Break, blow, burn

Break, blow, burn

by Paglia, Camille

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America's premier intellectual provocateur explores and celebrates a series of great poems of the Western tradition, including some surprising discoveries of her own. She brings new energy and insight to our understanding of 43 poems, all written in English and most squarely within the canon, such as masterpieces by Shakespeare, Donne, Shelley, Dickinson, Lowell, and Plath. She leads us to appreciate the artistry of writers with whom we may not be familiar, such as Chuck Wachtel and Wanda Colem…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Break, blow, burn / Camille Paglia.

Summary

America's premier intellectual provocateur explores and celebrates a series of great poems of the Western tradition, including some surprising discoveries of her own. She brings new energy and insight to our understanding of 43 poems, all written in English and most squarely within the canon, such as masterpieces by Shakespeare, Donne, Shelley, Dickinson, Lowell, and Plath. She leads us to appreciate the artistry of writers with whom we may not be familiar, such as Chuck Wachtel and Wanda Coleman. And she hails the songwriter Joni Mitchell as a major contemporary poet.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2006.
  • Edition:1st Vintage Books ed

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Vintage Books
  • Place of Publication:New York
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2006.

Notes

Originally published: Pantheon Books, 2005.

The Physical Object

  • Description:xvii, 247 pages ; : 21 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0375725393, 9780375725395, 0375420843, 9780375420849
  • oclc:ocm63116218
  • LC Classification:PR502
  • Dewey Decimal:821.009

Table of Contents

William Shakespeare -- John Donne -- George Herbert -- Andrew Marvell -- William Blake -- William Wordsworth -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Walt Whitman -- Emily Dickinson -- William Butler Yeats -- Wallace Stevens -- William Carlos Williams -- Jean Toomer -- Langston Hughes -- Theodore Roethke -- Robert Lowell -- Sylvia Plath -- Frank O'Hara -- Paul Blackburn -- May Swenson -- Gary Snyder -- Norman H. Russell -- Chuck Wachtel -- Rochelle Kraut -- Wanda Coleman -- Ralph Pomeroy -- Woodstock / Joni Mitchell.

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Subjects

American poetry American poetry -- History and criticism Amerikaans Criticism, interpretation, etc Engels English poetry English poetry -- History and criticism Gedichten Poésie américaine -- Histoire et critiq… Poésie anglaise -- Histoire et critique

Writers

Paglia, Camille

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