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Dickens' Novels as Poetry: Allegory and Literature of the City (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature)

by Jeremy Tambling

Focusing on the language, style, and poetry of Dickens’ novels, this study breaks new ground in reading Dickens’ novels as a unique form of poetry. Dickens’ writing disallows the statement of single unambiguous truths and shows unconscious processes burrowing within language, disrupting received ideas and modes of living. Arguing that Dickens, within nineteenth-century modernity, sees language as always double, Tambling draws on a wide range of Victorian texts and current critical theory to explore Dickens’ interest in literature and popular song, and what happens in jokes, in caricature, in word-play and punning, and in naming. Working from Dickens’ earliest writings to the latest, deftly combining theory with close analysis of texts, the book examines Dickens’ key novels, such as Pickwick Papers, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Great Expectations, and Our Mutual Friend. It considers Dickens as constructing an urban poetry, alert to language coming from sources beyond the individual, and relating that to the dream-life of characters, who both can and cannot awake to fuller, different consciousness. Drawing on Walter Benjamin, Lacan, and Derrida, Tambling shows how Dickens writes a new and comic poetry of the city, and that the language constitutes an unconscious and secret autobiography. This volume takes Dickens scholarship in exciting new directions and will be of interest to all readers of nineteenth-century literary and cultural studies, and more widely, to all readers of literature.

Dickens' Novels as Poetry: Allegory and Literature of the City (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature)

by Jeremy Tambling

Focusing on the language, style, and poetry of Dickens’ novels, this study breaks new ground in reading Dickens’ novels as a unique form of poetry. Dickens’ writing disallows the statement of single unambiguous truths and shows unconscious processes burrowing within language, disrupting received ideas and modes of living. Arguing that Dickens, within nineteenth-century modernity, sees language as always double, Tambling draws on a wide range of Victorian texts and current critical theory to explore Dickens’ interest in literature and popular song, and what happens in jokes, in caricature, in word-play and punning, and in naming. Working from Dickens’ earliest writings to the latest, deftly combining theory with close analysis of texts, the book examines Dickens’ key novels, such as Pickwick Papers, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Great Expectations, and Our Mutual Friend. It considers Dickens as constructing an urban poetry, alert to language coming from sources beyond the individual, and relating that to the dream-life of characters, who both can and cannot awake to fuller, different consciousness. Drawing on Walter Benjamin, Lacan, and Derrida, Tambling shows how Dickens writes a new and comic poetry of the city, and that the language constitutes an unconscious and secret autobiography. This volume takes Dickens scholarship in exciting new directions and will be of interest to all readers of nineteenth-century literary and cultural studies, and more widely, to all readers of literature.

Dickinson Unbound: Paper, Process, Poetics

by Alexandra Socarides

In Dickinson Unbound, Alexandra Socarides takes readers on a journey through the actual steps and stages of Emily Dickinson's creative process. In chapters that deftly balance attention to manuscripts, readings of poems, and a consideration of literary and material culture, Socarides takes up each of the five major stages of Dickinson's writing career: copying poems onto folded sheets of stationery; inserting and embedding poems into correspondence; sewing sheets together to make fascicles; scattering loose sheets; and copying lines on often torn and discarded pieces of household paper. In so doing, Socarides reveals a Dickinsonian poetics starkly different from those regularly narrated by literary history. Here, Dickinson is transformed from an elusive poetic genius whose poems we have interpreted in a vacuum into an author who employed surprising (and, at times, surprisingly conventional) methods to wholly new effect. Dickinson Unbound gives us a Dickinson at once more accessible and more complex than previously imagined. As the first authoritative study of Dickinson's material and compositional methods, this book not only transforms our ways of reading Dickinson, but advocates for a critical methodology that insists on the study of manuscripts, composition, and material culture for poetry of the nineteenth century and thereafter.

Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? (Classic Seuss Ser.)

by Dr. Seuss

In this hilarious tale of mishap and misadventure, Dr. Seuss reminds us just how lucky we are.

