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The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry
Author | : Gerald Moore |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 2007-08-30 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780141912905 |
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'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 Modern African Poetry
Author | : Ulli Beier,Gerald Moore |
Publsiher | : Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ; New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : UCSC:32106010313093 |
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Offers a selection of African poetry arranged by country.
Modern Poetry from Africa
Author | : Gerald Moore,Ulli Beier |
Publsiher | : Penguin (Non-Classics) |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : UVA:X000234651 |
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West African Poetry
Author | : Robert Fraser |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1986-09-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 052131223X |
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Previous studies of African poetry have tended to concentrate either on its political content or on its relationship to various European schools. This book examines West African poetry in English and French against the background of oral poetry in the vernacular. Do the roots of such poetry lie in Africa or in Europe? In committing their work to writing, do poets lose more than they gain? Can the immediacy of oral performance ever be recovered? Robert Fraser's account of two centuries of West African verse examines its subjugation to a succession of international styles: from the heroic couplet to the austerity of experimental Modernism. Successive chapters take us through the Négritude movement and the emergence of anglophone free verse in the 1950s to the rediscovery in recent years of the neglected springs of orality, which is the subject of the concluding chapter.
The Penguin Book of Southern African Verse
Author | : Stephen Gray |
Publsiher | : Puffin Books |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : UOM:39015041815112 |
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Gathers poems by writers from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Mozambique, Angola, Malawi, Namibia, and Zambia.
Bending the Bow
Author | : Frank M Chipasula |
Publsiher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2009-08-05 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780809386383 |
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From the ancient Egyptian inventors of the love lyric to contemporary poets, Bending the Bow: An Anthology of African Love Poetry gathers together both written and sung love poetry from Africa. This anthology is a work of literary archaeology that lays bare a genre of African poetry that has been overshadowed by political poetry. Frank Chipasula has assembled a historically and geographically comprehensive wealth of African love poetry that spans more than three thousand years. By collecting a continent’s celebrations and explorations of the nature of love, he expands African literature into the sublime territory of the heart. Bending the Bow traces the development of African love poetry from antiquity to modernity while establishing a cross-millennial dialogue. The anonymously written love poems fromPharaonic Egypt that open the anthology both predate Biblical love poetry and reveal the longevity of written love poetry in Africa. The middle section is devoted to sung love poetry from all regions of the continent. These great works serve as the foundation for modern poetry and testify to love poetry’s omnipresence in Africa. The final section, showcasing forty-eight modern African poets, celebrates the genre’s continuing vitality. Among those represented are Muyaka bin Hajji and Shaaban Robert,two major Swahili poets; Gabriel Okara, the innovative though underrated Nigerian poet; Léopold Sédar Senghor, the first president of Senegal and a founder of the Negritude Movement in francophone African literature; Rashidah Ismaili from Benin; Flavien Ranaivo from Madagascar; and Gabeba Baderoon from South Africa. Ranging from the subtly suggestive to the openly erotic, this collection highlights love’s endurance in a world too often riven by contention. Bending the Bow bears testimony to poetry’s role as conciliator while opening up a new area of study for scholars and students.
A Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry
Author | : Neil Roberts |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 647 |
Release | : 2008-06-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780470797471 |
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In the twentieth century more people spoke English and more people wrote poetry than in the whole of previous history, and this Companion strives to make sense of this crowded poetical era. The original contributions by leading international scholars and practising poets were written as the contributors adjusted to the idea that the possibilities of twentieth-century poetry were exhausted and finite. However, the volume also looks forward to the poetry and readings that the new century will bring. The Companion embraces the extraordinary development of poetry over the century in twenty English-speaking countries; a century which began with a bipolar transatlantic connection in modernism and ended with the decentred heterogeneity of post-colonialism. Representation of the 'canonical' and the 'marginal' is therefore balanced, including the full integration of women poets and feminist approaches and the in-depth treatment of post-colonial poets from various national traditions. Discussion of context, intertextualities and formal approaches illustrates the increasing self-consciousness and self-reflexivity of the period, whilst a 'Readings' section offers new readings of key selected texts. The volume as a whole offers critical and contextual coverage of the full range of English-language poetry in the last century.
The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English
Author | : Jeremy Noel-Tod,Ian Hamilton |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 727 |
Release | : 2013-05-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780199640256 |
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This impressive volume provides over 1,700 biographical entries on poets writing in English from 1910 to the present day, including T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, and Carol Ann Duffy. Authoritative and accessible, it is a must-have for students of English and creative writing, as well as for anyone with an interest in poetry.