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“adam plunkett”

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  • Love and Need

    The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry

    by Adam Plunkett ...
    **A TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEARBraiding together biography and criticism, Adam Plunkett challenges our understanding of Robert Frost’s life and poetic legacy in a pathbreaking new work.**By the middle of the twentieth century, Robert Frost was the best-loved poet in America. He was our nation’s bard, simple and sincere, accompanying us on wooded roads and articulating our hopes and ... Read more

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  • Silences

    by Tillie Olsen ...
    A landmark survey of disenfranchised literary voices and the forces that seek to silence them—from the influential activist and author of Tell Me a Riddle.With this groundbreaking work, Olsen revolutionized the study of literature by shedding critical light on the writings of marginalized women and working-class people. From the excavated testimony of authors' letters and diaries, Olsen shows us ... Read more

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  • The Miracle of Language

    by Richard Lederer ...
    Master verbalist Richard Lederer, America's "Wizard of Idiom" (Denver Post), presents a love letter to the most glorious of human achievements...Welcome to Richard Lederer's beguiling celebration of language -- of our ability to utter, write, and receive words. No purists need stop here. Mr. Lederer is no linguistic sheriff organizing posses to hunt down and string up language offenders. Instead, ... Read more

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  • The Bush Garden

    Essays on the Canadian Imagination

    by Northrop Frye ...
    Series series A List
    Originally published in 1971,The Bush Garden features Northrop Frye’s timeless essays on Canadian literature and painting, and an introduction by bestselling author Lisa Moore.In this cogent collection of essays written between 1943 and 1969, formidable literary critic and theorist Northrop Frye explores the Canadian imagination through the lens of the country’s artistic output: prose, poetry, and ... Read more

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  • My Emily Dickinson

    by Susan Howe ...
    "Starts off as a manifesto but becomes richer and more suggestive as it develops."—The New York SunFor Wallace Stevens, "Poetry is the scholar's art." Susan Howe—taking the poet-scholar-critics Charles Olson, H.D., and William Carlos Williams (among others) as her guides—embodies that art in her 1985 My Emily Dickinson (winner of the Before Columbus Foundation Book Award). Howe shows ways in which ... Read more

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  • The Machine in the Garden : Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America

    Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America

    by Leo Marx ...
    For over four decades Leo Marx's work has focused on the relationship between technology and culture in 19th- and 20th-century America. His research helped to define--and continues to give depth to--the area of American studies concerned with the links between scientific and technological advances and the way society and culture both determine these links. The Machine in the Garden fully examines ... Read more

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  • Books Promiscuously Read

    Reading as a Way of Life

    by Heather Cass White ...
    The critic and scholar Heather Cass White offers an exploration of the nature of readingHeather Cass White's Books Promiscuously Read is about the pleasures of reading and its power in shaping our internal lives. It advocates for a life of constant, disorderly, time-consuming reading, and encourages readers to trust in the value of the exhilaration and fascination such reading entails. Rather than ... Read more

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  • Occasional Views

    "More About Writing and Other Essays"

    by Samuel R. Delany ...
    Essays, lectures, and interviews from the iconic, award-winning author and critic.Samuel R. Delany is an acclaimed writer of literary theory, queer literature, and fiction. His "prismatic output is among the most significant, immense and innovative in American letters," wrote novelist Jordy Rosenberg in the New York Times in 2019. This anthology of essays, lectures, and interviews addresses ... Read more

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  • Robert Frost

    A Life

    by Jay Parini ...
    The story of the four-time Pulitzer Prize–winning poet's life, as told through analysis of his work." Robert Frost is a pleasure to read, combining . . .penetrating commentary on the poetry and good illustrative anecdotes. . . . Mr. Parini has brought Frost more sharply into focus."―Christopher Lehman-Haupt, The New York TimesThis fascinating reassessment of America's mo... ... Read more

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  • Children's Literature

    A Reader's History, from Aesop to Harry Potter

    by Professor Seth Lerer ...
    Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children’s literature. Children’s Literature charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop’s fables to Mother Goose, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from Where the Wild Things Are to Harry Potter.The only single-volume work to capture the rich and diverse history of children’s literature in its full ... Read more

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  • Tributes

    American Writers on American Writers

    by Bradford Morrow, Martine Bellen, Lee Smith ...
    Series Book 29 - Conjunctions
    Rick Moody on John Cheever; Ben Marcus on Dr. Seuss; Mona Simpson on Henry James: Forty-five essays by great writers, about great writers.For Tributes, Conjunctions invited a number of contemporary writers to pay homage to American literary masters who made something possible for them—whether that was the act of writing itself, writing a certain book, writing in a particular manner, or living in a ... Read more

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  • The Last Gift of Time

    Life Beyond Sixty

    by Carolyn G. Heilbrun ...
    From the author of Writing a Woman's Life comes an inspirational reflection on aging and the gift of life in your 70s and beyond.When she was young, distinguished author and critic Carolyn Heilbrun solemnly vowed to end her life when she turned seventy. But on the advent of that fateful birthday, she realized that her golden years had been full of unforeseen pleasures. Now, the astute and ever ... Read more

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