Did I Mention the Free Wine? Madness, Mayhem & The Muse: On tour with Felix Dennis

by Jason Kersten

Felix Dennis, notorious multimillionaire publisher, first started writing poetry after a life-threatening illness. Over the last decade he has produced a string of successful poetry books, and has undertaken several high profile and successful poetry reading tours, where his expressive, lively readings have gone down a storm. Advertising his poetry evenings with the irresistible copyline: 'Did I mention the free wine?' he has entertained packed houses, through England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland - and his fans adore him. In 2010, journalist Jason Kersten accompanied Dennis as he undertook his most ambitious tour yet - a 21-city tour over three months. His description of being on the road with Dennis and his entourage, complete with a double-decker bus and a helicopter, makes highly engaging reading. More reminiscent perhaps of being on tour with a rock band than a poet, here is the behind-the-scenes story that will delight Felix Dennis's many fans and reveal a world of madness and mayhem, accompanied by the muse.

The Didactic Muse: Scenes of Instruction in Contemporary American Poetry

by Willard Spiegelman

Writing with the vigor and elan that readers have come to expect from his many astute reviews and essays, Willard Spiegelman maintains that contemporary American poets have returned to the poetic aims of an earlier era: to edify, as well as to delight, and thus to serve the "didactic muse." What Spiegelman says about individual poets--such as Nemerov, Hecht, Ginsberg, Pinsky, Ammons, Rich, and Merrill, among others--is wonderfully insightful. Furthermore, his outlook on their work--the way he takes quite literally the teacherly elements of their poems--challenges long-standing conceptions both about contemporary writing and about the poetry of the Eliot-Pound-Stevens-Williams generation. Beginning the book with a meditation on W. H. Auden's legacy to American poets, Spiegelman ends with a discussion of the multiple scenes of learning in Merrill's The Changing Light at Sandover, which he identifies as not only the major epic poem of the second half of the twentieth century but also as the period's most important georgic: a textbook full of scientific, mythic, artistic, and human instruction. The Didactic Muse reminds us that poets have traditionally acknowledged their function as teachers, from Horace's advice that poetry should please and instruct to Robert Frost's aphorism that a poem "begins in delight and ends in wisdom." Whereas many of the critical remarks of the most important Romantic and modern poets suggest their desperate attempts to separate poetry from instruction, Spiegelman demonstrates that their practices often contradicted their theories. And he shows that our best contemporary poets are now embracing the older, classical paradigms.Originally published in 1989.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Difficult Days

by Roberto Sosa Jim Lindsey

Roberto Sosa was born in Honduras in 1930. Expressing the oppression and poverty of his country, the poems in The Difficult Days are from Un Mutido Para Todos Dividido and Los Pobres, which won the Adonais Prize for Poetry in Madrid in 1968.Originally published in 1983.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Difficulty in Poetry: A Stylistic Model

by Davide Castiglione

This book theoretically defines and linguistically analyses the popular notion that poetry is ‘difficult’ - hard to read, hard to understand, hard to engage with. It is the first work to offer a stylistic and cognitive model that sheds new light on the mechanisms of difficulty, as well as on its range of potential effects. Its eight chapters are organised into two thematic parts. The first traces the history of difficulty, surveys its main scholarly traditions, addresses related themes – from elitism to obscurity, from abstraction to intentionality – and introduces a wide array of analytical tools from literary theory and cognitive psychology. These tools are then consistently applied in the second part, which includes several extended analyses of poems by canonical modernists such as Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens and Hart Crane, alongside those of postmodernist innovators such as Geoffrey Hill, Susan Howe and Charles Bernstein, among others. This innovative work will provide fresh insights and approaches for scholars of stylistics, literary studies, cognitive poetics and psychology.

Diggers at Work: Diggers At Work (Rhyme and Find)

by M A Palmer

Rhyme and Find board books offer a unique combination of big bold photographs and fun read aloud rhyming text, plus a spot and find panel on each page, perfect for adults and children to share and enjoy. A picture activity at the back brings an extra visual treat!

