On Poetry and Poets

Author: T. S. Eliot
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374531978
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 325

Book Description
T. S. Eliot was not only one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century—he was also one of the most acute writers on his craft. In On Poetry and Poets, which was first published in 1957, Eliot explores the different forms and purposes of poetry in essays such as "The Three Voices of Poetry," "Poetry and Drama," and "What Is Minor Poetry?" as well as the works of individual poets, including Virgil, Milton, Byron, Goethe, and Yeats. As he writes in "The Music of Poetry," "We must expect a time to come when poetry will have again to be recalled to speech. The same problems arise, and always in new forms; and poetry has always before it . . . an ‘endless adventure.'"

Book of My Nights

Author: Li-Young Lee
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 1938160401
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 77

Book Description
Book of My Nights is the first poetry collection in ten years by one of the world's most acclaimed young poets. In Book of My Nights, Li-Young Lee once again gives us lyrical poetry that fuses memory, family, culture and history. In language as simple and powerful as the human muscle, these poems work individually and as a full-sequence meditation on the vulnerability of humanity. Marketing Plans: o National advertising o National media campaign o National and regional author appearances o Advance reader copies o Course adoption mailing Li-Young Lee burst onto the American literary scene with the publication of Rose, winner of the 1986 Delmore Schwartz Memorial Poetry Award from The Poetry Society of America. He followed that astonishing book with The City in Which I Love You, which was The Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets. Mr. Lee has appeared on National Public Radio a number of times and The Power of the Word, the PBS television series with Bill Moyers. Rose and The City in Which I Love You are in the 19th and 17th printings respectively, making them two of the highest-selling contemporary poetry books in the United States. Moreover, Mr. Lee's poems have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He currently lives in Chicago.

The Poets' Corner

Author: Mr. John Lithgow
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 0446501999
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
From listening to his grandmother recite epic poems from memory to curling up in bed while his father read funny verses, award-winning actor John Lithgow grew up with poetry. Ever since, John has been an enthusiastic seeker of poetic experience, whether reading, reciting, or listening to great poems. The wide variety of carefully selected poems in this book provides the perfect introduction to appeal to readers new to poetry, and for poetry lovers to experience beloved verses in a fresh, vivid way. William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Dylan Thomas are just a few names among Lithgow's comprehensive list of poetry masters. His essential criterion is that "each poem's light shines more brightly when read aloud." This unique package provides a multimedia poetry experience with a bonus MP3 CD of revelatory poetry readings by John and the familiar voices of such notable performers as Eileen Atkins, Kathy Bates, Glenn Close, Billy Connolly, Jodie Foster, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, Lynn Redgrave, Susan Sarandon, Gary Sinise, and Sam Waterston. Every reader will enjoy reciting or listening to these poems with the entire family, appreciating how each one comes to life through the spoken word in this superlative poetry collection.

Poets and Poems

Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 0791093751
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 507

Book Description
Presents a compilation of Bloom's introductions to the Modern critical views and Modern critical interpretations series of books, focusing on poets and poems.

Poems, Poets, Poetry

Author: A Kingsley Porter University Professor Helen Vendler
Publisher: Bedford Books
ISBN: 9781457652196
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description

A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now

Author: Aliki Barnstone
Publisher: Schocken
ISBN: 0805209972
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 848

Book Description
A monument to the literary genius of women throughout the ages, A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now is an invaluable collection. Here in one volume are the works of three hundred poets from six different continents and four millennia. This revised edition includes a newly expanded section of American poets from the colonial era to the present. "[A] splendid collection of verse by women" (TIME) throughout the ages and around the world; now revised and expanded, with 38 American poets.

Talk Poetry

Author: David Baker
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1610754972
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 221

Book Description
What is more direct and intimate than one-to-one conversation? Here two forces in American poetry, the Kenyon Review and the University of Arkansas Press, bring together discussions between one of America's leading poets and editors, David Baker, and nine of the most exciting poets of our day. The poets, who represent a wide array of vocations and aesthetic positions, open up about their writing processes, their reading and education, their hopes for and discontents with the contemporary scene, and much more, treating readers to a view of the range and capacity of contemporary American poetry.

Victorian Poetry

Author: Isobel Armstrong
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134970668
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 554

Book Description
In a work that is uniquely comprehensive and theoretically astute, Isobel Armstrong rescues Victorian poetry from its longstanding sepia image as `a moralised form of romantic verse', and unearths its often subversive critique of nineteenth-century culture and politics.

The Three Voices of Poetry

Author: Thomas Stearns Eliot
Publisher: Cambridge [Eng.] : Published for the National Book League at the University Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description

Poetry Speaks Expanded

Author: Elise Paschen
Publisher: Sourcebooks MediaFusion
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 408

Book Description
Presenting a diverse cross-section of the 20th centurys best poets, this classic poetry anthology has now been revised with added essays and poems. Includes three audio CDs with recordings of each poet reading his or her work.