Books written by Stephen Burt

  • The Forms of Youth: Twentieth-century Poetry and Adolescence
    The Forms of Youth: Twentieth-century Poetry and Adolescence

    According to Munson, it was through these articles that Hart Crane discovered Rimbaud (The Awakening Twenties, 204). Though the first poem in Crane's first book hailed “all those who step /The legend of their youth into the noon” ...

  • The Literary Review: Loss Control
    The Literary Review: Loss Control

    The Literary Review: Loss Control

  • Randall Jarrell on W.H. Auden
    Randall Jarrell on W.H. Auden

    Hermes,” 53, 151n16 Rimbaud, Arthur, 53, 57 Ring cycle (Wagner), 52 ritual, 45–46 Rodgers, Richard, ix romanticism, xii, 3, 68 Rousseau, Henri (le Douanier), 60 rural areas, 36, 38, 85 sagas, 21, 84, 111, 119–20, 166n17 Sansom, Ian, 3, ...

  • Oxford Weather and Climate since 1767
    Oxford Weather and Climate since 1767

    See Precipitation Raingauge-self-recording, 366 Raingauge corrections, 365 Raingauges in use at the Radcliffe Observatory, 363 Rainiest years, 202 Rainstorms 1682, 31 May, 273 1910, 9 June, 127 1968, 10 July, 295 Rambaut, Arthur Alcock ...

  • From There: Some Thoughts on Poetry and Place

    From There: Some Thoughts on Poetry and Place

  • Advice from the Lights: Poems
    Advice from the Lights: Poems

    Imitate Erik Satie, or Young Marble Giants. The remedy for anomie lies in between the wing-slips of the cicada. If I can't be weightless, or glide among twigs, or sate myself on dew, then let my verses live that way, since I feel mired ...

  • The Art of the Sonnet
    The Art of the Sonnet

    Collects one hundred sonnets and commentaries that highlight the history of the sonnet.

  • The Weather Observer's Handbook
    The Weather Observer's Handbook

    Life at the top: a challenge for any anemometer The high-altitude manned observatory at the summit of Mount Washington in New Hampshire (1917 m / 6288 ft) describes its climate as 'The worst weather on Earth' [9] — the observatory has ...

  • The Art of Listening in Coaching and Mentoring
    The Art of Listening in Coaching and Mentoring

    This book answers a number of fundamental questions about listening in coaching and mentoring.

  • The Cambridge History of American Poetry
    The Cambridge History of American Poetry

    The Cambridge History of American Poetry offers a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their beginnings until the end of the twentieth century.

  • Oxford Weather and Climate Since 1767
    Oxford Weather and Climate Since 1767

    when seven days failed to reach 0 °C—including the exceptionally cold 13 March 1845, when the maximum temperature was about −4.1 °C*. Much more recently, the rst day of March in 2018 became the coldest March day in Oxford since that ...

  • Parallel Play: Poems
    Parallel Play: Poems

    The eagerly anticipated second collection by poet and esteemed critic Stephen Burt Flaunting your useless knowledge has failed you again,Though it was all they had taught you. —from "Like a...

  • Durham Weather and Climate Since 1841
    Durham Weather and Climate Since 1841

    Extensive links are provided to full daily weather records back to 1843. This volume is a sister publication to Oxford Weather and Climate since 1767 by the same authors, published by Oxford University Press in 2019.

  • The Poem Is You
    The Poem Is You

    It presents a wide range of poems selected by Burt for this volume, each accompanied by an original essay explaining how a given poem works, why it matters, and how the poem speaks to other parts of art and culture.

  • Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry
    Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry

    Essays and critical writings on contemporary poetry by Stephen Burt, "the finest critic of his generation" (Lucie Brock-Broido)Stephen Burt's Close Calls with Nonsense provokes readers into the elliptical worlds of...