Poems on Several Occasions
Author: John Gay
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Published: 1775
Total Pages: 282
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Author: John Gay
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Published: 1775
Total Pages: 282
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Matthew Zapruder
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2017-08-15
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 0062343092
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry’s accessibility to all readers, by critically acclaimed poet Matthew Zapruder In Why Poetry, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder takes on what it is that poetry—and poetry alone—can do. Zapruder argues that the way we have been taught to read poetry is the very thing that prevents us from enjoying it. In lively, lilting prose, he shows us how that misunderstanding interferes with our direct experience of poetry and creates the sense of confusion or inadequacy that many of us feel when faced with it. Zapruder explores what poems are, and how we can read them, so that we can, as Whitman wrote, “possess the origin of all poems,” without the aid of any teacher or expert. Most important, he asks how reading poetry can help us to lead our lives with greater meaning and purpose. Anchored in poetic analysis and steered through Zapruder’s personal experience of coming to the form, Why Poetry is engaging and conversational, even as it makes a passionate argument for the necessity of poetry in an age when information is constantly being mistaken for knowledge. While he provides a simple reading method for approaching poems and illuminates concepts like associative movement, metaphor, and negative capability, Zapruder explicitly confronts the obstacles that readers face when they encounter poetry to show us that poetry can be read, and enjoyed, by anyone.
Author: Sheila E. Murphy
Publisher: Unlikely Books
Published: 2017-04-01
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 0998892505
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncluding the complete collaborative poems of Sheila E. Murphy and the late Michelle Greenblatt; three free-verse poems and 59 American ghazals. With a Foreword by Vincent A. Cellucci.
Author: William Dunbar
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Published: 1891
Total Pages: 546
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Milton
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Published: 1791
Total Pages: 668
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marilyn Singer
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2013-02-07
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 0803737696
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow one of Booklist's 30 Best Books of the Year! "Genius!" – Wired.com “Marilyn Singer's verse in Follow Follow practically dances down each page . . . the effect is miraculous and pithy.” – The Wall Street Journal Once upon a time, Mirror Mirror, a brilliant book of fairy tale themed reversos–a poetic form in which the poem is presented forward and then backward–became a smashing success. Now a second book is here with more witty double takes on well-loved fairy tales such as Thumbelina and The Little Mermaid. Read these clever poems from top to bottom and they mean one thing. Then reverse the lines and read from bottom to top and they mean something else–it is almost like magic! A celebration of sight, sound, and story, this book is a marvel to read again and again.
Author: William Stanley Merwin
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 155659139X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReintroduces the out-of-print works of one of this century's greatest American poets.
Author: Aphra Behn
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Published: 1684
Total Pages: 180
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anne Bradstreet
Publisher: Medieval and Renaissance Texts
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 9780866986212
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The extant literary productions of Anne Bradstreet (1612?-1672), an English language poet living in Massachusetts Bay Colony. Encompasses poetry on science, ancient history, English Civil Wars, religious subjects, and domestic life; and short prose meditations on religious life"--
Author: J. A. Stanley Adam
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 620
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