Author: Richard P. BlackmurPublisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1957 [c1952]
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Form and Value in Modern Poetry
Author: Richard P. BlackmurPublisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1957 [c1952]
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
FORM AND VALUE IN MODERN POETRY
Author: R. P. BLACKMURPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033474518
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Form and Value in Modern Poetry (Classic Reprint)
Author: R. P. BlackmurPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331458947
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Excerpt from Form and Value in Modern Poetry We are familiar with the consequences of/this frame of mind in religion, in politics, and in what passes for phi losophy. We should also be familiar with it in the chores of daily life: the life we get over withas so much blind action, but which 'yet needs its excuse, its quick, quibbled justifica tion. We are not familiar with it in, the works of rational imagination - at least not as a dominant value or as a source of strength; When we see it, we see it as weakness, as sub stitution, precisely as Work not done: as, at its best, melo drama, and at its worst, dead convention or the rehearsal of formula; and that is what we see in the great bulk of Hardy's verse. The very frame of mind that provided the pattern of his writing provided also, and at once, the terms of its general failure: leaving success, so far as his conscious devotions went, an accident of escape from the governing frame. Concern is in the end with the success; and will show it no accident; in the meantime with the considera tions that make it seem so. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Sound and Form in Modern Poetry
Author: Harvey Seymour GrossPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472065172
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
An updated and expanded version of a classic and essential text on prosody.
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Author: Richard P. BlackmurPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A History of Modernist Poetry
Author: Alex DavisPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107038677
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 571
Book Description
A History of Modernist Poetry examines innovative anglophone poetries from decadence to the post-war period. The first of its three parts considers formal and contextual issues, including myth, politics, gender, and race, while the second and third parts discuss a wide range of individual poets, including Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Mina Loy, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, and Marianne Moore, as well as key movements such as Imagism, Objectivism, and the Harlem Renaissance. This book also addresses the impact of both World Wars on experimental poetries and the crucial role of magazines in disseminating and proselytizing on behalf of poetic modernism. The collection concludes with a wide-ranging discussion of the inheritance of modernism in recent writing on both sides of the Atlantic.
Structure and Form of Contemporary Poetry. Analysis of four Poems
Author: Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3346919943
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, University of Innsbruck, language: English, abstract: This paper analyses the following poems: “(Un-)Certainties” by Regi Claire, Matthew Francis’ “Ladybird Summer”, Mary McCollum’s “The Boy with Dark Eyes” and “Fox” by Phoebe Stuckes, which all distinguish themselves due to their non-traditional form and structure, illustrates deviation but consistency in the use of form and structure to convey meanings as intended by authors. The form and structure of a poem affects its meaning as desired by the poet. Several elements of form and structure help poets manipulate words to ensure that their poems elicit the desired outcome. Some poems provide a narration, others express feelings, inform an audience, or tell folklore. Depending on this, poets use different elements of form and structure such as placement, lengths of lines, groupings of stanzas and lines, rhyme scheme, and rhythm to achieve the desired effects. The shape of the poem as well as opening and closing stanzas offer insight into traditional poems. While these conventional poems follow particular rules of poetry, such as rhymes or a set amount of syllables per line, more modern poetry disregards these rules and thereby introduces new methods of deriving meaning.
Modern Poetry in China
Author: Paul ManfrediPublisher:
ISBN: 9781604978629
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This book is in the Cambria Sinophone World Series (general editor: Victor H. Mair). *Includes rare color images. Chinese poetry, along with many other art forms in China, underwent a highly self-conscious transformation in the first decades of the twentieth century. Poetry, perhaps more than any other art form, did so under the heavy burden of a voluminous literary precedent, a precedent which was in its very format of patterned words inscribed on scrolls--a mark of the Chinese literati tradition. Turning away from this tradition seemed necessary in the context of a political, social, and cultural reform movement (which was designed to strengthen China in the face of increasing international pressure as well as domestic breakdown). At the same time, reforming a poetic tradition which had served as a principal touchstone of aesthetic accomplishment--from its role in Confucian canon as object of contemplation for correct action, to its function as a test of candidate's qualifications to govern through the civil service examination, to its function as national past-time in all manner of social gathering--was a major challenge. The result of such a predicament for poets throughout the twentieth century has been the compulsion to discover a poetic style which resonates with the modern world and yet is rooted in Chinese cultural experience. One way in which poets have been able to accomplish this is by relying on poetry's visuality, be it in the graphic properties of the writing system itself, the visual context of the presentation of the poetic texts, or the acute image details in the poems. The history of approximately one century of modern Chinese poetry production has been addressed broadly in scholarship, but such broad strokes tend to miss important dynamics which fall outside of general narratives. The importance of Chinese visual tradition to modern Chinese poets is a good case in point. Accordingly, this book addresses specific manifestations of the nexus connecting modernity and visuality in Chinese poetry. It begins with a discussion of May Fourth poetics as exemplified in the groundbreaking work of Li Jinfa, China's first "Symbolist" poet. From there the book traces notable developments of visuality in the new form or free verse writing (called Xinshi or "New Poetry") through mid-century modernist experiments in Taiwan (focusing on Ji Xian). From there the book then explores the avant-garde poetry of Luo Qing and Xia Yu before returning to mainland Chinese developments of Misty poets Yan Li and his contemporaries. The work concludes with a wide variety of poet-artists writing and exhibiting in the twenty-first century. Looking across this period of modern Chinese poetry's development, one is able to observe how important the visual-verbal dynamic has been to the innovation of poetic style and method. From the twenty-first century on, such multi-media expressions will likely continue to grow; this is a function of a Chinese aesthetic tradition pairing word and image and will continue to manifest in new and more inventive ways. This is an important book for Asian literary and art history studies and history collections
Sound and Form in Modern Poetry
Author: Harvey Seymour GrossPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Why Write Poetry?
Author: Jeannine JohnsonPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Poets have long been defending poetry in prose, and essays by Sidney, Shelley, and others are a familiar and important part of the Anglo-American literary tradition. This book identifies and examines a related genre - the verse defense of poetry - which shares the same impulse that has led to the composition of prose essays: namely, the desire to protect poetry from its detractors and to promote its value as a vital human endeavor. In the last century or so, this impulse to engage questions of poetry's value in poems has become increasingly widespread, and it has dominated the careers of at least five poets: H.D., Wallace Stevens, W. H. Auden, Adrienne Rich, and Geoffrey Hill. Though these poets espouse very different aesthetic principles, they, like many of their contemporaries, have repeatedly turned to apology in their verse. At first glance, this seems an odd gesture, given that the readers and writers of poetry are those who least need convincing of poetry's worthiness. But questioning poetry in verse is a form of lyric introspection that is productive and well-suited for a modern poet. characterized as one of indifference, defense helps these authors make a claim for poetry's cultural relevance, as well as for its private profit. Jeannine Johnson is a Preceptor in Expository Writing at Harvard University.