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Poem Is You(2016) BURT, STEPHANIEThe variety of contemporary American poetry leaves many readers overwhelmed. Critic, scholar, and poet Stephanie Burt sets out to help. Beginning in the early 1980s, where critical consensus ends, she presents 60 poems, each with an original essay explainVezava: Trda47,68 € -
Poetry: The Basics(2015) WAINWRIGHT, JEFFREY (MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY, UK)Now in its third edition Poetry: The Basics remains an engaging exploration of the world of poetry. Drawing on examples ranging from Chaucer to children's rhymes, Cole Porter to Carol Ann Duffy, and from around the English-speaking world, it shows how anyVezava: Mehka45,61 € -
Sidney's 'The Defence of Poesy' and Selected Renaissance Literary Criticism(2004) ALEXANDER, GAVINIncludes George Puttenham's "Art of English Poesy", Samuel Daniel's "Defense of Rhyme", and passages by writers such as Ben Jonson, Francis Bacon and George Gascoigne.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Walt Whitman in Context(2018)Designed for students and scholars, Walt Whitman in Context provides brief, provocative explorations of thirty-eight different contexts - geographic, literary, cultural and political - in which to engage Whitman's life and work.Vezava: Trda173,99 € -
Domestic Georgic(2021) KADUE, KATIEInspired by Virgil’s Georgics, this study conceptualizes Renaissance poetry as a domestic labor.Vezava: Mehka45,62 € -
Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II(2018) ELIOT, T. S.To accompany Eliot's poems, Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue have provided a commentary that illuminates the creative activity that came to constitute each poem, calling upon drafts, correspondence and other original materials to provide a vivid account ofVezava: Mehka35,05 € -
Stevie Smith: A Selection(2019) SMITH, STEVIEThis comprehensive and welcoming edition draws on the whole of Stevie Smith's output in poetry, prose and drawings from Novel on Yellow Paper (1936) to Scorpion and Other Poems (1972).Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Collected Poems(2007) LONGLEY, MICHAELMichael Longley has been called 'one of the finest lyric poets of our time'. Longley's poetry combines intense concentration with remarkable variety. Longley's genres span love poetry, war poetry, nature poetry, elegies, satires, verse epistles, poems thaVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
When It Rains(2019)A motif of rain and water is woven throughout the poetry in When It Rains, tying in the collection's title to the importance of this life-giving and sustaining resource to the Tohono O'odham people. With the poems in both O'odham and English, the volume sVezava: Mehka25,85 € -
What's Good(2022) LEVIN BECKER, DANIELA love letter to the verbal artistry of hip-hop, What’s Good is a work of passionate lyrical analysis.Vezava: Mehka26,24 € -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight(2020)This elegant deluxe slipcased edition of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour, features a beautifully decorated text and includes as a bonus the complete text oVezava: Trda96,80 € -
Mr Lear(2019) UGLOW, JENNYA scrupulously forensic literary appreciation of Edward Lear and his 'nonsenses' by one of our most cherished historians - without losing any sense of fun.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Alexander Pope(2008) POPE, ALEXANDERA series featuring a contemporary poet selecting and introducing a poet of the past. It, by choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions expressed in prefaces, offers insights into the poets' own work as well as providing an introduction toVezava: Mehka8,30 € -
From the Valley of Bronze Camels(2022) MILLER, JANE"What makes art 'modern' and what does 'urgent' mean now?"Vezava: Mehka31,99 € -
High Windows(2019) LARKIN, PHILIPLarkin's final collection of poems shows, as does all his best work, his ability to adapt contemporary speech rhythms and everyday vocabulary to subtle metrical patterns and poetic forms.Vezava: Trda21,02 € -
Revolt Against the Sun(2020) AL-MALAIKA, NAZIKA key resource for students and teachers of Arabic and world literature, as well as for readers interested in discovering an alternative narrative of modern Iraqi culture.Vezava: Mehka23,15 € -
French Poetry(2017)From the troubadours of the Middle Ages to the titans of modern poetry, from Rabelais and Ronsard to Jacques Réda and Yves Bonnefoy, French Poetry offers English-speaking readers a one-volume introduction to a rich and varied tradition.Vezava: Trda16,82 € -
Making Sense of Metaphors and Other Tropes(2020) REID, DAVIDExamines figures of speech, arguing that figures of speech in prose and poetry, literature and talk, make sense as turns of rhetoric by means of their energeia (vividness, radiance). David Reid analyses figures from Homer to literary giants of the twentieVezava: Trda218,88 €






