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by Stephen Vincent Benét. 88 pgs.

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   Stephen Vincent Benét

Publisher:

   Farrar & Rinehart, Inc

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1936
Subjects:   Poetry
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books on: (Poetry)  - 34541 results

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1.
Poetry and the Modern World: A Study of Poetry in England between 1900 and 1939
Book by David Daiches; University of Chicago Press, 1940
Subjects: English Poetry--20th Century--History And Criticism
POETRY AND THE MODERN WORLD THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS CHICAGO THE BAKER TAYLOR COMPANY, NEW...MARUZEN-KABUSHIKI-KAISHA, TOKYO, OSAKA, KYOTO, FUKUOKA, SENDAI; THE COMMERCIAL PRESS, LIMITED, SHANGHAI POETRY AND THE MODERN WORLD A STUDY OF POETRY IN ENGLAND BETWEEN 1900 AND 1939 BY DAVID DAICHES THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS CHICAGO...
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The Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman
Book by Louis Untermeyer, Walt Whitman; Simon and Schuster, 1949
Subjects: Poetry
THE INNER SANCTUM EDITION OF The Poetry and Prose of WALT WHITMAN With a biographical...Alonzo Myers; and "Main Drifts in Whitmans Poetry" by Floyd Stovall. APPLETON-CENTURY-CROFTS...CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS--for part of "The Poetry of Barbarism" from Interpretations of...
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Modern Poetry and the Tradition
Book by Cleanth Brooks; University of North Carolina Press, 1939
Subjects: Poetry--History And Criticism
MODERN POETRY AND THE TRADITION MODERN POETRY AND THE TRADITION By CLEANTH BROOKS Chapel Hill The...that we read alters to some degree our total conception of poetry. Most poets, of course, modify it in only a minute degree...
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Modern Poetry after Modernism
Book by James Longenbach; Oxford University Press, 1997
Subjects: American Poetry--20th Century--History And Criticism--Theory, Etc, Poetry, Postmodernism (Literature)--United States
MODERN POETRY AFTER MODERNISM MODERN POETRY AFTER MODERNISM James Longenbach New York Oxford...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Longenbach, James. Modern poetry after modernism / by James Longenbach. p. cm. Includes bibliographical...
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Alexandrian Poetry under the First Three Ptolemies, 324-222 B.C
Book by Auguste Couat, James Loeb; W. Heinemann, Ltd., 1931
Subjects: Greek Poetry--History And Criticism
ALEXANDRIAN POETRY UNDER THE FIRST THREE PTOLEMIES 324-222 B.C. -ii- AUGUSTE COUAT ALEXANDRIAN POETRY UNDER THE FIRST THREE PTOLEMIES 324-222...professors. And yet call this Alexandrian poetry "artificial", "uninspired", or what you...
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journal articles on: (Poetry)  - 12892 results

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Seven Questions about Southern Poetry
Journal article by Michael Mcfee; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 58, 2004
Subjects: Chappell, Fred--Works, Poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Wright, Charles--Works
Seven Questions about Southern Poetry. by Michael McFee I DONT MUCH...MUCH LIKE pronouncements about Southern poetry. Yet here I am, the author (with Robert...help) of a questionnaire about Southern poetry. Why the change of heart? Curiosity...
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Poetry, Pedagogy, and Popular Music: Renegade Reflections
Journal article by David R. Pichaske; Popular Music and Society, Vol. 23, 1999
Subjects: Lyric poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Music and literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Popular music--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Poetry, Pedagogy, and Popular Music: Renegade Reflections...century since I published Beowulf to Beatles: Approaches to Poetry (1972), and two decades since I put together A Generation in Motion (1979), The Poetry of Rock (1981), and Beowulf to Beatles and Beyond (1981...
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The Victorian Poetry Party
Journal article by Isobel Armstrong; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 42, 2004
Subjects: English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Conferences, meetings and seminars, English poetry--Conferences, meetings and seminars, Victorian period literature, 1832-1901--Conferences, meetings and seminars
The Victorian Poetry Party. by Isobel Armstrong...BANNER IN THE FOYER, "WHITHER Victorian Poetry?," and by that unmistakable roar of excited...remit of the question, "Whither Victorian Poetry?" was inevitable but interesting. The...
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Poetry Top 10: A Foolproof Formula for Teaching Poetry: Examples of Student Work and a Top 10 List Included in This Article Make It Easy to Teach Poetry
Journal article by Mara Linaberger; The Reading Teacher, Vol. 58, 2004
Subjects: Education--Methods, Poetry readings--Methods, Teaching methods
Poetry Top 10: A Foolproof Formula for Teaching Poetry: Examples of Student Work and a Top 10 List Included in This Article Make It Easy to Teach Poetry. by Mara Linaberger What is it about teaching...
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Romantic Poetry: The Possibilities for Improvisation
Journal article by Jeffrey C. Robinson; Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 38, 2007
Subjects: Italian poetry--Analysis, Italian romanticism--Analysis
Romantic Poetry: The Possibilities for Improvisation...19th centuries, a popular performer of poetry called the improvvisatore and improvvisatrice...performances or reports of them in their own poetry, alluding to the improvvisatori, ventriloquizing...
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magazine articles on: (Poetry)  - 6046 results

