Books like The making of a poem by Mark Strand

T.S. Eliot surveys the social role, musicality, and classification of poetry while profiling influential poets—Virgil, Milton, Johnson, Byron, Goethe, Kipling, Yeats—and examining their impact on literature and criticism.

A collection of critical essays on Williams and his works. Also includes a chronology of events in his life.

Eavan Boland’s new poetry collection confronts conventional romantic idealism, exploring the everyday realities of married life through honest, mature reflections on love and aging.

The Making of a Poem offers a clear, practical guide to the history and structure of classic poetic forms, with chapters dedicated to sonnet, ballad, villanelle, sestina and more, plus close readings and example poems.

Bridge of Words chronicles the birth, rise, repression, and revival of Esperanto, the 1887 universal language created by Polish Jew Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof, exploring its linguistic design, cultural impact, and ongoing quest for global harmony.

A guidefor young writers to explore diverse poetic forms, learn how to compose, recite, and preserve their own poetry.

Jena Osman's debut poetry collection, *The Character*, wins the 1998 Barnard New Women Poets Prize and explores performance, narrative, and the interplay of identity and power through verse.

A detailed study of Elizabeth Bishop’s poetic development, tracing her relationships with Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell and exploring the influence of their correspondence on her work.

A practical, engaging guide that teaches young readers the fundamentals of creating poems, with clear explanations and exercises aimed at nurturing their creative voice.

John Keats, the great English poet, lived a tragic life that shaped his work and modernized the poet's narrative.

"From a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a brilliantly rendered life of one of our most admired American poets. Since her death in 1979, Elizabeth Bishop, who published only one hundred poems in her lifetime, has become one of America's best-loved poets. And yet -- painfully shy and living out of public view in Key West and Brazil, among other hideaways -- she has never been seen so fully as a woman and an artist. Megan Marshall makes incisive and moving use of a newly discovered cache of Bishop's letters -- to her psychiatrist and to three of her lovers -- to reveal a much darker childhood than has been known, a secret affair, and the last chapter of her passionate romance with the Brazilian modernist designer Lota de Macedo Soares. These elements of Bishop's life, along with her friendships with poets Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell, are brought to life with novelistic intensity. And by alternating the narrative line of biography with brief passages of memoir, Marshall, who studied with Bishop in her storied 1970s poetry workshop at Harvard, offers the reader a compelling glimpse of the ways poetry and biography, subject and biographer, are entwined. Finally, in this riveting portrait of a life lived for -- and saved by -- art, Marshall captures the enduring magic of Bishop's creative achievement"--

"A Treatise on Poetry is a great poem about some of the most terrible events in the twentieth century. Divided into four sections, the poem begins at the end of the nineteenth century as a comedy of manners and moves with a devastating momentum through World War I to the horror of World War II. Then it takes on directly and plainly the philosophical abyss into which the European cultures plunged.". ""Author's Notes" on the poem appear at the end of the volume. A stunning literary composition, these notes stand alone as brilliant miniature portraits that magically re-create the lost world of prewar Europe."--BOOK JACKET.