Hollow Palaces

Author : Kevin Gardner
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1800857535
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hollow Palaces written by Kevin Gardner and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ‘country house poem’ was born in the seventeenth century as a fruitful way of flattering potential patrons. But the genre’s popularity faded – ironically, just as ‘country house society’ was emerging. It was only when the power and influence of the landed classes had all but ebbed away that poets returned to the theme, attracted perhaps by the buildings’ irresistible dereliction, but equally by their often very personal histories. This is the first complete anthology of modern country house poems, and it shows just how far (as Simon Jenkins points out in his Foreword) poems can ‘penetrate the souls of buildings’. Over 160 distinguished poets representing a diversity of class, race, gender, and generation offer fascinating perspectives on stately exteriors and interiors, gardens both wild and cultivated, crumbling ruins and the extraordinary secrets they hide. There are voices of all kinds, whether it’s Edith Sitwell recreating her childhood, W. B. Yeats and Wendy Cope pondering Lissadell, or Simon Armitage’s labourer confronting the Lady who’s ‘got the lot’. We hear from noble landowners and loyal (or rebellious) servants, and from many an inquisitive day-tripper. The book’s dominant note is elegiac, yet comedy, satire, even strains of Gothic can be heard among these potent reflections. Hollow Palaces reminds us how poets can often be the most perceptive of guides to radical changes in society. The book is illustrated by Rosie Greening.

Author : Kevin Gardner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1800856741
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hollow Palaces written by Kevin Gardner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a genre of poetry, the country house poem was born in the seventeenth century. As English country house society itself grew in prominence, the poem of commemoration diminished in popularity; not until the Edwardian era, when the country house as an institution began to wane, was there a renewed interest in country house poetry. As the power and influence of landed society dwindled, the country house began to haunt the English literary imagination, and our poets found in its dereliction a frequent subject and theme. This is the first book to gather modern and contemporary country house poems into one collection. Poets representing a diversity of class, race, gender, and generation offer a wide variety of perspectives: stately exteriors and interiors, crumbling ruins, gardens both wild and cultivated, and the voices of noble owners, servants, and curious visitors. The dominant note sounded is perhaps unsurprisingly elegiac, yet comic, satiric, and gothic tones appear frequently as well. The common thread is that, in response to the rapid sociological changes of the twentieth century, poets reflect on the country house as an architecturally, politically, socially, and economically potent symbol and institution, both in its heyday and in its eclipse.

Author : Helen Douglas-Irvine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Royal Palaces of Scotland written by Helen Douglas-Irvine and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Bonomi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nineveh and its Palaces ... New edition, revised and augmented, etc written by Joseph Bonomi and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195093887
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gabriel's Palace written by and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 150 tales from the Talmud, the Zohar, Jewish folktales, and Hasidic lore.

Author : Walt Hunter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192668986
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American House Poem, 1945-2021 written by Walt Hunter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The house is perhaps the most recognizable emblem of the American ideals of self-making: prosperity, stability, domesticity, and upward mobility. Yet over the years from 1945-2021, the American house becomes more famous for the betrayal of those hopes than for their fulfilment: first, through the segregation of cities and public housing; then through the expansion of private credit that lays the ground for the subprime mortgage crisis of the early twenty-first century. Walt Hunter argues that, as access to housing expands to include a greater share of the US population, the house emerges as a central metaphor for the poetic imagination. From the kitchenette of Gwendolyn Brooks to the duplex of Jericho Brown, and from the suburban imagination of Adrienne Rich to the epic constructions of James Merrill, the American house poem represents the changing abilities of US poets to imagine new forms of life while also building on the past. In The American House Poem, 1945-2021, Hunter focuses on poets who register the unevenly distributed pressures of successive housing crises by rewriting older poetic forms. Writing about the materials, tools, and plans for making a house, these poets express the tensions between making their lives into art and freeing their lives from inherited constraints and conditions.

Author : Guy De Pourtales
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mad King written by Guy De Pourtales and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Antony RIVERS (and SHIRLEY (James))
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evadne; or, the Statue. A tragedy ... Altered from Rivers and Shirley [or, rather, based on J. Shirley's “The Traitor”] by R. L. Sheil written by Antony RIVERS (and SHIRLEY (James)) and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British drama, illustrated written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Glasgow (Scotland). Scottish Exhibition of National History, Art and Industry
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 826 pages
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Download or read book Palace of History written by Glasgow (Scotland). Scottish Exhibition of National History, Art and Industry and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: