Poems from Poetry and Jazz in Concert
The most sustained criticism and ambitious theory that had ever been attempted in English, the Biographia was Coleridge's major statement to a literary culture in which he sought to define and defend all imaginative life. This book offers a reading of Coleridge in the context of that culture and the institutions that comprised it.
The GRE Test for Dummies(r)
by Suzee Vlk, Michelle Rose Gilman, and Veronica Saydak
A selective anthology from poets born in the Republic of Ireland in the 1950s. In recent years poets from the North have received considerable attention, while those from the South have received less. This tries to level the imbalance. The intention is not to be partisan or divisive, but to illustrate another sort of richness, which, joined to the northern achievement, shows the extraordinary endeavor of one island.
Over the last thirty years, more and more critics and scholars have come to recognize the importance of science to literature. 'Science in Modern Poetry: New Directions' is the first collection of essays to focus specifically on what poets in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have made of the scientific developments going on around them. In a collection of twelve essays, leading experts on modern poetry and on literature and science explore how poets have used scientific language in their...
Doves Eat Hawks (Collected Poems 2013, an anthology of contemporary modern poetr
by Professor Stephen Williams
The perfect gift for anyone in your life, or a wonderful source of comfort for the self - this is a wonderfully heartfelt collection of thoughts and blessings that will heal, inspire, comfort and move. When you need a poem or a blessing to find strength, whatever the occasion, this is a rich source - and something to be turned to time and time again...'This book is golden' -- ***** Reader review'Every family should have a copy of this book on their shelf' -- ***** Reader review'What a perfect co...
FIG is the second installment of the ongoing series Goan Atom. It is a colllection of 12 poetic pieces written between 1996 and 2004. They have each previously been produced as off-page collaborations or text-installations. This range of artistic and poetic contexts and the compositional processes that result from these is a crucial aspect of the goanatom poetics represented in FIG. Each piece has been carefully rethought and twelve short prefatory notes have been written and developed especiall...
There is a poem in As far as I can see (AUP, 1999) that imagines a future time: They gave me flowers and asked where I would go. To open the eyes of the soul, I said. There is a way but this is only the first gate. milk and honey is a dance to the music of that future time. It looks back and remembers. It looks forward and tries to see what will happen next. Its theatre is the world turning round and what can be saved each day from a life of the imagination. It builds tentative structures...
This title features "Adorno on the Gold Coast" - who can blame the barometer for being called a gauche gauge which in any case is better than guage, or body thermometer oracle of the oral cavity that cannot stop your torso from wheezing in sync with the refrigerator set one notch below very very cold as the crimson rosella seems to have recovered from its defenestrating flight and tottered sous la guage affixed to the garage next door and you just don't know how to pick through what was discover...
Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales (Longman Critical Readers)
Provides an overview of the various ways in which modern critical theory has impacted on Chaucer studies in the 15 years up to 1998. The text anthologizes some of the most important critical work in the field and provides an introduction which considers Chaucer and Postmodernism.
In Our Time (A Scribner classic) (Vintage Classics)
by Ernest Hemingway
THIS COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES AND VIGNETTES MARKED ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S AMERICAN DEBUT AND MADE HIM FAMOUS When In Our Time was published in 1925, it was praised by Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos, and F. Scott Fitzgerald for its simple and precise use of language to convey a wide range of complex emotions, and it earned Hemingway a place beside Sherwood Anderson and Gertrude Stein among the most promising American writers of that period. In Our Time contains several early Hemingway classics,...