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Star gazers.(80 Great Poems from Chaucer to Now)(Studying Poetry)(Book review)
80 Great Poems from Chaucer to Now, by Geoff Page; UNSW Press, 2006, $34.95.
Studying Poetry, by Barry Spurr; Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, $50.
JORGE LUIS BORGES once described how whenever he dipped into books of aesthetics" or commentaries on poetry, he felt as though he were "reading the works of astronomers who never looked at stars. I mean that they were writing about poetry as if poetry were a task, and not what it really is: a passion and a joy." Borges simply and beautifully identifies the problem with many critical studies, commentaries and textbooks: that they do not do their job of pointing beyond themselves to the stars whose lights they are ...
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- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News May 1, 2009 700+ words
...toolkit; the essential guide to studying poetry. Williams, Rhian. Continuum...Scotland) presents a guide for studying poetry, not supplying answers to questions...asked to help understand why a poem effects the reader as it does...
- Invitation to poetry; the pleasures of studying poetry and poetics.(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News May 1, 2008 700+ words
...9781405131636 Invitation to poetry; the pleasures of studying poetry and poetics. Steinman, Lisa M. Blackwell Publishing...vocabularies, technical terms, and readings of lyric poems. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland...
- Scholars scour eBay; Whether they're studying poetry or the history of...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor January 14, 2003 700+ words
Byline: Noel C. Paul Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor On a cold Friday morning this fall, Walt Whitman scholar William Pannapacker started the day as he always does. He typed "Whitman" into the search engine on eBay, the auction website, to see if anything interesting had come up for
- The difficult poem. (Advice).
- Magazine article from: Harper's Magazine June 1, 2003 700+ words
...ourselves. The difficult poem has created distress...who study difficult poems often trace the modern...with the difficult poem more rewarding by...coping with these poems. You may be asking...questions): "Why did my poem turn out like this...accessible like the poems of Billy ...
- The Poems of Charles Harpur in Manuscript in the Mitchell Library and in...
- Magazine article from: Australian Academic & Research Libraries Crittenden, Victor September 1, 2002 700+ words
...alphabetical listing of the poems by title. This is followed...and publications of the poems. For example, the poem `A Record of a Poet...east. In addition, the poem presents an astounding...edition of Harpur's poems is a bowdlerised text...
- Poems Retrieved.
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Boening, John September 22, 1997 700+ words
...information. Both editions of Poems Retrieved include his helpful...misses an explanation of why some poems have disappeared from the new...a pretty and bittersweet poem about Paris which conrates the...especially in the warm and witty poems written for those whom O'Hara...
- Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Poetry Tromp, Ian May 1, 2003 700+ words
...beginning with 1961's Poems One. Like his poems, Dugan's book titles...kind of ars poetica in a poem entitled "Speech to the...always direct and honest. Poems Seven also offers works...mystery, as in the tiny "Poem," which describes a...
- Collected Poems.
- Magazine article from: Harvard Review Taylor, Tess December 1, 2007 700+ words
...uneven, an early poem, "Aftermath," set among other poems about the First World...with the lived. Many poems are concerned with...Gorse Fires, in a poem called "Insomnia...is obscured. Other poems open up other paradoxes...dead. In the title poem to The Echo Gate...
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