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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)  - 37511 results

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1.
Women's Poetry and Religion in Victorian England: Jewish Identity and Christian Culture
Book by Cynthia Scheinberg; Cambridge University Press, 2002
Subjects: Aguilar, Grace--1816-1847--Religion, Browning, Elizabeth Barrett--1806-1861--Religion, Christian Poetry, English--19th Century--History And Criticism, Christianity And Literature--England--History--19th Century, English Poetry--19th Century--History And Criticism, English Poetry--Jewish Authors--History And Criticism, English Poetry--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Jewish Poetry--History And Criticism, Jewish Women--Great Britain--Intellectual Life, Jews In Literature, Judaism And Literature--England, Levy, Amy--1861-1889--Religion, Religious Poetry, English--History And Criticism, Rossetti, Christina Georgina--1830-1894--Religion, Women And Literature--England--History--19th Century
...between the discourses of ninteenth-century poetry, gender, and religious identity. Further...Judaism and the Hebrew Scriptures, their poetry created complex arguments about the relationships...suggests that Jewish and Christian women used poetry as a site for creative and original theological...
2.
Our Holidays in Poetry
Book by Mildred P. Harrington, Josephine H. Thomas; H. W. Wilson, 1929
Subjects: American Poetry, English Poetry, Holidays--Poetry, Lincoln, Abraham--1809-1865--Poetry, Poetry, Schools--Exercises And Recreations, Washington, George--1732-1799--Poetry
Our Holidays in Poetry FRONTISPIECE by Jeannette C. Shirk Our Holidays in Poetry COMPILED BY MILDRED P. HARRINGTON JOSEPHINE...present volume, compiled from the series of holiday poetry booklets, is an attempt to meet this need. The...
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Romantic Poetry by Women: A Bibliography, 1770-1835
Book by J. R. de J. Jackson; Clarendon Press, 1993
Subjects: American Poetry--Women Authors--Bibliography, English Poetry--18th Century--Bibliography, English Poetry--19th Century--Bibliography, English Poetry--Women Authors--Bibliography, Romanticism--Bibliography, Women And Literature--English-Speaking Countries--Bibliography, Women--Poetry--Bibliography
ROMANTIC POETRY BY WOMEN Romantic Poetry by Women A BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1770-1835 J. R. de J. Jackson...Data Jackson, J. R. de J. James Robert de Jager Romantic poetry by women: a bibliography, 1770-1835 / J.R. de J. Jackson Includes...
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Poetry & Dogma: The Transfiguration of Eucharistic Symbols in Seventeenth Century English Poetry
Book by Malcolm Mackenzie Ross; Rutgers University Press, 1954
Subjects: English Poetry--Early Modern, 1500-1700--History And Criticism, Lord's Supper In Literature, Poetry, Religious Poetry, English--History And Criticism, Symbolism In Literature
Poetry Dogma POETRY DOGMA The Transfiguration of Eucharistic Symbols in Seventeenth Century English Poetry Malcolm Mackenzie Ross RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PPESS New Brunswick...
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Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse, 1625-1660
Book by Peter Davidson; Clarendon Press, 1998
Subjects: English Poetry--Early Modern, 1500-1700, Great Britain--Civilization--17th Century--Poetry, Great Britain--History--Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660--Poetry, Revolutionary Poetry, English
POETRY AND REVOLUTION AN ANTHOLOGY OF BRITISH AND IRISH VERSE 1625-1660 POETRY AND REVOLUTION AN ANTHOLOGY OF BRITISH AND IRISH VERSE...cited, it can be assumed to be London. PREFACE The poetry of the mid- seventeenth century is unavoidably the product...
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Turkish Alevi Poetry in the Twentieth Century: The Fusion of Political and Religious Identities
Journal article by Markus Dressler; Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, 2003
Subjects: Alawites--Works, Ataturk, Mustafa Kemal, Political poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Political poetry--Demographic aspects, Religion and poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Religion and poetry--Demographic aspects, Religious poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Religious poetry--Demographic aspects
Turkish Alevi Poetry in the Twentieth Century: The Fusion of...This article examines Turkish Alevi poetry in the twentieth century focusing on how...Republic are recurring themes in this poetry. A contextual interpretation of Alevi...
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African American Women's Poetry in the Christian Recorder, 1855-1865: A Bio-Bibliography with Sample Poems
Journal article by Eric Gardner; African American Review, Vol. 40, 2006
Subjects: African American poetry--Criticism and interpretation, African American poetry--Works, African American women poets--Criticism and interpretation, African American women poets--Personalities, African American women poets--Works, American poetry--African American authors, American poetry--Criticism and interpretation, American poetry--Works, Christian Recorder (Periodical)--Criticism and interpretation, Christian Recorder (Periodical)--History
African American Womens Poetry in the Christian Recorder, 1855-1865...Black women who published occasional poetry in periodicals remain ignored or simply...introduces 35 Black women who published poetry in the Christian Recorder between 1855...
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"Pagan Moore": Poetry, Painting, and Passive Masculinity in George Moore's Flowers of Passion (1877) and Pagan Poems (1881)
Journal article by Mark Llewellyn; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 45, 2007
Subjects: English poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Moore, George Augustus--Works, Pagan Poems (Poetry collection)--Criticism and interpretation, The Flowers of Passion (Poetry collection)--Criticism and interpretation
"Pagan Moore": Poetry, Painting, and Passive Masculinity in...Mendes, Rossetti and Swinburne, these two poetry collections remain intriguing works in...reviewers indicate, when published, Moores poetry was not well received. In addition to...
