My Last Duchess
My Last Duchess

Author: Daisy Goodwin

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 9780750534246

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Gorgeous, spirited and extravagantly rich, Cora Cash is the closest thing 1890s New York society has to a princess. Her masquerade ball is the prelude to a campaign that will see her mother whisk Cora to Europe, where Mrs Cash wants nothing less than a title for her daughter. In England, impoverished blue-bloods are queueing up for introductions to American heiresses, overlooking the sometimes lowly origins of their fortunes. Cora makes a dazzling impression, but the English aristocracy is a realm fraught with arcane rules and pitfalls, and there are those less than eager to welcome a wealthy outsider...

The Poetics of American Song Lyrics
The Poetics of American Song Lyrics

Author: Charlotte Pence

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1617031569

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Poets, teachers, and musicologists fusing studies of form, scansion, and musical creation to redefine the place of the American bard

Structure & Surprise
Structure & Surprise

Author: Michael Theune

Publisher: Teachers & Writers Collaborative

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13:

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Structure & Surprise: Engaging Poetic Turns offers a road map for analyzing poetry through examination of poems' structure, rather than their forms or genres. Michael Theune's breakthrough concept encourages students, teachers, and writers to use structure as a tool to see the fundamental affinities between strikingly different kinds of poetry and radically different literary eras. The book includes examination of the mid-course turn and the elegy, as well as the ironic, concessional, emblem, and retrospective-prospective structures, among others. In addition, 14 contemporary poets provide an example of and commentary on their own work.

The Lyric Poem
The Lyric Poem

Author: Marion Thain

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-11-07

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 110765288X

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As a study of lyric poetry, in English, from the early modern period to the present, this book explores one of the most ancient and significant art forms in Western culture as it emerges in its various modern incarnations. Combining a much-needed historicisation of the concept of lyric with an aesthetic and formal focus, this collaboration of period-specialists offers a new cross-historical approach. Through eleven chapters, spanning more than four centuries, the book provides readers with both a genealogical framework for the understanding of lyric poetry within any particular period, and a necessary context for more general discussion of the nature of genre.

Women's Poetry and Popular Culture
Women's Poetry and Popular Culture

Author: Marsha Bryant

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-30

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0230339638

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Bridging feminist and cultural studies, the book shows how British and American women poets often operate as cultural insiders. Individual chapters reassess major figures (H.D., Gwendolyn Brooks, Sylvia Plath), alternative modernist poets (Edith Sitwell, Stevie Smith), and contemporary poets (Ai, Carol Ann Duffy).

Lyric
Lyric

Author: Scott Brewster

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-06-02

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1134363907

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Lyric traces the history of the term from its classical origins through the early modern, Romantic and Victorian periods and up to the twentieth century and demonstrates the influence of various definitions of lyric on poetic practice, literature, music and other popular cultural forms.