The disinherited mind : essays in modern German literature and thought / by Heller, Erich, 1911-

Table of Contents: “…--Karl Kraus: satirist in the modern world.--The hazard of modern poetry.--Zarathustra's three metamorphoses.--Yeats and Nietzsche: reflections on a poet's marginal notes.…”

The makers of English poetry by Dawson, William James, 1854-1928

Culture as politics : selected writings of Christopher Caudwell / by Caudwell, Christopher, 1907-1937

Table of Contents: “…Lawrence : a study of the bourgeois artist -- Freud : a study in bourgeois psychology -- Liberty : a study in bourgeois illusion -- The birth of poetry -- The death of mythology -- The development of modern poetry -- English poets I : the period of primitive accumulation -- English poets II : the industrial revolution -- English poets III : the decline of capitalism -- The movement of bourgeois poetry -- The world and the "I" -- Heredity and development : a study of bourgeois biology.…”
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The dangers of poetry : culture, politics, and revolution in Iraq / by Jones, Kevin M. 1983-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : "the spirit of the rebel poet" -- Neoclassical modernity : poetry, history, and authenticity, 1876-1914 -- Rebel poetry : colonialism and the poetry of rebellion, 1914-1920 -- Double-edged praise : patronage, power, and panegyric, 1920-1932 -- Patriots and traitors : the cultural politics of nationalism, 1932-1945 -- Poetry of public spaces : mass politics and new horizons, 1945-1958 -- Cultural hegemony : the politics of class, gender, and nation, 1958-1963 -- Conclusion : "we are what flows through every soul and spirit".…”
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Mirror of Minds : Psychological Beliefs in English Poetry. by Bullough, Geoffrey

Table of Contents: “…The Individual and the Racial Image in Modern Poetry -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.…”
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Poetry at stake : lyric aesthetics and the challenge of technology / by Noland, Carrie, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Traffic in the unknown: Rimbaud's interpretive communities, market competition, and the poetics of Voyance -- A poetry of attractions: Rimbaud's machine and the Theatrical féerie -- Confessing philosophy: Negative dialectics and/as lyric poetry -- Blaise Cendrars and the heterogeneous discourses of the lyric subject -- High decoration: Sonia Delaunay, Blaise Cendrars, and the poem as fashion design -- Messages personnels: radio, cryptography, and the resistance poetry of René Char -- Rimbaud and Patti Smith: the discoveries of modern poetry and the popular music industry --Laurie Anderson: confessions of a cyborg.…”

Poetry at stake : lyric aesthetics and the challenge of technology / by Noland, Carrie, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Traffic in the unknown: Rimbaud's interpretive communities, market competition, and the poetics of Voyance -- A poetry of attractions: Rimbaud's machine and the Theatrical féerie -- Confessing philosophy: Negative dialectics and/as lyric poetry -- Blaise Cendrars and the heterogeneous discourses of the lyric subject -- High decoration: Sonia Delaunay, Blaise Cendrars, and the poem as fashion design -- Messages personnels: radio, cryptography, and the resistance poetry of René Char -- Rimbaud and Patti Smith: the discoveries of modern poetry and the popular music industry --Laurie Anderson: confessions of a cyborg.…”
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The muse in council being essays on poets and poetry / by Drinkwater, John, 1882-1937

Table of Contents: “…--Poetry and conduct: A footnote to 'The soul of modern poetry.'--Ancient altars: Philip Sidney. John Milton. …”

Style in the Renaissance : language and ideology in early modern England / by Canning, Patricia

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements; Introduction: In the Beginning was the Word; Chapter 1: Constructing Plausible Stories: Ideology, Conceptual Integration Theory and the Politics of Representation in George Herbert's 'JESU'; Chapter 2: 'A Deed Without a Name': Murder and the Linguistics of Agency in Shakespeare's Macbeth; Chapter 3: 'Bit-Part' Actors: Metonymy in Thomas Middleton and William Rowley's The Changeling; Chapter 4: Picturing Words: Ekphrasis and the Word-as-Image in Early Modern Poetry; Chapter 5: Conclusion: 'Being Nothing': The Value of the W/word; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Culture as politics : selected writings of Christopher Caudwell / by Caudwell, Christopher, 1907-1937

Table of Contents: “…Illusion and reality -- The birth of poetry -- The death of mythology -- The development of modern poetry -- English poets I: the period of primitive accumulation -- English poets II: the Industrial Revolution -- English poets III: the decline of capitalism -- The movement of bourgeois poetry -- The world and the 'I' -- Part III. …”

