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A collection of authentic, profound and beautiful poems.
Poets, American --- Poetry --- American poets
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Poets, American --- Women and literature --- Biography --- History --- Dickinson, Emily,
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Women poets, American --- Poétesses américaines --- Biography. --- Biographies --- Plath, Sylvia --- Poétesses américaines
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Winner of the 2008 Critics' Choice Award presented by the American Educational Studies AssociationA Pulitzer Prize–winning poet who confessed the unrelenting anguish of addiction and depression, Anne Sexton (1928–1974) was also a dedicated teacher. In this book, Paula M. Salvio opens up Sexton's classroom, uncovering a teacher who willfully demonstrated that the personal could also be plural. Looking at how Sexton framed and used the personal in teaching and learning, Salvio considers the extent to which our histories—both personal and social—exert their influence on teaching. In doing so, she situates the teaching life of Anne Sexton at the center of some of the key problems and questions in feminist teaching: navigating the appropriate distance between teacher and student, the relationship between writer and poetic subject, and the relationship between emotional life and knowledge. Examining Sexton's pedagogy, with its "weird abundance" of tactics and strategies, Salvio argues that Sexton's use of the autobiographical "I" is as much a literary identity as a literal identity, one that can speak with great force to educators who recognize its vital role in the humanities classroom.
Education --- Women educators --- Poets, American --- Social aspects. --- Philosophy. --- Sexton, Anne, --- Harvey, Anne Gray,
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At the time of his death in 1935, Edwin Arlington Robinson was regarded as the leading American poet-the equal of Frost and Stevens. In this biography, Scott Donaldson tells the intriguing story of this poet's life, based in large part on a previously unavailable trove of more than 3,000 personal letters, and recounts his profoundly important role in the development of modern American literature. Born in 1869, the youngest son of a well-to-do family in Gardiner, Maine, Robinson had two brothers: Dean, a doctor who became a drug addict, and Herman, an alcoholic who squandered the family fortune. Robinson never married, but he fell in love as many as three times, most lastingly with the woman who would become his brother Herman's wife. Despite his shyness, Robinson made many close friends, and he repeatedly went out of his way to give them his support and encouragement. Still, it was always poetry that drove him. He regarded writing poems as nothing less than his calling-what he had been put on earth to do. Struggling through long years of poverty and neglect, he achieved a voice and a subject matter all his own. He was the first to write about ordinary people and events-an honest butcher consumed by grief, a miser with "eyes like little dollars in the dark," ancient clerks in a dry goods store measuring out their days like bolts of cloth. In simple yet powerful rhetoric, he explored the interior worlds of the people around him. Robinson was a major poet and a pivotal figure in the course of modern American literature, yet over the years his reputation has declined. With his biography, Donaldson returns this remarkable talent to the pantheon of great American poets and sheds new light on his enduring legacy.
Poets, American --- Robinson, Edwin Arlington, --- Robinson, E. A. --- Robinson, Edward A., --- רובינזון, אדוין ארלינגטון,
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Prefaced by an account of the early days of Berryman studies by bibliographer and scholar Richard J. Kelly, “ After thirty Falls ” is the first collection of essays to be published on the American poet John Berryman (1914-1972) in over a decade. The book seeks to provoke new interest in this important figure with a group of original essays and appraisals by scholars from Ireland, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, and the United States. Exploring such areas as the poet’s engagements with Shakespeare and the American sonnet tradition, his use of the Trickster figure and the idea of performance in his poetics, it expands the interpretive framework by which Berryman may be evaluated and studied, and it will be of interest to students of modern American poetry at all levels. What makes the collection particularly valuable is its inclusion of previously unpublished material – including a translation of a poem by Catullus and excerpts from the poet’s detailed notes on the life of Christ – thereby providing new contexts for future assessments of Berryman’s contribution to the development of poetry, poetics, and the relationship between scholarship and other forms of writing in the twentieth century.
