Author: Rhymers' Club (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The Second Book of the Rhymers' Club
Author: Rhymers' Club (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The Rhymers' Club
Author: W B Yeats|Ernest Dowson|Richard Le GalliennePublisher:
ISBN: 9781839675263
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
In 1890 W B Yeats and Ernest Rhys founded a poetry club. Based mainly at Fleet Street's immortal 'Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese' pub with occasional appearances at the Domino room in the Café Royal poets gathered together to dine and drink. Whilst it was based on a core of poets many others attended on an ad hoc basis including Oscar Wilde, Francis Thompson & Lord Alfred Douglas. The camaraderie, banter and poetry that played out in their dreams, ambitions and for many, their difficult lives led Yeats to call them 'the tragic generation'. As well as their enthusiastic social forays they printed two anthologies of verse. The first in 1892 and the second in 1894. For all the talent it could call upon the print runs were only in their hundreds. Part of a poet's obligation is to move the boundaries of society, to write what others shun. And whilst that is certainly the case with our group in terms of writing in one glaring respect they were very Victorian. The members of the club were only men. Arthur Ransome sums up their existence as "... the Rhymer's Club used to meet, to drink from tankards, smoke clay pipes, and recite their own poetry". Whilst their initial aims were food, drink, camaraderie and bragging, the reality is that their poetry gives us so much more.
The Fin-de-siècle Poem
Author: Joseph BristowPublisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821416278
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Featuring innovative research by emergent and established scholars, The Fin-de-Siecle Poem throws new light on the remarkable diversity of poetry produced at the close of the nineteenth century in England. Opening with a detailed preface that shows why literary historians have frequently underrated fin-de-siecle poetry, the collection explains how a strikingly rich body of lyrical and narrative poems anticipated many of the developments traditionally attributed to Modernism. Each chapter in turn provides insights into the ways in which late-nineteenth-century poets represented their experiences of the city, their attitudes toward sexuality, their responses to empire, and their interest in religious belief. The eleven essays presented by editor Joseph Bristow pay renewed attention to the achievements of such legendary writers as Oscar Wilde, John Davidson, Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, and W.B. Yeats, whose careers have always been associated with the 1890s. This book also explores the lesser-known but equally significant advances made by notable women poets, including Michael Field, Amy Levy, Charlotte Mew, Alice Meynell, A. Mary F. Robinson, and Graham R. Tomson. The Fin-de-Siecle Poem brings together innovative research on poetry that has been typecast as the attenuated Victorianism that was rejected by Modernism. The contributors underscore the remarkable innovations made in English poetry of the 1880s and 1890s and show how woman poets stood shoulder-to-shoulder with their better-known male contemporaries.Joseph Bristow is professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he edits the journal Nineteenth-Century Literature. His recent books include The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry, Oscar Wilde: Contextual Conditions, and the variorum edition of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Catalogue
Author: Wells, Edgar H. & CoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
The second book of the Rhymers' club
Author: Rhymers' clubPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Catalogues of Sales, Chiefly of Private Collections
Author: American Art AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The Library of the Late Beverly Chew ...
Author: Beverly ChewErnest Dowson
Author: Robert StarkPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019288476X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Ernest Dowson (1867-1900) was a British writer of the fin de siècle period, widely seen as the most representative example of the 'tragic generation' of decadent poets. This book presents a full-length and coherent reading of Dowson's oeuvre for the first time in English.
Letters to the New Island
Author: W.B. YeatsPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349094250
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
From 1888 to 1892 W.B.Yeats contributed a series of essays on literature and Irish folklore to two American newspapers, the Boston Pilot and Providence Sunday Journal. These important but little-known pieces show his intense engagement with current books, plays, personalities and controversies. They also make major statements about the issues of cultural nationalism and theatrical reform that preoccupied the poet. Newly edited, annotated, and introduced by George Bornstein and Hugh Witemeyer, Letters to the New Island offers a fresh glimpse of Yeats as an active polemicist, critic and all-round man of letters.
The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature
Author: George SampsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521095815
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description
Based on The Cambridge history of English literature.