The puritan and the cynic : moralists and theorists in French and American letters / by Humphries, Jefferson, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…1 Introduction: The Golden Age of Aphorism; The Mad Judge, or Manners without Morals: From La Rochefoucauld's mot juste to Chamfort's mot fou; The World According to Poor Richard; 2 Aphorism and Theology: Blaise Pascal, Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, and the Sorcery of Rhetoric; 3 Aphorism and Literary Epistemology: Maurice Blanchot, Paul de Man, and Marcel Proust; 4 Aphorism and Criticism: Deconstruction and the Commonplace Tradition; 5 Aphorism and Fable: La Fontaine and Joel Chandler Harris; 6 Aphorism and Modern Poetry: The Advent of the Antimaxim; 7 Afterword; Works Cited; Index…”
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The experimental psychology of beauty / by Valentine, C. W. 1879-1964

Table of Contents: “…Experiments on the appreciation of poetry -- XIV. Experiments with modern poetry -- XV. Conclusion.…”
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The Irish writer and the world / by Kiberd, Declan

Table of Contents: “…The case for Irish Studies; CHAPTER 5 Synge, Yeats and bardic poetry; CHAPTER 6 George Moore's Gaelic lawn party; CHAPTER 7 The flowering tree: modern poetry in Irish; CHAPTER 8 On national culture; CHAPTER 9 White skins, black masks: Celticism and Négritude; CHAPTER 10 From nationalism to liberation; CHAPTER 11 The war against the past.…”
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The Cambridge Companion to Ted Hughes.

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This compost : ecological imperatives in American poetry / by Rasula, Jed

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Scripture and the English poetic imagination / by Jeffrey, David Lyle, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Poetry and the voice of God -- Paraphrase and theater: Bonaventure's retracing the arts to theology and literary evangelism -- Quotation and inflection: Dante and Chaucer on the Sermon on the mount -- Egyptian gold: biblical transformations of Ovid in The Canterbury tales -- Irony and misreading: courtly love and marriage according to Henry VIII -- Poetry in preaching, prayer, and pastoral care: John Donne and George Herbert -- Habitual music: the influence on English poets of the King James Bible -- Conclusion and form for the personal in modern poetry -- The conversion poems of Margaret Avison -- Meditation and gratitude: the enduringly beautiful changes of Richard Wilbur -- Epiphanies of a father's love: Anthony Hecht and Gjertrud Schnackenberg -- Epilogue: Can Faustus be saved?…”

Just being difficult? : academic writing in the public arena /

Table of Contents: “…Difficult style and "Illustrious" vernaculars : a historical perspective / Margaret Ferguson -- Hume's learned and conversable worlds / Robin Valenza and John Bender -- Bad writing and good philosophy / Jonathan Culler -- The metaphysics of clarity and the freedom of meaning / John McCumber -- Feminism's broken English / Robyn Wiegman -- The resistance of theory ; or, The worth of agony / Rey Chow -- Styles of intellectual publics / Michael Warner -- On difficulty, the avant-garde, and critical moribundity / Peter Brooks -- Difficulty in modern poetry and aesthetics / Robert Kaufman -- Bad writing / Barbara Johnson -- The morality of form, or, What's "bad" about "bad writing"? …”

Yeats and revisionism : a half-century of the dancer and the dance / by O'Hara, Daniel T., 1948-

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Nevermore : a photobiography of Edgar Allan Poe / by Lange, Karen E.

Humor in modern American poetry /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Theories of humor and modern poetry / Rachel Trousdale -- Humor and authority in Ezra Pound's Cantos / Joel Elliot Slotkin -- Cumming's erotic humor / William Solomon -- Emotional comedies : Lorine Niedecker's "For Paul" / Marta Figlerowicz -- Laughing in the gallery : Melvin Tolson's refusal to hush / Lena Hill -- Poetry and good humor : Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop / Hugh Haughton -- Convention and mysticism : Dickinson, Hardy, Williams / Alan Shapiro -- Phyllis McGinley : defending housewifery with a laugh / Megan Leroy -- Tell me the truth : humor, love, and community in Auden's late 1930s poetry / Rachel Trousdale -- Merrill, comedy, conversations / Stephen Burt -- "This comic version of myself" : humor and autobiography in John Ashberry's poetry and prose / Karin Roffman.…”