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  • The Blank-Verse Tradition from Milton to Stevens

    Freethinking and the Crisis of Modernity

    by Henry Weinfield ...
    Blank verse, unrhymed iambic pentameter, has been central to English poetry since the Renaissance. It is the basic vehicle of Shakespeare's plays and the form in which Milton chose to write Paradise Lost. Milton associated it with freedom, and the Romantics, connecting it in turn with freethinking, used it to explore change and confront modernity, sometimes in unexpectedly radical ways. Henry ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • The Poetry and Poetics of Michael Heller

    A Nomad Memory

    by Hélène Aji, Norman Finkelstein, Stephen Fredman, Eric Hoffman, Romana Huk, Elisabeth Joyce, Henry Weinfield, Tyrone Williams, David Herd ...
    The Poetry and Poetics of Michael Heller: A Nomad Memory is the first comprehensive treatment of a singularly important American poet of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Michael Heller (b. 1937) has amassed a body of poetry and criticism that places him in the vanguard of modern literature, and this essay collection provides the first extensive critical treatment of his varied career. ... Read more

    $115.89 CAD

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  • Must We Mean What We Say?

    A Book of Essays

    by Stanley Cavell ...
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    In this classic collection of wide-ranging and interdisciplinary essays, Stanley Cavell explores a remarkably broad range of philosophical issues from politics and ethics to the arts and philosophy. The essays explore issues as diverse as the opposing approaches of 'analytic' and 'Continental' philosophy, modernism, Wittgenstein, abstract expressionism and Schoenberg, Shakespeare on human needs, ... Read more

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  • The Prayers of Kierkegaard

    Edited by Soren Kierkegaard ...
    "The best book on Kierkegaard which has been written in English—or in any other language." —Walter Lowrie, author of A Short Life of KierkegaardSoren Kierkegaard's influence has been felt in many areas of human thought from theology to psychology. The nearly one hundred of his prayers gathered here from published works and private papers, not only illuminate his own life of prayer, but speak to ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Paradise Lost

    Edited by Louis Schwartz ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Fifteen short, accessible essays exploring the most important topics and themes in John Milton's masterpiece, Paradise Lost. The essays invite readers to begin their own independent exploration of the poem by equipping them with useful background knowledge, introducing them to key passages, and acquainting them with the current state of critical debates. Chapters are arranged to mirror the way the ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Shakespeare and the Arts of Language

    by Russ McDonald ...
    Series series Oxford Shakespeare Topics
    Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion of its subject. Notes and a critical guide to further reading equip the interested reader with the means to broaden research. For the modern reader or ... Read more

    $29.79 CAD

  • Disowning Knowledge

    In Seven Plays of Shakespeare

    by Stanley Cavell ...
    Reissued with a new essay on Macbeth this famous collection of essays on Shakespeare's tragedies considers these plays as responses to the crisis of knowledge and the emergence of modern skepticism provoked by the new science of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Introduction to British Romantic Poetry

    by Michael Ferber ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    The best way to learn about Romantic poetry is to plunge in and read a few Romantic poems. This book guides the new reader through this experience, focusing on canonical authors - Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Blake and Shelley - whilst also including less familiar figures as well. Each chapter explains the history and development of a genre or sets out an important context for the poetry, ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry

    by Linda K. Hughes ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Victorian poetry was read and enjoyed by a much larger audience than is sometimes thought. Publication in widely-circulating periodicals, reprinting in book reviews, and excerpting in novels and essays ensured that major poets such as Tennyson, Browning, Hardy and Rossetti were household names, and they remain popular today. The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry provides an accessible ... Read more

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  • Invisible Listeners

    Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery

    by Helen Vendler ...
    The renowned literary critic offers an enlightening exploration of three great poets that "goes to the heart of our experience of lyric" (Bonnie Costello, Boston University, author of Shifting Ground).When a poet addresses a living person, we recognize the expression of intimacy. But what impels poets to leap across time and space to speak to invisible listeners? In Invisible Listeners, Helen ... Read more

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  • The Fourth Dimension of a Poem

    and Other Essays

    by M. H. Abrams ...
    A new collection of essays by the legendary literary scholar and critic.In the year of his one-hundredth birthday, preeminent literary critic, scholar, and teacher M. H. Abrams brings us a collection of nine new and recent essays that challenge the reader to think about poetry in new ways. In these essays, three of them never before published, Abrams engages afresh with pivotal figures in ... Read more

    $20.19 CAD