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Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity

10 best books like Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity (Prue Shaw): The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination, Life Sentences: Literary Judgments and Accounts, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature, Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries, On Poetry And Poets, Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert, The Sea and the Mirror, The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry, Practical Criticism: A Study of Literary Judgment, Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning

The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
AuthorWallace Stevens
ISBN0394702786
In this collection of essays, consummate poet Wallace Stevens reflects upon his art. His aim is not to produce a work of criticism or philosophy, or a mere discussion of poetic technique. As he explains in his introduction, his ambition in these various pieces, published in different times and places,...
Life Sentences: Literary Judgments and Accounts
AuthorWilliam H. Gass
ISBN0307595846
A dazzling new collection of essays—on reading, writing, form, and thought—from one of America’s master writers.
 
It begins with the personal, both past and present. It emphasizes Gass’s lifelong attachment to books and moves on to the more analytical, as he ponders the work of...
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
AuthorC.S. Lewis
ISBN0521645840
I LOVED this book. I got it through ILL through my county library, which I've never tried before. C.S.Lewis is characteristically wonderful, and in this book he discusses the La3amon's Brut (Layamon) which I had never heard of before, but it is close to one of the first depictions of the Arthur tale. It...
Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries
AuthorHelen Vendler
ISBN0674048679
Seamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Marilyn Butler, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised Helen Vendler as one of the most attentive readers of poetry. Here, Vendler turns her illuminating skills as a critic to 150 selected poems of Emily Dickinson. As she did in The Art of Shakespeare's...
On Poetry And Poets
AuthorT.S. Eliot
ISBN0571089836
My Ph.D advisor Leonard Unger made his career on the first book studying TS Eliot's verse, in 1947, and to the end of his life, as a scholar and wit, he returned to Eliot's subjects, like 17C wits (and Shakespeare) as well as to Eliot himself, in Eliot's Compound Ghost, which strongly influenced my own dissertation,...
Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert
AuthorJohn Drury
ISBN1846142482
For the first time, John Drury convincingly integrates the life and poetry of George Herbert, giving us in Music at Midnight the definitive biography of the man behind some of the most famous poems in the English Language.

'Love bade me welcome . . .'

'Teach me my God and King . . .'


George...
The Sea and the Mirror
AuthorW.H. Auden
ISBN0691123845
Written in the midst of World War II after its author emigrated to America, "The Sea and the Mirror" is not merely a great poem but ranks as one of the most profound interpretations of Shakespeare's final play in the twentieth century. As W. H. Auden told friends, it is "really about the Christian conception...
The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry
AuthorCleanth Brooks
ISBN0156957051
In my freshman year of college, I remembered reading Brooks' essay on Keats: A Sylvan Historian, I was completely engulfed with Mr. Brooks interpretation of the poem. It gave me a different perspective on how to further analyze Keats' Ode on a Grecian Urn. Moreover, when I read the essay, I felt like I...
Practical Criticism: A Study of Literary Judgment
AuthorIvor A. Richards
ISBN0765808439
Linguist, critic, poet, psychologist, I. A. Richards (1893-1979) was one of the great polymaths of the twentieth century. He is best known, however, as one of the founders of modern literary critical theory. Richards revolutionized criticism by turning away from biographical and historical readings...
Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning
AuthorOwen Barfield
Poetic Diction, first published in 1928, begins by asking why we call a given grouping of words "poetry" and why these arouse "aesthetic imagination" and produce pleasure in a receptive reader. Returning always to this personal experience of poetry, Owen Barfield at the same time seeks objective...
Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse
AuthorJohn Hollander
ISBN0300088329
This book is chock full of great information about poetry. It talks about poetic devices, different forms and styles of poetry, and different sorts of feet, and all sorts of useful and relevant information. The problem is, this book is not organized at all, and the explanations are all given in the forms...
Dante: Poet of the Secular World
AuthorErich Auerbach
ISBN1590172191
Erich Auerbach’s Dante: Poet of the Secular World is an inspiring introduction to one of world’s greatest poets as well as a brilliantly argued and still provocative essay in the history of ideas. Here Auerbach, thought by many to be the greatest of twentieth-century scholar-critics, makes the...
The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century
AuthorJohn Brewer
ISBN0374234582
This is a difficult book to review, mostly because I don’t consider myself qualified to properly criticize the amount of work that went into this well-crafted, well-written brick (and it is a brick – it’s a read-at-a-table-because-it’s-too-heavy-to-comfortably-hold-for-long-stretches-of-time...
Love and Death in the American Novel
AuthorLeslie A. Fiedler
ISBN1564781631
A retrospective article on Leslie Fiedler in the New York Times Book Review in 1965 referred to Love and Death in the American Novel as “one of the great, essential books on the American imagination . . . an accepted major work.” This groundbreaking work views in depth both American literature and...
Seeing Beauty and Saying Beautifully: The Power of Poetic Effort in the Work of George Herbert, George Whitefield, and C. S. Lewis
AuthorJohn Piper
ISBN1433542943
Herbert - Whitefield - Lewis

In the sixth volume of the Swans Are Not Silent series, John Piper celebrates the importance of poetic effort by looking at three influential Christians whose words magnificently display a commitment to truth and a love of beauty.

Examining the lives...
Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell
AuthorJ.R.R. Tolkien
ISBN0007590083
The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work completed in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication.Suitable for tablets. Some special characters may not display correctly on older devices.We recommend that you download...
Beowulf
AuthorStephen Mitchell
ISBN0300228880
A widely celebrated translator’s vivid, accessible, and elegantly concise rendering of an ancient English masterpiece

Beowulf tells the story of a Scandinavian hero who defeats three evil creatures—a huge, cannibalistic ogre named Grendel, Grendel’s monstrous mother, and...
Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature
AuthorM.H. Abrams
ISBN0393006093
In this remarkable new book, M. H. Abrams definitively studies the Romantic Age (1789–1835)—the age in which Shelley claimed that "the literature of England has arisen as it were from a new birth." Abrams shows that the major poets of the age had in common important themes, modes of expression,...
Dante in Love
AuthorA.N. Wilson
ISBN0374134685
For William Butler Yeats, Dante Alighieri was "the chief imagination of Christendom." For T. S. Eliot, he was of supreme importance, both as poet and philosopher. Coleridge championed his introduction to an English readership. Tennyson based his poem "Ulysses" on lines from the Inferno. Byron chastised...
Speak What We Feel: Not What We Ought to Say
AuthorFrederick Buechner
ISBN0062517538
Despite the title, this book is not about whining nor about inappropriate speech. It's about discovering meaning for oneself in literature. In particular, Buechner looks at specific works of four of his favorite authors (as well as mine) Gerard Manley Hopkins, Mark Twain, Shakespeare and C. K. Chesterton...
The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth
AuthorDavid Bentley Hart
The Beauty of the Infinite is a splendid extended essay in "theological aesthetics." David Bentley Hart here meditates on the power of a Christian understanding of beauty and sublimity to rise above the violence -- both philosophical and literal -- characteristic of the postmodern world.

The...
How Dante Can Save Your Life: The Life-Changing Wisdom of History's Greatest Poem
AuthorRod Dreher
ISBN1941393322
The opening lines of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri launched Rod Dreher on a journey that rescued him from exile and saved his life. Dreher found that the medieval poem offered him a surprisingly practical way of solving modern problems.

Following the death of his little sister and the...
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