Diggersaurs: Mission to Mars

by Michael Whaite

While Diggersaurs work hard outdoors shifting earth and granite,Work takes place in outer space upon a distant planet . . .Meet the Roversaurs - an awesome combination of dinosaur and spacecraft. They busy on Mars, tunnelling through the ground, mapping new territory, testing soil samples and growing plants - what do they have planned? And might they need some help from the Diggersaurs?This read-aloud rhyming treat is bursting with funny, characterful dino-machines. Award-winning, bestselling Michael Whaite brings Mars to life with bright, bold colours and details to pore over.

Digital Poetry

by Jeneen Naji

This book examines contemporary forms of digital poetry in emerging technologies such as drones, machine learning, Instagram, virtual reality and mobile devices. Theoretical frameworks that engage with posthumanism, multimodality, hermeneutics and eco-writing are used to examine the changing shape of the literary artefact in the second age of machines. The book contextualises the necessity of a multidisciplinary approach for a complex artefact and gives a broad overview of the field and history of digital poetry as a subset of the genre of electronic literature. Naji examines Instapoetry and the literary algorithm, haptic hermeneutics and poetry apps. The discussion also engages with eco-writing and drone poetry, poetic mirror worlds, and mixed reality poetry, concluding with an examination of the future of poetics and literary expression in the second age of machines.

The Dinner at Gonfarone’s: Salomón de la Selva and His Pan-American Project in Nueva York, 1915-1919 (American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography #7)

by Peter Hulme

The Dinner at Gonfarone’s is organised as a partial biography, covering five years in the life of the young Nicaraguan poet, Salomón de la Selva, but it also offers a literary geography of Hispanic New York (Nueva York) in the turbulent years around the First World War. De la Selva is of interest because he stands as the largely unacknowledged precursor of Latino writers like Junot Díaz and Julia Álvarez, writing the first book of poetry in English by an Hispanic author. In addition, through what he called his pan-American project, de la Selva brought together in New York writers from all over the American continent. He put the idea of trans-American literature into practice long before the concept was articulated.De la Selva’s range of contacts was enormous, and this book has been made possible through discovery of caches of letters that he wrote to famous writers of the day, such as Edwin Markham and Amy Lowell, and especially Edna St Vincent Millay. Alongside de la Selva’s own poetry – his book Tropical Town (1918) and a previously unknown 1916 manuscript collection – The Dinner at Gonfarone’s highlights other Hispanic writing about New York in these years by poets such as Rubén Darío, José Santos Chocano, and Juan Ramón Jiménez, all of whom were part of de la Selva’s extensive network.

The Dinos on the Bus (Ladybird Sing-along Stories)

by Peter Millett

Hop on and sing along to the tune of "The Wheels on the Bus!"Roar, stomp and clap along with a class of playful dinosaurs as they go on their first bus journey!"The Wheels on the Bus" transforms into the squeals on the bus as the little dinos travel up and down, round and round, all through the land. Packed full of actions to join in, with a calming ending to wind down after all the excitement, this is the perfect first picture book to enjoy together.Young readers will stomp their feet and clap their hands in delight as they sing along with this fun-filled, dinosaur reinvention of this popular rhyme! Ladybird Sing-along Stories:Supports development of early language Encourages interaction and playRecommended for children aged 2+

Dinosaur Bash! The Ankylosaurus (The World of Dinosaur Roar! #11)

by Peter Curtis

Meet Dinosaur Bash, an Ankylosaurus, in this brilliant rhyming story, part of the collectable The World of Dinosaur Roar! series, in association with the Natural History Museum.Dinosaur Bash loves to play, but the club on his tail is scaring his friends away. Just when all hope seems lost, Dinosaur Roar arrives with some helpful advice. Will Dinosaur Bash learn how to keep an eye on his tail and win his friends back? With fantastic rhyming text written by series creator, Peter Curtis, Dinosaur Bash! The Ankylosaurus is perfect for preschool children.Inspired by the classic picture book, Dinosaur Roar! by Paul Stickland and Henrietta Stickland, this colourful series introduces a cast of authentic dinosaur characters to very young children and is approved by Professor Paul Barrett of the Department of Earth Sciences at the Natural History Museum in London. Each book also contains a pronunciation guide, as well as two pages of simple dinosaur facts, making this the perfect gift for young dinosaur fans!Also available: Dinosaur Chew! The Iguanodon, Dinosaur Squeak! The Compsognathus, Dinosaur Honk! The Parasaurolophus . . . and more!

