Who Killed American Poetry
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Who Killed American Poetry
Author | : Karen L. Kilcup |
Publsiher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2019-10-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780472131556 |
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Throughout the 19th century, American poetry was a profoundly populist literary form. It circulated in New England magazines and Southern newspapers; it was read aloud in taverns, homes, and schools across the country. Antebellum reviewers envisioned poetry as the touchstone democratic genre, and their Civil War–era counterparts celebrated its motivating power, singing poems on battlefields. Following the war, however, as criticism grew more professionalized and American literature emerged as an academic subject, reviewers increasingly elevated difficult, dispassionate writing and elite readers over their supposedly common counterparts, thereby separating “authentic” poetry for intellectuals from “popular” poetry for everyone else.\ Conceptually and methodologically unique among studies of 19th-century American poetry, Who Killed American Poetry? not only charts changing attitudes toward American poetry, but also applies these ideas to the work of representative individual poets. Closely analyzing hundreds of reviews and critical essays, Karen L. Kilcup tracks the century’s developing aesthetic standards and highlights the different criteria reviewers used to assess poetry based on poets’ class, gender, ethnicity, and location. She shows that, as early as the 1820s, critics began to marginalize some kinds of emotional American poetry, a shift many scholars have attributed primarily to the late-century emergence of affectively restrained modernist ideals. Mapping this literary critical history enables us to more readily apprehend poetry’s status in American culture—both in the past and present—and encourages us to scrutinize the standards of academic criticism that underwrite contemporary aesthetics and continue to constrain poetry’s appeal. Who American Killed Poetry? enlarges our understanding of American culture over the past two hundred years and will interest scholars in literary studies, historical poetics, American studies, gender studies, canon criticism, genre studies, the history of criticism, and affect studies. It will also appeal to poetry readers and those who enjoy reading about American cultural history.
Death to the Death of Poetry
Author | : Donald Hall |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : UOM:39015034295942 |
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A spirited defense of the vitality of contemporary poetry.
The Prophet
Author | : Kahlil Gibran |
Publsiher | : Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2020-08-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9789390287826 |
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A book of poetic essays written in English, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is full of religious inspirations. With the twelve illustrations drawn by the author himself, the book took more than eleven years to be formulated and perfected and is Gibran's best-known work. It represents the height of his literary career as he came to be noted as ‘the Bard of Washington Street.’ Captivating and vivified with feeling, The Prophet has been translated into forty languages throughout the world, and is considered the most widely read book of the twentieth century. Its first edition of 1300 copies sold out within a month.
Don t Call Us Dead
Author | : Danez Smith |
Publsiher | : Graywolf Press |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2017-09-05 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781555979775 |
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The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith—“Hallelujah is an understatement” (Patricia Smith) Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don’t Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police, a place where suspicion, violence, and grief are forgotten and replaced with the safety, love, and longevity they deserved here on earth. Smith turns then to desire, mortality—the dangers experienced in skin and body and blood—and a diagnosis of HIV positive. “Some of us are killed / in pieces,” Smith writes, “some of us all at once.” Don’t Call Us Dead is an astonishing and ambitious collection, one that confronts, praises, and rebukes America—“Dear White America”—where every day is too often a funeral and not often enough a miracle.
Rendezvous with Death
Author | : Mark W. Van Wienen |
Publsiher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0252070593 |
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This masterfully assembled volume, arranged chronologically, reveals American poets' shifting, conflicting reactions to the war and highlights their efforts to shape U.S. policies and define American attitudes. In his introduction, Mark W. Van Wienen describes the rapid, politically charged responses possible in a culture attuned to poetry. His historical and biographical notes provide a sturdy framework for the study of poetry's role in social activism and change during the "war to end war." The most complete resource of its kind, Rendezvous with Death brings together poetry originally published in little magazines, labor journals, newspapers, and wartime anthologies. Alight with sorrow, grace, silliness, satire, pride, and anger, works by IWW members, sock poets, pacifists, and protestors take their places next to those by Edith Wharton, Alan Seeger, Wallace Stevens, James Weldon Johnson, Amy Lowell, and Claude McKay.
Robert Frost and Feminine Literary Tradition
Author | : Karen L. Kilcup |
Publsiher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0472109677 |
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Uncovers heretofore overlooked influences and connections in the evolution of Frost's poetry
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Author | : Oscar Wilde |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : HARVARD:32044090302621 |
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Flies
Author | : Michael Dickman |
Publsiher | : Copper Canyon Press |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 2012-12-11 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781619320215 |
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"Hilarity transfiguring all that dread, manic overflow of powerful feeling, zero at the bone—Flies renders its desolation with singular invention and focus and figuration: the making of these poems makes them exhilarating."—James Laughlin Award citation "Reading Michael [Dickman] is like stepping out of an overheated apartment building to be met, unexpectedly, by an exhilaratingly chill gust of wind."—The New Yorker "These are lithe, seemingly effortless poems, poems whose strange affective power remains even after several readings."—The Believer Winner of the James Laughlin Award for the best second book by an American poet, Flies presents an uncompromising vision of joy and devastating loss through a strict economy of language and an exuberant surrealism. Michael Dickman's poems bring us back to the wonder and violence of childhood, and the desire to connect with a power greater than ourselves. What you want to remember of the earth and what you end up remembering are often two different things Michael Dickman was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. His first book of poems, The End of the West, appeared in 2009 and became the best-selling debut in the history of Copper Canyon Press. His poems appear frequently in The New Yorker, and he teaches poetry at Princeton University.