We Are

Wordsworth and the Poetry of What We Are
Author: Paul H. Fry
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2008-10-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0300145411
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Where others have oriented Wordsworth towards ideas of transcendence, nature worship, or - more recently - political repression, Paul H. Fry argues that underlying all this is a more fundamental insight - Wordsworth is most astonished not that the world he experiences has any particular qualities, but rather that it simply exists.

Wordsworth's Poetic Collections, Supplementary Writing and Parodic Reception

Wordsworth's Poetic Collections, Supplementary Writing and Parodic Reception
Author: Brian R Bates
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317322274
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Wordsworth’s process of revision, his organization of poetic volumes and his supplementary writings are often seen as distinct from his poetic composition. Bates asserts that an analysis of these supplementary writings and paratexts are necessary to a full understanding of Wordsworth’s poetry.