Introduction to English Poetry, Paperback

James Fenton's "An Introduction to English Poetry" offers a master class for both the reader and writer of poetry. Simply and elegantly written and...

A range of leading international scholars provide the reader with a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the extraordinary richness and div...

Reducere. This is a revised and enlarged edition of the most extensive and detailed critical reading of English Romantic poetry ever attempted in a single vo...

This text communicates a user-friendly way to explore the rhythms of poetry in English. Side-stepping the jargon that often runs through discussion...

This remarkable volume introduces to the large English-speaking audience what is probably the most coherent segment of twentieth-century American l...

Reducere. In this introduction to Scripture, Leland Ryken organizes biblical passages into literary genres including narratives, poetry, proverbs, and drama,...

Michael Ferber's accessible introduction to poetry's unusual uses of language tackles a wide range of subjects from a linguistic point of view. Wri...

This anthology brings together extensive selections of poetry by the five most prolific and prominent women poets of the English Civil War period: ...

Reducere. In A Poet's Guide to Poetry, Mary Kinzie brings her decades of expertise as poet, critic, and director of the creative writing program at Northwest...

Reducere. This edition of Nelligan's poems, with a critical introduction by the editor and translator, is the first complete English translation of Nelligan'...

Reducere. Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. Edited by Christopher Nelson. Introduction by Kaveh Bassiri. ESSENTIAL VOICES series intends to bridge English-lang...

Reducere. In recent years, the ghazal (pronounced "ghuzzle"), a traditional Arabic form of poetry, has become popular among contemporary English language poe...

This anthology highlights seven centuries of Italian poetry that will help you learn the language as well. Included are 34 examples of Italian vers...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tanikawa ShuntaroTranslator: Takako U. LentoThis extensive selection of Tanikawa Shuntaro's poetry reflects the full depth ...

The poems in this anthology represent a panorama of the main trends in the development of the poetry of the German-speaking people. Beginning with ...

Reducere. A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 Giacomo Leopardi is Italy's greatest modern poet, the first European writer to portray and examine the self ...

Reducere. Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the German by David Young. Cover art by the author's wife, Gisele Celan-Lestrange. "Celan's English lang...

Reducere. Description"What is poetry? Poetry is art made with words. The rest of this book is about what that means."Speak Like Rain goes through the artisti...

In this "guided" anthology, experts lead students through the major genres and eras of Chinese poetry from antiquity to the modern time. The volume...

Considered the most inovative study of Chinese poetry ever written, Francois Cheng's Chinese Poetic Writing--now in its first expanded, English-lan...

Reducere. Hilda Raz has an ability "to tell something every day and make it tough, " says John Kinsella in his introduction. Letter from a Place I've Never B...

Reducere. El Zarape Press presents its first collection of poetry by the eclectic Daniel Garc a Ordaz, The Poet Mariachi, "the voice of the Rio Grande Valley...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ezra PoundFor this definitive collection of Pound's Literary Essays, his friend (and English editor) T. S. Eliot chose mate...

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Reducere. DescriptionThis is the second of a projected six-volume series called Reading the Bible as Literature (the first volume being How Bible Stories Wor...

Reducere. Edith Södergran's vital, compelling and very personal poems have been translated into many languages, and several times into English. Written for t...

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Reducere. Spain's great lyric poet, Gustavo Adolfo B cquer (1836-1870), is famed both for his poetry and his fiction. B cquer's celebrated Rhymes consists of...

Stephane Mallarme was the most radically innovative of nineteenth-century poets, and a key figure in Modernism. His writings, with their richly sen...

Reducere. For the first time all the tanka in Akiko Yosano's 1901 book, Midaregami - Tangled Hair, have been translated into English. Each of the tanka has t...

In 1859, Edward FitzGerald translated into English the short, epigrammatic poems (or "rubáiyát") of medieval Persian poet Omar Khayyám. If not a tr...

English Romantic poetry from its beginnings and its flowering to the first signs of its decadence Nearly all the famous pieces de resistance will b...

A definitive new collection of Oscar Wilde's best prison letters and poetry, with an introduction by Colm Toibin Bankrupt and with his reputation i...

Reducere. Miller Williams' Patterns of Poetry is an encyclopedia of the forms used by poets throughout the history of English, from blank verse to hymnal mea...

Reducere. A major new translation of one of Italy's greatest modern poetsGiuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970) was a pioneer of the Modernist movement in Italian po...

