0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Browse All Departments
  • All Departments
Price
  • R500 - R1,000 (1)
  • R2,500 - R5,000 (1)
  • -
Status
Brand

Showing 1 - 2 of 2 matches in All Departments

Containing Multitudes - Walt Whitman and the British Literary Tradition (Hardcover): Gary Schmidgall Containing Multitudes - Walt Whitman and the British Literary Tradition (Hardcover)
Gary Schmidgall
R2,602 Discovery Miles 26 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This study explores Walt Whitman's contradictory response to and embrace of several great prior British poets: Shakespeare, Milton, Burns, Blake, and Wordsworth (with shorter essays on Scott, Carlyle, Tennyson, Wilde, and Swinburne). Through reference to his entire oeuvre, his published literary criticism, and his private conversations, letters and manuscripts, it seeks to understand the extent to which Whitman experienced the anxiety of influence as he sought to establish himself as America's poet-prophet or bard (and the extent to which he sought to conceal such influence). An attempt is also made to lay out the often profound aesthetic, cultural, political, and philosophical affinities Whitman shared with these predecessors. It also focuses on all of Whitman's extant comments on these iconic authors. Because Whitman was a deeply autobiographical writer, attention is also paid to how his comments on other poets reflect on his image of himself and on the ways he shaped his public image. Attention is also given to how Whitman's attitudes to his British fore-runners changed over the nearly fifty years of his active career.

Shakespeare and the Poet's Life (Hardcover): Gary Schmidgall Shakespeare and the Poet's Life (Hardcover)
Gary Schmidgall
R845 Discovery Miles 8 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Shakespeare and the Poet's Life explores a central biographical question: why did Shakespeare choose to cease writing sonnets and court-focused long poems like The Rape of Lucrece and Venus and Adonis and continue writing plays? Author Gary Schmidgall persuasively demonstrates the value of contemplating the professional reasons Shakespeare -- or any poet of the time -- ceased being an Elizabethan court poet and focused his efforts on drama and the Globe. Students of Shakespeare and of Renaissance poetry will find Schmidgall's approach and conclusions both challenging and illuminating.

Free Delivery
Pinterest Twitter Facebook Google+
You may like...
Discovering Daniel - Finding Our Hope In…
Amir Tsarfati, Rick Yohn Paperback R280 R258 Discovery Miles 2 580
Port Designs Courchevel Backpack for…
 (3)
R799 R639 Discovery Miles 6 390
Cartier Declaration Eau De Toilette…
R1,728 R1,624 Discovery Miles 16 240
Loot
Nadine Gordimer Paperback  (2)
R391 R362 Discovery Miles 3 620
Beauty And The Beast - Blu-Ray + DVD
Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, … Blu-ray disc R348 Discovery Miles 3 480
Fine Living Meta Office Chair (Black)
R580 Discovery Miles 5 800
Lifespace 300mm Rustic Industrial…
R419 R219 Discovery Miles 2 190
Switched High Surge 12-Way Multiplug…
R499 R427 Discovery Miles 4 270
Pet Mall Pet House Training Pads Scented…
R421 R351 Discovery Miles 3 510
BSwish Bwild Classic Marine Vibrator…
R779 R670 Discovery Miles 6 700

 

Partners