The Lives of the English Poets
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Author | : Samuel Johnson |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 2009-05-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0191622737 |
'If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.' In the last of his major writings, Samuel Johnson looked back over the previous two centuries of English Literature in order to describe the personalities as well as the achievements of the leading English poets. The major Lives - of Milton, Dryden, Swift, and Pope - are memorable cameos of the life of writing in which Johnson is as attentive to human frailty as to literary prowess. The shorter Lives preserve some of Johnson's most piercing, critical judgements. Unsentimental, opinionated, and quotable, The Lives of the Poets continues to influence the reputations of the writers concerned. It is one of the greatest works of English criticism, but also one of the most humanly diverting. This selection of the Lives of ten of the most important poets draws its text from Roger Lonsdale's authoritative complete edition. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author | : Samuel Johnson |
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Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1783 |
Genre | : English poetry |
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Author | : Catherine Reef |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780618568499 |
"A look into the life and poetry of E.E. Cummings."--From source other than the Library of Congress
Author | : Jess Walter |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2009-09-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0061916048 |
Matt Prior is losing his job, his wife, and his house, and he's about to lose his mind--until he discovers a way that he might possibly be able to save it all.
Author | : Mary R. Lefkowitz |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2013-03-14 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1472503074 |
Mary R. Lefkowitz has extensively revised and rewritten her classic study to introduce a new generation of students to the lives of the Greek poets. Thoroughly updated with references to the most recent scholarship, this second edition includes new material and fresh analysis of the ancient biographies of Greece's most famous poets. With little or no independent historical information to draw on, ancient writers searched for biographical data in the poets' own works and in comic poetry about them. Lefkowitz describes how biographical mythology was created and offers a sympathetic account of how individual biographers reconstructed the poets' lives. She argues that the life stories of Greek poets, even though primarily fictional, still merit close consideration, as they provide modern readers with insight into ancient notions about the creative process and the purpose of poetic composition.
Author | : Donna Hollenberg |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 531 |
Release | : 2013-04-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0520272463 |
"The first full-length biography of British-born poet Denise Levertov (1923-1997) brings to life a major voice in American poetry during the second half of the twentieth century. Drawing on exhaustive archival research of Levertov's entire opus and on interviews with dozens of the poet's friends, Donna Krolik Hollenberg's authoritative biography captures the full complexity of Levertov's entire opus and on interviews with dozens of the poet's friends, Donna Korlik Hollenberg's authoritative biography captures the full complexity of Levertov as both a woman and an artist, and the dynamic world she inhabited"--Front jacket flap.
Author | : Ralph Freedman |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 676 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780810115439 |
In this outstanding biography, Ralph Freedman traces Rilke's extraordinary career by combining detailed accounts of salient episodes from the poet's restless life with an intimate reading of the verse and prose that refract them."
Author | : Sara McIntosh Wooten |
Publisher | : Enslow Publishers, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780766026278 |
These biographies for teen readers describe the lives and achievements of well-known, significant Americans of the 20th and 21st centuries using color layouts, informative sidebars, and lots of supplementary data.
Author | : Michael Klein |
Publisher | : George Braziller |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 9780892551705 |