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      • Her forty-three readings of distinguished English-language poems demonstrate, however, Paglia's ability to appreciate and critically examine verse from a number of important historical and socio-cultural contexts.
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  2. Aug 4, 2024 · Camille Paglias Break, Blow, Burn is a reading of forty-three English language poems ranging from Shakespeare’s sonnets to a Joni Mitchell lyric. Her title is from one of John Donne’s so-called “Holy Sonnets,” where he appeals to God to overwhelm him, possess him, and transform him.

  3. Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems is a collection of 43 short selections of verse with an accompanying essay by Paglia. [100] The collection is oriented primarily to those unfamiliar with the works. [100]

  4. A close reading of 43 of "the world's best poems", the book was described by The New York Times Book Review as "exemplary". Paglia, it said, "flies as high as you can go".

  5. What, one has every right to ask, does Camille Paglia know about poetry? Her forty-three readings of distinguished English-language poems demonstrate, however, Paglia's ability to appreciate and critically examine verse from a number of important historical and socio-cultural contexts. In her forthright "Introduction," Paglia admits "the ...

  6. Camille Paglia: In Break, Blow, Burn (which I spent five years writing), my aim is to demonstrate how to blend the close textual reading of New Criticism with external biographical and historical considerations.

  7. Aug 29, 2024 · In 2006 Paglia published Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World’s Best Poems, which reexamined classic and contemporary poetic works. Her later books included the essay collections Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars (2012), Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism (2017), and ...

  8. Mar 27, 2005 · CLEARLY designed as a come-on for bright students who don't yet know very much about poetry, Camille Paglia's new book anthologizes 43 short works in verse from Shakespeare through to Joni...

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