The Penguin book of the prose poem : from Baudelaire to Anne Carson
2019
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The prose poem has proven one of the most innovative and versatile poetic forms of recent years. In the century-and-a-half since Charles Baudelaire, Emma Lazarus, Oscar Wilde and Ivan Turgenev spread the notion of a new kind of poetry, this 'genre with an oxymoron for a name' has attracted and beguiled many of our most beloved writers. Yet, even now, this peculiarly rich and expansive form can strike many readers as something of a mystery. Here, Jeremy Noel-Tod reconstructs the history of the prose poem for us by selecting the essential pieces of writing - by turns luminous, brooding, lamentatory and comic - which have defined and developed it at each stage, covering a greater chronological sweep and international range than any previous anthology of this kind.
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The Penguin book of the prose poem : from Baudelaire to Anne Carson / edited and introduced by Jeremy Noel-Tod.
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London : Penguin Classics, 2019.
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496 pages ; 20 cm
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9780141984568 (pbk)
Dewey class:
808.8'1808.81
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English
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BRN:
2830077
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