Poetry is often closely related to musical traditions, and the earliest poetry exists in the form of hymns (such as the work of Sumerian priestess Enheduanna), and other types of song such as chants. Consisting of Sumerian poems, it’s a text that was discovered through many different Babylonian tablet versions during archaeological excavations. Each brief chapter tackles one or more poets representative of a particular era, with excerpts from their works, brief accounts of their lives, and Carey’s insightful critical commentaries. The binding was split in half and separated into two pieces. Please try again. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/books/poetry/_/N-29Z8q8Z1pqh However, we might think of the epic poem as the first instance of poetry, appearing as early as the 20th century B.C. The seminal work of Claude McKay, an African American poet born in Jamaica who immigrated to the U.S. in 1912, carried the Caribbean region into his distinctly American poetic voice. As such poetry is a verbal art. Those looking for a shrewdly condensed and accessible history of poetry could not ask for a better guide.”—, “A light-speed tour of (mostly) Western poetry, from the 4,000-year-old Gilgamesh to the work of Australian poet Les Murray. Whether you're interested in first editions of modern and contemporary poetry signed by the authors, or earlier works in interesting new editions and translations, collecting poetry can provide you with many different text forms from various regions across the world. As a survey of English-speaking poetry in the modern era it's as good as it gets. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in, A History of Modern Poetry, Volume II: Modernism and After. The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms, A Little History of Poetry (Little Histories), The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Volume 1: Modern Poetry, “[Perkins] is generous, sympathetic, sensitive, inquisitive, and has a goodly streak of common sense. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. In addition, the more we read poetry from the 18th century and earlier, the more likely we are to recognize those forms, themes, and images in modern and contemporary works. David Perkins's "History of Modern Poetry" gives the reader the essentials of the modernist movement, from its beginnings as a reaction against the outworn Romantic era to the poetry of Ashbery, Ammons, and Merrill in our own age. This bar-code number lets you verify that you're getting exactly the right version or edition of a book. The most famous of these is a work written while he was Poet laureate, Mac Flecknoe; or, A satyr upon the True-Blew-Protestant Poet, T.S. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. . It’s no secret that Dryden drafted this poem to mock Thomas Shadwell, another of Dryden’s contemporaries. He clarifies the complex interrelations of individuals, groups, and movements and the contexts in which the poets worked: not only the predecessors and contemporaries they responded to but the journals that published them, the expectations of the audience, changing premises about poetry, the writings of critics, developments in other arts, and the momentous events of political and social history. The form of the mock-heroic and the use of poetic form for satire didn’t end with Dryden. Traditionally, sonnets are written in iambic pentameter and the rhyme scheme varies depending upon whether you’re looking at an Italian or an English poem. Yet by the 20th and 21st centuries, Modernism and the waves of change brought about by world war also influenced poetry, resulting in works by poets with distinct voices who came to enjoy global circulation. 'Books about poetry are rarely page turners, but Carey's little history is gripping, is unputdownable! The 13-digit and 10-digit formats both work. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. But one thing a lot of poetry books do is mush up the sense of it all in the hope of appealing to the academics. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. While Dryden crafted his poetry more than 300 years ago, it’s still possible to get our hands on interesting editions of his works. Rabindranath Tagore, who resisted colonial language intrusion and wrote solely in Bengali, won this esteemed award in 1913, followed by Irish poets like William Butler Yeats in 1923 and Seamus Heaney in 1995. Something we hope you'll especially enjoy: FBA items qualify for FREE Shipping and Amazon Prime. Reading this book and its galaxy of poets is like looking up at the sky and seeing the whole wheeling and constellated universe.”—Daljit Nagra, author of. Who knows—after reading the poetry of Kipling, Soyinka, and Walcott, you may just find yourself with a newfound appreciation for postcolonial literature and aesthetic forms of resistance. Perkins devotes major discussions to the later careers of the first Modernist poets, such as Eliot, Pound, Stevens, and Williams, and to their immediate followers in the United States, E. E. Cummings, Archibald MacLeish, and Hart Crane; to W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, and the period style of the 1930s; to the emergence of the New Criticism and of a poetry reflecting its tenets in William Empson, John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, John Berryman, and Robert Lowell, and to the reaction against this style; to postwar Great Britain from Philip Larkin and the “Movement” in the 1950s to Ted Hughes, Charles Tomlinson, and Geoffrey Hill; to the theory and style of “open form” in Charles Olson and Robert Duncan; to Allen Ginsberg and the Beat poetry of the 1960s; to the poetry of women’s experience in Sylvia Plath and Adrienne Rich; to the work of Black poets from Robert Hayden and Gwendolyn Brooks to Amiri Baraka; and to Elizabeth Bishop, W. S. Merwin, A. R. Ammons, John Ashbery, and James Merrill. Highly recommended. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. The newfangled, modernist language of Gertrude Stein gloriously overwhelmed American and expatriate readers who bought Tender Buttons in 1914. If you’re collecting the work of some of these Nobel Laureates, you might look, for example, for Heaney’s Human Chain (2010), Electric Light (2001), or The Haw Lantern (1987). Brevity is a virtue here: Perkins states the essentials of a poet's life only and so escapes the common error of overinterpretation which most critics commit. Until now there has been no single comprehensive history of British and American poetry throughout the half century from the mid-1920s to the recent past. There's a problem loading this menu right now. Perhaps one of the best-known names of English literary criticism, translation, drama, and poetry, Dryden made his name as a poet with his satirical mock-heroic, or mock-epic, poems. Jumping hundreds of years ahead, we might turn, then, to the sonnet form and its early appearance in the 13th century. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. David Perkins is John P. Marquand Professor of English Literature, Harvard University. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. Poetry, Top subscription boxes – right to your door, Gothic & Romantic Literary Criticism (Books), © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2019. This David Perkins is uniquely equipped to provide; only a critic as well informed as he in the whole range of twentieth-century poetry could offer a lucid, coherent, and structured account of so diverse a body of work. This leads me to believe it was split before it went into the shipping envelope. Until now there has been no single comprehensive history of British and American poetry throughout the half century from the mid-1920s to the recent past. There have been many books on early modernist poetry, not so many on its various sequels, and still fewer on the currents and cross-currents of poetry since World War II.
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