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Books on: us poet

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The Poet and the Gilded Age: Social Themes in Late 19th Century American Verse

Book by Robert H. Walker; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1963

Subjects:

American Poetry--19th Century--History And Criticism, Poetry, Social Problems In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...poetry has distracted us from some aspects...primitive cultures the poet was often set aside...historians who have told us most about the later...reputation of the poet-as-citizen. Except...which affected the poet most strongly; he...These students tell us that urban life is...
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The Poet in the Poem: The Personae of Eliot, Yeats, and Pound

Book by George T. Wright; University of California Press, 1960

Subjects:

Eliot, T. S--(Thomas Stearns)--1888-1965, Poetry, Pound, Ezra--1885-1972, Yeats, W. B--(William Butler)--1865-1939

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...made up partly of qualities the poet wishes us to credit him with, partly of qualities...the fact of its being sung. The poet tells us of the importance of poetry. The...contained within it; rather, the poet assures us that the events and people already...
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Poet-Chief: The Native American Poetics of Walt Whitman and Pablo Neruda

Book by James Nolan; University of New Mexico Press, 1994

Subjects:

Indian Aesthetics, Indians In Literature, Literature And Anthropology--America, Literature, Comparative--American And Chilean, Literature, Comparative--Chilean And American, Neruda, Pablo--1904-1973--Aesthetics, Oral Tradition--America, Poetics, Whitman, Walt--1819-1892--Aesthetics

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

A long overdue comparative study of the American voices in hemispheric poetry, this book brings cross-cultural and interdisciplinary considerations to the work of Whitman and Neruda. Nolan proposes American Indian poetics as the model for the poets' own poetics. Whitman and Neruda wrote from an ...
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A long overdue comparative study of the American voices in hemispheric poetry, this book brings cross-cultural and interdisciplinary considerations to the work of Whitman and Neruda. Nolan proposes American Indian poetics as the model for the poets' own poetics. Whitman and Neruda wrote from an Americanist perspective. Both developed an oral, tribal poetics and assumed shamanic voices and personae in their major works, 'Leaves of Grass' and 'Canto General'. The fresh reading of two major American poets helps to break through the partitions that separate the native, English and Spanish poetic responses to the American hemisphere.
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Poet-At-Large

Book by Larry Smith; Southern Illinois University Press, 1983

Subjects:

Beat Generation--Biography, Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, Poets, American--20th Century--Biography

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...friends Chilean poet Nicanor Parra...offset edition in US.; May 29, Chronicle...come in to cover us / Agape we are agape...Ferlinghettis Russian friend, poet Andrei Voznesensky...A poet is born A poet dies And all that lies between is us and the world...
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After the Death of Poetry: Poet and Audience in Contemporary America

Book by Vernon Shetley; Duke University Press, 1993

Subjects:

American Poetry--20th Century--History And Criticism, Ashbery, John--Appreciation--United States, Authors And Readers--United States--History--20th Century, Bishop, Elizabeth--1911-1979--Appreciation--United States, Merrill, James Ingram--Appreciation--United States, Poetry, Reader-Response Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...nature of poetry, tells us that for this poet, poetry is not simple...knowledge is historical," the poet tells us, but does that make it...grandfather is that of the poet's mother, here displaced...that nevertheless makes us wish to touch and taste...

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Journal Articles on: us poet

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Dick Ringler. Bard of Iceland: Jonas Hallgrimsson, Poet and Scientist

Journal article by Frederic Amory; Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 76, 2004

Subjects:

Bard of Iceland: Jonas Hallgrimsson, Poet and Scientist (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...plane to acquaint us with Jonass schoolhood...Icelandic boys, where the poet picked him out from...the first set the poet focuses on three views...the same amp;#91;in us amp;#93;, / though...stirpping us of the single talent...But the Christian poet firmly checks this...
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Delirious Milton: The Fate of the Poet in Modernity

Journal article by Joseph Wittreich; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 59, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Delirious Milton: The Fate of the Poet in Modernity (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...adopts Milton as the poet of a then war-torn...history; if he pressed us to dwell in possibility...in order to deliver us from them. That struggle...revolutionary, a theoretical poet, a poet of modernity...him "the last major poet in the European literary...then, Milton shows us "the drama of an epic...
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Unreal City: A Chinese Poet in Auckland