American poetry --- History and criticism. --- Berryman, John, --- Smith, John Allyn --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Poets, American. --- American poets
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"Contributors reexamine the continuing relevance of Langston Hughes's work and life to American, African American, and diasporic literatures and cultures. Includes fresh perspectives on the often overlooked "Luani of the Jungles," Black Magic, and works for children, as well as Hughes's more familiar fiction, poetry, essays, dramas, and other writings"--Provided by publisher.
Hughes, Langston --- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) --- Intellectual life --- 20th century --- Poets [American ] --- Biography --- African American poets --- African Americans in literature --- Poets, American --- African Americans in literature. --- Harlem Renaissance. --- New Negro Movement --- Renaissance, Harlem --- African American arts --- American literature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- African American authors --- Hughes, Langston, --- Hugues, Langston
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Emily Dickinson is best known as an intensely private, even reclusive writer. Yet the way she has been mythologised has meant her work is often misunderstood. This 2007 introduction delves behind the myth to present a poet who was deeply engaged with the issues of her day. In a lucid and elegant style, the book places her life and work in the historical context of the Civil War, the suffrage movement, and the rapid industrialisation of the United States. Wendy Martin explores the ways in which Dickinson's personal struggles with romantic love, religious faith, friendship and community shape her poetry. The complex publication history of her works, as well as their reception, is teased out, and a guide to further reading is included. Dickinson emerges not only as one of America's finest poets, but also as a fiercely independent intellect and an original talent writing poetry far ahead of her time.
Dickinson, Emily --- Women poets, American --- American women poets --- Dickinson, Emily, --- Dickinson, Emilia, --- Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth, --- Dikinson, Ėmili, --- D̲ikinson, Emily, --- Ti-chin-sen, Ai-mi-li, --- דיקינסון, אמילי, --- Dykinsan, Ėmili, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature
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The third and final volume of A. David Moody's critically acclaimed biography examines Pound's final years, which saw much personal tragedy for Pound at a tragic point in World history.
820 "19" POUND, EZRA --- Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--POUND, EZRA --- 820 "19" POUND, EZRA Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--POUND, EZRA --- Poets, American --- Pound, Ezra, --- Pound, Ezra Loomis, --- Atheling, William, --- Bawnd, Izrā, --- Paount, Ezra, --- Pʻaundŭ, Ejŭra, --- Pavnd, Ezra, --- E. P. --- P., E. --- T. J. V., --- V., T. J., --- Pangde, --- Poet of Titchfield Street, --- Pound, Ezra Loomis --- Poets [American ] --- 20th century --- Biography --- American poets --- Pound, Ezra --- Atheling, William --- Bawnd, Izrā --- Paount, Ezra --- Pʻaundŭ, Ejŭra --- Pavnd, Ezra --- T. J. V. --- V., T. J. --- Pangde --- Poet of Titchfield Street --- Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) --- Poètes américains --- 20e siècle --- Biographies
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Walt Whitman is one of the most innovative and influential American poets of the nineteenth century. Focusing on his masterpiece Leaves of Grass, this book provides a foundation for the study of Whitman as an experimental poet, a radical democrat, and a historical personality in the era of the American Civil War, the growth of the great cities, and the westward expansion of the United States. Always a controversial and important figure, Whitman continues to attract the admiration of poets, artists, critics, political activists, and readers around the world. Those studying his work for the first time will find this an invaluable book. Alongside close readings of the major texts, chapters on Whitman's biography, the history and culture of his time, and the critical reception of his work provide a comprehensive understanding of Whitman and of how he has become such a central figure in the American literary canon.
Whitman, Walt --- Poets, American --- Whitman, Walt, --- Ouïtman, Ouōlt, --- Uitman, Uolʹt, --- Uitmen, Uot, --- Uitmen, Uolt, --- Viṭman̲, Vālṭ, --- Vālṭ Viṭman̲, --- Witʻŭmŏn, --- Ṿiṭman, Ṿolṭ, --- Vālṭviṭman̲, --- Waltvitmen, --- Whitman, Walter, --- Huiteman, --- Veeitman, --- Уитмен, Уолт, --- ויטמן, וולט, --- װיטמאן, װאלט, --- ويتمن، والت، --- Vitmen, Volt, --- Uitman, Uollt, --- Huiteman, Huate, --- 華特·惠特曼, --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature
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