Dinosaur Boo! The Deinonychus (The World of Dinosaur Roar! #2)

by Peter Curtis Jeanne Willis

Meet the naughty Dinosaur Boo, in this brilliant rhyming story about a Deinonychus, part of the collectable The World of Dinosaur Roar! series, in association with the Natural History Museum.Dinosaur Boo loves nothing more than playing tricks on the other dinosaurs, but he had better look out as he might just be in for a surprise of his own . . . With a fantastic rhyming text written by series creator, Peter Curtis, and award-winning author, Jeanne Willis, Dinosaur Boo! The Deinonychus is great to read aloud and perfect for preschool children.Inspired by the classic picture book, Dinosaur Roar! by Paul Stickland and Henrietta Stickland, this colourful series introduces a cast of authentic dinosaur characters to very young children and is approved by Dr Paul Barrett of the Department of Earth Sciences at the Natural History Museum in London. Each book also contains a pronunciation guide as well as a spread of simple dinosaur facts, making this the perfect gift for young dinosaur fans!Discover more stories featuring these fun dinosaur characters: Dinosaur Roar! The Tyrannosaurus rex, Dinosaur Munch! The Diplodocus, Dinosaur Snap! The Spinosaurus, Dinosaur Whack! The Stegosaurus . . . and more!

Dinosaur Chew! The Iguanodon (The World of Dinosaur Roar! #12)

by Peter Curtis

Meet Dinosaur Chew, an Iguanodon, in this brilliant rhyming story, part of the collectable The World of Dinosaur Roar! series, in association with the Natural History Museum.Dinosaur Chew spends his days on the heath, lazing around and chewing on grasses. But when Dinosaur Munch inspires him to try something different, Dinosaur Chew sets off to explore new ways of doing things. Will the lazy dinosaur ever change his ways? With fantastic rhyming text written by series creator, Peter Curtis, Dinosaur Chew! The Iguanodon is perfect for preschool children.Inspired by the classic picture book, Dinosaur Roar! by Paul Stickland and Henrietta Stickland, this colourful series introduces a cast of authentic dinosaur characters to very young children and is approved by Professor Paul Barrett of the Department of Earth Sciences at the Natural History Museum in London. Each book also contains a pronunciation guide, as well as two pages of simple dinosaur facts, making this the perfect gift for young dinosaur fans!Also available: Dinosaur Bash! The Ankylosaurus, Dinosaur Squeak! The Compsognathus, Dinosaur Honk! The Parasaurolophus . . . and more!

Dinosaur Flap! The Oviraptor (The World of Dinosaur Roar! #6)

by Peter Curtis Jeanne Willis

Meet Dinosaur Flap, the nervous Oviraptor, in this brilliant rhyming story, part of the collectable The World of Dinosaur Roar! series, in association with the Natural History Museum.Poor Dinosaur Flap just can't settle down for a nap – she's always worrying about protecting her eggs. But with a little help from a friend, will she ever be able to relax? With a fantastic rhyming text written by series creator, Peter Curtis, and award-winning author, Jeanne Willis, Dinosaur Flap! The Oviraptor is perfect for preschool children.Inspired by the classic picture book, Dinosaur Roar! by Paul Stickland and Henrietta Stickland, this colourful series introduces a cast of authentic dinosaur characters to very young children and is approved by Dr Paul Barrett of the Department of Earth Sciences at the Natural History Museum in London. Each book also contains a pronunciation guide as well as a spread of simple dinosaur facts, making this the perfect gift for young dinosaur fans!Discover more stories featuring these fun dinosaur characters: Dinosaur Roar! The Tyrannosaurus rex, Dinosaur Stomp! The Triceratops, Dinosaur Munch! The Diplodocus, Dinosaur Snap! The Spinosaurus . . . and more!