Journal article by Yiyan Wang; Pacific Affairs, Vol. 79, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Unreal City: A Chinese Poet in Auckland (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...Wang UNREAL CITY: A Chinese Poet in Auckland. By Yang Lian; translated...2006. 98 pp. (B W photos.) US$19.95, paper. ISBN 1-86940-354-1...Chungs Unreal City: A Chinese Poet in Auckland adds to that list...Lians creative development as a poet in exile. Edmond and Chung are...
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Furl That Banner: The Life of Abram J. Ryan, Poet-Priest of the South

Journal article by Michael T. Bernath; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 74, 2008

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Furl That Banner: The Life of Abram J. Ryan, Poet-Priest of the South (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...wartime activities, and especially his postwar careers as editor, poet, celebrity, and priest. The book does a good job following Ryans...larger picture, which is the primary reason why he interests us today. Also, I wish OConnell had probed deeper into Ryans motivations...
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Thomas McFarland. the Masks of Keats: The Endeavour of a Poet

Journal article by Robert M. Ryan; Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 42, 2003

Subjects:

The Masks of Keats: The Endeavour of a Poet (Book)

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...effort. While manuscript evidence tells us little about the composition of the odes...suggest that, even in "supreme" verse, the poet had to struggle to get things right. Keatss...youthful, unfinished, experimental, whimsical poet; he wants a Keats who always wrote at the...

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Magazine Articles on: us poet

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Just the Poet to Make Us Yawn Again

Magazine article by Michael Glover; New Statesman, Vol. 128, May 24, 1999

Subjects:

Hughes, Ted--Selection, appointment, resignation, etc., Motion, Andrew--Selection, appointment, resignation, etc., Poets laureate--Selection, appointment, resignation, etc.

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Just the poet to make us yawn again by Michael Glover...because Downing Street is unlikely to tell us. But what disappoints most of all is how...a choice; how contrary his instincts, as poet and critic, seem to be to anything that...
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The Broken Balance: The Poet Robinson Jeffers Warned Us Nearly a Century Ago of the Ravages to Nature We Now Face

Magazine article by Edward Hoagland; American Scholar, Vol. 77, Spring 2008

Subjects:

Activism--Environmental aspects, Environmental movement--Social aspects, Environmentalism--Social aspects, Jeffers, Robinson--Criticism and interpretation, Jeffers, Robinson--Works, Poetry--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Entire Library

The Broken Balance: The Poet Robinson Jeffers Warned Us Nearly a Century Ago of the Ravages...is He already half-dead? Those of us who believe, along with Emerson...developed a cancer; or, as the visionary poet Robinson Jeffers suggested in "The...
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Mystic Poet

Magazine article by Terry Eagleton; The Nation, Vol. 277, December 8, 2003

Subjects:

W.B. Yeats: A Life. Volume 2: The Arch-Poet (Book)

Collections: Entire Library

...could be extraordinarily silly. By the end of the volume, the poet is worried about his sexual potency: A visit to a brothel, so...and he resumed playing croquet." For the less erudite among us, this is just a little more information than we needed, as Uma...
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Grand Canal, Great River: The Travel Diary of a Twelfth-Century Chinese Poet

Magazine article by Jonathan Wright; Geographical, Vol. 80, February 2008

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Grand Canal, Great River: The Travel Diary of a Twelfth-Century Chinese Poet (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...Canal, Great River: The Travel Diary of a Twelfth-Century Chinese Poet translated by Philip Watson Frances Lincoln, hb, pp256, 20 pounds...era. We can also be grateful that Philip Watson has provided us with an expertly annotated, well-illustrated translation of this...
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Praise the Lorde: Reading a New Biography of Audre Lorde, Rebecca Walker Reflects on the Life and Work of the Legendary Poet

Magazine article by Rebecca Walker; The Advocate, June 22, 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Warrior Poet (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...Veauxs nuanced and insightful biography, Warrior Poet (Norton, $29.95), is an important contribution...reassuring. In ray opinion, a good biography gives us something to aspire to and also cautions us against the heady pull of ego, of believing we...

