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Meter in English: A Critical Engagement

By: N/A

Price: $8.00

Publisher: University of Arkansas Press: Jul-97

Seller ID: 457327

ISBN: 155728444x

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Renowned poets and experts in metrics respond to Robert Wallace's pivotal essay which clarifies and simplifies methods of studying poetry. Former United States Poet Laureate Robert Hass has called Wallace's essay a paradigm shift in our understanding of English prosody.
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Fourth Dimension of a Poem: and Other Essays

By: Abrams, M.H.

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 336432

ISBN: 393058301

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Poet's Companion, The: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry

By: Addonizio, Kim/Laux, Dorianne

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Mar-14

Seller ID: 472878

ISBN: 393316548

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Anna of All the Russias: A Life of Anna Akhmatova

By: Akhmatova/Feinstein

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 404865

ISBN: 1400033780

Binding: Trade Paperback

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In this definitive biography of the legendary Russian poet, Elaine Feinstein draws on a wealth of newly available material-including memoirs, letters, journals, and interviews with surviving friends and family-to produce a revelatory portrait of both the artist and the woman.Anna Akhmatova rose to fame in the years before World War I, but she would pay a heavy price for the political and personal passions that informed her brilliant poetry. In Anna of All the Russias we see Akhmatova's work banned from 1925 until 1940 and again after World War II. We see her steadfast opposition to Stal...
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Light of the World: A Memoir (Pulitzer Prize in Letters: Biography Finalist)

By: Alexander, Elizabeth

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 376802

ISBN: 1455599867

Binding: Trade Paperback

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A deeply resonant memoir for anyone who has loved and lost, from acclaimed poet and Pulitzer Prize finalist Elizabeth Alexander.

In THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD, Elizabeth Alexander finds herself at an existential crossroads after the sudden death of her husband. Channeling her poetic sensibilities into a rich, lucid price, Alexander tells a love story that is, itself, a story of loss. As she reflects on the beauty of her married life, the trauma resulting from her husband's death, and the solace found in caring for her two teenage sons, Alexander universalizes a very personal que...
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Sound and Sense

By: Arp, Thomas

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Nov-09

Seller ID: 55335

ISBN: 155030280

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Sound and Sense: Introduction to Poetry

By: Arp, Thomas

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Jul-15

Seller ID: 454858

ISBN: 838407463

Binding: Trade Paperback

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On the Outside Looking Out: John Ashbery's Poetry

By: Ashbery, John/Shoptaw, John

Price: $18.00

Seller ID: 410728

ISBN: 674636139

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Forewords and Afterwords

By: Auden, W.H.

Price: $4.00

Seller ID: 411792

ISBN: 394718879

Binding: Unknown

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Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law

By: Blake, WIlliam/Thompson

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 366047

ISBN: 1565840992

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Witness Against the Beast is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study in which the renowned social historian E.P. Thompson contends that most of the assumptions scholars have made about William Blake are misleading and unfounded. Brilliantly reexamining Blake's cultural milieu and intellectual background, Thompson detects in Blake's poetry a repeated call to resist the usury and commercialism of the "Antichrist" embodied by contemporary society--to "witness against the beast."
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For All of Us, One Today: An Inaugural Poet's Journey

By: Blanco, Richard

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 373813

ISBN: 807033804

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry

By: Bloom, Harold

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Jun-13

Seller ID: 457378

ISBN: 195112210

Binding: Trade Paperback

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American Poetry: Wildness and Domesticity

By: Bly, Robert

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 362131

ISBN: 60162651

Binding: Hardcover

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Yeat's Ghosts: The Secret Life of W.B. Yeats

By: Brenda Maddox

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Harper: Sep-99

Seller ID: 477063

ISBN: 60174943

Binding: Hardcover

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Well Wrought Urn

By: Brooks, Cleanth

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Jan-10

Seller ID: 457525

ISBN: 156957051

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Luath Burns Companion

By: Burns/Cairney, John

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Jul-17

Seller ID: 344487

ISBN: 1842820001

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Robert Burns was born in a thunderstorm and lived his brief life by flashes of lightning. So says John Cairney in his introduction. In those flashes his genius revealed itself.
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Science and English Poetry: A Historical Sketch 1590-1950

By: Bush, Douglas

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Mar-17

Seller ID: 336656

ISBN: 0318SEP

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Wallace Stevens: A Spiritual Poet in a Secular Age

By: Charles M. Murphy,Wallace Stevens

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Paulist Pr: May-97

Seller ID: 471362

ISBN: 809137089

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Ciardi Himself: Fifteen Essays in the Reading, Writing, and Teaching of Poetry

By: Ciardi, John

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Oct-14

Seller ID: 284249

ISBN: 1557280851

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

An excellent introduction to the man and his thoughts on the painstaking craftsmanship involved in the art of writing poetry, Ciardi Himself includes some hard lessons, but in the hands of this master teacher, the going is easy.
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Poetry Lesson, The

By: Codrescu, Andrei

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Feb-17

Seller ID: 334536

ISBN: 691147248

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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