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Theory and Design of Economic Development

Business & Money

Adelman, Irma and Erik Thorbecke, Editors

Economics

The Johns Hopkins Press

Infancy In Uganda, Infant Care and the Growth of Love

Medical Books

Mary D. Salter Ainsworth

Administration & Medicine Economics

<p>What is poetry? This question has fascinated man ever since the first poet plied his trade. Each age has attempted to answer the question, but no one has been able to define poetry satisfactorily. The world that the poet creates is not the world to which the laws of the scientist, the historian, or the philosopher are applicable. It is not a world of positive statements, but a world of interrogatory thought. For the poet, like the child, is forever questioning his universe and forever rejecting the answers that logical thinkers are only too eager to give him. Therefore, who could be more qualified to comment on the nature of poetry than poets? Recently The Johns Hopkins Poetry Festival was held in Baltimore and four poets were asked to deliver the lectures that appear as essays in this book. Marianne Moore, Mark Van Doren, Yvor Winters, and R. P. Blackmur discuss their art in general and the works of three other poets in particular - Edwin Muir, Dame Edith Sitwell, and Thomas Hardy. An Introduction by Don Cameron Allen, Professor of English Literature at The Johns Hopkins University, provides a frame of reference that lends depth and significance to the contributors' essays.</p>

Four Poets on Poetry (The Percy Graeme Turnbull Lectures)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

When they were first issued, the essays that form the substance of this book constituted experiments in reading learned poems. The author has now added four new essays on Shakespeare, Milton, and Herrick which continue to develop the method - now proved by time - that was announced in the original volume. Professor Allen contends that no one can explain precisely how Renaissance poetry - or the poetry of any age beyond our own - was written or how it was read by contemporaries. Although approximations may be made, even the most learned, the most sensitive and perceptive of these will only partially recapture the meaning of the work in its cultural and emotional milieu. At best, modern man can read a poem only as a modern man. The reader who makes associations between literary themes and poetic figures, however, can most often achieve an understanding of the spirit of the poetry of the past. Professor Allen employs in these essays the technique of looking into each metaphor and tracing its meaning in the context of all Western literature, beginning with the earliest Greek poetry. According to the previous use of metaphors and themes by Greek, Latin, and medieval poets, as well as by Continental contemporaries, he explicates eleven well-known poems and one play of the English Renaissance. His analysis reveals rich variations in the use and meaning of theme and image and enables him to develop fresh interpretations of the poems.

Image and Meaning: Metaphoric Traditions in Renaissance Poetry (New Enlarged Edition)

Don Cameron Allen

A Baronial Family in Medieval England: The Clares, 1217-1314 (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science)

History

Michael Altschul

Europe

Collected Poems of Henry Thoreau

Henry Thoreau

Anglo-American Understanding, 1898-1903

Charles S. Campbell

I have attempted to describe the internal morphology of Melville's fictional world and to trace the implications of the form of his vision of things as it gradually develops throughout the span of his career as a writer. My special perspective is provided by "Hawthorne and His Moses" in which Melville defines fiction as the "greatest Art of Telling the Truth" ans implies that an essential part of the career of any writer is his search for a form which will allow him safely to explore and reveal a destructive and maddening Truth. This focus is necessarily restrictive, but Melville's fictional world, like that of any great writer, is composed of an unlimited number of horizons, and an unlimited number of critical perspectives are possible. I have chosen one which seems to me to reveal an interesting and important portion of Melville's fictional landscape.

Melville's Thematics of Form: The Great Art of Telling the Truth

Edgar A. Dryden

A History of Icelandic Literature

<p>A 409 page Hardcover that covers Eddic Poetry, Sagas, the Icelandic Renaissance, Enlightenment, Romanticism, Realism, literature of the World Wars and American Icelandic writers. Also a bibliography, pronunciation guide and an index.</p>

Stefan Einarsson

Germany's Drive to the West (Drang nach Westen) A Study of Germany's Western War Aims During the First World War

Hans W. Gatzke

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