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William Shatner stars in this celebration of poetic portraits featuring excerpts from Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology. Poems include "Gone", by Carl Sandburg "Samuel Sewall", by Anthony Hecht "Miss Helen Lang", by Robert Hillyer "Volunteer Fireman" by Phyllis McGinley "The Librarian" by Richard Armour "The Mannequins", by Louis Simpson "True Love", by Judith Viorst "Tomorrow Is My Birthday", by Edgar Lee Masters "Spoon River Anthology", by...
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This compact handbook includes definitions and articles that emphasize genres, prosody, poetic terms, rhetorical figures and topics such as poetry reading and the relationship of linguistics to poetry. Twenty-nine new and revised articles have been added, including entries on cycle, psalm, equivalence, relative stress principle, rhythm, versification, and an entry summarizing theories of poetry. Arranged alphabetically by topic in two columns, the...
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"Theodore Sampson begins his compelling study by arguing that Wallace Stevens' (1859-1955) poetry defies interpretation, that his long poems, particularly, remain too open-ended for rational paraphrase. Most critics of Stevens, faced with his complexities, have none the less attempted to make critical discourse (if not sense) out of them. This has led, in Sampson's view, to critical excesses and undue deformation of language." "Drawing its essential...
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"Matthew Arnold had two lives. In his later years, he was Victorian England's best-known social prophet, educational reformer, and literary critic. In his youth, he was an impassioned lyric poet, deeply at odds with his "damned times". Arnold's poetic life - the life that gave us "Dover Beach," "The Scholar-Gipsy," and "Empedocles on Etna"--Was effectively over by the age of forty, when he began to devote all his energies to "purposeful" prose composition."...
19) Poetic whispers
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David Benson's lively new interpretation of Chaucer's great story collection attributes the variety and contrast of the tales to the unique literary style of each narrative. In contrast to the popular "dramatic approach," which assumes that the diversity of the tales comes from the supposed psyches of the pilgrim tellers, Benson argues that each tale is a fully formed expression of an individual kind of poetry. Each is constructed on its own distinct...
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