Author: Flemming OlsenPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9781845197100
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"First published 2015 in Great Britain."
The Literary Criticism of Matthew Arnold
Author: Flemming OlsenPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9781845197100
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"First published 2015 in Great Britain."
Forever: Poems
Author: James LongenbachPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393866548
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
In lucid, elegant poems, Forever contemplates love against the pressing question of mortality after a diagnosis of cancer. Praised for a voice with "the crystalline, transformative, pure pitch of a lyric poet" (Ilya Kaminsky), James Longenbach explores a life lived with the knowledge of its end in his sixth collection. These luminous, lyrical poems pose a question: Why did this poet once live as if he would live forever? And what does it mean to know that we will not? Forever explores the meaning of love, from its discovery in the first poem, "Two People," to its maintenance in the last, "Forever." In between, the volume explores the precariously imminent demise of all that we love—the finite lives of other people, the mortal beauty of Venice—all thrown into urgent relief by the poet’s own cancer diagnosis. Evoking "the vivid dailiness of domestic life…and the specificity and poignance" of memories, "these lyrics are intimately personal, achingly autobiographical" (Langdon Hammer, American Scholar). Forthright, moving, and wry, the poems in Forever look back gratefully—excitedly—on a lifetime of self-making and self-shattering events.
A Life of Matthew Arnold
Author: Nicholas MurrayPublisher: St Martins Press
ISBN: 9780312151690
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Years of research inform a definitive study of Victorian poet Matthew Arnold, the author of "Dover Beach," chronicling the life and work of the masterful writer, devoted family man, and impassioned critic of Victorian materialism.
Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold
Author: Matthew ArnoldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Matthew Arnold : His Poetry and Message
Author: Matthew ArnoldWhy Poetry
Author: Matthew ZapruderPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062343092
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
An impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry’s accessibility to all readers, by critically acclaimed poet Matthew Zapruder In Why Poetry, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder takes on what it is that poetry—and poetry alone—can do. Zapruder argues that the way we have been taught to read poetry is the very thing that prevents us from enjoying it. In lively, lilting prose, he shows us how that misunderstanding interferes with our direct experience of poetry and creates the sense of confusion or inadequacy that many of us feel when faced with it. Zapruder explores what poems are, and how we can read them, so that we can, as Whitman wrote, “possess the origin of all poems,” without the aid of any teacher or expert. Most important, he asks how reading poetry can help us to lead our lives with greater meaning and purpose. Anchored in poetic analysis and steered through Zapruder’s personal experience of coming to the form, Why Poetry is engaging and conversational, even as it makes a passionate argument for the necessity of poetry in an age when information is constantly being mistaken for knowledge. While he provides a simple reading method for approaching poems and illuminates concepts like associative movement, metaphor, and negative capability, Zapruder explicitly confronts the obstacles that readers face when they encounter poetry to show us that poetry can be read, and enjoyed, by anyone.
The Function of Criticism at the Present Time
Author: Matthew ArnoldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The Forsaken Merman
Author: Matthew ArnoldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Title pages
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
New Poems
Author: Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold
Author: Carl DawsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134781032
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.