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  • Poetry, Modernism, and an Imperfect World

    by Sean Pryor ...
    Diverse modernist poems, far from advertising a capacity to prefigure utopia or save society, understand themselves to be complicit in the unhappiness and injustice of an imperfect or fallen world. Combining analysis of technical devices and aesthetic values with broader accounts of contemporary critical debates, social contexts, and political history, this book offers a formalist argument about ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and the Poetry of Paradise

    by Sean Pryor ...
    Emphasizing the interplay of aesthetic forms and religious modes, Sean Pryor's ambitious study takes up the endlessly reiterated longing for paradise that features throughout the works of W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound. Yeats and Pound define poetry in terms of paradise and paradise in terms of poetry, Pryor suggests, and these complex interconnections fundamentally shape the development of their art. ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Poem

    Edited by Sean Pryor ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    What is a poem? What ideas about the poem as such shape how readers and audiences encounter individual poems? To explore these questions, the first section of this Companion addresses key conceptual issues, from singularity and genre to the poem's historical exchanges with the song and the novel. The second section turns to issues of form, focusing on voice, rhythm, image, sound, diction, and ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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    And Fall in Love with Poetry

    by Edward Hirsch ...
    From the National Book Critics Circle Award–winning poet and critic: "A lovely book, full of joy and wisdom." — The Baltimore SunHow to Read a Poem is an unprecedented exploration of poetry, feeling, and human nature. In language at once acute and emotional, Edward Hirsch describes why poetry matters and how we can open up our imaginations so that its message can make a difference. In a marvelous ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Poet's Glossary

    by Edward Hirsch ...
    A major addition to the literature of poetry, Edward Hirsch’s sparkling new work is a compilation of forms, devices, groups, movements, isms, aesthetics, rhetorical terms, and folklore—a book that all readers, writers, teachers, and students of poetry will return to over and over.Hirsch has delved deeply into the poetic traditions of the world, returning with an inclusive, international compendium ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • A New Handbook of Literary Terms

    by David Mikics ...
    A New Handbook of Literary Terms offers a lively, informative guide to words and concepts that every student of literature needs to know. Mikics’s definitions are essayistic, witty, learned, and always a pleasure to read. They sketch the derivation and history of each term, including especially lucid explanations of verse forms and providing a firm sense of literary periods and movements from ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • How Poems Think

    by Reginald Gibbons ...
    To write or read a poem is often to think in distinctively poetic ways—guided by metaphors, sound, rhythms, associative movement, and more. Poetry's stance toward language creates a particular intelligence of thought and feeling, a compressed articulation that expands inner experience, imagining with words what cannot always be imagined without them. Through translation, poetry has diversified ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reading Poetry

    A Complete Coursebook

    by Tom Furniss, Michael Bath ...
    Reading Poetry offers a comprehensive and accessible guide to the art of reading poetry. Discussing more than 200 poems by more than 100 writers, ranging from ancient Greece and China to the twenty-first century, the book introduces readers to the skills and the critical and theoretical awareness that enable them to read poetry with enjoyment and insight. This third edition has been significantly ... Read more

    $74.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms

    by Chris Baldick ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference
    The bestselling Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms provides clear and concise definitions of the most troublesome literary terms, from abjection to zeugma. It is an essential reference tool for students of literature in any language. Now expanded and in its fourth edition, it includes increased coverage of new terms from modern critical and theoretical movements, such as feminism, schools of ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Educated Imagination

    by Northrop Frye ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    "What good is the study of literature? Does it help us think more clearly, or feel more sensitively, or live a better life than we could without it?" Written in the relaxed and frequently humorous style of his public lectures, this remains, of Northrop Frye's many books, perhaps the easiest introduction to his theories of literature and literary education. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Myth

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Robert Segal ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Where do myths come from? What is their function and what do they mean? In this Very Short Introduction Robert Segal introduces the array of approaches used to understand the study of myth. These approaches hail from disciplines as varied as anthropology, sociology, psychology, literary criticism, philosophy, science, and religious studies. Including ideas from theorists as varied as Sigmund Freud ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • The Essential Poet's Glossary

    by Edward Hirsch ...
    A Poet’s Glossary was an extraordinary achievement that continues to stand as a definitive source for poets and poetry lovers alike. Here, The Essential Poet’s Glossary gleans the very best from that extraordinary volume."An instant classic that belongs on the bookshelf of every serious poet and literature student."—Washington PostChancellor of the Academy of American Poets Edward Hirsch has ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD