W. W. Norton & Company, May 1993. Trade Paperback. This landmark anthology, the first of its kind, takes its impulse from the words of Bertolt Brecth: "In the dark times, will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing. About the dark times." Bearing witness to extremity - whether..... More
Middlebrook, Diane Wood., Houghton Mifflin Co., 'A Peter Davison Book', 1991, c, January 1991. Trade Paperback. More
Modern Language Association, January 1991. Paper Back. Approaches to Teaching World Literature 35. More
Modern Language Association, January 1990. Trade Paperback. Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 10591133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate..... More
Holt McDougal, February 1998. Hardcover. Very clean copy. Remainder mark on the bottom edge of the print block. More
Dover Publications, December 1992. Trade Paperback. The 126 poems in this superb collection of 19th and 20th century British and American verse range from the impassioned "Renascence" of Edna St. Vincent Millay to Edward Lear's whimsical "The Owl and the Pussycat" and James Whitcomb Riley's homespun "When the Frost Is..... More
Cambridge University Press, November 1986. Paper Back. Essays by international Chaucer experts provide a challenging introduction to the poet. They establish a context for Chaucer, discuss the significance of his position within it, and apply detailed and innovative analysis to his poetry. More
Cambridge University Press, November 1993. Paper Back. English poetry in the first half of the seventeenth century, an outstandingly rich and varied body of verse, can be understood and appreciated more fully when set in its cultural and ideological context. This introductory Companion, consisting of fourteen new introductory essays by..... More
Cambridge University Press, June 1989. Trade Paperback. The Cambridge Companion to Milton will provide an accessible and helpful guide for any student of Milton, introducing readers to both the scope of Milton's work and the range of current approaches to it. The Companion's eighteen contributors have written informative, stimulating, often..... More
Cambridge University Press, June 2001. Trade Paperback. This collection of specially commissioned essays by experts in the field explores key dimensions of Robert Frost's poetry and life. Frost remains one of the most memorable and beguiling of modern poets. The essays in this volume enable readers to explore Frost's art..... More
Cambridge University Press, September 2010. Paper Back. An international team of leading T.S. Eliot scholars contribute studies of different facets of the writer's work to build up a carefully coordinated and fully rounded introduction. Five chapters give a complete account of Eliot's poems and plays, while others assess the major..... More
Cambridge University Press, February 2005. Trade Paperback. Offering original perspectives from new amd established Auden critics and others, this volume brings together specially commissioned essays by some of the world's leading experts on the life and work of W.H. Auden, one of the major English-speaking poets of the twentieth century..... More
Cambridge University Press, June 1995. Paper Back. Written for this volume by an international team of distinguished Whitman scholars, these essays address a wide range of contemporary issues in his life and art through varying approaches. The volume includes a chronology of Whitman's life and suggestions for further reading. More
New York Review Books, January 2015. Trade Paperback. Selected as one of the sixty-five masterpieces for the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works The fu, or rhyme-prose, is a major poetic form in Chinese literature, most popular between the 2nd century b.c. and 6th century a.d. Unlike what is usually considered..... More
R.S. Means Company, June 1994. Trade Paperback. More
Columbia University Press, October 1993. Hardcover. The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry brings together the most remarkable verse written in the British Isles over the course of the past twelve centuries, offering the greatest diversity of poetic voices in any anthology of its kind. From Shakespeare's memorable sonnets to Keats's..... More
Riverhead Books, December 2005. Paper Back. "Committed to Memory" is a collection of a hundred-and-some poems chosen specifically for memorization and for the particularly intense kind of silent reading with which a reader prepares to remember them. The poems, which embrace a wide variety of genres, structures and patterns, include..... More
Paul Muldoon, May 1986. Paper Back. Taking the death of Yeats in 1939 as its starting point, this anthology features selections from the work of ten Irish poets, including Patrick Kavanagh, Louis MacNeice, Thomas Kinsella, John Montague, Seamus Heaney, and Michael Longley. More
Faber & Faber, October 1979. Paper Back. Previous owner's name. Cover wear. More
Routledge Kegan & Paul, June 1987. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. More
Shambhala Publications, October 2002. Trade Paperback. The poetry selected for this volume comes from the Tang Dynasty (618-907), an era when the influence of Buddhism was at its strongest in China. The best loved and most influential of all Chinese poems come from this period. Like all books in the..... More
Cambridge University Press, December 1973. Trade Paperback. At the head of the Cambridge Milton series stand two general books: John Milton: Introductions and Paradise Lost: Introduction. These set the tone for and give the background to the editions of individual books. John Broadbent and the contributors to the present volume..... More
PerfectBound, April 2000. Paper Back. Started in 1997 by poets David Lehman and Star Black, the KGB Bar poetry series is widely recognized as the hottest and perhaps the best reading series in New York. Located in the hip East Village KGB Bar, these Monday-night readings boast a fantastic variety..... More
Pleiades Press, August 2019. Trade Paperback. Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Disability Studies. Laura Hershey was a vital, brilliant, and until now lesser-known American poet who, during her short life, was a major invigorating force in the movements for disability rights, queer poetries, and activist poetics. Her poems speak from the margins..... More
Indiana University Press, May 1971. Paper Back. Octavo with sun lightened spine and margins. Scuff marks. Previous owner's name written on first inside page. Sticker scar rear cover. [280 pages]. More
