Serious Poetry

Author: Peter McDonald
Editor: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0199247471
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Do we want to read poetry, or just like having a few poets to talk about? The history of poetry in twentieth-century Britain and Ireland is one which ends with the assimilation of successful poets into a media culture; it is also, however, another history, one of form and authority, in which certain poets found modes and pitches of resistance to the seeming inevitabilities of their times. In this history, it is the authority of poetry (and not the media-processed poet) which is at stake in the integrity of poetic form. Serious Poetry: Form and Authority from Yeats to Hill offers a controversial reading of twentieth-century British and Irish poetry centred on six figures, all of whom are critics as well as poets: W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Seamus Heaney, and Geoffrey Hill. Yeats's centrality to twentieth-century poetry - and the problem many poets and critics had, or still have, with that centrality - is a major focus of the book. Serious Poetryargues that it is in the strengths, possibilities, perplexities, and certainties of the poetic form that poetry's authority in a distrustful cultural climate remains most seriously alive.

Serious Poetry

Author: Caroline Fry Wilson
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Serious Poetry

Author: afterwards WILSON FRY (Caroline)
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Specimens Of Sacred And Serious Poetry From Chaucer To The Present Day Including Graham S Sabbath And Other Poems And Blair S Grave With Biographical Notices And Critical Remarks By J J

Author: John JOHNSTONE (of Edinburgh.)
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Serious Poems

Author: Thomas Hood
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Specimens Of Sacred And Serious Poetry From Chaucer To The Present Day Including Grahame S Sabbath C With Biogr Notices And Critical Remarks By J Johnstone

Author: John Johnstone
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The Eclectic Review

Author: Samuel Greatheed
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Figurative Language In The Serious Poetry Of Quevedo

Author: Hans Hermann Frankel
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Serious Poems

Author: Thomas Hood
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The Poets And Poetry Of America

Author: Rufus Wilmot Griswold
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A Household Book Of English Poetry Selected And Arranged With Notes By R C Trench

Author: Richard Chenevix TRENCH (Archbishop of Dublin.)
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Serious Angel

Author: Jan Twardowski
Editor: Sarah Lawson
ISBN: 9781904556176
File Size: 64,40 MB
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Jan Twardowski, Poland's best-known poet, can finally be read in English thanks to this selection of translated poems. As a parish priest currently living and working in Warsaw, his poems are, not surprisingly, about religion, but in a non-traditional way. The approach is often a wry, oblique one, based on real experience and humor, rather than on dry theological premises. Waxwing Series.

Appletons Journal

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Virtual Maniac

Author: Margriet Ruurs
Editor: Maupin House Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 0929895436
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Collects forty-six poems about everyday things such as dogs, video games, colors, and brothers.

The Living Age

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Serious Play

Author: Robert W. Hanning
Editor: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231152108
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In this thoughtful, scholarly, often humorous analysis of literary works--including Ovid's amatory poetry, excerpts from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, and Ariosto's Orlando Furioso--Hanning (emer., Columbia Univ.) presents a raucous account of misdirected desire and mismanaged political authority. The author describes his readings as "appreciations" that interrogate "how these privileged individuals, writing basically for elite audiences, make comedy out of two very dangerous topics, desire and authority." The success of these celebrated writers stems from their ability to negotiate the "tensions between private and public imperatives." Hanning argues that his book is not a "scholarly work" and that his target audience is not academics. To the extent that the book is genuinely funny he succeeds, at least hypothetically, but the overall analysis is sophisticated, critically informed, and occasionally tendentious and political. His pose as elucidator and commentator is both an attraction--the tone and tenor of the book are inviting and approachable--and a distracting comic ruse in and of itself, as if a mock-serious disavowal of the academic mode could disguise the very serious re-visioning of cultures (ancient, modern, and contemporary) that takes place here. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. Graduate Students; Researchers/Faculty. Reviewed by D. Pesta.