Author: Stuart FriebertPublisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780582282636
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
The Longman Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, 1950-1980
Author: Stuart FriebertPublisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780582282636
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
The Longman Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry
Author: Stuart FriebertPublisher: Longman Financial Service
ISBN: 9780801300462
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 629
Book Description
A collection of American poetry written since World War II.
The Longman Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, 1950-1980
Author: Stuart FriebertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
The Longman Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry
Author: The Age of Auden
Author: Aidan WasleyPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400836352
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
How W. H. Auden’s emigration to the United States changed the course of postwar American poetry W. H. Auden's emigration from England to the United States in 1939 marked more than a turning point in his own life and work—it changed the course of American poetry itself. The Age of Auden takes, for the first time, the full measure of Auden's influence on American poetry. Combining a broad survey of Auden's midcentury U.S. cultural presence with an account of his dramatic impact on a wide range of younger American poets—from Allen Ginsberg to Sylvia Plath—the book offers a new history of postwar American poetry. For Auden, facing private crisis and global catastrophe, moving to the United States became, in the famous words of his first American poem, a new "way of happening." But his redefinition of his work had a significance that was felt far beyond the pages of his own books. Aidan Wasley shows how Auden's signal role in the work and lives of an entire younger generation of American poets challenges conventional literary histories that place Auden outside the American poetic tradition. In making his case, Wasley pays special attention to three of Auden's most distinguished American inheritors, presenting major new readings of James Merrill, John Ashbery, and Adrienne Rich. The result is a persuasive and compelling demonstration of a novel claim: In order to understand modern American poetry, we need to understand Auden's central place within it.
The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations
Author: Edith P. HazenPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231075466
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1172
Book Description
Why do smokers claim that the first cigarette of the day is the best? What is the biological basis behind some heavy drinkers' belief that the "hair-of-the-dog" method alleviates the effects of a hangover? Why does marijuana seem to affect ones problem-solving capacity? Intoxicating Minds is, in the author's words, "a grand excavation of drug myth." Neither extolling nor condemning drug use, it is a story of scientific and artistic achievement, war and greed, empires and religions, and lessons for the future. Ciaran Regan looks at each class of drugs, describing the historical evolution of their use, explaining how they work within the brain's neurophysiology, and outlining the basic pharmacology of those substances. From a consideration of the effect of stimulants, such as caffeine and nicotine, and the reasons and consequences of their sudden popularity in the seventeenth century, the book moves to a discussion of more modern stimulants, such as cocaine and ecstasy. In addition, Regan explains how we process memory, the nature of thought disorders, and therapies for treating depression and schizophrenia. Regan then considers psychedelic drugs and their perceived mystical properties and traces the history of placebos to ancient civilizations. Finally, Intoxicating Minds considers the physical consequences of our co-evolution with drugs -- how they have altered our very being -- and offers a glimpse of the brave new world of drug therapies.
Poetry And Contemporary Culture
Author: Roberts A.M. RobertsPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474472079
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The cultural value of poetry is critically examined in this book, from anthologies and academia to film and the internet. Attention is also given to the role of political ideologies and local, national and ethnic identities in the formation of poetic values.With chapters by distinguished critics from both sides of the Atlantic, the book ranges widely over contemporary poetry in America and the British Isles and explores transatlantic connections. Informed by current theoretical debates around ideas of value, the chapters focus these through clear discussion of texts in various media, including the work of a wide variety of poets and movements. The book carries forward the debate on the value of contemporary poetry amongst critics, scholars and practitioners while offering rich material for students and teachers of contemporary poetry and culture.Contributors: Jonathan Allison, Vicki Bertram, Paul Breslin, Cairns Craig, Robert Crawford, Lilias Fraser, Alan Golding, Romana Huk, Marjorie Perloff, Andrew Michael Roberts.Features * Focuses on the relationship between poetry and cultural practices* Informed by current theoretical debates about value* Wide range of British and American poetry discussed by leading critics from both sides of the Atlantic
The Leonard L. Milberg Collection of American Poetry
Author: Princeton University. Library. Department of Rare Books and Special CollectionsPublisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Library
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Princeton, NJ 08544. Library Publications, Dept. of Rare Books, 1 Washington Rd., A catalogue of the Milberg collection of contemporary American poetry at the Firestone Library, Princeton U. It covers 70 poets and over 1,800 items (as of the end of July 1993). Most of the poets were first published commercially after the end of WWII; others were included because of their connection to Princeton, or because they were too important to be excluded. An introduction (about two pages) and small photograph introduce each poet. Really much more thrilling than it sounds, a pellucid companion to the contemporaries, and beautifully produced as well. Available from Princeton University Libraries, Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Writing Into the Future
Author: Alan GoldingPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817360492
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The dial, The little review, and the dialogics of the modernist "new" -- The new American poetry revisisted again -- New, newer, and the newest American poetries -- Poetry anthologies and the idea of the "mainstream" -- Serial form in George Oppen and Robert Creeley -- Place, space, and "new syntax" in Oppen's Seascape: needle's eye -- Macro, micro, material : Rachel Blau DuPlessis's Drafts and the post-objectivist serial poem -- Drafts and fragments : Rachel Blau DuPlessis's (counter-)Poudian project -- "Drawings with words" : Susan Howe's visual feminist poetics -- Authority, marginality, England, and Ireland in the work of Susan Howe -- Bruce Andrews, writing, and "poetry" -- "What about all this writing?" : Williams and alternative poetics -- Language writing, digital poetics, and transitional materialities.
Languages of Liberation
Author: Walter B. KalaidjianPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231068369
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description