Dinosaur Honk! The Parasaurolophus (The World of Dinosaur Roar! #9)

by Peter Curtis

Meet Dinosaur Honk, a noisy Parasaurolophus, in this brilliant rhyming story, part of the collectable The World of Dinosaur Roar! series, in association with the Natural History Museum.Dinosaur Honk's honk annoys all the other dinosaurs. She's too loud and causes chaos wherever she goes. Until one day, she discovers that her honk might just come in handy . . . With fantastic rhyming text written by series creator, Peter Curtis, Dinosaur Honk! The Parasaurolophus is perfect for preschool children. Inspired by the classic picture book, Dinosaur Roar! by Paul Stickland and Henrietta Stickland, this colourful series introduces a cast of authentic dinosaur characters to very young children and is approved by Dr Paul Barrett of the Department of Earth Sciences at the Natural History Museum in London. Each book also contains a pronunciation guide, as well as two pages of simple dinosaur facts, making this the perfect gift for young dinosaur fans! Discover more stories featuring these fun dinosaur characters: Dinosaur Squeak! The Compsognathus, Dinosaur Roar! The Tyrannosaurus rex, Dinosaur Munch! The Diplodocus . . . and more!

Dinosaur Munch! The Diplodocus (The World of Dinosaur Roar! #3)

by Peter Curtis Jeanne Willis

Meet Dinosaur Munch, a Diplodocus with a giant appetite, in this brilliant rhyming story, part of the collectable The World of Dinosaur Roar! series, in association with the Natural History Museum.Dinosaur Munch is always hungry – he wants more and more and more – but will his huge appetite get him into trouble? With a fantastic rhyming text written by series creator, Peter Curtis, and award-winning author, Jeanne Willis, Dinosaur Munch! The Diplodocus is perfect for preschool children.Inspired by the classic picture book, Dinosaur Roar! by Paul Stickland and Henrietta Stickland, this colourful series introduces a cast of authentic dinosaur characters to very young children and is approved by Dr Paul Barrett of the Department of Earth Sciences at the Natural History Museum in London. Each book also contains a pronunciation guide as well as a spread of simple dinosaur facts, making this the perfect gift for young dinosaur fans!Discover more stories featuring these fun dinosaur characters: Dinosaur Roar! The Tyrannosaurus rex, Dinosaur Stomp! The Triceratops, Dinosaur Snap! The Spinosaurus, Dinosaur Flap! The Oviraptor . . . and more!

Dinosaur Roar! The Tyrannosaurus rex (The World of Dinosaur Roar! #1)

by Peter Curtis Jeanne Willis

Meet Dinosaur Roar, king of the dinosaurs, in this brilliant rhyming story about a Tyrannosaurus rex, part of a collectable The World of Dinosaur Roar! series, in association with the Natural History Museum.With a fantastic rhyming text written by series creator, Peter Curtis and award-winning author, Jeanne Willis, Dinosaur Roar! The Tyrannosaurus rex is great to read aloud and perfect for preschool children. Inspired by the classic picture book, Dinosaur Roar! by Paul Stickland and Henrietta Stickland, this colourful series introduces a cast of authentic dinosaur characters to very young children and is approved by Dr Paul Barrett of the Department of Earth Sciences at the Natural History Museum in London. Each book also contains a pronunciation guide as well as a spread of simple dinosaur facts, making this the perfect gift for young dinosaur fans!Discover more stories featuring these fun dinosaur characters: Dinosaur Munch! The Diplodocus, Dinosaur Stomp! The Triceratops, Dinosaur Snap! The Spinosaurus, Dinosaur Flap! The Oviraptor . . . and more!

