1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996391514003316

Autore

Markham Gervase <1568?-1637.>

Titolo

Honour in his perfection [[electronic resource] ] : or, A treatise in commendations of the vertues and renowned vertuous vndertakings of the illustrious and heroycall princes Henry Earle of Oxenford. Henry Earle of Southampton, Robert Earle of Essex, and the euer praise-worthy and much honoured Lord, Robert Bartue, Lord Willoughby, of Eresby: with a briefe cronology of theirs, and their auncestours actions. And to the eternall memory of all that follow them now, or will imitate them hereafter, especially those three noble instances, the Lord Wriouthesley, the Lord Delaware, and the Lord Montioy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by B. Alsop, for Beniamin Fisher, and are to be sold at his shop in Pater noster Row, at the signe of the Talbot, 1624

Descrizione fisica

[8], 40 p

Soggetti

Great Britain Biography Early works to 1800

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Dedication signed: G.M., i.e. Gervase Markham.

Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910139594503321

Titolo

A companion to poetic genre / / edited by Erik Martiny

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012

ISBN

1-118-48206-9

1-78268-702-5

1-283-25834-X

9786613258342

1-4443-4431-5

1-4443-4428-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (661 p.)

Collana

Blackwell companions to literature and culture

Altri autori (Persone)

MartinyErik

Disciplina

809.1

Soggetti

Poetry - History and criticism

Poetics - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

A COMPANION TO POETIC GENRE; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I; 1: "To Get the News from Poems": Poetry as Genre; 2: What Was New Formalism?; 3: Meter; 4: The Stanza: Echo Chambers; 5: Trying to Praise the Mutilated World: The Contemporary American Ode; 6: English Elegies; 7: The Self-Elegy: Narcissistic Nostalgia or Proleptic Postmortem?; 8: Free Verse and Formal: The English Ghazal; 9: On "the Beat Inevitable": The Ballad; 10: Oddity or Tour de Force? The Sestina; 11: The Rondeau: Still Doing the Rounds

12: Weaving Close Turns and Counter Turns: The Villanelle13: Looping the Loop: Terza Rima; 14: Ottava Rima: Quietly Facetious upon Everything; 15: "Named Airs": American Sonnets (Stevens to Bidart); 16: African American Sonnets: Voicing Justice and Personal Dignity; 17: The Liberties of Blank Verse; 18: Arcs of Movement: The Heroic Couplet; 19: In a Sea of Indeterminacy: Fourteen Ways of Looking at Haiku; 20: On the Pantoum, and the Pantunite Element in Poetry; 21: "Gists and Piths": The Free-Verse Revolution in Contemporary American Poetry; 22: The Emergent Prose Poem



23: Concrete/Visual Poetry24: Poems that Count: Procedural Poetry; 25: Modes of Found Poetry; Part II; 26: "Horny Morning Mood": The Aubade and Alba; 27: Nox Consilium and the Dark Night of the Soul: The Nocturne; 28: Heaney, Virgil, and Contemporary Katabasis; 29: The Aisling; 30: The Printed Voice; 31: Rewriting the People's Newspaper: Trinidadian Calypso after 1956; 32: Tragicomic Mode in Modern American Poetry: "Awful but Cheerful"; 33: Parnassus in Pillory: Satirical Verse; 34: Poetry and Its Occasions: "Undoing the Folded Lie"; 35: On Verse Letters

36: "Containing History": Epic Poetry and Revisions of the Genre37: T.S. Eliot and the Short Long Poem; 38: Making War Poetry Contemporary; 39: Bestiary USA: The Modern American Bestiary Poem; 40: "From Arcadia to Bunyah": Mutation and Diversity in the Pastoral Mode; 41: Another Green World: Contemporary Garden Poetry; 42: Scenic, or Topographical, Poetry; 43: Ekphrastic Poetry: \In and Out of the Museum; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"A Companion to Poetic Genre brings together over 40 contributions from leading academics to provide critical overviews of poetic genres and their modern adaptations. Covers a large range of poetic cultural traditions from Britain, Ireland, North America, Japan and the Caribbea Summarises many genres from their earliest origins to their most recent renderings The only full-length critical collection to deal with modern adaptations of poetic genres Contributors include Bernard O'Donoghue, Stephen Burt, Jahan Ramazani, and many other notable scholars of poetry and poetics"--