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102) Stalking Shakespeare: a memoir of murder, madness, and my search for the poet beneath the paint
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English
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"Following his divorce, down-and-out writer and Mississippi exile Lee Durkee holed himself up in a Vermont fishing shack and fell prey to a decades-long obsession with Shakespearian portraiture. It began with a simple premise: despite the prevalence of popular portraits, no one really knows what Shakespeare looked like. That the Bard of Avon has gotten progressively handsomer in modern depictions seems only to reinforce this point. Stalking Shakespeare...
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
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Bloom leads readers through the labyrinthine paths which link the writers and critics who have informed and inspired him for so many years.
For more than half a century, Bloom has shared his profound knowledge of the written word with students and readers. In this, his most comprehensive and accessible study of influence, Bloom leads us through the labyrinthine paths which link the writers and critics who have informed and inspired him for so many...
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Publisher
New Directions Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
1979
Language
English
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Now available. Here are the early poems which first brought Denise Levertov's work to prominence -- from early uncollected poems, selections from The Double Image (London, 1946), and her three books Here and Now (1957), Overland to the Islands (1958) and With Eyes at the Back of Our Heads (1960), which established her as one of the more lyrical and most influential poets of the "New American" poetry.
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
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From the Publisher: This spirited anthology of contemporary American poetry focuses on the new poem-the hybrid-a synthesis of traditional and experimental styles. As Cole Swensen argues in the introduction to this comprehensive new anthology, the long-acknowledged "fundamental division" between experimental and traditional is disappearing in American poetry in favor of hybrid approaches that blend trends from accessible lyricism to linguistic exploration....
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The Library of America
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
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In this book John Hollander offers a buoyant guided tour of American light verse-a tradition he pursues from Ambrose Bierce's sardonic The devil's dictionary quatrains to the latter-day comic inventions of Edward Gorey, Kenneth Koch, and James Merrill. Along the way, American wits gathers a rich harvest of couplets, clerihews, epigrams, parodies, burlesques, and other forms of fractured verse. The varied and often surprising list of contributors includes...
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Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Searching and erudite new essays on writing from the author of Burning Down the House. Charles Baxter's new collection of essays, Wonderlands, joins his other works of nonfiction, Burning Down the House and The Art of Subtext. In the mold of those books, Baxter shares years of wisdom and reflection on what makes fiction work, including essays that were first given as craft talks at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. The essays here range from brilliant...
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Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"Dangerous and powerful, hunger stalks the Donner party at every turn through the unpredictable wilderness as they make their pivotal decision to leave the trail on their journey across the Sierra Nevada during the winter of 1846 -- 1847. Thrust into peril and desperation through a long, cold winter, the party inches, terrifyingly, toward the unthinkable. Narrated by the ghostly and provocative voice of Hunger and the many members of the party, the...
114) American poetry
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Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1965]
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English
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Nearly 700 poems by fifty poets, from colonial times to the present.
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中文
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Havoc descends upon the imperial court of the Tang Dynasty when the general's wife is possessed by an ancient demon. Through a series of unexpected twists and turns, the unlikely duo of an eccentric poet and dutiful monk, unravel the dark and ancient mystery behind a centuries-old death of a beautiful courtesan in hopes it holds the key to saving the general's wife.
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