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Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries

10 best books like Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries (Helen Vendler): The Art of the Poetic Line, The Poem's Heartbeat: A Manual of Prosody, Revised Edition, The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost, Collected Works, Poet's Choice, Selected Poems, The Tunnel: Selected Poems, Interior with Sudden Joy: Poems, The Life of Emily Dickinson, John Keats: A New Life

The Art of the Poetic Line
AuthorJames Longenbach
ISBN1555974953
The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes will provide a series of sustained examinations...
The Poem's Heartbeat: A Manual of Prosody, Revised Edition
AuthorAlfred Corn
ISBN1885266405
"The Poem's Heartbeat" is a progressive, step-by-step introduction to prosody--the art and science of metrical composition in poetry. This second edition includes a new appendix of sample scansions, and a comprehensive index of poets and poems cited.
"This intelligent, user-friendly book...
The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost
AuthorHarold Bloom
ISBN0060540419
Bloom’s stand-alone introduction to The Best Poems of the English Language



A notable feature of Harold Bloom’s poetry anthology The Best Poems English Language is his lengthy introductory essay, here reprinted as a separate book. For the first time Bloom gives his readers...
Collected Works
AuthorLorine Niedecker
ISBN0520224337
"The Brontes had their moors, I have my marshes," Lorine Niedecker wrote of flood-prone Black Hawk Island in Wisconsin, where she lived most of her life. Her life by water, as she called it, could not have been further removed from the avant-garde poetry scene where she also made a home. Niedecker is one...
Poet's Choice
AuthorEdward Hirsch
ISBN0156032678
Edward Hirsch began writing a column called "Poet’s Choice" in the Washington Post Book World in 2002. This book brings together those enormously popular columns, some of which have been revised and expanded, to present a minicourse in world poetry. Poet’s Choice includes the work of more than...
Selected Poems
AuthorFrancis Ponge
ISBN0916390586
POETRY OF FRANCIS PONGE

I consider it as one of my miraculous reading encounters to have discovered this great poetry book of Francis Ponge. I first read about it in Italo Calvino's book, "Why read Classics?"

Ponge possesses a unique way of seeing. For him, seeing comes before words....
The Tunnel: Selected Poems
AuthorRussell Edson
ISBN0932440657


Never having done any creative writing as an adult, I took my first writing course many years ago, back when I was in my late thirties. I was given conventional short stories and poems as models but nothing really clicked with me, that is, I knew I wanted to write but wasn’t really inspired by...
Interior with Sudden Joy: Poems
AuthorBrenda Shaughnessy
ISBN0374526982
The Next Illogical Step In Love Poetry

"The next illogical step
in love poetry
The most inscrutable beautiful names in this world
always do sound like diseases.
It is because they are engorged.
G., I am a fool.
What we feel in the solar plexus wrecks us.
Halfway...
The Life of Emily Dickinson
AuthorRichard B. Sewall
ISBN0674530802
The life of Emily Dickinson, Richard B. Sewall's monumental biography of the great American poet (1830-1886), won the National Book Award when it was originally published in two volumes. Now available in a one-volume edition, it has been called "by far the best and most complete study of the poet's...
John Keats: A New Life
AuthorNicholas Roe
ISBN0300124651
This landmark biography of celebrated Romantic poet John Keats explodes entrenched conceptions of him as a delicate, overly sensitive, tragic figure. Instead, Nicholas Roe reveals the real flesh-and-blood poet: a passionate man driven by ambition but prey to doubt, suspicion, and jealousy; sure...
The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets
AuthorDavid Lehman
ISBN0385495331
A landmark work of cultural history that tells the story of how four young poets, John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, and Kenneth Koch, reinvented literature and turned New York into the art capital of the world.

