The Penguin Book Of The Prose Poem


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The Penguin Book Of The Prose Poem


The Penguin Book Of The Prose Poem
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Author : Jeremy Noel-Tod
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2018-11-01

The Penguin Book Of The Prose Poem written by Jeremy Noel-Tod and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-01 with Poetry categories.


The last decades have seen an explosion of the prose poem. More and more writers are turning to this peculiarly rich and flexible form; it defines Claudia Rankine's Citizen, one of the most talked-about books of recent years, and many others, such as Sarah Howe's Loop of Jade and Vahni Capildeo's Measures of Expatriation, make extensive use of it. Yet this fertile mode which in its time has drawn the likes of Charles Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein and Seamus Heaney remains, for many contemporary readers, something of a mystery. The history of the prose poem is a long and fascinating one. Here, Jeremy Noel-Tod reconstructs it for us by selecting the essential pieces of writing - by turns luminous, brooding, lamentatory and comic - which have defined and developed the form at each stage, from its beginnings in 19th-century France, through the 20th-century traditions of Britain and America and beyond the English language, to the great wealth of material written internationally since 2000. Comprehensively told, it yields one of the most original and genre-changing anthologies to be published for some years, and offers readers the chance to discover a diverse range of new poets and new kinds of poem, while also meeting famous names in an unfamiliar guise.



The Penguin Book Of French Poetry


The Penguin Book Of French Poetry
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language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2005-02-24

The Penguin Book Of French Poetry written by and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-02-24 with Poetry categories.


This collection illuminates the uniquely fascinating era between 1820 and 1950 in French poetry - a time in which diverse aesthetic ideas conflicted and converged as poetic forms evolved at an astonishing pace. It includes generous selections from all the established giants - among them Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud and Breton - as well as works from a wide variety of less well-known poets such as Claudel and Cendrars, whose innovations proved vital to the progress of poetry in France. The significant literary schools of the time are also represented in sections focusing on such movements as Romanticism, Symbolism, Cubism and Surrealism. Eloquent and inspirational, this rich and exhilarating anthology reveals an era of exceptional vitality.



The Penguin Book Of Russian Poetry


The Penguin Book Of Russian Poetry
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Author : Robert Chandler
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2015-02-26

The Penguin Book Of Russian Poetry written by Robert Chandler and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-26 with Poetry categories.


An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler together with poets Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, poetry's pre-eminence in Russia was unchallenged, with Pushkin and his contemporaries ushering in the 'Golden Age' of Russian literature. Prose briefly gained the high ground in the second half of the nineteenth century, but poetry again became dominant in the 'Silver Age' (the early twentieth century), when belief in reason and progress yielded once more to a more magical view of the world. During the Soviet era, poetry became a dangerous, subversive activity; nevertheless, poets such as Osip Mandelstam and Anna Akhmatova continued to defy the censors. This anthology traces Russian poetry from its Golden Age to the modern era, including work by several great poets - Georgy Ivanov and Varlam Shalamov among them - in captivating modern translations by Robert Chandler and others. The volume also includes a general introduction, chronology and individual introductions to each poet. Robert Chandler is an acclaimed poet and translator. His many translations from Russian include works by Aleksandr Pushkin, Nikolay Leskov, Vasily Grossman and Andrey Platonov, while his anthologies of Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida and Russian Magic Tales are both published in Penguin Classics. Irina Mashinski is a bilingual poet and co-founder of the StoSvet literary project. Her most recent collection is 2013's Ophelia i masterok [Ophelia and the Trowel]. Boris Dralyuk is a Lecturer in Russian at the University of St Andrews and translator of many books from Russian, including, most recently, Isaac Babel's Red Cavalry (2014).



The Penguin Book Of Romantic Poetry


The Penguin Book Of Romantic Poetry
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Author : Jonathan Wordsworth
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2005-05-26

The Penguin Book Of Romantic Poetry written by Jonathan Wordsworth and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-05-26 with Poetry categories.


The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spirit, and a celebration of the soul of humanity with its capacity for love. This extraordinary collection sets the acknowledged genius of poems such as Blake's 'Tyger', Coleridge's 'Khubla Khan' and Shelley's 'Ozymandias' alongside verse from less familiar figures and women poets such as Charlotte Smith and Mary Robinson. We also see familiar poets in an unaccustomed light, as Blake, Wordsworth and Shelley demonstrate their comic skills, while Coleridge, Keats and Clare explore the Gothic and surreal.



Prose Poetry


Prose Poetry
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Author : Paul Hetherington
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-13

Prose Poetry written by Paul Hetherington and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-13 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.


