The Poetry and Music of Joaquin Sabina: An Angel with Black Wings is an exploration of the life, music, and song lyrics of the Spanish singer-songwriter Joaquin Sabina. Using lyrics from Sabina's discography, Daniel J. Nappo analyzes his use of rhetorical and poetic devices, his ability as a narrator, and compares his work to that of Bob Dylan.
The Poetry and Music of Joaquin Sabina: An Angel with Black Wings is an exploration of the life, music, and song lyrics of the Spanish singer-songwriter Joaquin Sabina. Using lyrics from Sabina's discography, Daniel J. Nappo analyzes his use of rhetorical and poetic devices, h...
Discusses poetry's aesthetic function as well as its emotional value, revealing at the same time the basic principles of literary art and giving practical hints to the poet.
At the very beginnings of the Archaic Age, the great singer Orpheus taught a new religion that centered around the immortality of the human soul and its journey after death. He felt that achieving purity by avoiding meat and refraining from committing harm further promoted the pursuit of a peaceful life. Elements of the worship of Dionysus, such ......
Most of what there is to learn about poetry has to be learnt in one's own language. But it is mostly learnt by reading and turning over poems in one's head, and little by deliberate criticism. This title includes an essay.
'The mouthmark Book of Poetry' is an anthology of the individual-author titles published under the mouthmark poetry pamphlet series, comprising the work of Nick Makoha, Inua Ellams, Jacob Sam-La Rose, Jessica Horn, Truth Thomas, Denise Saul, Malika Booker, Janett Plummer and Warsan Shire.
The Lyric Theory Reader collects major essays on the modern idea of lyric, made available here for the first time in one place. Representing a wide range of perspectives in Anglo-American literary criticism from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the collection as a whole documents the diversity and energy of ongoing critical conversations ......
Redefines modern lyric poetry at the intersection of literary and media studies. In The Lyre Book, Matthew Kilbane urges literary scholars to consider lyric not as a genre or a reading practice but as a media condition: the generative tension between writing and sound. In addition to clarifying issues central to the study of modern ......