Dinosaur Snap! The Spinosaurus (The World of Dinosaur Roar! #5)

by Peter Curtis Jeanne Willis

Meet Dinosaur Snap, the scary Spinosaurus, in this brilliant rhyming story, part of the collectable The World of Dinosaur Roar! series, in association with the Natural History Museum.Dinosaur Snap is a big, bad, bossy giant. But, after trying to creep up on Dinosaur Whack, trying to terrify Dinosaur Flap and trying to eat little Dinosaur Squeak, Snap realizes that he can't use his spiky scariness to bully and bother the other dinosaurs, not when Dinosaur Roar is king. With a fantastic rhyming text written by series creator, Peter Curtis, and award-winning author, Jeanne Willis, Dinosaur Snap! The Spinosaurus is perfect for preschool children.Inspired by the classic picture book, Dinosaur Roar! by Paul Stickland and Henrietta Stickland, this colourful series introduces a cast of authentic dinosaur characters to very young children and is approved by Dr Paul Barrett of the Department of Earth Sciences at the Natural History Museum in London. Each book also contains a pronunciation guide as well as a spread of simple dinosaur facts, making this the perfect gift for young dinosaur fans!Discover more stories featuring these fun dinosaur characters: Dinosaur Roar! The Tyrannosaurus rex, Dinosaur Stomp! The Triceratops, Dinosaur Munch! The Diplodocus, Dinosaur Flap! The Oviraptor . . . and more!

Dinosaur Squeak! The Compsognathus (The World of Dinosaur Roar! #10)

by Peter Curtis

Meet Dinosaur Squeak, the little Compsognathus, in this brilliant rhyming story, part of the collectable The World of Dinosaur Roar! series, in association with the Natural History Museum.Dinosaur Squeak is so tiny, none of the other dinosaurs notice her or even hear her when she speaks! Though her best friend, Dinosaur Roar, is always looking out for her, Squeak is determined to prove that she can survive all on her own. How will she make her voice heard? With fantastic rhyming text written by series creator, Peter Curtis, Dinosaur Squeak! The Compsognathus is perfect for preschool children. Inspired by the classic picture book, Dinosaur Roar! by Paul Stickland and Henrietta Stickland, this colourful series introduces a cast of authentic dinosaur characters to very young children and is approved by Dr Paul Barrett of the Department of Earth Sciences at the Natural History Museum in London. Each book also contains a pronunciation guide, as well as two pages of simple dinosaur facts, making this the perfect gift for very young dinosaur fans! Discover more stories featuring these fun dinosaur characters: Dinosaur Honk! The Parasaurolophus, Dinosaur Roar! The Tyrannosaurus Rex, Dinosaur Munch! The Diplodocus . . . and more!

Dinosaur Stomp! The Triceratops (The World of Dinosaur Roar! #4)

by Peter Curtis Jeanne Willis

Meet Dinosaur Stomp, the grumpy Triceratops, in this brilliant rhyming story, part of the collectable The World of Dinosaur Roar! series, in association with the Natural History Museum.Dinosaur Stomp doesn’t want to play with the other dinosaurs, all he wants is to be left alone . . . but sometimes even a grumpy Triceratops needs a friend! With a fantastic rhyming text written by series creator, Peter Curtis, and award-winning author, Jeanne Willis, Dinosaur Stomp! The Triceratops is perfect for preschool children.Inspired by the classic picture book, Dinosaur Roar! by Paul Stickland and Henrietta Stickland, this colourful series introduces a cast of authentic dinosaur characters to very young children and is approved by Dr Paul Barrett of the Department of Earth Sciences at the Natural History Museum in London. Each book also contains a pronunciation guide as well as a spread of simple dinosaur facts, making this the perfect gift for young dinosaur fans!Discover more stories featuring these fun dinosaur characters: Dinosaur Roar! The Tyrannosaurus rex, Dinosaur Munch! The Diplodocus, Dinosaur Snap! The Spinosaurus, Dinosaur Whack! The Stegosaurus . . . and more!

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