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Newspaper Articles on: us poet

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Poet Laureate Who Won't Rest on His Laurels; the Recent National Poetry Day Reminded Us Once More of the Pleasures of Verse. Marianne Nault Reviews the Latest Poetry Books

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), October 24, 1998

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Poet Laureate Who Wont Rest on His Laurels; the Recent National Poetry Day Reminded Us Once More of the Pleasures of Verse. Marianne...commitment to poetry. An equally committed poet, Serbian by birth, raised under Nazi occupation...Trouble (Faber - pounds 8.99). For those of us who have been instructed - and delighted...
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It's Nice When Other People Read to Us, Too; the BIG Wild Read LIBRARY THRILLER: Guest Poet Entertains Young Visitors with Leeks and Bongos

Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), August 9, 2007

Subjects:

Libraries

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Its Nice When Other People Read to Us, Too; the BIG Wild Read LIBRARY THRILLER: Guest Poet Entertains Young Visitors with Leeks and Bongos...bongos as part of our summer reading challenge. Poet Craig Bradley travelled to Coventry from Manchester...
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Is Your Back Tight? a[euro]All the Best Days of Life Slip Away from Us Poor Mortals First; Illnesses and Dreary Old Age and Pain Sneak Up and the Fierceness of Harsh Death Snatches Away.a[euro] -- Virgil (7-19 BC) Roman Poet Georgics No. 3, 1. 66 (36-29 B.C.)

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, March 9, 2008

Subjects:

Poets

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Your Back Tight? aeuroAll the Best Days of Life Slip Away from Us Poor Mortals First; Illnesses and Dreary Old Age and Pain Sneak...of Harsh Death Snatches Away.aeuro -- Virgil (7-19 BC) Roman Poet Georgics No. 3, 1. 66 (36-29 B.C.). Byline: Dr. Brix S. Pujalte...
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AGENDA: Bringing in the New Year without Binge Drinking; New Year's Eve Is Here and the Celebratory Booze Will Flow. but Are Too Many of Us Missing out on a Spiritual Welcome to Next 12 Months? University Professor and Former Birmingham Poet Laureate Roshan Doug Poses the Question

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), December 31, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Will Flow. but Are Too Many of Us Missing out on a Spiritual Welcome...Professor and Former Birmingham Poet Laureate Roshan Doug Poses the...monks who opened the gate to us. They were sceptical and rather...evening. Nevertheless, they greeted us not as strangers but as guests...
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O Searcaigh: We Are All in the Muck. but Some of Us Are Looking at the Stars ; Only One Meaning? the Poet with Narang Pant

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 27, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Muck. but Some of Us Are Looking at the...Only One Meaning? the Poet with Narang Pant...in two months, the poet blamed everyone else...muck... but some of us are looking at the...a Gaelgoir, hes a poet and hes homosexual...muck... but some of us are looking at the...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: us poet

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Wordsworth, William

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...and the sonnet "The World Is Too Much with Us." Although Wordsworth was venerated in...again been recognized as a great English poet a profound, original thinker who created...for later biographies and studies of the poet. These journals, the first of which was...
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...han volf gang f n go t , 1749 1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist, and scientist, b...for the classical ideal, as Goethe tells us in his travel account Die italienische...derived from Goethes reading of the Persian poet Hafiz . Other Accomplishments Increasingly...
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Balmont, Konstantin Dmitrieyevich

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...DMITRIEYEVICH k nst ntyen d me tre vich bal mont, 1867 1943, Russian poet and translator. After first hailing the Bolshevik revolution...His major work began with Under Northern Skies (1894). Let Us Be Like the Sun (1903) and Love Alone (1903) are typical of...
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Jonson, Ben

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

JONSON, BEN 1572 1637, English dramatist and poet, b. Westminster, London. The high-spirited buoyancy of Jonsons...Drink to me only with thine eyes" and "Come, my Celia, let us prove"; and Underwoods (1640). His principal prose work Timber...
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Vendler, Helen Hennessy

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Among her books on aspects of contemporary poetry are Part of Nature, Part of Us (1980), Soul Says (1995), The Given and the Made (1996), and Coming of Age as a Poet (2003). Vendler has also edited a number of anthologies, notably The Harvard...

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