Contemporary American Poetry
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Contemporary American Poetry
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100 Great Poets of the English Language
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100 Great Poets of the English Language
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Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
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Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the man of letters to whom Emily Dickinson first entrusted her poems, was dumbfounded by them, and asked, What place ought to be assigned in literature to what is so remarkable, yet so elusive of criticism? His question was answered only after Dickinson's death: She is now considered one of America's greatest poets. Her terse, oblique, visionary poems have almost no relation to the conventions of the second half of the 19th century, when they were written. They play adventurously with meter and rhyme and are completely free of the saccharine sentiments popular at the time. Irreverent, frank, eccentric, and deeply personal, Dickinson's poetry remains fresh and unique, and is always scrupulously in search of truth. As Dickinson put it herself: Much Madness is divinest Sense--/To a discerning Eye...
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Good Poems for Hard Times
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Good Poems for Hard Times
Titled in Garrison Keillor`s typical low-key, plainspoken way, GOOD POEMS FOR HARD TIMES (a spinoff from his 2002 anthology, GOOD POEMS) contains a wide selection of poems in English. Many are by living writers, but the time period represented ranged from the 16th century to the 21st.
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The Oxford Book of War Poetry
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The Oxford Book of War Poetry
For one who has lived a life of relative peace.'The Oxford Book of War Poetry' is a good lesson in deciphering the complexity of conflict.
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