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Journal article by Marjorie Stone; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 45, 2007
Subjects: Aurora Leigh (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation, Aurora Leigh (Poem)--Political aspects, Poems Before Congress (Poetry collection)--Criticism and interpretation, Poems Before Congress (Poetry collection)--Political aspects, Poets--Political activity, Poets--Political aspects, Sonnets from the Portuguese (Poetry collection)--Criticism and interpretation, Sonnets from the Portuguese (Poetry collection)--Political aspects
...predominantly male tradition of public poetry in the 1840s. Taylor and Stone also contend...to "accommodate the amplitude" of EBBs poetry, its diverse "generic registers," and...speak of the published voices" of her poetry, arising in a period when "voice" itself...
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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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Finnish Poetry
Magazine article by John Taylor; The Antioch Review, Vol. 65, Summer 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, How to Address the Fog: XXV Finnish Poems 1978-2002 (Poetry collection)--Book reviews, I Studied Once at a Wonderful Faculty (Poetry collection)--Book reviews, Selected Poems (Poetry collection)--Book reviews, Trilogy (Poetry collection)--Book reviews
Finnish Poetry. by John Taylor Trilogy by...and David McDuff. Carcanet / Scottish Poetry Library (distributed in the United States...whom he appointed "a staff member of his poetry." "What Im after are the dead," he revealingly...
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Letters from Beirut: The Ledbury Festival Introduces Poetry from around the World-Including the Best New Writing from Lebanon
Magazine article; New Statesman, Vol. 136, July 2, 2007
Subjects: Assaf, Zainab--Works, Hajjar, Bassam--Works, Poetry--Excerpts, Prayer for the Absent (Poetry collection)--Excerpts, The Interpretation of Marble (Poetry collection)--Excerpts, The Lamp of Enchantment (Poetry collection)--Excerpts, Wazen, Abdo--Works
...Beirut: The Ledbury Festival Introduces Poetry from around the World-Including the Best...al-Hayat. "The window is of ten present in my poetry. The window separates the inside from...1980 he has published ten collections of poetry, along with translations of French poetry...
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"Speaking in Tongues": Exile and Internal Translation in the Poetry of Charles Simic
Magazine article by Diana Engelmann; The Antioch Review, Vol. 62, Winter 2004
Subjects: American poetry, American poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Poetry, Poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Simic, Charles--Criticism and interpretation
...Exile and Internal Translation in the Poetry of Charles Simic. by Diana Engelmann...in American literature and culture: the poetry of Whitman, Dickinson, and Roethke, in...would have written had I started writing poetry in Serbian. Are the differences between...
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2004 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
Magazine article by Brenda Hillman; The Nation, Vol. 279, November 29, 2004
Subjects: Lenore Marshall Prize for Poetry--2004 AD, Lenore Marshall Prize for Poetry--Analysis, Poetry--Achievements and awards
2004 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. by Brenda Hillman The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize of $25,000, awarded annually for the most...Rosmarie Waldrop (New Directions). The tasks of poetry have never been more important or more difficult...
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The Pleasures of Poetry
Magazine article by Kathleen Odean; Book, November 2002
Subjects: Children's poetry--Appreciation, Children's poetry--Study and teaching, Poetry by children--Study and teaching
The pleasures of poetry by Kathleen Odean WITTY...snappy sequels and novels in free verse--poetry assumes all sorts of guises now, with...spectrum, kids who dont want to write poetry will identify with Jack, the narrator...
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Malay: Abad Poetry Isn't A Bad Poetry
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, July 27, 2009
Subjects: Poetry, Poets
Malay: Abad Poetry Isnt A Bad Poetry. As early as May 18, Sen. Manuel ldquo;Lito rdquo; Lapid already...Associazione Culturale Allegorein to give awards in four categories: poetry, narrative, criticism, and a special award to a foreign author...
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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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And Instead of Poetry, a Lesson in Gibberish. Spike Milligan: A Popular Poet in Primaries
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 7, 2007
Subjects: Milligan, Terence Alan, Poetry, Poets
And Instead of Poetry, a Lesson in Gibberish. Spike Milligan: A Popular Poet in...tests inthe three Rs was squeezing the time available for poetry. Inspectors who checked poetry teaching at 86 primary and secondary schoolsconcluded it was...
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Lawsuits and Asbos Put into Children's Verse ... POETRY: Warwickshire Tycoon-Turned-Bard's New Book Has a Distinctly Modern Feel
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), December 6, 2006
Subjects: Children--Cases, Enron Corp.--Cases, Gas transmission industry--Cases, Poetry--Cases
...and Asbos Put into Childrens Verse ... POETRY: Warwickshire Tycoon-Turned-Bards New...richest men, has penned his third book of poetry. But its not the usual hearts and flowers...He said: "I thought Id try my hand at poetry because I was very ill and told not to...
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Poetry Please
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), July 1, 2009
Subjects: Poetry, Poets
Poetry Please. THE poetry of TS Eliot was celebrated last night with a fine reading of his verse...Josephine Hart, who has organised a longrunning series of memorable public poetry readings. The poets widow, Valerie, attended. London is undergoing...
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encyclopedia articles on: (Poetry)  - 836 results

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Poetry
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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, 2009
SCALDIC POETRY see Old Norse literature . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Limerick , in Poetry
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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, 2009
...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
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...c.1100. See also English literature . Poetry There are two types of Old English poetry: the heroic, the sources of which are pre-Christian...Christian. Although nearly all Old English poetry is preserved in only four manuscripts indicating...
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