National Jewish Book AwardHebrew culture experienced a renewal in medieval Spain that produced what is arguably the most powerful body of Jewish po...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jorge Luis BorgesEditor: Calin-Andrei MihailescuAvailable in cloth, paper, or audio CDThrough a twist of fate that the auth...

Reducere. Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus,...

Reducere. Haiku Master Buson is the only translation of the work of this important haiku poet in English. Buson (1716-1783), along with Basho and Issa, is re...

Reducere. Fiction. Poetry. Jewish Studies. Translated by Zackary Sholem Berger. Introduction by Heather Valencia. Through Zackary Sholem Berger's translation...

Reducere. Osip Emilevich Mandelstam, the great twentieth-century Russian poet, was once thought to be buried forever in secret files and condemned to oblivio...

Reducere. DescriptionPoetry. Latinx Studies. Edited and translated by Urayo n Noel. "This book is an event, a monumental work of translation and poetry that ...

The Rattle Bag is an anthology of poetry (mostly in English but occasionally in translation) for general readers and students of all ages and backg...

Reducere. Rabbi Avraham Ben Meir Ibn Ezra (1089-1164) was a renowned Jewish scholar, whose accomplishments and prolific writing encompassed Biblical exegeses...

Reducere. Poetry. Edited by Gian Lombardo. For the first time ever, this volume collects together all of Harry Crosby's published prose poems, including the ...

An introduction to Zen chanting practice, with new accurate and chantable translations of the texts used in Zen centers and monasteries throughout ...

Previously published in the Oxford Authors series, this unique one-volume selection of Milton's poetry and prose includes all the English and Itali...

Reducere. Introduction to Literature (English 1) is a one year, college-prep literature and composition course for co-op, classroom, or homeschool use.The cu...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Adelia PradoThis is the first book published in English by of the work of Brazilian poet Adelia Prado. Incorporating poems ...

"Poems by Wilfred Owen - In the Trenches" is a 1920 collection of poetry by English poet and soldier Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC (1893-1918). A ...

Published in the centenary of the Easter Rising, Orange Horses provides a rare and remarkable insight into areas of Irish society which are often m...

Reducere. "One of the century's most important poets."--San Francisco Chronicle"One of the greatest poets of our time, perhaps the greatest."--Joseph Brodsky...

Reducere. LIFE, LIFE A book of poetry by Russian poet Arseny Tarkovsky, translated by Virginia Rounding. Includes many poems used in Arseny's son's films (An...

Reducere. YUNUS EMRE: LIFE & POEMS Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Yunus Emre (d. 1320) is considered one of the most important Turkish poets having a ...

Reducere. This lively translation accurately captures the wit and uncensored bawdiness of the epigrams of Martial, who satirized Roman society, both high and...

Reducere. "Laughter is the language of the soul, " Pablo Neruda said. Among the most lasting voices of the most tumultuous (in his own words, "the saddest") ...

Poetry. Published in Baghdad in 2006, Falcon with Sun Overhead and The Age of Entertainment inspired a new generation of Iraqi poets, charmed by Ra...

Reducere. An extraordinary new verse translation of Dante's masterpiece, by poet, scholar, and lauded translator Anthony Esolen Of the great poets, Dante is ...

Reducere. Muriel Rukeyser held a visionary belief in the human capacity to create social change through language. She earned an international reputation as a...

Reducere. This second volume in the Russian Through Propaganda series provides a second semester's worth of intensive college-level Russian language learning...

This anthology of Sumerian literature constitutes the most comprehensive collection ever published, and includes examples of most of the different ...

Reducere. This volume offers the most complete English translation to date of the prose and poetry of José María Heredia (b. Cuba, 1803; d. Mexico, 1839), fo...

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The Roman statesman and philosopher Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) recorded his moral philosophy and reflections on life as a highly original kind of corresp...

Reducere. "Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus' son Achilleus / and its devastation." For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Ric...

Beginning students of Italian language and literature will welcome this bilingual anthology edited especially for their needs. Ranging from the fou...

Exuberantly mocking the vices and pretensions of his Roman contemporaries, Horace's Satires are stuffed full of comic vignettes, moral insights, an...

One of the most written-about literary figures in the past decade, Arthur Rimbaud left few traces when he abandoned poetry at age twenty-one and di...

Klaus Merz is one of the most prominent, prolific, and versatile Swiss writers working today. Celebrated as a master of concise, condensed sentence...

The Sufis are as diverse as the countries in which they've flourished--from Morocco to India to China--and as varied as their distinctive forms of ...