 | Purity of Diction in English Verse and Articulate Energy
Publication Date: January 1, 2007| ISBN-10: 1857548892 | ISBN-13: 978-1857548891Two literary criticism pieces that have shaped approaches to teaching poetry since the 1950s are now available in one volume with a new foreword. Providing a brilliantly detailed analysis of the workings of English poetry, this collection focuses on the technical workings of poetic language, examining devices such as meter and diction. These explorations use examples from poets including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Eliot, and Yeats. ...
 |  | Rhyme Stew
Publication Date: May 1, 2010A collection of ribald rhymes featuring characters from fairy tales, fables and nursery rhymes - as you've never seen them before! From the tortoise and the hare and Hansel and Gretel to Ali Baba and Aladdin, these traditional stories will never seem the same again once you have had a taste of Roald Dahl's hilarious verse and Quentin Blake's suitably lively illustrations. Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children's writers, was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. His books continue to be bestsellers, despite his death in 1990, and worldwide sales are over 100 millio...
|  | The 64 Sonnets
Publication Date: April 1, 2004| ISBN-10: 1589880145 | ISBN-13: 978-1589880146| Edition: 1st Paul Dry Books Ed John Keats is among the greatest English poets. (He himself imagined he would be counted so!) For some readers, his odes define the essence of poetry. We also discover in Keats a great composer of sonnets. Here, for the first time published in a separate edition, are all sixty-four sonnets, the first written when Keats was eighteen, the last just five years later. Reading these poems, you'll experience the wonder of Keats's growing poetic powers; you'll feel the "shock of recogn...
|  | Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: June 16, 2011| Series: Dover Thrift Editions Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins created verse that combined his awareness of material sensuousness with the asceticism of religious devotion. His collected poems, published posthumously in 1918, exercised a profound influence on modern poetry. This volume features all of his mature work, including "The Wreck of the Deutschland," "God's Grandeur" and "Hurrahing in Harvest." ...
|  | A Feast of Creatures: Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Songs (Middle Ages)
Publication Date: September 14, 2011| Series: Middle Ages In A Feast of Creatures, Craig Williamson recasts nearly one hundred Old English riddles of the Exeter Book into a modern verse mode that yokes the cadences of Aelfric with the sprung rhythm of Gerard Manley Hopkins.Like the early English riddlers before him, Williamson gives voice to the nightingale, plow, ox, phallic onion, and storm-wind. In lean and taut language he offers us mead disguised as a mighty wrestler, the sword as a celibate thane, the silver wine-cup as a seductress, the horn transformed from head-warrior to ink-belly ...
|  | The Poems of A. E. Housman (Oxford English Texts)
Publication Date: March 5, 1998| ISBN-10: 0198123221 | ISBN-13: 978-0198123224This is the first complete edition of A. E. Housman's poetry, unprecedented in the extent to which it reveals the shaping processes of his poetic thought. The text of the poems published after his death has been corrected from the manuscripts, with all variant readings recorded, and a substantial body of light verse and juvenilia is printed or collected for the first time. The extensive commentary traces the remarkable range of Housman's echoes and allusions--Biblical, Classical, and contemporary--which have ne...
|  | Clavics (Daybooks)
Publication Date: October 13, 2011| Series: Daybooks (Book 4) A new collection of poetry from Oxford Professor of Poetry, Geoffrey Hill, Clavics is intended as a tribute to early seventeenth-century poetry and music. It takes the form of an elegiac sequence for William Lawes, the Royalist musician killed at the Battle of Chester. Geoffrey Hill has previously taught at Leeds, Cambridge, and Boston University. His twelfth collection of poems, A Treatise of Civil Power, appeared in 2007, following on Scenes from Comus (2005) and Without Title (2006). His Collected Critical Writings (Oxford Univ...
|  | Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde
Release Date: August 15, 2008| ISBN-10: 1427056021 | ISBN-13: 978-1427056023ReadHowYouWant publishes a wide variety of best selling books in Large and Super Large fonts in partnership with leading publishers. EasyRead books are available in 11pt and 13pt. type. EasyRead Large books are available in 16pt, 16pt Bold, and 18pt Bold type. EasyRead Super Large books are available in 20pt. Bold and 24pt. Bold Type. You choose the format that is right for you.Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde (1911) is a collection of poetry Wilde wrote when he was twenty-six years old. It is combined with some lat...
|  | Sidereal
Publication Date: June 16, 2011Rachael Boast's first collection is dominated by astral influence and divine chance, by unseen or remote causes; but despite its celestial title, Sidereal is full of terrestrial concerns, the traffic and chaos of the human and natural worlds. Ultimately, however, it is the work of a poet who believes that we must also turn our gaze skywards to make sense of who we are, and these poems pursue their elliptical but inevitable orbits through a world where the earthly and transcendent are thoroughly interfused. Above all, Sidereal impresses through Boast's lyric fai...
|  | Warrior Women and Popular Balladry, 1650-1850
Publication Date: January 15, 1996| ISBN-10: 0226169162 | ISBN-13: 978-0226169163This interdisciplinary study uncovers a fascination with women cross dressers in the popular literature of early modern Britain, in a wide range of texts from popular ballads and chapbook life histories to the comedies and tragedies of aristocratic literature. Dugaw demonstrates the extent to which gender and sexuality are enacted as constructs of history. ...
