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This affordably-priced collection presents masterpieces of short
fiction from 52 of the greatest story writers of all time. From
Sherwood Anderson to Virginia Woolf, this anthology encompasses a
rich global and historical mix of the very best works of short
fiction and presents them in a way students will find accessible,
engaging, and relevant. The book's unique integration of
biographical and critical background gives students a more intimate
understanding of the works and their authors.
With his trademark wit, formal dexterity, and polymorphic interest
in the world, R.S. Gwynn writes of an America of malapropisms and
bad taste and a literary past ripe for recycling. Whether he
conjures contractors and insurance agents suffering in a satire of
Dante's Inferno, fashions a sonnet taken from TV-listing reductions
of Shakespeare, or pays tribute (and more satire) to the living and
the dead in a moving set of elegies, his mastery of the old masters
and of his art is sincere and irreverent, as he knows the masters
too must have been to their readers. Gwynn is a Juvenal for our
age, pointing out our follies; yet his demonic, demotic energy has
an elegiac timor mortis about it that reminds us nothing is more
serious than a joke. In that sense, Gwynn is a poet for everyone,
and the guiding spirit in this collection is at once elegiac and
wry.
Lewis Turco, Professor Emeritus of English Writing Arts, is perhaps
the most widely respected poet-scholar in the United States. He
took his B.A. from the University of Connecticut in 1959 and his
M.A. from the University of Iowa in 1962. In 2000 he received an
honorary degree, Doctor of Humane Letters, from Ashland University.
Lewis Turco's classic THE BOOK OF FORMS: A HANDBOOK OF POETICS has
been called "the poet's Bible" since its original publication in
1968. Turco has won many awards, including the Melville Cane Award
of the Poetry Society of America in 1986 and the John Ciardi Award
for lifetime achievement in poetry. This volume is a collection of
essays by some this nation's leading poets, presented in honor of
Dr. Turco's retirement in 1996. Tributes from students are also
included in this Festschrift.
Four diverse Texas poets are presented in the anthology.
Glamorgan has a rich and diverse flora with over 80% of the
vascular plant flora of Wales being recorded in the county. This is
the first account for 86 years of the flora of the old county of
Glamorgan and the first to treat fully its lower plants. It draws
together information on the ecology, abundance and distribution of
higher plants, mosses, liverworts and lichens that has, up to now,
been largely inaccessible. Maps are provided for all but the rarest
of plants and attention is drawn to notable sites worthy of
conservation. A novel feature is the inclusion of details of floral
biology, including insect visitors, for many species. The flora, as
well as being of interest to the naturalist, is of considerable
value to conservation organisations and local authorities in
formulating conservation strategies and offering advice on all
matters concerning the wild and naturalised flora of Glamorgan.
This book is a digital reprint of ISBN 0-11-310046-9 (1994).
Like no other period in American history, the twentieth century has
produced a great flourishing of critics who not only wrote poetry,
but also published criticism dealing directly with the text and
aesthetics of poems. Beginning with John Crowe Ransom's "Wanted: An
Ontological Critic" and closing with John Ciardi's "How Does a Poem
Mean?", R. S. Gwynn has assembled many of the pivotal essays
written by these poet-critics over the last fifty years, some long
out of print. From the pens of a dozen authors, such as Robert Penn
Warren, Louise Bogan, Allen Tate, Delmore Schwartz, and Randall
Jarrell, the essays were written in an atmosphere of practicality.
It was a time when critical readings of poetry elucidated the poem
rather than the external ideologies and theories of the critic,
when criticism was accessible to the educated, common reader.
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