The poetry of Derek Walcott is said to standout from other contemporary American works because of its bold eloquence. This text provides literary criticism from some of the most respected authorities on his poetry. Examined works include "The Theatre of Our Lives."
Poetry and the Cromwellian Protectorate - Culture, Politics and Institutions
Poetry and the Cromwellian Protectorate asks how poetry confronted questions that were complicated by institutional practices, how poets tried to square their wider cultural sympathies with their interests in a particular parliamentary or university crisis, and how changes in institutions afforded poets critical insights into their society's problems and its place in the world. The readings in this book challenge previous representations of Protectorate culture as a phase of conservative backsliding, or pragmatic compromise, under a quasi-monarchical order.
More than any other period of British literature, Romanticism is strongly identified with a single genre. Romantic poetry has been one of the most enduring, best loved, most widely read and most frequently studied genres for two centuries and remains no less so today. This Companion offers a comprehensive overview and interpretation of the poetry of the period in its literary and historical contexts.
Today, thousands of years after her birth, in lands remote from her native island of Lesbos and in languages that did not exist when she wrote her poetry in Aeolic Greek, Sappho remains an important name among lovers of poetry and poets alike. Celebrated throughout antiquity as the supreme Greek poet of love and of the personal lyric, noted especially for her limpid fusion of formal poise, lucid insight, and incandescent passion, today her poetry is also prized for its uniquely vivid participation in a living paganism.
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Matthew Arnold: Selected Poetry
Matthew Arnold was an English poet and cultural criticist on contemporary social issues. Contents: Apollo Musagetes, Bacchanalia or The New Age, Cadmus and Harmonia, Consolation, Dover Beach, From the Hymn of Empedocles, Immortality, Isolation, Lines Written in Kensington Gardens, Memorial Verses: April 1850, Morality, Mycerinus, Obermann Once More, Palladium, Philomela, Quiet Work, Requiescat, Rugby Chapel,Shakespeare, Self-Dependence, Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse, The Buried Life, The Forsaken Merman,The Future, The Last Word, Worldly Place, The Scholar-Gipsy, The Song of Callicles, The Strayed Reveller, Thyrsis a Monody, To Marguriet: Continued, Youth and Calm, Index of First Lines
