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Pastoral poetry, English --- Literature and history. --- Romanticism --- Elegiac poetry, English --- Literature and history --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- Pseudo-romanticism --- Romanticism in literature --- Aesthetics --- Fiction --- Literary movements --- History and literature --- History and poetry --- Poetry and history --- History --- English pastoral poetry --- English poetry --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Gray, Thomas, --- Romanticism.

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Blank verse, unrhymed iambic pentameter, has been central to English poetry since the Renaissance. It is the basic vehicle of Shakespeare's plays and the form in which Milton chose to write Paradise Lost. Milton associated it with freedom, and the Romantics, connecting it in turn with freethinking, used it to explore change and confront modernity, sometimes in unexpectedly radical ways. Henry Weinfield's detailed readings of the masterpieces of English blank verse focus on Milton, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson and Stevens. He traces the philosophical and psychological struggles underlying these poets' choice of form and genre, and the extent to which their work is marked, consciously or not, by the influence of other poets. Unusually attuned to echoes between poems, this study sheds new light on how important poetic texts, most of which are central to the literary canon, unfold as works of art.

Blank verse, English --- English literature --- English blank verse --- English poetry --- History and criticism. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature

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Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898) is one of the giants of nineteenth-century French poetry. Leader of the Symbolist movement, he exerted a powerful influence on modern literature and thought, which can be traced in the works of Paul Valéry, W.B. Yeats, and Jacques Derrida. From his early twenties until the time of his death, Mallarmé produced poems of astonishing originality and beauty, many of which have become classics. In the Collected Poems, Henry Weinfield brings the oeuvre of this European master to life for an English-speaking audience, essentially for the first time. All the poems that the author chose to retain are here, superbly rendered by Weinfield in a translation that comes remarkably close to Mallarmé's own voice. Weinfield conveys not simply the meaning but the spirit and music of the French originals, which appear en face. Whether writing in verse or prose, or inventing an altogether new genre-as he did in the amazing "Coup de Dés"-Mallarmé was a poet of both supreme artistry and great difficulty. To illuminate Mallarmé's poetry for twentieth-century readers, Weinfield provides an extensive commentary that is itself an important work of criticism. He sets each poem in the context of the work as a whole and defines the poems' major symbols. Also included are an introduction and a bibliography. Publication of this collection is a major literary event in the English-speaking world: here at last is the work of a major figure, masterfully translated.

POETRY / General. --- Mallarmé, Stéphane, --- Mallarmé, Stéphane --- Mallarmé, Etienne, --- Mallarme, Steph., --- מלרמה, סטפן --- a negress. --- aesthetics. --- alms. --- anguish. --- apparition. --- bilingual. --- canon. --- classics. --- coup de des. --- fiction. --- french literature. --- french poetry. --- french poets. --- futile petition. --- gift of the poem. --- la pleiade. --- literature. --- modern literature. --- modernism. --- poetry collection. --- poetry. --- renewal. --- salut. --- salutation. --- sea breeze. --- sigh. --- summer sadness. --- surrealism. --- symbolism. --- the azure. --- the bell ringer. --- the clown chastised. --- the contemporary parnassus. --- the flowers. --- the jinx. --- the satirical parnassus. --- the windows. --- weary of bitter sleep.