Literary Criticism : Poetry

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Foreword by John Hollander. Introduction. 1. "'Unforced Marches': A Virgilian Memoir". 2. "Wordsworth's Aeneid". 3. "Some Lucretian Elements in Wordsworth". 4. "Keats's 'Coming Muskrose' and Shakespeare's 'Profound Verdure'". 5. "Peter Grimes: The Development of a Hero". 6. "The Rake, The Don, The Flute: Auden as Librettist". 7. "Landscape and Knowledge: The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop". 8. "'In the Mash of the Upper and Nether': Ben Belitt's Places". 9. "'All the World's Plenty, All the Brazen Particulars': The Case of Ben Belitt". 10. "The Comedian as the Letter I, or the Perils of Vaudeville in a Post-Modern Age" (on Irving Feldman). 11. "Repetition and Singularity" (on Louise Gluck and Jorie Graham). 12. "Poetry in Review" (on the Collected Poems of Donald Justice). 13. "Rita Dove, Dancing". 14. "The Nineties Re-Visited". 15. "Jorie Graham Talking". 16. "Poetry in Review: (on A. R. Ammons and John Ashbery). 17. "'Naked Without My Line-Ends': Robert Lowell in His Letters". 18. "The Achievement of Robert Lowell". Index more...

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When a poet addresses a living person--whether friend or enemy, lover or sister--we recognize the expression of intimacy. But what impels poets to leap across time and space to speak to invisible listeners, seeking an ideal intimacy--George Herbert with God, Walt Whitman with a reader in the future, John Ashbery with the Renaissance painter Francesco Parmigianino? In Invisible Listeners, Helen Vendler argues that such poets must invent the language that will enact, on the page, an intimacy they lack in life.Through brilliantly insightful and gracefully written readings of these three great poets over three different centuries, Vendler maps out their relationships with their chosen listeners. For his part, Herbert revises the usual "vertical" address to God in favor of a "horizontal" one-addressing God as a friend. Whitman hovers in a sometimes erotic, sometimes quasi-religious language in conceiving the democratic camerado, who will, following Whitman's example, find his true self. And yet the camerado will be replaced, in Whitman's verse, by the ultimate invisible listener, Death. Ashbery, seeking a fellow artist who believes that art always distorts what it represents, finds he must travel to the remote past. In tones both tender and skeptical he addresses Parmigianino, whose extraordinary self-portrait in a convex mirror furnishes the poet with both a theory and a precedent for his own inventions. By creating the forms and speech of ideal intimacy, these poets set forth the possibility of a more complete and satisfactory human interchange--an ethics of relation that is uncoerced, understanding, and free. more...

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This book situates John Clare's long, prolific but often badly neglected literary life within the wider cultural histories of the Regency and earlier Victorian periods. The first half considers the construction of the Regency peasant-poet and how Clare performed this role on stages such as the London Magazine. It also looks at the way in which it went out of fashion as Regency mentalities were replaced by early Victorian ones. The second half recreates asylum culture and places Clare's performances as Regency boxers and Lord Byron within this bleak new world. more...

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Definitive, concise, and very interesting... From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time. Each book in the series is based upon the biographical entry from the world-famous Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. The Very Interesting People series includes the following titles:. 1.William Shakespeare by Peter Holland. 2. George Eliot by Rosemary Ashton. 3. Charles Dickens by Michael Slater. 4. Charles Darwin by Adrian Desmond, James Moore, and Janet Browne. 5. Isaac Newton by Richard S.Westfall. 6. Elizabeth I by Patrick Collinson. 7. George III by John Cannon. 8. Benjamin Disraeli by Jonathan Parry. 9. Christopher Wren by Kerry Downes. 10. John Ruskin by Robert Hewison. 11. James Joyce by Bruce Stewart. 12. John Milton by Gordon Campbell. 13. Jane Austen by Marilyn Butler. 14. Henry VIII by Eric Ives. 15. Queen Victoria by K. D. Reynolds and H. C. G. Matthew. 16. Winston Churchill by Paul Addison. 17. Oliver Cromwell by John Morrill. 18. Thomas Paine by Mark Philp. 19. J. M. W. Turner by Luke Herrmann. 20. William and Mary by Tony Claydon and W. A. Speck - more...

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