Author: Anita P. ForbesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Modern Verse, British and American
Author: Anita P. ForbesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Modern Verse
Author: Anita P. ForbesPublisher:
ISBN: 9781331257110
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Excerpt from Modern Verse: British and American In looking over the anthologies of poetry on the shelves of any well-equipped public library, one thinks of the rats that followed the Pied Piper. There are war poems, love poems, sad poems, funny poems, old poems, new poems, child poems, college poems, poems of the city, poems of the country - anthologies by tens and dozens. In the latest additions to these we take particular pride, for they represent the verse of our own age. Modern poetry is worth being proud of for at least two reasons. First, it appeals to many different types of people. Whether one is looking for poems that are heroic, fanciful, humorous, or thoughtful - poems on any subject from the steel industry to the immortality of the soul - poems of the loftiest imagination or the tenderest human interest - he will find his desires gratified. In no other period of English literature has poetry been so varied, so like an elaborate prism which flashes new beauty to each eye. For never before has it refracted the light of so many and such different personalities. It has been said that every one can write at least one good poem; and nowadays he can usually get it published. The name of our young poets is Legion. Moreover, many of our poets, even the best-known ones, have wide interests besides their poetry. They may be newpaper men, lawyers, college professors, army officers, social workers. The great emotional stimulus of the war drove vigorous, practical men and women of all ages and occupations to the discovery that poetry might be a solace and joy not only to the student or visionary, but to the average person. 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.
Modern Verse
Author: Anita P. ForbesPublisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781498020374
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1921 Edition.
Modern Verse
Author: Anita P. ForbesPublisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781494168360
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1921 Edition.
Modern Verse, British and American... - Scholar's Choice Edition
Author: AnonymousPublisher: Scholar's Choice
ISBN: 9781297040061
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
American and British Verse in the Twentieth Century
Author: Colin FalckPublisher:
ISBN: 9781315199047
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"This title was first published in 2003. "Why is it that almost no one can quote more than a few words from any American or British poet since (say) Robert Lowell or Philip Larkin?" asks critic and poet Colin Falck. This volume is a critical history of 20th-century poetry as well as a study of what the author sees as the decline of that poetry during the century's last three decades. Basing his argument in the ideas of English and German romanticism, and developing further the claims of his "Myth, Truth and Literature" (1994), Colin Falck provides philosophically grounded discussions of such issues as the need for modern poetry to be a "poetry of experience," the relationship between poetry and philosophy, the triumph of "talk" as modern poetry's prevailing diction, the effects on poetry of postmodernist self-consciousness, the centrality of despair to the modern lyric, the means by which modern poetry can validly engage with history, the place of nature and myth in the poetic imagination, and the revelatory power of rhythm, meter and "the singing line". Falck documents his case by reference to poems and extracts from such poets as Hardy, Yeats, Eliot and Stevens (and from some of their 19th-century precursors) all the way through to such acclaimed poets as Jorie Graham and Hugo Williams. His argument calls for a "middlebrow revival" in response to the "highbrow deviation" of modernism and the late-20th-century professionalization of poetry. It ends with an ambitious claim for poetry as an "inscription of reality" as part of an "aesthetic fundamentalism" which may be the true religion of the future."--Provided by publisher.
The Pocket Book of Modern Verse; English and American Poetry of the Last Hundred Years, from Walt Whitman to Dylan Thomas
Author: Oscar WilliamsPublisher: New York, Washington Square Press [1961]
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Modern Verse in English
Author: David CecilThe Home Book of Modern Verse
Author: The Oxford Book of Modern Verse, 1892-1935
Author: William Butler YeatsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description