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Give Poetry Back to People: It Reminds Us Who We Are, Argues Neil Astley-But Only If We Shake off Academic Elitism and Celebrate Voices from Our Communities and around the World
Magazine article by Neil Astley, Rachel Aspden; New Statesman, Vol. 135, October 23, 2006
Subjects: Book publishing--Forecasts and trends, Book publishing--Marketing, Booksellers--Economic aspects, Booksellers--Marketing, Bookstores--Economic aspects, Bookstores--Marketing, Poetry--Social aspects
Give Poetry Back to People: It Reminds Us Who We Are...have been grumbling about the decline of poetry ever since Aristophanes told the Athenians...latest collections. With new and unpublished poetry from around the world and choices from...
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Poetry: A Prognosis
Magazine article by Dick Davis; New Criterion, Vol. 21, April 2003
Subjects: Poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Poetry: a prognosis by Dick Davis I think its a...on this side of the Atlantic who claim to enjoy reading poetry who their favorite pre-twentieth-century English language...Hopkins, I think this indicates where the trouble with modern poetry lies. All three are eccentrics: their poems are hard to...
3.
Poetry Stand: How a Precocious Group of High School Poets Learned to Provide Verse on Demand
Magazine article by Douglas Goetsch; American Scholar, Vol. 76, Autumn 2007
Subjects: High school students--Education, High school students--Works, High school teachers--Personal narratives, High school teaching--Personal narratives, Poetry by children--Appreciation, Poetry--Study and teaching
Poetry Stand: How a Precocious Group of High School Poets Learned...Governors School of the Arts. He had hired me to teach poetry to a group of gifted high school students later that month...wanted to know if I was interested in conducting a "Drive-by poetry" field trip, which is what past teachers had done. Drive-by...
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Dead or Alive? Poetry at Risk
Magazine article by Stephen Goode; Insight on the News, Vol. 9, August 23, 1993
Subjects: Poetry--Publishing, Universities and colleges--Management
Dead or alive? Poetry at risk by Stephen Goode Is poetry in America a lost cause? Widely popular in the 19th...gratification and more accessible entertainment? Or is poetry a dozing giant, gathering its strength, ready to rise...
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A Poetry of Inconvenient Knowledge
Magazine article by Alice Fulton; The Nation, Vol. 268, June 14, 1999
Subjects: Poetry--Analysis
A Poetry of Inconvenient Knowledge. by Alice...The formalist debate has had American poetry in its grip since the early eighties. Its...one symptom of forms ascendancy. Why has poetry allowed itself to be so monopolized? Can...
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Poetry, a New Rock'n'roll; I Think I've Found My Big Monday Night Out: Drifting off in a Boho Bunker to the Sound of verseA London Life
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), March 28, 2007
Subjects: Poetry
Poetry, a New Rocknroll; I Think Ive Found My Big Monday Night...questionably gendered clientele are actually a front for a poetry underworld. Its true that bands have played downstairs...Dylan to Babyshambles but its every other Monday that the Poetry Club meets across from the unisex loos, where I once washed...
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Junior Takes Second Place for Poetry Recitation
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), April 23, 2007
Subjects: Poetry
Junior Takes Second Place for Poetry Recitation. Byline: Sharon Huck Mark...Warrenville South High School last year, his poetry experience had been limited to Shel Silverstein...when his teacher, Craig Lawrence, made poetry a main focus of the class, Schmidt developed...
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What's That Sound? It's.Poetry, but Not as We Know It!
Newspaper article; Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), November 10, 2006
Subjects: Poetry, Poets
Whats That Sound? Its.Poetry, but Not as We Know It! Byline: Marie Levy There was poetry like you have never heard before at Middlesbroughs...head with six Dutch pupils in an international poetry slam. Teams of students performed work they...
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Arts: Poetry, His Potent Weapon
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), October 19, 2007
Subjects: Black History Month, Poetry, Poets, Theater--Theater reviews
Arts: Poetry, His Potent Weapon. Byline: Joe Riley...take on Black History Month. "I came to poetry through politics," says Linton, born in...from Cuba and Martin Carter from Guyana. "Poetry, for me, is the distillation of the human...
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Poetry Appreciation Is Dwindling Due to Uninspired Teaching
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), December 7, 2007
Subjects: Poetry
Poetry Appreciation Is Dwindling Due to Uninspired Teaching...exams, leading to "dull" classes that bored teenagers or poetry being abandoned completely. And many primary teachers did not know enough about poetry and focused on a narrow range of relatively easy works...
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encyclopedia articles on: (Poetry)  - 830 results

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Poetry
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
POETRY For lyric poetry, see ballad ; elegy ; hymn ; lyric ; ode ; pastoral ; sonnet . For narrative poetry, see chansons de geste ; epic ; idyl ; romance . Dramatic poetry...
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Scaldic Poetry
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
SCALDIC POETRY see Old Norse literature . ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright 2007, Columbia University Press. Licensed from Lernout Hauspie Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved.
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Limerick , in Poetry
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
LIMERICK , in poetry type of humorous verse. It is always short, often nonsensical, and sometimes ribald. Of unknown origin, the limerick is popular...
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Italian Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...with the imitation of Provencal lyric poetry at the court of Frederick II in Sicily...became the most widely used form of Italian poetry and later flourished throughout Europe...youthful La vita nuova, part prose and part poetry, recounts the poets love for Beatrice...
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Anglo-Saxon Literature