Poetry For Historians
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Poetry For Historians
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Author : Carolyn Steedman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Poetry For Historians written by Carolyn Steedman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with History categories.
This is a book about the conflict between history and poetry - and historians and poets - in Atlantic World society from the end of the seventeenth century to the present day. Blending historiography and theory, it proceeds by asking: what is the point of poetry as far as historians are concerned? The focus is on W. H. Auden's Cold War-era history poems, but the book also looks at other poets from the seventeenth century onwards, providing original accounts of their poetic and historical educations. An important resource for those teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses in historiography and history and theory, Poetry for historians will also be of relevance to courses on literature in society and the history of education. General readers will relate it to Steedman's Landscape for a Good Woman (1987) and Dust (2001), on account of its biographical and autobiographical insights into the way history operates in modern society.
Poems Of American History
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Author : Various
language : en
Publisher: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
Release Date : 2015-01-26
Poems Of American History written by Various and has been published by HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-26 with categories.
Example in this ebook The poetry relating to American history falls naturally into two classes: that written, so to speak, from the inside, on the spot, and that written from the outside, long afterwards. Of the first class, "The Star-Spangled Banner" is the most famous example, as well as perhaps the best. Even at this distant day, reading it with a knowledge of the circumstances which produced it, it has a power of touching the heart and gripping the imagination which goes far toward proving the genuineness of its art. Of the second class, "Paul Revere's Ride" is probably the most widely known, though Mr. Longfellow's own "Ballad of the French Fleet" is a better poem. It is evident that, in compiling an anthology such as this, different standards must be used in judging these two classes. The first, aside from any quality as poetry which it may have, is of value because of its historical or political interest, because it is an expression and an interpretation of the hour which gave it birth. With it, poetic merit is not the first consideration, which is, perhaps, as well. Yet, however slight their merit as poetry may be, many of the early ballads possess an admirable energy, directness, and aptness of phrase, and there is about them a childlike simplicity impossible of reproduction in this sophisticated age—as where Stephen Tilden, in his epitaph on Braddock, requests the great commanders who have preceded that unfortunate soldier to the grave to "Edge close and give him room." With the retrospective ballad, on the other hand, poetic merit is a sine qua non. It has little value historically, however accurate its facts. It differs from the contemporary ballad in the same way that the "New Canterbury Tales" differ from Froissart; or as the "Idylls of the King" differ from "Le Morte Arthur." It is less authentic, less convincing, less vital. It may have atmosphere, but there is no infallible way of telling whether the atmosphere is right. Unless it is something more, then, than mere metrical history, the modern ballad has little claim to consideration. These are the two principles which the present compiler has had constantly in mind. Yet the second principle has been violated more than once, since, in a collection such as this, one must cut one's coat according to the cloth; or, rather, one must make sure that one is decently covered, though the covering may here and there be somewhat inferior in quality. So it has been necessary, in order to keep the thread of history unbroken, to admit some strands anything but silken; and if the choice has sometimes been of ills, rather than of goods, the compiler can only hope that he chose wisely. The most difficult and trying portion of his task has been, not to get his material together, but to compress it into reasonable limits. Especially in the colonial period was the temptation great to include more early American verse. Peter Folger's "A Looking-Glass for the Times," Benjamin Tompson's "New England's Crisis," Michael Wigglesworth's "God's Controversy with New England," the "Sot-Weed Factor," and many others, which it is recalling an old sorrow to name here, were excluded only after long and bitter debate. No doubt other exclusions will be noticed by nearly every reader of the volume—and it may interest him to know that the material gathered together would have made four such books as this. To be continue in this ebook
Poems Of American History Classic Reprint
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Author : Burton Egbert Stevenson
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-01-09
Poems Of American History Classic Reprint written by Burton Egbert Stevenson and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-09 with Poetry categories.
Excerpt from Poems of American History A special effort has been made to secure accuracy of text, - no light task, especially with the early ballads. Where the text varied, as was often the case, that has been followed which seemed to have the greater authority, except that obvious mis rints have been corrected. In this, the compiler has had the coo ration of he Riverside Press, and has had frequent occasion to admire t e care and knowledge of the corrector and his assistants. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
History Of English Poetry
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Author : Thomas Warton (Poet Laureate.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1871
History Of English Poetry written by Thomas Warton (Poet Laureate.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1871 with categories.
From Poetry To History
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Author : A. J. Woodman
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2012-02-23
From Poetry To History written by A. J. Woodman and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-23 with History categories.
This volume offers twenty-five selected papers by the leading Latin scholar A. J Woodman, and focuses on the close relationship between Latin poetry and historical writing, or ancient history, from the late first century BC to the early second century AD.
A History Of English Poetry
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Author : William John Courthope
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1913
A History Of English Poetry written by William John Courthope and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1913 with English poetry categories.
History Of English Poetry
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Author : René Wellek
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
History Of English Poetry written by René Wellek and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with categories.
History Of English Poetry
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Author : Thomas Warton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1871
History Of English Poetry written by Thomas Warton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1871 with categories.
A Little History Of Poetry
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Author : John Carey
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2020-04-21
A Little History Of Poetry written by John Carey and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature The Times and Sunday Times, Best Books of 2020 “[A] fizzing, exhilarating book.”—Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times What is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. It does not always work—over the centuries countless thousands of poems have been forgotten. But this Little History is about some that have not. John Carey tells the stories behind the world’s greatest poems, from the oldest surviving one written nearly four thousand years ago to those being written today. Carey looks at poets whose works shape our views of the world, such as Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Whitman, and Yeats. He also looks at more recent poets, like Derek Walcott, Marianne Moore, and Maya Angelou, who have started to question what makes a poem “great” in the first place. For readers both young and old, this little history shines a light for readers on the richness of the world’s poems—and the elusive quality that makes them all the more enticing.
The Poetry Of History
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Author : Emery Edward Neff
language : en
Publisher: New York, Columbia U. P
Release Date : 1961
The Poetry Of History written by Emery Edward Neff and has been published by New York, Columbia U. P this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with Historiography categories.