Author: Leigh HuntPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : British literature
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Essays by Leigh Hunt
Author: Leigh HuntPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Essays. By Leigh Hunt
Author: Leigh HuntPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : British literature
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The Round Table
Author: William HazlittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla
Author: Leigh HuntPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Megara (Poem)
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Selected Writings of Leigh Hunt: Periodical essays, 1805-1814
Author: Leigh HuntPublisher:
ISBN: 9781851967148
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2400
Book Description
The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt
Author: Leigh HuntThe Story of Rimini,
Author: Leigh HuntThe Round Table [and] Characters of Shakespear's Plays
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Author: William HazlittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Quotidiana
Author: Patrick MaddenPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803230052
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Reflecting on Montaigne, Virginia Woolf remarked, "The most common actions-a walk, a talk, solitude in one's own orchard-can be enhanced and lit up by the association of the mind." In Quotidiana, Patrick Madden illuminates these common actions and seemingly commonplace moments, making connections that revise and reconfigure the overlooked and underappreciated.
The Virtues of Poetry
Author: James LongenbachPublisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555970672
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
An illuminating look at the many forms of poetry's essential excellence by James Longenbach, a writer with "an ear as subtle and assured as any American poet now writing" (John Koethe) "This book proposes some of the virtues to which the next poem might aspire: boldness, change, compression, dilation, doubt, excess, inevitability, intimacy, otherness, particularity, restraint, shyness, surprise, and worldliness. The word ‘virtue' came to English from Latin, via Old French, and while it has acquired a moral valence, the word in its earliest uses gestured toward a magical or transcendental power, a power that might be embodied by any particular substance or act. With vices I am not concerned. Unlike the short-term history of taste, which is fueled by reprimand or correction, the history of art moves from achievement to achievement. Contemporary embodiments of poetry's virtues abound, and only our devotion to a long history of excellence allows us to recognize them." –from James Longenbach's preface The Virtues of Poetry is a resplendent and ultimately moving work of twelve interconnected essays, each of which describes the way in which a particular excellence is enacted in poetry. Longenbach closely reads poems by Shakespeare, Donne, Blake, Keats, Dickinson, Yeats, Pound, Bishop, and Ashbery (among others), sometimes exploring the ways in which these writers transmuted the material of their lives into art, and always emphasizing that the notions of excellence we derive from art are fluid, never fixed. Provocative, funny, and astute, The Virtues of Poetry is indispensable for readers, teachers, and writers. Longenbach reminds us that poetry delivers meaning in exacting ways, and that it is through its precision that we experience this art's lasting virtues.