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Whitman's Leaves of Grassby V. A. Shahane
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1972; US$ 5.99The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. Initially a public failure, Walt Whitman was actually an innovator of American poetry, and Leaves of Grass is his life work. From solemnity to joy, Whitman explores the United States in all its greatness and smallness and invented a new type of poetry along the way. With expert commentaries and critical analyses, CliffsNotes on Leaves of Grass helps you explore the most significant poems from Whitman's final edition of Leaves of Grass. You'll also gain insight... more...
Thoreau's Waldenby Joseph R. McElrath
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1999; US$ 5.99The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. In CliffsNotes on Walden, you discover the most important work of Henry David Thoreau – his exploration of the transcendentalist's striving to realize the possibility of one's own perfection and divinity. What results is an account of Thoreau's two-year stay at Walden Pond , as he celebrates nature as he moves toward spiritual rebirth and fulfillment. Chapter summaries and commentaries take you through Thoreau's journey, and essays help you understand... more...
Other Orpheusby Merrill Cole
Routledge 2003; US$ 103.00This book posits that male homoeroticism is a crucial component of any comprehensive understanding of modernism and the crisis of modern masculine identity. more...
End of the Mindby DeSales Harrison
Routledge 2004; US$ 156.00This book seeks to include among accounts of modern lyric poetry a theory of the poem's relation to the unintelligible. more...
Poetry and Repetitionby Krystyna Mazur
Routledge 2004; US$ 131.00The work of Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery is analysed in order to discern the patterns which may operate across a broad range of examples, as well as to consider the variety of ways repetition can structure a poetic text. more...
Architecture of Addressby Jake Adam York
Routledge 2004; US$ 131.00This study argues that American poets become civic actors when their poems imagine and reconstruct the conceptual architecture of the moment. more...
A Momentary Stayby William C Clarke
Pandanus Books 2002; US$ 16.00Selected Poems By Poet And Human Geographer, William C Clarke. more...
Walden and Other Writingsby Henry David Thoreau
Random House Publishing Group 2000; US$ 8.99Henry David Thoreau's vision of personal freedom is indelibly etched on the American consciousness. 'We need the tonic of wildness,' Thoreau wrote in Walden, and by turning his back on town amenities to build a house on Walden Pond in 1845, he helped shape our notions of the individual, subsistence, and a moral relation to nature. Raising white beans and potatoes that he sold to his Concord neighbors, he stayed for two years; his book records both the philosophy he developed while living alone and the facts of his everyday life. Included here with the complete text of Walden are selections from Thoreau's first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; 'A Plea for Captain John Brown,' his eloquent defense of the American abolitionist's... more...
The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetryby Christopher Beach
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 24.00The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry is designed to give readers a brief but thorough introduction to the various movements, schools, and groups of American poets in the twentieth century. It will help readers to understand and analyze modern and contemporary poems. more...
The American Puritan Elegyby Jeffrey A. Hammond; Albert Gelpi; Ross Posnock
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 42.00Jeffrey Hammond's study of the funeral elegies of early New England reassesses a body of poems whose importance in their own time has been obscured by neglect in ours. Hammond reconstructs the historical, theological and cultural contexts of these poems to shed new light on the emotional dimension of Puritanism. more...