Based on four Nielson Lectures delivered at Smith College, this book examines a series of "promenade poems, " lyrics that follow a poetic speaker moving through a landscape and responding to it. Thomas M. Greene invites the reader to consider a wide range of poets, beginning with Amy Clampitt and A. R. Ammons, continuing with Petrarch, Ronsard, Saint-Amant, Milton, Vaughan, and Marvell, and concluding with two representative Romantics, Wordsworth and Whitman.
Greene's discussions of this rich body of texts stimulate reflection at several levels. They can be read first of all simply as...
Based on four Nielson Lectures delivered at Smith College, this book examines a series of "promenade poems, " lyrics that follow a poetic speaker movi...
This third edition of Manchester includes a new chapter on the city's future, covering economic regeneration, urban redevelopment, and Manchester's place in Europe.
This third edition of Manchester includes a new chapter on the city's future, covering economic regeneration, urban redevelopment, and Manchester's pl...
