An introduction to the history, development, and features of English-language prose poetry, an increasingly important and popular literary form that is still too little understood and appreciated
Shakespeare's sonnets
by Duncan-Jones, Katherine, Shakespeare, William
fromArden Shakespeare. Series 3
Genres as repositories of cultural memory
More than twenty years after its original appearance in Italian, The Open Work remains significant for its powerful concept of "openness"--The artist's decision to leave arrangements of some constituents of a work to the public or to chance--and for its striking anticipation of …
"This book examines shadow imagery in postwar literature, television, film, photography, and popular culture"--The image of the shadow in midtwentiethcentury America appeared across a variety of genres and media including poetry, pulp fiction, photography, and film. Drawing on a…
"Stephen Fry believes that if one can speak and read English, one can write poetry. Many of us have never been taught to read or write poetry and think of it as a mysterious and intimidating form. Or, if we have been taught, we remember uncomfortable silence when an English teac…
In this landmark collection of essays, renowned classicist Charles Segal offers detailed analyses of major texts from archaic and early classical Greek poetry - in particular, works of Alcman, Mimnermus, Sappho, Pindar, Bacchylides, and Corinna. Segal provides close readings of …