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Break, Blow, Burn : Camille Paglia Reads Forty-Three of the World's Best Poems by Camille Paglia (2005, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100375420843
ISBN-139780375420849
eBay Product ID (ePID)30985270
Product Key Features
Book TitleBreak, Blow, Burn : Camille Paglia Reads Forty-Three of the World's Best Poems
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPoetry
Publication Year2005
GenreLiterary Criticism
AuthorCamille Paglia
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight15.6 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2004-056573
Dewey Edition22
Reviews"She flies as high as you can go. . . . Bold and convincing. . . . Exemplary. . . . A rich book." The New York Times Book Review
Dewey Decimal821.009
Table Of ContentIntroduction 1. William Shakespeare, Sonnet 73 2. William Shakespeare, Sonnet 29 3. William Shakespeare, The Ghost's Speech 4. John Donne, "The Flea" 5. John Donne, Holy Sonnet I 6. John Donne, Holy Sonnet XIV 7. George Herbert, "Church-monuments" 8. George Herbert, "The Quip" 9. George Herbert, "Love" 10. Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress" 11. William Blake, "The Chimney Sweeper" 12. William Blake, "London" 13. William Wordsworth, "The World Is Too Much with Us" 14. William Wordsworth, "Composed upon Westminster Bridge" 15. Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ozymandias" 16. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Kubla Khan" 17. Walt Whitman, Song of Myself 18. Emily Dickinson, "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" 19. Emily Dickinson, "Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers" 20. Emily Dickinson, "The Soul Selects Her Own Society" 21. William Butler Yeats, "The Second Coming" 22. William Butler Yeats, "Leda and the Swan" 23. Wallace Stevens, "Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock" 24. Wallace Stevens, "Anecdote of the Jar" 25. William Carlos Williams, "The Red Wheelbarrow" 26. William Carlos Williams, "This Is Just to Say" 27. Jean Toomer, "Georgia Dusk" 28. Langston Hughes, "Jazzonia" 29. Theodore Roethke, "Cuttings" 30. Theodore Roethke, "Root Cellar" 31. Theodore Roethke, "The Visitant" 32. Robert Lowell, "Man and Wife" 33. Sylvia Plath, "Daddy" 34. Frank O'Hara, "A Mexican Guitar" 35. Paul Blackburn, "The Once-Over" 36. May Swenson, "At East River" 37. Gary Snyder, "Old Pond" 38. Norman H. Russell, "The Tornado" 39. Chuck Wachtel, "A Paragraph Made Up of Seven Sentences" 40. Rochelle Kraut, "My Makeup" 41. Wanda Coleman, "Wanda Why Aren't You Dead?" 42. Ralph Pomeroy, "Corner" 43. Joni Mitchell, "Woodstock" Biographical Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Permissions
SynopsisBreak, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poemsis destined to become a landmark. In it, America's premier intellectual provocateur explores and celebrates a series of great poems of the Western tradition, including some surprising discoveries of her own. She brings new energy and insight to our understanding of poems we already know, such as masterpieces by Shakespeare, Donne, Shelley, Dickinson, Lowell, and Plath. She leads us to appreciate the artistry of writers with whom we may not be familiar, such as Chuck Wachtel and Wanda Coleman. And she hails the songwriter Joni Mitchell as a major contemporary poet. Daring, erudite, entertaining, and infused throughout with Paglia's inimitable style and passion, this beautifully written bookand the dazzling mind behind itwill entice readers to begin or renew a passionate engagement with poetry. From the Hardcover edition.
LC Classification NumberPR502.P25 2005
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