Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry, Paperback - Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist, and major intellectual voice of her generation. Essential Essays g...

Contributor(s): Author: Adrienne RichEditor: Sandra M. GilbertAdrienne Rich was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist, and ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Adrienne RichThe "impulse to enter, with other humans, through language, into the order and disorder of the world, is poeti...

Reducere. These essays trace a distinguished writer's engagement with her time, her arguments with herself and others. "I am a poet who knows the social powe...

DescriptionThis study examines Exeter riddles, Anglo-Saxon biblical poems (Exodus, Andreas, Judith) and Beowulf in order to uncover the poetics of ...

Reducere. Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) was one of the four great Russian poets of the 20th century, along with Akhmatova, Mandelstam and Pasternak. She also ...

Reducere. Until his death in 4 BCE, Herod the Great's monarchy included territories that once made up the kingdoms of Judah and Israel. Although he ruled ove...

The final volume of poems assembled by America's most powerful and distinctive voice.

Reducere. 'Art of seeing', as Jeremy Hooker exercises it in these essays written over some thirty years, consists of acts of attention to a range of poets an...

Publisher: St Augustine's PressAuthor(s): Roger ScrutonNumber of pages: 246Publication date: 2019Dimensions: 401 x 268 x 19Cover type: Paperback / ...

DescriptionA classic work on radical aesthetics by one of the great philosophers of the early twentieth century No work of philosopher and essayist...

This groundbreaking book highlights a generation of women who made art as a way of defining a culture of experimental thought and practice, against...

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The Dream of a Common Language explores the contours of a woman s heart and mind in language for everybody language whose plainness, laughter, ques...

Reducere. In Another Way of Seeing, Peter Gabel argues that our most fundamental spiritual need as human beings is the desire for authentic mutual recognitio...

* An exploration of one of the thorniest, and most important, questions of contemporary social and political thought* Written in lively and accessb...

Adrienne Rich was the singular voice of her generation, bringing discussions of gender, race, and class to the forefront of poetical discourse. Thi...

In Of Woman Born, originally published in 1976, influential poet and feminist Adrienne Rich examines the patriarchic systems and political institut...

Three decades ago, renowned literary expert Robert Alter radically expanded the horizons of biblical scholarship by recasting the Bible as not only...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: W. E. B. Du BoisEditor: Nahum Dimitri ChandlerThis volume assembles essential essays--some published only posthumously, oth...

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Reducere. The poet writes, "In these poems I have been trying to speak from, and of, and to, my country. To speak of a different claim from those staked by t...

Reducere. DescriptionSpellbound: The Art of Teaching Poetry offers a range of exciting ideas to inspire students of all ages to explore their potential as wr...

An inventive and lucid essay from the author of 10: 04, in which he takes the hatred of poetry as the starting point of his defence of the art. Ler...

It's like taking a stroll through a beautiful garden The poems are like the flowers you see. They are all different in their appearance. Some give ...

Reducere. Observing that poetry is a natural part of our pastimes and rituals, Muriel Rukeyser opposes elitist attitudes and confronts Americans' fear of fee...

Reducere. No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: "I, too, dislike it, " wrote Marianne Moore. "Many more people agree the...

This anthology of poetry which celebrates fields, compiled by Common Ground, forms part of Common Groundas campaign to encourage greater awareness ...

Reducere. "The Will to Change must be read whole: for its tough distrust of completion and for its cool declaratives which fix us with a stare more unsettlin...

Reducere. National Book AwardsIn this, her thirteenth book of verse, the author of "The Dream of a Common Language" and "Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law" writ...

DescriptionTwo books in one The complete text of the only award-winning English translation of Sun Tzu's The Art of War PLUS a special adaptation f...

Reducere. DescriptionFirst published in 1963, this book is now restored to print in a new edition containing some revisions and one hitherto unpublished poem.

A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature

Czeslaw Milosz, winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature, reflects upon poetry's testimony to the events of our tumultuous time. From the spec...

Georgia in the Mountains of Poetry is essential reading for anyone interested in this fascinating region, as well as for students and researchers l...

Spend some time with the wisest poets of our age and the past to discover your spiritual potential.

Reducere. Riveting works of Surrealism & Fantasy ArtEnter a world of wonder. This volume offers a stunning collection of digital artwork by noted artist Rich...

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Reducere. Finally in paperback, a timeless collection celebrating the joys of poetry for children of all ages--an indispensable introduction to literature an...

Reducere. Seamus Heaney defines the title of this work of criticism as follows: "To redress poetry is to know and celebrate it for its forcibleness as itself...