Author: Ian JackPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521278096
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
A systematic exploration of the influence of readers on the shaping of six major poets' works.
The Poet and His Audience
Author: Ian JackPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521278096
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
A systematic exploration of the influence of readers on the shaping of six major poets' works.
Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England
Author: Emily V. ThornburyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107051983
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
A groundbreaking study of pre-Conquest English poets that rethinks the social role of Anglo-Saxon verse.
The Poems of Oswald Von Wolkenstein
Author: Albrecht ClassenPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230617174
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
This book offers the first complete English translation of the poems by the late-medieval German (Tyrolean) Oswald von Wolkenstein (1376/1377-1445). Oswald von Wolkenstein was one of the leading poets of his time and created some of the most exciting, experimental, and also deeply religious-conservative poetry of the entire Middle Ages and far beyond. German scholarship and musicologists have long recognized the extraordinary strength and power of Oswald s Middle High German songs, both in terms of his poetic imagery and his musical performance. This book proves Oswald's uvre to be one of the most idiosyncratic and individualistic in the entire late Middle Ages. Classen reveals how Oswald continued the medieval tradition, yet was a true innovator, exploring new attitudes toward love, sexuality, travel, war, politics, language, music, and, above all, his own individuality.
Claudian the Poet
Author: Clare CoombePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108614337
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This comprehensive reassessment of the carmina maiora of the fourth-century poet Claudian contributes to the growing trend to recognize that Late Antique poets should be approached as just that: poets. Its methodology is developed from that of Michael Roberts' seminal The Jeweled Style. It analyzes Claudian's poetics and use of story telling to argue that the creation of a story world in which Stilicho, his patron, becomes an epic hero, and the barbarians are giants threatening both the borders of Rome and the order of the very universe is designed to convince his audience of a world-view in which it is only the Roman general who stands between them and cosmic chaos. The book also argues that Claudian uses the same techniques to promote the message that Honorius, young hero though he may seem, is not yet fit to rule, and that Stilicho's rightful position remains as his regent.
The Poet
Author: Percival StockdalePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
The Poetry Circuit
Author: Peter B. HowarthPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192650920
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Live performance has changed poetry more than anything else in the last hundred years: it has given poets new audiences and a new economy, and it has generated new styles, from Imagism, to confessional, to contemporary Spoken Word. But the creative impact that public reading had right through the twentieth century has not been well understood. Mixing close listening to archive performances with intimate histories of modernist venues and promotors, The Poetry Circuit tells the story of how poets met their audience again, and how the feedback loops between their voices, the venues, and the occasions turned poems into running dramas between poet and listener. A nervous T. S. Eliot reveals himself to be anything but impersonal, while Marianne Moore's accident-prone readings become subtle ways of keeping her poems in constant re-draft. Robert Frost used his poems to spar with his fans and rivals, while Langston Hughes wrote Ask Your Mama to expose the prejudice circulating in the room as he spoke it. The Poetry Circuit also shows how the post-war reading boom made new kinds of poetry involving their audience and setting in the performance, such as John Ashbery's anti-charismatic Poets' Theatre, Amiri Baraka's documentary soundtracks of the streets, or the confessional readings of Allen Ginsberg, which shame the listeners more than the poet. Covering the first seventy years of the poetry reading, The Poetry Circuit demonstrates that there never were 'page' and 'stage' poets: the reading simply changed what every modern poet could do.
The Poet's Voice
Author: Simon GoldhillPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009478214
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Invaluable guide to ancient Greek literature and literary theory through the representation of poetry and the figure of the poet.
Shakespeare and the Poet's Life
Author: Gary SchmidgallPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813117065
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Shakespeare and the Poet's Life explores a central biographical question: why did Shakespeare choose to cease writing sonnets and court-focused long poems like The Rape of Lucrece and Venus and Adonis and continue writing plays? Author Gary Schmidgall persuasively demonstrates the value of contemplating the professional reasons Shakespeare -- or any poet of the time -- ceased being an Elizabethan court poet and focused his efforts on drama and the Globe. Students of Shakespeare and of Renaissance poetry will find Schmidgall's approach and conclusions both challenging and illuminating.
I, the Poet
Author: Kathleen McCarthyPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501739565
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
First-person poetry is a familiar genre in Latin literature. Propertius, Catullus, and Horace deployed the first-person speaker in a variety of ways that either bolster or undermine the link between this figure and the poet himself. In I, the Poet, Kathleen McCarthy offers a new approach to understanding the ubiquitous use of a first-person voice in Augustan-age poetry, taking on several of the central debates in the field of Latin literary studies—including the inheritance of the Greek tradition, the shift from oral performance to written collections, and the status of the poetic "I-voice." In light of her own experience as a twenty-first century reader, for whom Latin poetry is meaningful across a great gulf of linguistic, cultural, and historical distances, McCarthy positions these poets as the self-conscious readers of and heirs to a long tradition of Greek poetry, which prompted them to explore radical forms of communication through the poetic form. Informed in part by the "New Lyric Studies," I, the Poet will appeal not only to scholars of Latin literature but to readers across a range of literary studies who seek to understand the Roman contexts which shaped canonical poetic genres.
Henry Howard, the Poet Earl of Surrey
Author: William A. SessionsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780198186250
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
In this biography of Henry Howard, the Poet Earl of Surrey, the author assesses his role in Tudor society and examines his image of the Renaissance courtier, his representation of nobility and his poetic work and creation of poetic forms.