Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
This craft of verse This craft of verse Jorge Luis Borges **From Library Journal:** For Borges (1899-1986), the central fact of life was the existence of words and their potential as building blocks of poetry. In this series of six long-forgotten lectures g… OL104898W
Soledades Soledades Antonio Machado 108 pages ; 23 cm OL1344065W
The poetry of translation The poetry of translation Matthew Reynolds This is a wide-ranging book which launches a new theory of poetry translation and pursues it through readings of poem-translations from across the history of English literature. It engages with the k… OL16606868W
Shadows Numberless Shadows Numberless Adam Fieled Shadows Numberless: Four Collections Of Critical Material by Adam Fieled encompasses two centuries of poetry and literature. Portions have appeared in Jacket Magazine, The Argotist Online, Tears in t… OL17062577W
Beauty Poetry Beauty Poetry Sheila Griffin Llanas "Explores beauty-themed poetry, including famous American and European poets and their poems, as well as literary criticism, poetic technique, explication, and prompts for further study"--Provided by… OL18119076W
The Princeton handbook of poetic terms The Princeton handbook of poetic terms Stephen Cushman,Roland Greene "This new edition collects over 200 entries from The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition (2012). Roland Greene and Stephen Cushman have selected the terms most common in lite… OL20035918W
Death poetry Death poetry Stephanie Buckwalter "Explores death poetry, including famous American and European poets and their poems, as well as literary criticism, poetic technique, explication, and prompts for further study"--Provided by publish… OL23286449W
Generation of vipers Generation of vipers Philip Wylie "Perhaps the most vitriolic attack ever launched on the American way of living - from politicians to professors to businessmen to Mom to sexual mores to religion - Generation of Vipers ranks with the… OL31045W
Lyric powers Lyric powers Robert Von Hallberg "To explain why a reader might prefer one kind of poem to another, von Hallberg moves beyond thematic significance to analyze the varieties of musicality found in both lyric poetry and popular song, … OL3753016W
The most disreputable trade The most disreputable trade Thomas Frank Bonnell "A publishing phenomenon began in Glasgow in 1765. Uniform pocket editions of the English Poets printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis formed the first link in a chain of literary products that has grow… OL5668216W
Os Lusíadas Os Lusíadas Souza Botelho,Luís de Camões *Os Lusíadas*, usually translated as *The Lusiads*, is a Portuguese epic poem written by Luís de Camões and first published in 1572. It is widely regarded as the most important work of Portuguese-lan… OL848771W
Poetry Matters Poetry Matters Ralph J. Fletcher A practical guide to demystify the process of writing poetry, by the bestselling author of A Writer’s Notebook and the ALA Notable Book Fig Pudding. Poetry matters. At the most important moments, … OL93311W