Author: RH VALUE PUBLISHINGPublisher: Random House Value Pub
ISBN: 9780517364147
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Author: Isaac Asimov
Author: John Ciardi
Author: Isaac Asimov
Author: John CiardiJohn Ciardi: a Biography (p)
Author: Edward M. CifelliPublisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781610752169
Category : Poets, American
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
In this study of Ciardi's life, Edward Cifelli has captured all the deep concern, passion, and thoughtfulness that marked Ciardi's long career in American letters. With care and penetrating detail, Cifelli evokes Ciardi's early childhood in Boston, his Italian heritage, his service as a gunner on a B-29 during World War II, and his years teaching at Harvard and Rutgers. Illuminated here are Ciardi's widely read contributions as an editor of Saturday Review and World magazines, as well as his tireless effort to bring an awareness and love of language and poetry to America through radio, television, the lecture circuit, and his twenty-six years on the staff of the famous Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, a gathering he directed for seventeen years.
Author: Vince ClementeEncyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century
Author: Eric L. HaralsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131776322X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 867
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century contains over 400 entries that treat a broad range of individual poets and poems, along with many articles devoted to topics, schools, or periods of American verse in the century. Entries fall into three main categories: poet entries, which provide biographical and cultural contexts for the author's career; entries on individual works, which offer closer explication of the most resonant poems in the 20th-century canon; and topical entries, which offer analyses of a given period of literary production, school, thematically constructed category, or other verse tradition that historically has been in dialogue with the poetry of the United States.
Limericks, Too Gross
Author: Isaac AsimovPublisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393045307
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
The Renaissance man and the poet/ critic engage in a lighthearted literary duel utilizing the rigid verse tradition of the limerick and providing a humorous look at sex and the human condition
Poetry Kaleidoscope
Author: Nicolae SfetcuPublisher: Nicolae Sfetcu
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
Introduction in poetry: nature of poetry, tools, history, terms (periods, styles and movements, technical means, tropes, measures of verse, verse forms, national poetry... Poetry (ancient Greek: ποιεω (poieo) = I create) is traditionally a written art form (although there is also an ancient and modern poetry which relies mainly upon oral or pictorial representations) in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. The increased emphasis on the aesthetics of language and the deliberate use of features such as repetition, meter and rhyme, are what are commonly used to distinguish poetry from prose, but debates over such distinctions still persist, while the issue is confounded by such forms as prose poetry and poetic prose. Some modernists (such as the Surrealists) approach this problem of definition by defining poetry not as a literary genre within a set of genres, but as the very manifestation of human imagination, the substance which all creative acts derive from.
