Author: Francis Otto Matthiessen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1132

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Author: David Lehman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019516251X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 1193

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Redefines the great canon of American poetry from its origins in the 17th century right up to the present.

Author: Donald Hall
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195123735
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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An anthology of American poems, is arranged chronologically, from colonial alphabet rhymes to Native American cradle songs to contemporary poems. 50 illustrations, 20 in color.

Author: Bliss Carman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 720

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Author: Richard Ellmann
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1144

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An anthology of poems by American poets from Taylor and Bradstreet to Plath, Ginsberg, and Ashbery, reflecting the traditions and achievements of three centuries.

Author: Cary Nelson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195398777
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 734

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The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry gives readers a cutting-edge introduction to the kaleidoscopic world of American poetry over the last century. Offering a comprehensive approach to the debates that have defined the study of American verse, the twenty-five original essays contained herein take up a wide array of topics: the influence of jazz on the Beats and beyond; European and surrealist influences on style; poetics of the disenfranchised; religion and the national epic; antiwar and dissent poetry; the AIDS epidemic; digital innovations; transnationalism; hip hop; and more. Alongside these topics, major interpretive perspectives such as Marxist, psychoanalytic, disability, queer, and ecocritcal are incorporated. Throughout, the names that have shaped American poetry in the period--Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, Sterling Brown, Hart Crane, William Carlos Williams, Posey, Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, Rae Armantrout, Larry Eigner, and others--serve as touchstones along the tour of the poetic landscape.

Author: Neil Philip
Publisher: Oxford Books of Verse
ISBN:
Category : Children's poetry, American
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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An anthology of poetry written for children.

Author: Stewart Brown
Publisher: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse
ISBN: 9780199561599
Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Caribbean has produced one of the most vigorous and exciting bodies of poetry of the last one hundred year. The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse is the only contemporary anthology to present the best of the English-language poetry of the region alongside selections from the poetry of boththe French and Spanish Caribbean. Featuring a range of established poets from Derek Walcott to Jesus Cos Causse, Olive Senior to Aime Cesaire, as well as exciting new voices, this is a rich and challenging book.

Author: John Gross
Publisher: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse
ISBN: 9780199561612
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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From limericks to social satire, The Oxford Book of Comic Verse offers a remarkable collection of outstanding light poetry. John Gross has brought together the finest writers in the history of the English language - from Chaucer and Skelton to Shakespeare and Swift, Lord Byron to Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson to John Updike, as well as witty song lyrics from such artists as Irving Berlin and Cole Porter - offering delightful examples of their comic verse. Drawing on many different types of verse, including epigrams, street ballads, advertising jingles, clerihew, music-hall lyrics, and the doubledactyl of the calypso, this highly entertaining collection offers an exceptionally wide range of comic pleasures. The poems are by turns subtle, down-to-earth, macabre, ingenious, acerbic, ribald, and cheerful. Written to amuse, they call forth laughter and delight in equal measure. Compiled by one of our finest critics and anthologists, this reissue boasts a stylish new design and a fresh contemporary feel.

Author: John Gross
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199556555
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 680

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The essay is one of the richest of literary forms. Its most obvious characteristics are freedom, informality, and the personal touch--though it can also find room for poetry, satire, fantasy, and sustained argument. All these qualities, and many others, are on display in The Oxford Book of Essays. The most wide-ranging collection of its kind to appear for many years, it includes 140 essays by 120 writers: classics, curiosities, meditations, diversions, old favorites, recent examples that deserve to be better known. A particularly welcome feature is the amount of space allotted to American essayists, from Benjamin Franklin to John Updike and beyond. This is an anthology that opens with wise words about the nature of truth, and closes with a consideration of the novels of Judith Krantz. Some of the other topics discussed in its pages are anger, pleasure, Gandhi, Beau Brummell, wasps, party-going, gangsters, plumbers, Beethoven, potato crisps, the importance of being the right size, and the demolition of Westminster Abbey. It contains some of the most eloquent writing in English, and some of the most entertaining.