The Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens

Author: John N. Serio
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139827545
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
Wallace Stevens is a major American poet and a central figure in modernist studies and twentieth-century poetry. This Companion introduces students to his work. An international team of distinguished contributors presents a unified picture of Stevens' poetic achievement. The Introduction explains why Stevens is among the world's great poets and offers specific guidance on how to read and appreciate his poetry. A brief biographical sketch anchors Stevens in the real world and illuminates important personal and intellectual influences. The essays following chart Stevens' poetic career and his affinities with both earlier and contemporary writers, artists, and philosophers. Other essays introduce students to the peculiarity and distinctiveness of Stevens' voice and style. They explain prominent themes in his work and explore the nuances of his aesthetic theory. With a detailed chronology and a guide to further reading, this Companion provides all the information a student or scholar of Stevens will need.

The Cambridge Companion to American Poets

Author: Mark Richardson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107123828
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 491

Book Description
This Companion brings together essays on some fifty-four American poets, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry as modernism, the Harlem (or New Negro) Renaissance, "confessional" poetry, the Black Mountain School, the New York School, the Beats, and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry.

The Cambridge Companion to W. B. Yeats

Author: Marjorie Elizabeth Howes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521650895
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
A comprehensive and accessible introduction to the major themes of this important poet's life and career.

The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson

Author: Wendy Martin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521001182
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
Emily Dickinson, one of the most important American poets of the nineteenth century, remains an intriguing and fascinating writer. The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson includes eleven new essays by accomplished Dickinson scholars. They cover Dickinson's biography, publication history, poetic themes and strategies, and her historical and cultural contexts. As a woman poet, Dickinson's literary persona has become incredibly resonant in the popular imagination. She has been portrayed as singular, enigmatic, and even eccentric. At the same time, Dickinson is widely acknowledged as one of the founders of American poetry, an innovative pre-modernist poet as well as a rebellious and courageous woman. This volume introduces new and practised readers to a variety of critical responses to Dickinson's poetry and life, and provides several valuable tools for students, including a chronology and suggestions for further reading.

The Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot

Author: A. David Moody
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107493706
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description
In this Companion, an international team of leading T. S. Eliot scholars contribute studies of different facets of the writer's work to build up a carefully co-ordinated and fully rounded introduction. Five chapters give a complete account of Eliot's poems and plays from several distinct points of view. The major aspects and issues of his life and thought are assessed: his American origins and his becoming English; his position as a philosopher; his literary, social, and political criticism; and the evolution of his religious sense. Later chapters place his work in a number of historical perspectives; and the final chapter provides an expert review of the whole field of Eliot studies and is supplemented by a listing of the most significant publications. There is a useful chronological outline. Taken as a whole, the Companion comprises an essential handbook for students and other readers of Eliot.

The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry

Author: Alex Davis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139827642
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description
This Companion offers the most comprehensive overview available of modernist poetry, its forms, its major authors and its contexts. The first part explores the historical and cultural contexts and sexual politics of literary modernism and the avant garde. The chapters in the second part concentrate on individual authors and movements, while the concluding part offers a comprehensive overview of the early reception and subsequent canonisation of modernist poetry. As well as insightful readings of canonical poets, the Companion features extended discussions of poets whose importance is now being increasingly recognised, such as Mina Loy, poets of the Harlem Renaissance, and postcolonial poets in the Caribbean, Africa and India. While modernist poets are often thought of as difficult, these essays will help students to understand and enjoy their experimental, playful and fascinating responses to contemporary social and cultural change and their dialogue with the arts and with each other.

The Cambridge Companion to American Poets

Author: Mark Richardson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316412245
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 491

Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to American Poets brings together thirty-one essays on some fifty-four American poets, spanning nearly 400 years, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry as modernism, the Harlem (or New Negro) Renaissance, 'confessional' poetry, the Black Mountain School, the New York School, the Beats, and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry. Its reputable host of contributors approach American poetry from perspectives as diverse as the poetry itself. The result is a Companion concise enough to be read with pleasure yet expansive enough to do justice to the many traditions American poets have modified, inaugurated, and made their own.

The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound

Author: Ira B. Nadel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521649209
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
An international team of scholars provides an invaluable introduction to Pound's work and life.

A Reader's Guide to Wallace Stevens

Author: Eleanor Cook
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691049830
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
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The Cambridge Companion to William Carlos Williams

Author: Christopher MacGowan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107095158
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 247

Book Description
An invaluable introductory guide for students, this Companion features thirteen new essays from leading international experts on William Carlos Williams, covering his major poetry and prose works. It addresses central issues of recent Williams scholarship and considers his relationships with contemporaries as well as the importance of his legacy.