|  | Night Thoughts: Or, the Complaint and the Consolation
Publication Date: June 1975Superb reproduction of 1797 publication of four sections of Edward Young’s popular poem Night Thoughts, illustrated with 43 designs by William Blake. Images of angels, spirits, poets, sensuous women, Life, Death, Reason and Truth swirl about Young’s text, adding to its meaning and revealing much of Blake’s own vision. Plate-by-plate commentaries by Professors Robert Essick and Jenijoy La Belle. Introduction. Bibliography. 43 illus. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Revaluation: Tradition and Development in EnglishPoetry (Leavis)
Publication Date: February 1, 1998| Series: Leavis A scrutiny of verse from Donne to Keats, showing “the main lines of development in the English tradition…the essential structure.” In this overview, Leavis has given us genuinely new judgements which are now part of our thinking. ...
|  | The General Prologue & the Physician's Tale: In Middle English & in Modern Verse Translation (Naxos Audio)
Publication Date: February 1, 2006| Series: Naxos Audio In an authoritative performance by actor Richard Bebb, two sections from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales are presented in Old English, under the advisement of the leading living scholar on Chaucerian pronunciation, Professor Derek Brewer. ...
|  | The Hound of Heaven: A Wildly Romantic Poem About Spiritual Conversion
Publication Date: September 1993| ISBN-10: 1569775257 | ISBN-13: 978-1569775257| Edition: 1st Hailed by evangelical literary critic Gene Edward Veith as "one of the greatest Christian poems," this enduring classic tells the story of a rich young man addicted to opium in Victorian England, who is saved by God--as represented by the Hound of Heaven tracking him down. Illustrations. ...
|  | The Spoken Word: W.H. Auden (British Library - British Library Sound Archive)
Release Date: May 14, 2007| Series: British Library - British Library Sound Archive This two CD set was released to mark the centenary of W.H. Auden's birth. The two discs feature Auden in live and studio readings of his own poetry taken from rare BBC radio broadcasts. Over 40 poems are included, from early works such as 'On This Island' and 'A Bride in the '30s', to mature masterpieces like 'The Shield of Achilles' and 'In Praise of Limestone'. The broadcasts span the period from 1936 to 1973 - the year of Auden's death – and are are an essential purchase for anybody interested...
|  | A Shropshire Lad
Publication Date: March 1, 2009"The enduring appeal of A. E. Housman's lyrical English poem, A Shropshire Lad, first published in 1896, lies perhaps in its gentle accessibility and in its universal theme of loss, of love and the passage of time. Certainly its popularity today appears undiminished as it continues to console and delight.The timeless quality of the Shropshire countryside, from the bucolic Clun valley to the bleak hills of Caer Caradoc, is captured by one of Shropshire's finest wildlife and landscape photographers, Gareth Thomas.Christopher Ricks, Professor of Poetry at Oxford U...
|  | Around the Boree Log and Other Verses
Publication Date: May 5, 2011In his affectionate and gently humorous verses John O'Brien (Patrick Joseph Hartigan)sang of farming life and of the life of Irish settlers in Australia - at home, on the land, and at the Church upon the Hill that is the center of their lives. Around the Boree Log is verse that is simple and sincere and lit with a kindly understanding of the lives it chronicles. ...
|  | Meter and Meaning: An Introduction to Rhythm in Poetry
Publication Date: October 2, 2003| ISBN-10: 0415311756 | ISBN-13: 978-0415311755Poet, Thomas Carper, and scholar, Derek Attridge, join forces in Meter and Meaning to present an illuminating and user-friendly way to explore the rhythms of poetry in English. They begin by showing the value of performing any poem aloud, so that we can sense its unique use of rhythm. From this starting point they suggest an entirely fresh, jargon-free approach to reading poetry. Illustrating their 'beat/offbeat' method with a series of exercises, they help readers to appreciate the use of rhythm in poems of ...
|  | Rapture
Publication Date: September 1, 2006The effortless virtuosity, drama, and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy's verse have made her much-admired among contemporary poets. Her seventh collection, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize, is a book-length love-poem, and a moving act of personal testimony—but what sets these poems apart from other treatments of the subject is Duffy's refusal to simplify the contradictions of love, and read its transformations—infatuation, longing, passion, commitment, rancor, separation, and grief—as either redemptive or destructive. This is a m...
|  | The Odes of John Keats (Belknap Press)
Publication Date: March 15, 1985| ISBN-10: 0674630769 | ISBN-13: 978-0674630765 Helen Vendler widens her exploration of lyric poetry with a new assessment of the six great odes of John Keats and in the process gives us, implicitly, a reading of Keats's whole career. She proposes that these poems, usually read separately, are imperfectly seen unless seen together--that they form a sequence in which Keats pursued a strict and profound inquiry into questions of language, philosophy, and aesthetics.Vendler describes a Keats far more intellectually intent on creating an aesthetic, and on in...
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