Selected Poems and Prefaces
Author: William Wordsworth
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 612
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Author: William Wordsworth
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 612
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nicholas Hagger
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Published: 2022-04-29
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 1789042747
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNicholas Hagger's 55 books include innovatory works on literature, history, philosophy and international politics. In his first published literary work he revived the Preface, which had fallen into disuse after Wordsworth and Shelley. He went on to write Prefaces (sometimes called ‘Prologues’, ‘Introductions’ or ‘Introductory Notes’) for all his subsequent books. Collected Prefaces, a collection of 55 Prefaces (excluding the Preface to this book), sets out his thinking and the reader can follow the development of his philosophy of Universalism (of which he is the main exponent), his literary approach (particularly his combination of Romanticism and Classicism which he calls "neo-Baroque") and his metaphysical thinking. His Prefaces can be read as essays, and as in T.S. Eliot’s Selected Essays there is an interaction between adjacent Prefaces that brings an entirely new perspective to Hagger's works. These Prefaces cover an enormous range. Nicholas Hagger is a Renaissance man at home in many disciplines. His Universalism focuses on humankind’s relationship to the whole universe as reflected in seven key disciplines seen as wholes: the whole of literature, history, philosophy and the sciences, mysticism, religion, international politics and statecraft and world culture. Behind all the Prefaces is Hagger’s fundamental perception of the unity of the universe as the One and of humankind’s position in it. These Prefaces complement his Selected Letters, a companion volume also published by O-Books, and contain startling insights that illumine and send readers to the works the Prefaces introduce.
Author: Jerome Rothenberg
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780811207867
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays document the author's theories of poetry, discuss the goals of oral poetry, and analyze brief poems and poetic concepts.
Author: Gunnar Harding
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Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780985612276
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGunnar Harding, perhaps the most prominent living Swedish poet after Tomas Transtromer, has won all the major Swedish literary awards, yet has scarcely been translated for English language readers. Guarding the Air: Selected Poems of Gunnar Harding presents 112 poems drawn from eleven of the thirteen books Harding has published that contain poetry in verse. The book contains a brief introduction by the translator; a useful guide to Harding's poetry in the form of his prefaces to his three Swedish volumes of selected poems; an extensive set of endnotes, many of which include or rely on comments by the poet; and an index to poem titles.
Author: Walt Whitman
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Published: 1872
Total Pages: 520
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tony Tanner
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780674064249
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the final ten years of his life, Tony Tanner tackled the largest project any critic in English can take on, writing a preface to each of Shakespeare's plays. This collection serves as a comprehensive introduction for the general reader. Tanner brings Shakespeare to life, explicating everything from big-picture issues such as the implications of shifts in Elizabethan culture to close readings of Shakespeare's deployment of complex words in his plays.--[book jacket].
Author: Hélène Aji
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2013-01-16
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 1443845841
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComplete poems are bulky and too heavy to carry around. Collected poems pretend to be complete, but usually are not. Selected poems are altogether unpretentious and reader-friendly. But they can be problematic. Who decides what poems are important for inclusion in a volume of selected poems? When the selection occurs during the author’s lifetime, may one assume that the author was involved? What motivates the choice of one poem over another? How do readers’ preferences influence this choice? How do new readers and familiar readers of a poet negotiate the poems that are left out of the selection? The essays in this volume address these questions in a variety of ways, and also provide an overview of poetic writing from modernist poets to the present day, using selections from the 1940s until now. They offer new insight into the uses, both pedagogical and critical, of selection. Because Selected Poems usually address a large general public, these essays have also been written for all those who wish to know more about how these slimmer, more attractive volumes are produced.
Author: Philip Whalen
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2007-12-28
Total Pages: 924
ISBN-13: 9780819568595
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Author: Dylan Thomas
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Published: 1964
Total Pages: 182
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