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A Clown in a Grave
Using a number of critical approaches, Michael Skau examines Gregory Corso’s complex imagination, his humor, and his poetic techniques in dealing with America, the Beat generation, and death. Skau covers…
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A Profile of Twentieth-Century American Poetry
Seven chronologically arranged essays—each covering roughly a decade from 1908 through 1988—plus two special-focus essays on black and female poets, an introduction by Ed Folsom, and a preface by editors…
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A Readable Beowulf
Stanley B. Greenfield, one of the world’s foremost Anglo-Saxon scholars, writes of why, after more than thirty years of study, he undertook the Herculean task of rendering Beowulf into contemporary…
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Backgrounds to David Jones
This is the first book to make extensive use of David Jones’s drafts of poems and essays, his letters, and his own annotations to the books in his library. It…
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Canciones and the Early Poetry of Lorca
Although Federico García Lorca is well-known to the English speaking public as a playwright and as the author of Romancero gitano and Poeta en Nueva York, his early poetry has…
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Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti was considered the ideal female poet of her time. Her poetry was devotional, moral, and spoke of frustrated affection.Dolores Rosenblum presents a fresh reading of Rossetti’s works and…
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