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By Drew S. Burk (trans)

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9781937561178 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, July 15, 2014, cover price $22.95

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Product Description: An Apology for Poetry (or The Defence of Poesy), by the celebrated soldier-poet Sir Philip Sidney, is the most important work of literary theory published in the Renaissance. The new introduction and notes include a wealth of new information and new readings drawing on recent developments in Renassance Studies...read more

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9780719053764, titled "An Apology for Poetry (Or the Defence of Poesy)" | 2 rev exp edition (Manchester Univ Pr, October 4, 2002), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: An Apology for Poetry (or The Defence of Poesy), by the celebrated soldier-poet Sir Philip Sidney, is the most important work of literary theory published in the Renaissance.

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An exploration of the powerful and destructive relationship between poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath probes their lives and their writings, coupling commentary with the poems in 'Birthday Letters' and pointing to the events that shaped them.

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9780393020090 | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 2001, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: An exploration of the powerful and destructive relationship between poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath probes their lives and their writings, coupling commentary with the poems in 'Birthday Letters' and pointing to the events that shaped them.

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9780393323016 | W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 2002, cover price $21.95

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Product Description: The Arrow of Love examines visual encounters in medieval lyrics, exploring the ways in which poets employed contemporary optical theory both to revitalize classical topoi, such as Cupid's arrow, and to address issues of subjectivity and gender...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780838754801 | Bucknell Univ Pr, February 1, 2004, cover price $38.50 | About this edition: The Arrow of Love examines visual encounters in medieval lyrics, exploring the ways in which poets employed contemporary optical theory both to revitalize classical topoi, such as Cupid's arrow, and to address issues of subjectivity and gender.
9781611481396 | Bucknell Univ Pr, April 1, 2003, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: The Arrow of Love examines visual encounters in medieval lyrics, exploring the ways in which poets employed contemporary optical theory both to revitalize classic topoi, such as Cupid's arrow, and to construct and develop subjectivities and gender roles.

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Product Description: This collection includes seventy-eight music-related poems by fifty North American poets, authors, and songwriters.

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9781931844123, titled "The Art of Music a Collection of Writings" | Piano Pr, November 1, 2003, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: This collection includes seventy-eight music-related poems by fifty North American poets, authors, and songwriters.
9780967332581 | Piano Pr, November 1, 2001, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: This collection includes ninety poems on music-related topics by forty North American poets, authors, and songwriters.

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By Miriam Nichols (editor)

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9780405103988, titled "Natural History of the American Lobster" | 3 edition (Arno Pr, June 1, 1978), cover price $25.95 | also contains Natural History of the American Lobster

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9780817358099 | Univ of Alabama Pr, October 31, 2015, cover price $49.95

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9780874172836 | Univ of Nevada Pr, June 1, 2000, cover price $44.95

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Product Description: What is beauty? Can it only be viewed in physical form, or can it be something deeper—an idea or feeling? Perhaps there is no better way to explore these questions of beauty than through poetry. Author Sheila Griffin Llanas discusses eight poems and poets, with chapters on William Shakespeare, Phillis Wheatley, Edgar Allan Poe, and five others...read more

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9781464404290 | Enslow Pub Inc, January 1, 2014, cover price $12.88

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9780766042438 | Enslow Pub Inc, January 1, 2014, cover price $33.27 | About this edition: What is beauty?

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Product Description:  In the arena of poetry and poetics over the past century, no idea has been more alive and contentious than the idea of form, and no aspect of form has more emphatically sponsored this marked formal concern than the line. But what, exactly, is the line? Emily Rosko and Anton Vander Zee’s anthology gives seventy original answers that lead us deeper into the world of poetry, but also far out into the world at large: its people, its politics, its ecology...read more
By Anton Vander Zee (editor)

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9781609380540 | Univ of Iowa Pr, September 16, 2011, cover price $33.00 | About this edition:  In the arena of poetry and poetics over the past century, no idea has been more alive and contentious than the idea of form, and no aspect of form has more emphatically sponsored this marked formal concern than the line.

