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Sister Madeleva: Lyric Poet
… of dimly remembered names.|And then, what of the poetic voice of America who shall surely be of interest to the literary scholar two, three, four centuries hence? Yes, what of Walt Whitman?|Thus, as we must give full recognition to the insoluble problem of time in any current literary appraisal, …
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Clifford Odets: playwright-poet
… in the Thirties in drama. Further, he became a poetic playwright and myth-maker for middle-class ethics and aspirations and the dilemmas they produce. Despite their flaws, his best plays achieve a depth and complexity, especially in their idiomatic and idiosyncratic use of language, that lift …
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Emily Dickinson: New England Metaphysical Poet
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Thomas Hoccleve as poet and clerk
… this thesis re-examines the late medieval poet Thomas Hoccleve in the context of his career as a clerk of the Privy Seal and the history of the late medieval English government administration. Through identification of Hoccleve’s handwriting, it has been possible to search for all the …
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John G. Neihardt as an Epic Poet
… social, economic and literary, that caused the poet to turn exclusively to this form of literary art, when he was already on the road to success in another channel, namely, the short story. But, when we fully realize that all human achievements are preceded by a philosophy of life which shapes …
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Whitman's Concept of the Poet in Society
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Metaphysical balm and the poet as legislator
… a desire to understand the relationship between poetry and politics in a meaningful and current way. The twentieth century has seen atrocities that have taken place on an unprecedented scale: times of historical and social extremity, states of exile, censorship, military occupation, political …
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George Meredith as a poet and dramatic novelist
The scope and nature of this Thesis excludes at once the possibility of dealing exhaustively with so towering and complex a genius as George Meredith. He is so wholly sui generis that neglect of him involves neglect of nothing else, implies no deficiency of taste, no literary limitation. He cannot …
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Publishing Swinburne; the poet, his publishers and critics
… also as a very significant medium for publishing poetry. Chapter 4 on marketing looks closely at the business of producing and of selling Swinburne’s output. Finally Chapter 5 deals with some aspects of his career after the move to Putney, and shows that while Theodore Watts, his friend and in …
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Hesiod Unveiled: The 'Other Poet' among the Exegetes
… the exegetical traditions to the corpus of epic poetry attributed to Hesiod across eight hundred years. Beginning at the Library of Alexandria, it examines how philological techniques, allegoresis, and education intertwine to interpret the Other Poet, the second pillar of the Hellenic canon after …
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"To make a poet black then bid him sing"
… project. The title of this thesis, “To make a poet Black then bid him sing,” comes from the Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen’s, “Yet do I Marvel,” a poem that questions God’s intentions in placing a curse on a man, then requiring him to sing. This to me was a dichotomy that seemed to …
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The Paradox of the Christian Poet: George Herbert's Problematics
The thesis examines the paradoxes in Herbert's poetry and attributes the many contradictions and vacillations within The Temple to Herbert's own "spiritual conflicts" as a Christian poet. The thesis explores the poems as interconnected expressions of Herbert's dual nature as Christian-Poet. The …
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Witch Hazel Advent, The Story of an Ozark Poet
… home near Winslow, Arkansas. John is a talented poet, and segments of his poetry are woven throughout the film.</p> <p>The inspiration for this project is deeply rooted in place: the remote farmstead in the Boston Mountains of northwestern Arkansas that my grandparents called home, Frog Bayou. I …
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