The Sea and the Mirror
10 best books like The Sea and the Mirror (W.H. Auden): The Art of the Poetic Line, Who Betrays Elizabeth Bennet?: Further Puzzles in Classic Fiction, Complete Poems of Stephen Crane, Studies in Words, The Poems of Marianne Moore, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Grammars of Creation, The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry, A Defence of Poetry, Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning
| Author | James Longenbach |
| ISBN | 1555974953 |
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...
| Author | John Sutherland |
| ISBN | 0192838849 |
In this sequel to his popular works Is Heathcliff a Murderer? and Can Jane Eyre Be Happy?, John Sutherland unravels thirty-four new literary puzzles, once again combining erudition with bold investigative speculation. In addition to these new conundrums, Professor Sutherland revisits some previous...
| Author | Stephen Crane |
| ISBN | 0801491304 |
This book makes available for the first time in paperback all of Stephen Crane's poetry. The 134 poems, critically edited from manuscripts and printed sources according to modern textual principles, are arranged in chronological order. They include the poems published during Crane's lifetime...
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0521398312 |
Two kinds of people will read this book (and some would think they are one and the same--people like me who love the work of C. S. Lewis and will read anything he wrote, and people who love words and how their meanings develop and change over time.
This is a work of literary scholarship that explores...
| Author | Marianne Moore |
| ISBN | 0670031984 |
More than thirty years after her death, Marianne Moore continues to be one of America's most beloved poets. However, her Collected Poems (1951) omits twenty years of later beauties. And her inaccurately titled Complete Poems (1967) is likewise incomplete, leaving out nearly half of her body of verse...
| Author | Alex Preminger |
| ISBN | 0691021236 |
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics is a comprehensive reference work dealing with all aspects of its subject: history, types, movements, prosody, and critical terminology. Prepared by recognized authorities, its articles treat their topics in sufficient depth and with enough...
| Author | George Steiner |
| ISBN | 0300088639 |
"We have no more beginnings", George Steiner begins in this, his most radical book to date. A far-reaching exploration of the idea of creation in Western thought, literature, religion, and history, this volume can fairly be called a magnum opus. He reflects on the different ways we have of talking about...
| Author | Cleanth Brooks |
| ISBN | 0156957051 |
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...
| Author | Philip Sidney |
| ISBN | 0199110220 |
This is probably still the best way to finish a Defense:
"But if - fie of such a but! - you be born so near the dull-making cataract of Nilus, that you cannot hear the planet-like music of poetry; if you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry, or rather,...
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...
| Author | Prue Shaw |
| ISBN | 0871407426 |
Prue Shaw is one of the world's foremost authorities on Dante. Written with the general reader in mind, Reading Dante brings her knowledge to bear in an accessible yet expert introduction to his great poem.
This is far more than an exegesis of Dante’s three-part Commedia. Shaw communicates the...
| Author | Jacques Maritain |
| ISBN | 0766163725 |
Amazing.
“A sort of conflict may therefore be observed between the transcendence of beauty and the material narrowness of the work to be made, between, on the one hand, the formal ratio of beauty, the splendor of being and of all the transcendentals combined, and, on the other hand, the formal...
The Secret Rose: Love Poems by W.B. Yeats
Četla jsem výtisk z edice Atlantis, kde byly ještě tři krátké povídky Rosa Alchemica - ty mě příliš nezaujaly. Hvězdičky se vztahují pouze na Tajemnou růži. Tu tvoří několik krátkých povídek inspirovaných irskými legendami, mystikou, romantikou a trochou křesťanské...
Five Faces of Modernity: Modernism, Avant-Garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism
| Author | Matei Călinescu |
| ISBN | 0822307677 |
Five Faces of Modernity is a series of semantic and cultural biographies of words that have taken on special significance in the last century and a half or so: modernity, avant-garde, decadence, kitsch, and postmodernism. The concept of modernity—the notion that we, the living, are different and...
| Author | T.S. Eliot |
| ISBN | 0674931505 |
The 1932-33 Norton Lectures are among the best and most important of Eliot's critical writings. Tracing the rise of literary self-consciousness from the Elizabethan period to his own day, Eliot does not simply examine the relation of criticism to poetry, but invites us to "start with the supposition...
| Author | Ivor A. Richards |
| ISBN | 0415254027 |
To us, Richards was infinitely more than a brilliantly new literary critic: he was our guide, our evangelist who revealed to us, in a succession of astounding lightning flashes, the entire expanse of the Modern World: Christopher Isherwood Ivor Armstrong Richards was one of the founders of modern...
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment...
| Author | John Piper |
| ISBN | 1433542943 |
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...
| Author | Paul Auster |
| ISBN | 0394717481 |
During the 20th Century, France was home to many of the world's greatest poets. This collection highlights some of the very best verse that came out of a country and century defined by war and liberation. Let Paul Auster guide you through some of the best poetry that 20th century France has to offer.
"Indispensable...
The Essays, Vol. 1: 1904-1912
| Author | Virginia Woolf |
| ISBN | 0156290545 |
LOVE HER ESSAYS!!! Virginia Woolf published many essays throughout her lifetime. After her death, her husband, Leonard Woolf, collected all her published essays and put them into four uniform volumes, this being Volume One. In each of these essays, Mr. Woolf believes, have stood the test of time and...
Mythic Worlds, Modern Words: Joseph Campbell on the Art of James Joyce
| Author | Joseph Campbell |
| ISBN | 1577314069 |
Mythic Worlds, Modern Words provides a representation of Campbell’s published writing, lectures on Joyce, and exchanges with his audiences, from his obituary notice on Joyce in 1941 to lectures delivered a few years before Campbell’s death. Joyce scholar Edmund L. Epstein has arranged this...
