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A Reader's Guide to Fifty Modern European Poets » Read Now
by John Pilling. 479 pgs.

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...musical of French Poets, the most subtle...called it in his famous Art Poetique...earlier Poem. The famous Poem VIII, which transfers the poets ennui to a flat...known. Few...
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Six French Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Lamartine, Hugo, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarme » Read Now
by E. H. Blackmore, A. M. Blackmore. 384 pgs.

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'Poetry will no longer keep in time with action; it will be ahead of it.' Arthur Rimbaud The active and colourful lives of the poets of nineteenth-century France are reflected in the diversity and vibrancy of their works. At once sacred and profane, passionate and satirical, these remarkable and...
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'Poetry will no longer keep in time with action; it will be ahead of it.' Arthur Rimbaud The active and colourful lives of the poets of nineteenth-century France are reflected in the diversity and vibrancy of their works. At once sacred and profane, passionate and satirical, these remarkable and innovative poems explore the complexities of human emotion and ponder the great questions of religion and art. They form as rich a body of work as any one age and language has ever produced. This unique anthology includes generous selections from the six nineteenth-century French poets most often read in the English-speaking world today: Lamartine, Hugo, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, and Mallarmé. Modern translations are printed opposite the original French verse, and the edition contains over a thousand lines of poetry never previously translated into English.
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Frontier Taiwan: An Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry » Read Now
by Michelle Yeh, N. G. D. Malmqvist. 492 pgs.

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Taiwan has evolved dramatically from a little-known island to an internationally acclaimed economic miracle and thriving democracy. The history of modern Taiwanese poetry parallels and tells the story of this transformation from periphery to frontier. Containing translations of nearly 400 poems from...
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Taiwan has evolved dramatically from a little-known island to an internationally acclaimed economic miracle and thriving democracy. The history of modern Taiwanese poetry parallels and tells the story of this transformation from periphery to frontier. Containing translations of nearly 400 poems from 50 poets spanning the entire twentieth century, this anthology reveals Taiwan in a broad spectrum of themes, forms, and styles: from lyrical meditation to political satire, haiku to concrete poetry, surrealism to postmodernism. The in-depth introduction outlines the development of modern poetry in the unique historical and cultural context of Taiwan. Comprehensive in both depth and scope, Frontier Taiwan beautifully captures the achievements of the nation's modern poetic traditions.
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The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English » Read Now
by Ian Hamilton. 624 pgs.

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The first and only comprehensive work of its kind, The Companion to Twentieth Century Poety in English charts the development of poetry from 1900 to the present, across the whole of the English-speaking world, from the United States, Great Britain, and Ireland to New Zealand, Pakistan, Singapore...
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The first and only comprehensive work of its kind, The Companion to Twentieth Century Poety in English charts the development of poetry from 1900 to the present, across the whole of the English-speaking world, from the United States, Great Britain, and Ireland to New Zealand, Pakistan, Singapore, Trinidad and Zimbabwe--anywhere where poets write in English. Alphabetically arranged for ease of reference, it offers biographical entries on some 1,500 individual poets, as well as over one hundred entries covering important magazines, movements, literary terms and concepts. As readable as it is comprehensive, the Companion offers a fascinating survey of this century's shift from 'poetry' to 'poetries,' as American and British traditions of poetry have made way for a growing diversity of voices, and as the burgeoning poetries of Australia, Canada, and other English-speaking countries assert their own identities. The range of poets represented in this Companion is extraordinary. Here are in-depth discussions of Yeats, Eliot, Pound, and Joyce alongside provocative assessments of W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Wallace Stevens, and Marianne Moore. John Ashbery, Margaret Atwood, Maya Angelou, and Mary Oliver are accounted for, as well as Carolyn Forche, David Bottoms, Jorie Graham, and many other younger poets just coming into prominence. Chinua Achebee, Jack Mapanje, Femi Oyebode and other important African poets writing in English are here, as well as poets from the Caribbean, India, and even Russia. Readers will relish this Companion's many insightful contributions from celebrated poet-critics, writing on other poets in intriguing author-subject combinations. For example, Seamus Heaney writes on Robert Lowell ("Lowell had invented a way of getting at life, of making poetry kick and freak at the edge of contemporary reality"), Ann Stevenson discusses Sylvia Plath ("In the quarter-century following her suicide, Sylvia Plath has become a heroine and martyr of the feminist movement. In fact, she was a martyr mainly to the recurrent psychodrama that staged itself within the bell jar of her tragically wounded personality"), and Tom Paulin weighs in on Ted Hughes ("His appointment as Poet Laureate in 1984 sealed his essentially shaman-like conception of his poetic mission and enabled him to speak out on environmental issues while celebrating royal weddings and babies"). Other pairings include Jay Parini on Wallace Stevens, Jon Stallworthy on Wilfred Owen and Rupert Brook, and William H. Pritchard on Robert Frost and Randall Jarrell. Each entry includes a wealth of biographical and bibliographical information, and a select bibliography at the end of the book supplies a handy source of information on poets whose work is not otherwise in print, or readily available to readers. From Abse and Auden to Zaturenska and Zukofsky, The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English is an essential reference for students, lovers of poetry, and for poets themselves.
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Lectures on Some Modern Poets » Read Now
by Margaret Foster LeClair, Beekman W. Cottrell, Erwin R. Steinberg, A. Fred Sochatoff, Dorothy W. Goodfellow. 92 pgs.

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...rest of the poem decribes the poets journey westward in space from...slightly. Marcel Duchamps famous painting "Nude Descending a...Ave Maria" implies the poets thesis in...
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Black American Poets and Dramatists of the Harlem Renaissance » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 176 pgs.

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Modern Black American Poets and Dramatists » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 182 pgs.

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Studies of English Poets (1926) » Read Now
by J. W. Mackail. 251 pgs.

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...through similar studies among poets of the second half of the century...tercentenary of the publication of the famous First Folio, one of the two...that the attack of the...
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The English Romantic Poets and Essayists: A Review of Research and Criticism (1957) » Read Now
by Lawrence H. Houtchens, Carolyn W. Houtchens. 366 pgs.

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...Studies of Blake's influence on later poets will not detain us long. The influence...1925 is a fine anthology of Blake's most famous paintings, mostly in black and...
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British Women Poets, 1660-1800: An Anthology » Read Now
by Joyce Fullard. 628 pgs.

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Major American Poets (1936) » Read Now
by Harry Hayden Clark. 982 pgs.

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The Poet in the Poem: The Personae of Eliot, Yeats, and Pound » Read Now
by George T. Wright. 188 pgs.

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Acts of Mind: Conversations with Contemporary Poets » Read Now
by Richard Jackson. 230 pgs.

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...MIND CONVERSATIONS WITH CONTEMPORARY POETS by Richard Jackson THE UNIVERSITY...Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Poets, American--20th century--Interviews. 2...Charles...
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The New Young American Poets: An Anthology » Read Now
by Kevin Prufer. 264 pgs.

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The Modern Poets: An American-British Anthology (1963) » Read Now
by John Malcolm Brinnin, Bill Read. 428 pgs.

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...periods between wars, poets have often attempted...Harvard as a member of the famous class of 1911, which...springtime of the Elizabethan poets William Shakespeare...that...
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The Poets Laureate (1955) » Read Now
by Kenneth Hopkins. 295 pgs.

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...and added for good measure the famous one Terse of Canary Spanish...caused envy among his fellow poets and suggests that he could better...Prior has it in A Session of the...