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Explores the poetry of Nicolas Guillen and Aime Cesaire as the exemplification of Negritude art and writing from the Caribbean. The book discusses the relationships between creative writing, the idea of Africa and the rediscovery of African values in the Caribbean.

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'The Poet-Hero in the Work of Byron and Shelley' explores the poetic heroism developed in Byron and Shelley's poetry and drama. The book traces how the heroism of the poet, as an idea, an ideal and an illusion, undergoes many different incarnations and definitions as both poets shape distinctive and changing conceptions of the hero throughout their careers.

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A groundbreaking contribution to the critical literature, this volume represents the most extensive study of the fantastic in poetry published to date.

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The dramatic political struggle of Boris Pasternak and the continued success of his novel. Dr. Zhivago, have often taken center stage in discussions of this writer. Olga Raevsky Hughes chooses instead to focus on the aesthetics underlying Pasternak's snuggles and successes to explore the ways in which his views of art and the artist were applied in

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Originally published: New York: Rockland Editions, 1939.

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"Frames the history of 20th-century poetry as a listening to and writing through noise and outlines a history of noise through poetry and poetic performance"--

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One of the leading critics of our time, R.W.B. Lewis, charts the career of Hart Crane's imagination-of his vision, his rhetoric, and his craft. Crane, who has heretofore been assigned a relatively minor place in American letters, emerges from this rich, dense book as one of the finest poets in our language. Mr. Lewis traces the development of the t

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Poetry of Personality, on the hundredth anniversary of Dylan Thomass birth, is a must-read for both Thomass fans and newcomers interested in an introduction to his works and the unique sensibility that created them. It explores the heart and mind behind the poems, and shows why his work will always remain in the top rank of English poetry.

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Poetry of Personality, on the hundredth anniversary of Dylan Thomass birth, is a must-read for both Thomass fans and newcomers interested in an introduction to his works and the unique sensibility that created them. It explores the heart and mind behind the poems, and shows why his work will always remain in the top rank of English poetry.

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This Reader's Guide charts the reception history of Ted Hughes' poetry from his first to last published collection, culminating in posthumous tributes and assessments of his lifetime achievement. Sandie Byrne explores the criticism relating to key issues such as nature, myth, the Laureateship, and Hughes' relationship with Sylvia Plath.

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This Reader's Guide charts the reception history of Ted Hughes' poetry from his first to last published collection, culminating in posthumous tributes and assessments of his lifetime achievement. Sandie Byrne explores the criticism relating to key issues such as nature, myth, the Laureateship, and Hughes' relationship with Sylvia Plath.

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Joan Ferrante analyzes the Divine Comedy in terms of public issues, which continued foremost in Dante's thinking after his exile from Florence. Professor Ferrante examines the political concepts of the poem in historical context and in light of the political theory and controversies of the period. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legac

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Provides a survey of the poetic history and practice in major national literatures or cultural traditions in the world. This book gives coverage of Indo-European poetries, the ancient middle Eastern poetries, subcontinental Indian poetries, Asian and Pacific poetries, continental American poetries, and African poetries.

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A study of cadence in Chaucerian and Medieval verse with particular attention to often-neglected marks of punctuation in the manuscripts.

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