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William Elford Rogers proposes a genre-theory that will clarify what we mean when we speak of literary works as dramatic, epic, or lyric. Focusing on lyric poetry, this book maintains that the broad genre-concepts need not be discarded but can be preserved by a new interpretive model that gives us conceptual knowledge not about works but about inte

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Through close readings of poems from the entire range of both poets' careers, the author reveals the pivotal role of Stevens and Williams in the shift from modernism to postmodernism. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the

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The Undivine 'Comedy' is a vigorous, perceptive contribution to our reading of Dante's work and to our understanding of the problems he confronted as a narrative poet.

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This volume presents twelve essays on the evolution of shih poetry from the second to the tenth century, the period that began with the sudden flowering of shih poetry in live-character meter and culminated in the T'ang, the golden age of classical Chinese poetry. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on

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"For the sake of contraption (like Frost) and of character (like Robinson), John Burt will do a great deal, and his scope and scansion require a great deal, for his theme is nothing less than the reinvention of heroism (King Mark, Mary of Nazareth, St. Francis, Paolo and Francesca, Ariadne) and the invention of a new heroics (Woodrow Wilson, Willar

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Avant-garde poet and popular culture icon, Allen Ginsberg has been one of the world's most important writers for over 40 years. This bibliography is a comprehensive, descriptive record of all of Ginsberg's works.

The volume contains descriptive annotations of every book, pamphlet, and broadside by Ginsberg.

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Giuseppe Mazzotta provides both a powerful framework for reading the Decameron and an important contribution to medieval and contemporary debates in esthetics Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist o

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This unique poetry resource offers interpretations of 250 poems, representing the work of 86 poets from a wide spectrum of historical, contemporary, ethnic, and canonical writers.

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This thematic guide offers interpretations of 415 poems, representing the work of over 110 poets spanning seven centuries of British poetry.

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The subject of Nachum Schoffman's book is the nature of Browning's musicality and the role and influence of music in his poetry.

Schoffman carries the musicological analysis of Browning's poetry to its logical conclusions, revealing more than other literary critics have of the poet's musicality.

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Thomas Chatterton's fabrications--or "forgeries"--of historical poems ostensibly written from the thirteenth through the fifteenth centuries have attracted a great deal of attention and discussion of their authenticity since the eighteenth century. Nevertheless, his works have never before been the subject of a sustained serious and critical invest

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Examines Donne's reading of the body as sign and sacrament.

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The endurance of a work of art such as Samson Agonistes, this book suggests, derives from its incorporation of the principle of change as the very foundation of its permanence. In a deft and perceptive analysis, Mary Ann Radzinowicz shows how the poem embodies the principle of change, reveals Milton's perpetual concerns, and illuminates the course

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This study expands upon literary trauma theory through a reader response approach and examines African American, Native American, and Japanese American poetry from the twentieth century. Special attention is given to the idea of ambivalence in poetry as well as the idea of building community.

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This study expands upon literary trauma theory through a reader response approach and examines African American, Native American, and Japanese American poetry from the twentieth century. Special attention is given to the idea of ambivalence in poetry as well as the idea of building community.

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