The Romantic poet John Keats, considered by many as one of the greatest poets in the English language, has long been the subject of attention from scholars who seek to understand him and poets who seek to emulate him. Bridging these impulses, "A Brighter Word Than Bright" is neither historical biography nor scholarly study, but instead a biography of Keats s poetic imagination. Here the noted poet Dan Beachy-Quick enters into Keats s writing both his letters and his poems not to critique or judge, not to claim or argue, but to embrace the passion and quickness of his poetry and engage the...
The Romantic poet John Keats, considered by many as one of the greatest poets in the English language, has long been the subject of attention from sch...
As American journalism shape-shifts into multimedia pandemonium and seems to diminish rapidly in influence and integrity, the controversial career of H. L. Mencken, the most powerful individual journalist of the twentieth century, is a critical text for anyone concerned with the balance of power between the free press, the government, and the corporate plutocracy. Mencken, the belligerent newspaperman from Baltimore, was not only the most outspoken pundit of his day but also, by far, the most widely read, and according to many critics the most gifted American writer ever nurtured in a...
As American journalism shape-shifts into multimedia pandemonium and seems to diminish rapidly in influence and integrity, the controversial career of ...
Writing was the central passion of Emerson s life. While his thoughts on the craft are well developed in The Poet, The American Scholar, Nature, Goethe, and Persian Poetry, less well known are the many pages in his private journals devoted to the relationship between writing and reading. Here, for the first time, is the Concord Sage s energetic, exuberant, and unconventional advice on the idea of writing, focused and distilled by the preeminent Emerson biographer at work today. Emerson advised that the way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent....
Writing was the central passion of Emerson s life. While his thoughts on the craft are well developed in The Poet, The American Scholar, Nature...
An indispensable introduction to and guide through the work of a poet equal in power and sensibility to Shakespeare and Milton. Like them, Stevens shaped a new language, fashioning an instrument adequate to describing a completely changed environment of fact, and extending perception through his poems.
An indispensable introduction to and guide through the work of a poet equal in power and sensibility to Shakespeare and Milton. Like them, Stevens sha...
During the years leading up to her marriage with Leonard Woolf in 1912, the year in which she finished The Voyage Out, the future Virginia Woolf was teaching herself how to be a writer. Miss Stephen's Apprenticeship delves into Virginia Woolf's letters and diaries, seeking to understand how she got from ""I only wish I could write,"" to the almost casual statement, ""the novels are finished.""
During the years leading up to her marriage with Leonard Woolf in 1912, the year in which she finished The Voyage Out, the future Virginia Woolf was t...