Literary studies: poetry and poets

Examines four texts of the Imperial period in order to elucidate how each author formulates very different conceptions of Homer.

In this powerful and authoritative study Jody Allen Randolph providesthe fullest account yet of the work of a major figure in twentieth-century Irish literature as well as in contemporary women's writing.

Peter Widdowson's major new selection of Hardy's poetry offers the student a challenging assessment of his poetic achievement by juxtaposing Hardy's best known poems with some of his least known.

This book provides a concise introduction to lists in literature from the early modern period to the twenty-first century.

As both a late Romantic and a modern, W.

Paul Verlaine (1844–1896) ist einer der bedeutendsten Lyriker des französischen Symbolismus.

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724–1803) war in der Mitte des 18.

Out of the mainstream but ahead of the tide, that is Scottish Science Fiction.

Hölderlin in allen Facetten.

A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-option under the Islamic Republic offers, for the first time, an original, timely examination of the pivotal role poetry plays in policy, power and political legitimacy in modern-day Iran.

English Literature in the 1960s soon threw off its post-war weariness and the tepid influences of the previous decade.

This Companion casts post-1945 American poetry as a coherent literary movement, making the period''s most difficult offerings comprehensible and accessible.

As the essays in this volume reveal, Keats's places could be comforting, familiar, grounding sites, but they were also shifting, uncanny, paradoxical spaces where the geographical comes into tension with the familial, the touristic with the medical, the metropolitan with the archipelagic.

Victorian England: a Jesuit priest writes of wrestling with God at night, limbs entangled; an Anglican sister begs Jesus, her divine lover, to end her aching anticipation of their union; a clergyman exhorts nuns to study the example of medieval women who suffered on the rack in order to become "e;brides"e; of Christ.

In this innovative series of public lectures at Newcastle University, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city and the university.

This book argues that Milton used innovative and cunning means to persuade readers in an age distrustful of traditional rhetoric.

Strange Likeness provides the first full account of how Old English (or Anglo-Saxon) was rediscovered by twentieth-century poets, and the uses to which they put that discovery in their own writing.

This volume introduces students to the most important figures, movements and trends in post-war British and Irish poetry.

This book offers a clear and stimulating introduction to Homer's Iliad, the greatest poem of Western culture.

Leading critic John Leonard explores the writings of John Milton from his early poetry to his major prose.

Serpent symbolism plays an important role in Keats's rich animal imagery both on a quantitative level and on a qualitative one.

Essential reading for all those interested in Irish literature and culture and its far-reaching effects on the world.

A new evaluation of one of the most significant Holocaust poets, Nelly Sachs (1891-1970), offering the first sustained critical analysis of Sachs's largely unanalyzed pre-war poetry and prose.

Divided into three sections on cosmetics, clothes and hairstyling, this book explores how early modern women regarded beauty culture and in what ways skin, clothes and hair could be used to represent racial, class and gender identities, and to convey political, religious and philosophical ideals.

Argues that Lucan''s Bellum Civile is a central text in the history of the sublime.

Sometimes image, sometimes word, and often both or neither, concrete poetry emerged out of an era of groundbreaking social and technological developments.

Ovid's Homer examines the Latin poet's engagement with the Homeric poems throughout his career.

This Companion offers fresh critical perspectives on T.

Originally published in 1926.

Madly after the Muses examines the use of Graeco-Roman samplings in the Bengali works of Michael Madhusudan Datta (1824-1873), the nineteenth-century poet and playwright.

This book examines Uncreative Writing-the catch-all term to describe Neo-Conceptualism, Flarf and related avant-garde movements in contemporary North American poetry-against a decade of controversy.

The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue in literature, theology, and philosophy, in social, political, jurisprudential, and intellectual history, the history of art, and the history of science but also that combines these subjectsproductively.

The early twenty-first century has seen a sharp rise in Black US poets employing the mask of persona, often including and interrogating archival materials as they do so.

Essays by leading scholars offer new insights into a remarkable poet and early advocate of environmental ethics and aesthetics.

The History of Ottoman Poetry, first published in six volumes between 1900 and 1909, was the principal product of E.

English literary history has long incorporated the category of 'Cavalier' verse, and the critical presuppositions that have shaped such a category continue, even now, to determine the ways in which much civil war writing is read.

The career of Matthew Arnold as an eminent poet and the preeminent critic of his generation constitutes a remarkable historical spectacle orchestrated by a host of powerful Victorian cultural institutions.

Virgil's Aeneid invites its reader to identify with the Roman nation whose origins and destiny it celebrates.

The argument posed in this analysis is that the poetic excesses of several major female poets, excesses that have been typically regarded as flaws in their work, are strategies for escaping the inhibiting and sometimes inimical conventions too often imposed on women writers.

This book examines intersections of poetry and performance during the British Poetry Revival.

'Quite simply the best version of Dante there is' PAUL MULDOON, Irish Times.

Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy offers a historical survey of imaginings of the prison as expressed in carceral metaphors in a range of texts about imprisonment from Antiquity to the present as well as non-penal situations described as confining or restrictive.

Band I von Reiner Wilds Gesamtdarstellung der Alterslyrik Goethes behandelt die Zeitspanne zwischen dem Todesjahr Schillers 1805 und 1813/14, dem Ende der napoleonischen Ära.

An eminent literary biographer and critic shows how poetry enriched the art of two representative English Romantic paintersIn Visionary and Dreamer, David Cecil evokes the century of the poet-painter, when painting drew much of its inspiration from imaginative literature.