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Product Description: In 1991, Dana Gioia's provocative essay "Can Poetry Matter?" was published in the Atlantic Monthly, and received more public response than any other piece in the magazine's history. In his book, Gioia more fully addressed the question: Is there a place for poetry to be part of modern American mainstream culture? Ten years later, the debate is as lively and heated as ever...read more

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9781555971762 | Graywolf Pr, September 1, 1992, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Essays explore the role of poets and poetry in contemporary society and discuss the life and work of Robinson Jeffers, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Bly, and others

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9781555973704 | 10 anv edition (Graywolf Pr, September 1, 2002), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: In 1991, Dana Gioia's provocative essay "Can Poetry Matter?
9781555971779 | Graywolf Pr, September 1, 1992, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Essays explore the role of poets and poetry in contemporary society and discuss the life and work of Robinson Jeffers, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Bly, and others

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Product Description: Poems vivifying nature have gripped people for centuries. From Biblical times to the present day, poetry has continuously drawn us to the natural world. In this thought-provoking book, John Felstiner explores the rich legacy of poems that take nature as their subject, and he demonstrates their force and beauty...read more

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9780300137507 | Yale Univ Pr, April 7, 2009, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Poems vivifying nature have gripped people for centuries.

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Product Description: This well-respected interview series welcomes Charles Simic. The University of New Hampshire poet is widely regarded as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary American poetry. Recipient of numerous awards and prizes, Simic answers questions put by Michael Hulse- Angle-German poet, critic, and editor- on a wide variety of subjects...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781903291030 | Between the Lines, November 1, 2002, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This well-respected interview series welcomes Charles Simic.

By Helen Phillips (editor)

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9780582040120 | Longman Pub Group, December 1, 1997, cover price $80.75

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9781408204153, titled "Chaucer's Dream Poetry" | 2 revised edition (Routledge, November 24, 2015), cover price $36.95

A complete new edition of the poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson includes 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' 'Penny Whistles,' 'Underwoods,' 'Ballads,' 'Songs of Travel,' 'New Poems,' and some of the poet's printed and manuscript poems that have never been published in any collection.

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9780748616244 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, August 1, 2003, cover price $49.58 | About this edition: A complete new edition of the poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson includes 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' 'Penny Whistles,' 'Underwoods,' 'Ballads,' 'Songs of Travel,' 'New Poems,' and some of the poet's printed and manuscript poems that have never been published in any collection.

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Product Description: A Companion to Poetic Genre brings together over 40 contributions from leading academics to provide critical overviews of poetic genres and their modern adaptations. Covers a large range of poetic cultural traditions from Britain, Ireland, North America, Japan and the Caribbea Summarises many genres from their earliest origins to their most recent renderings The only full-length critical collection to deal with modern adaptations of poetic genres Contributors include Bernard O’Donoghue, Stephen Burt, Jahan Ramazani, and many other notable scholars of poetry and poetics...read more
By Erik Martiny (editor)

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9781444336733 | Blackwell Pub, December 6, 2011, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: A Companion to Poetic Genre brings together over 40 contributions from leading academics to provide critical overviews of poetic genres and their modern adaptations.
9780470657010 | Blackwell Pub, May 24, 2011, cover price $199.95 | About this edition: A Companion to Poetic Genre brings together over 40 contributions from leading academics to provide critical overviews of poetic genres and their modern adaptations.

Miscellaneous:

9781444344288 | Blackwell Pub, August 26, 2011, cover price $199.95

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9789622014084 | Chinese Univ Pr, March 1, 1989, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: New

In an exploration of the sources and mysteries of artistic creativity, the author examines the concept of 'duende,' the power of creativity that results in a work of art, as he looks at how different artists respond to the creative impulse.

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9780151005383, titled "The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration" | 1 edition (Houghton Mifflin, March 1, 2002), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: In an exploration of the sources and mysteries of artistic creativity, the author examines the concept of 'duende,' the power of creativity that results in a work of art, as he looks at how different artists respond to the creative impulse.

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9780156027441, titled "The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration" | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, April 1, 2003), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In a groundbreaking exploration of the sources and mysteries of artistic creativity, the author of How to Read a Poem examines the concept of 'duende,' the potent power of creativity that results in a work of art, as he looks art how different artists--including Paul Klee, T.

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9780613618458 | Turtleback Books, July 1, 2003, cover price $25.80

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Product Description: The preeminent poet-critic of his generation.--Kirkus ReviewsWilliam Logan is the best practical critic around.--Christian Wiman, PoetryWilliam Logan has been called "the most hated man in American poetry" and the most dangerous poetry critic since Randall Jarrell...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780813025629 | Univ Pr of Florida, December 1, 2002, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: The preeminent poet-critic of his generation.

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Product Description: This book surveys the major theological writings of Hans Urs von Balthasar from the perspective of the relationship between finite and infinite freedom. The first part examines Balthasar's early treatment of the question in the context of the analogy of being...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9783906759050 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, January 1, 1998, cover price $48.95 | About this edition: This book surveys the major theological writings of Hans Urs von Balthasar from the perspective of the relationship between finite and infinite freedom.

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