An engaging and authoritative introduction to an increasingly important and popular literary genre Prose Poetry is the first book of its kind—an engaging and authoritative introduction to the history, development, and features of English-language prose poetry, an increasingly important and popular literary form that is still too little understood and appreciated. Poets and scholars Paul Hetherington and Cassandra Atherton introduce prose poetry’s key characteristics, chart its evolution from the nineteenth century to the present, and discuss many historical and contemporary prose poems that both demonstrate their great diversity around the Anglophone world and show why they represent some of today’s most inventive writing. A prose poem looks like prose but reads like poetry: it lacks the line breaks of other poetic forms but employs poetic techniques, such as internal rhyme, repetition, and compression. Prose Poetry explains how this form opens new spaces for writers to create riveting works that reshape the resources of prose while redefining the poetic. Discussing prose poetry’ s precursors, including William Wordsworth and Walt Whitman, and prose poets such as Charles Simic, Russell Edson, Lydia Davis, and Claudia Rankine, the book pays equal attention to male and female prose poets, documenting women’s essential but frequently unacknowledged contributions to the genre. Revealing how prose poetry tests boundaries and challenges conventions to open up new imaginative vistas, this is an essential book for all readers, students, teachers, and writers of prose poetry.



Selected Poems And Prose


Selected Poems And Prose
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Author : Edward Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2019-02-28

Selected Poems And Prose written by Edward Thomas and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-28 with Poetry categories.


'I have come to the borders of sleep, The unfathomable deep Forest where all must lose Their way, however straight, Or winding, soon or late; They cannot choose.' Fired by his abiding love of the English landscape, the poetry of Edward Thomas is some of the most astonishing of the twentieth century. A journalist, essayist and critic for many years, he was encouraged to write verse by his friend Robert Frost. He produced a late outburst of poetry of extraordinary beauty and mystery about the subjects closest to his heart: rural England and its inhabitants, landscape, atmosphere, transience, endurance and death. By 1917, when he was killed on the Western Front, he had earned his place as one of England's most valued poets. This selection brings together his finest verse with his most vivid prose writings on the countryside.



The Penguin Book Of Hebrew Verse


The Penguin Book Of Hebrew Verse
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Author : T. Carmi
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2006-06-29

The Penguin Book Of Hebrew Verse written by T. Carmi and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-29 with Poetry categories.


This stunning anthology gathers together the riches of poetry in Hebrew from 'The Song of Deborah' to contemporary Israeli writings. Verse written up to the tenth century show the development of piyut, or liturgical poetry, and retell episodes from the Bible and exalt the glory of God. Medieval works introduce secular ideas in love poems, wine songs and rhymed narratives, as well as devotional verse for specific religious rituals. Themes such as the longing for the homeland run through the ages, especially in verse written after the rise of the Zionist movement, while poems of the last century marry Biblical references with the horrors of the Holocaust. Together these works create a moving portrait of a rich and varied culture through the last 3,000 years.



The Penguin Book Of Victorian Verse


The Penguin Book Of Victorian Verse
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language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 1998-10-19

The Penguin Book Of Victorian Verse written by and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-10-19 with Poetry categories.


Daniel Karlin has selected poetry written and published during the reign of Queen Victoria, (1837-1901). Giving pride of place to Tennyson, Robert Browning, and Christina Rossetti, the volume offers generous selections from other major poets such asArnold, Emily Bronte, Hardy and Hopkins, and makes room for several poem-sequences in their entirety. It is wonderful, too, in its discovery and inclusion of eccentric, dissenting, un-Victorian voices, poets who squarely refuse to 'represent' their period. It also includes the work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Meredith, James Thomson and Augusta Webster.



The Penguin Book Of Modern African Poetry


The Penguin Book Of Modern African Poetry
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Author : Gerald Moore
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2007-08-30

The Penguin Book Of Modern African Poetry written by Gerald Moore and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-30 with Poetry categories.


'Poetry, always foremost of the arts in traditional Africa, has continued to compete for primacy against the newer forms of prose fiction and theatre drama.' This wonderfully comprehensive anthology of African poetry has been expanded to include ninety-nine poets from twenty-seven countries, thirty-one of whom appear for the first time. Equally wide-ranging is the content of the poetry itself: war songs and political protests jostle with poems about human love, African nature and the surprises that life offers; all are represented in these rich and colourful pages.



The Penguin Book Of Spiritual Verse


The Penguin Book Of Spiritual Verse
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Author : Kaveh Akbar
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2022-06-30

The Penguin Book Of Spiritual Verse written by Kaveh Akbar and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-30 with Poetry categories.


'A profoundly valuable collection, full of fresh perspective, and opening doors into all kinds of material that has been routinely neglected or patronized' Rowan Williams, TLS This rich and surprising anthology is a holistic, global survey of a lyric conversation about the divine, one which has been ongoing for millennia. Beginning with the earliest attributable author in all of human literature, the twenty-third century BCE Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna, and taking in a constellation of voices - from King David to Lao Tzu, from the Epic of Gilgamesh to the Malian Epic of Sundiata - this selection presents a number of canonical figures like Blake, Dickinson and Tagore, alongside lesser-anthologized, diverse poets going up to the present day. Together they show the breathtaking multiplicity of ways humanity has responded to the spiritual, across place and time.