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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Language
English
Description
Robert Pinsky's The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996 gathers together all his poetry to date, including twenty-one new poems. The critic Hugh Kenner, writing about Pinsky's first volume, described this poet's project as "nothing less than the recovery for language of a whole domain of mute and familiar experience." Transformation of the familiar and uttering of what had been mute or implicit within culture continue to be central to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Modern Library
Language
English
Description
An accessible and comprehensive gathering of the works of the metaphysical English poet John Donne, a writer who has continued to loom large on the literary landscape (after a long period of obscurity) since his championing by TS Eliot and others. With a new introduction, in a volume edited by Charles Coffin.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1985
Physical Desc
524 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
This expanded volume of the distinguished poet's work contains 29 previously uncollected poems, some that had been published, and some found in manuscript after MacLeish's death in 1982. This is the definitive volume produced by a life that filled several careers as writer, teacher, and public servant, but was devoted above all to poetry.
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First American paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 667 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"To accompany Eliot's poems, Ricks and McCue have provided a commentary that illuminates the creative activity that came to constitute each poem, calling upon drafts, correspondence and other original materials to provide a vivid account of the poet's working processes, his reading, his influences and his revisions. This second volume opens with two books of verse: the children's verse of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and his translation of...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 301
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xix, 819 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
An annotated edition.
Physical Desc
liii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"More than sixty years after her death, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay continues to captivate new generations of readers. This twentieth-century American's frank attitude toward sexuality - along with immortal lines such as "My candle burns at both ends"--Solidified her reputation as the quintessential liberated woman of the Jazz Age. In this authoritative volume, Timothy F. Jackson has compiled and annotated a new selection...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First American paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xxv, 1311 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This critical edition of T. S. Eliot's poems establishes a new text of the Collected Poems, 1909-1962, rectifying accidental omissions and errors that have crept in during the century since Eliot's astonishing debut, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." As well as the masterpieces, The Poems of T. S. Eliot: Volume I contains the poems of his youth, which were rediscovered only decades later; others that circulated privately during his lifetime;...
Author
Series
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
x, 152 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Vendler "examines the ways in which five great modern American poets, writing their final books, try to find a style that does justice to life and death. With traditional religious consolations no longer available to them, these poets must invent new ways to express the crisis of death, as well as the paradoxical coexistence of a declining body and an undiminished consciousness....The solution for one poet will not serve for another; each must invent...
Author
Publisher
Barnes & Noble
Pub. Date
c1992
Physical Desc
x, 1,092 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Synopsis: Edgar Allan Poe is credited with having pioneered the short story, having perfected the tale of psychological horror, and having revolutionized modern poetics. The entirety of Poe's body of imaginative work encompasses detective tales, satires, fables, fantasies, science fiction, verse dramas, and some of the most evocative poetry in the English language. This leather bound omnibus collects all of Poe's fiction and poetry in a single...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
1987
Physical Desc
ix, 147 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Houghton Mifflin now proudly publishes Selected Poems II, a volume of selections from Atwood's poetry of the last ten years. Underlying oppression and injustice, we hear the music of compassion and fellowship.
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