Political satire of the late 17th and early 18th cs. enlisted the ballad form in miscellanies such as The Covent Garden ... (1999); M. E. Brown, William Motherwell's Cultural Politics (2001); Singing the Nations: Herder's Legacy, ed.
But the freedom of poets from social constraints and conventions can also inspire a more positive mission, a resistance to the empty formulas of those in power. When others are afraid to speak, the poet sometimes bears a special burden.
This compact volume makes available a selection of 402 entries from the widely praised Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, with emphasis on prosodic and poetic terms likely to be encountered in many different areas of literary ...
This compact handbook includes definitions and articles that emphasize genres, prosody, poetic terms, rhetorical figures and topics such as poetry reading and the relationship of linguistics to poetry.
The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms-drawn from the latest edition of the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics-provides an authoritative guide to the most important terms in the study of poetry and literature.