Books

17 results found
Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Essai sur la langue de la reclame contemporaine Essai sur la langue de la reclame contemporaine Marcel Galliot Ambiguity, according to Empson, includes "any verbal nuance, however slight, which gives room for alternative reactions to the same piece of language." From this definition, broad enough by his own a… OL1161514W
T. S. Eliot T. S. Eliot Derek Antona Traversi,Derek Traversi A comprehensive analysis of Eliot's major poems: The Waste Land, Ash Wednesday, and Four Quartets. OL1409867W
Journeys, Poetry & Literacy Key Stage 3/4 January 2002 Journeys, Poetry & Literacy Key Stage 3/4 January 2002 Wendy Bardsley GCSE School Text Book 2 editions OL15157638W
The well wrought urn The well wrought urn Cleanth Brooks "This book consists of detailed commentaries on ten famous English poems from the Elizabethan period to the present. The specific works ... are: Donne's The Canonization, Shakespeare's Macbeth, Milto… OL16481137W
Coming of age as a poet Coming of age as a poet Helen Hennessy Vendler "To find a personal style is, for a writer, to become adult; and to write one's first "perfect" poem - a poem that wholly and successfully embodies that style - is to come of age as a poet. By lookin… OL1851117W
New Explorations New Explorations John G. Fahy Useful for students taking the Leaving Certificate in 2008. OL19009802W
W.H. Auden W.H. Auden Peter Edgerly Firchow "W. H. Auden: Contexts for Poetry is an attempt to consolidate the critical findings of the last quarter century, and then take them a step further in the direction of seeing how some of Auden's most… OL19407759W
Milton and the making of Paradise lost Milton and the making of Paradise lost Poole, William Milton and the Making of Paradise Lost tells the story of John Milton's life as England's self-elected national poet and explains how the single greatest poem of the English language came to be writt… OL19719690W
AQA Poetry Anthology - Love and Relationships : York Notes for GCSE AQA Poetry Anthology - Love and Relationships : York Notes for GCSE Mary Green 1 online resource (96 pages) OL21584940W
Favourite classic poets Favourite classic poets Brian Moses Providing a short introduction to the life and work of 13 of the best-known classic poets from around the world, this book includes works by Blake, A.A. Milne, Tennyson and Frost. It introduces key p… OL24826307W
Poetry after Auschwitz Poetry after Auschwitz Susan Gubar "In this study Susan Gubar demonstrates that Theodor Adorno's famous injunction against writing poetry after Auschwitz paradoxically inspired an ongoing literary tradition. From the 1960s to the pres… OL38940W
Chaucer and Boccaccio Chaucer and Boccaccio Edwards, Robert "In the late Middle Ages, Chaucer invented two imaginative domains - antiquity and modernity - that proved crucial to his culture and to our subsequent understanding of the emergence of selfhood, sub… OL4619776W
In Flanders Fields In Flanders Fields Linda Granfield Presents the context for the writing of the famous poem by the Canadian medical officer who attended injured soldiers in Flanders during the First World War. OL527182W
Early British poetry Early British poetry Paula Johanson "Examines early British poetry from the 7th century into the 19th century, including short biographies of poets like William Shakespeare and John Donne; also examples of poems, poetic techniques, and… OL5719927W
Keats, Shakespeare, and other wordsmiths Keats, Shakespeare, and other wordsmiths Jennifer Fandel Examines the world of poetry, providing biographical sketches of poets from William Shakespeare and John Keats to Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath, including examples of their works. OL5734836W
Thomas Hardy's poetry Thomas Hardy's poetry Byunghwa Joh "Thomas Hardy's psyche can be explained effectively by the relationship of the child with its mother, suggesting that he was dominated throughout his life by the mother archetype. His pessimistic vis… OL7798385W
Weaving the word Weaving the word Kathryn Sullivan Kruger "In Weaving the Word Kathryn Sullivan Kruger examines the link between written texts and woven textiles. Encoded by pattern, symbol, and dye, textiles offer an important form of communication heretof… OL7798559W