Greenwich Village, New York, circa 1951. Every night, at a rundown tavern...
A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain , Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade
AuthorChristopher E.G. Benfey
ISBN1594201609
A surprising and scandalous story of how the interaction within a group of exceptional and uniquely talented characters shaped and changed American thought

At the close of the Civil War, the United States took a deep breath to lick wounds and consider the damage done. A Summer of Hummingbirds...
Speak Low
AuthorCarl Phillips
ISBN0374267162
Speak Low is the tenth book from one of America's most distinctive--and one of poetry's most essential--contemporary voices. Phillips has long been hailed for work provocative in its candor, uncompromising in its inquiry, and at once rigorous and innovative in its attention to craft. Over the course...
Helen in Egypt
AuthorH.D.
ISBN0811205444
The fabulous beauty of Helen of Troy is legendary. But some say that Helen was never in Troy, that she had been conveyed by Zeus to Egypt, and that Greeks and Trojans alike fought for an illusion. A fifty-line fragment by the poet Stesichorus of Sicily (c. 640-555 B.C.), what survives of his Pallinode,...
The Emergence of Memory: Conversations With W. G. Sebald
AuthorLynne Sharon Schwartz
ISBN1583227857
When German author W. G. Sebald died in a car accident at the age of fifty-seven, the literary world mourned the loss of a writer whose oeuvre it was just beginning to appreciate. Through published interviews with and essays on Sebald, award-winning translator and author Lynne Sharon Schwartz offers...
The Complete Works of Emily Dickinson
AuthorEmily Dickinson
This is the second volume of a new series of publications by Delphi Classics, the best-selling publisher of classical works. Many poetry collections are often poorly formatted and difficult to read on eReaders. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior...
All Day Permanent Red: The First Battle Scenes of Homer's Iliad Rewritten
AuthorChristopher Logue
ISBN0374529299
Setting down her topaz saucer heaped with nectarine jelly,
Emptying her blood-red mouth—set in her ice-white face—
Teenaged Athena jumped up and shrieked:

"Kill! Kill for me!
Better to die than live without killing!"

Who says prayer does no good?

Christopher...
The Book of Men
AuthorDorianne Laux
ISBN0393079554
The narrative poems in Dorianne Laux's fifth collection charge through the summer of love, where Vietnam casts a long shadow, and into the present day, where she compassionately paints the smoky bars, graffiti, and addiction of urban life. Laux is "continually engaging and, at her best, luminous"...
White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
AuthorBrenda Wineapple
ISBN1400044014
After p. 125

'Tis a puzzlement - this Book -
'Tis - or 'twas -
Or -
Perhaps a bit of both -

At End

I must add this title to the short list of biographical narratives that I consider perfect (not that my selection bears any significance beyond the edge of my desk), in the...
Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001
AuthorW.G. Sebald
ISBN1400068908
A publishing landmark—the first major collection of poems by one of the late twentieth century’s literary masters
 
German-born W. G. Sebald is best known as the innovative author of Austerlitz, the prose classic of World War II culpability and conscience that The Guardian called “a...
The Language of Inquiry
AuthorLyn Hejinian
ISBN0520217004
Lyn Hejinian is among the most prominent of contemporary American poets. Her autobiographical poem My Life, a best-selling book of innovative American poetry, has garnered accolades and fans inside and outside academia. The Language of Inquiry is a comprehensive and wonderfully readable collection...
A Monster's Notes
AuthorLaurie Sheck
ISBN0307271056
What if Mary Shelley had not invented Frankenstein’s monster but had met him when she was a girl of eight, sitting by her mother’s grave, and he came to her unbidden? What if their secret bond left her forever changed, obsessed with the strange being whom she had discovered at a time of need? What if...
Edmund Spenser's Poetry
AuthorEdmund Spenser
ISBN0393962997
To facilitate discussion of the place of the body and of pastoral elements in Spenser's epic, the Third Edition includes more of The Faerie Queene: from Book II, canto ix (the House of Alma), and from Book VI, the remainder of canto x and all of cantos xi-xii. The Shepheardes Calender is represented by...
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