A delightful, thoughtful and original new way to understand England's historyA Times Best Book of the Year 2025A History Extra History Book of the Year 2025'This is a marvellous idea, quite brilliantly realised.
'One of the most eloquent thinkers about our life in language' - The Sunday Times'As lively to the ear as prose can be' - Adam PietteA Chorus of Ears is a series of essays on voice, lyric and the persona of the poet from one of our greatest living English poets.
Octavio Paz es un poeta de la comunion, pero no solo porque la busca ansiosamente -como revelacion, efecto y cumplimiento de lo mas alto que hay entre nosotros-, sino tambien porque esta persuadido de que, en un sentido radical, es imposible.
En esta invitacion, abrimos las puertas al fascinante mundo de Alfonsina Storni, una autora cuya presencia en la literatura sudamericana es imborrable.
Esta "Historia" aspira a fijar una nueva visión de la poesía medieval castellana, centrada básicamente en el desarrollo de sus materias principales, tal y como son requeridas por los contextos de recepción a los que las obras se dirigen, asentada en un continuo examen de los textos y atenida a la evolución de los tres sistemas métricos medievales (isomélico, isosilábico e isorrítmico).
"La verdad ignorada: homoerotismo masculino y literatura en España (1890-1936)" aborda el tema del deseo entre hombres, a través del análisis filológico de los textos de varios autores, de los diversos modos expresivos asumidos por ellos para "desvelar" la pulsión homoerótica masculina: Jacinto Benavente, pionero en la asimilación del credo "decadente" para explorar la querencia erótica entre iguales; la versión más frívola del homoerotismo representada en las novelas de Hoyos y Vinent, Retana y Hernández Catá; dos pilares fundamentales de esta literatura, Federico García Lorca y Luis Cernuda, y dos formas muy distintas de desnudarse ante el espejo de la palabra; la muy explícita poesía de quien fuera amigo personal de Lorca: Eduardo Blanco-Amor.
Cuando en el siglo pasado las revoluciones armadas se creyeron posibles, también se creyó posible la alianza entre marxistas y cristianos para cambiar la sociedad, de por medio el Concilio Vaticano II y el Congreso Eucarístico de Medellín, que proclamó la opción preferencial por los pobres.
Este texto presenta la traducción al español y un estudio exhaustivo de la obra completa de Cayo Valerio Catulo, realizada por el profesor Héctor García Cataldo.
Thomas Chatterton's fabrications-or "e;forgeries"e;-of historical poems ostensibly written from the thirteenth through the fifteenth centuries have attracted a great deal of attention and discussion of their authenticity since the eighteenth century.
This major interpretation of the life and art of Robert Lowell exposes the full relationship between the poetry and the personal and national experience to which it is so remarkably connected.
As an especially beautiful and pure example of the archaic epic styles that were once current among the hunting and fishing peoples of northern Asia, the Ainu epic folklore is of immense literary value.
Maxima Dalee is a deeply personal and emotionally charged collection of poetry that journeys through heartbreak, longing, loss, mental illness, resilience, and the enduring search for hope.
The Advent Lyrics, a group of Old English religious antiphons (formerly called Christ I) dating from about the 9th century, are presented in this edition as an independent group of poems disengaged, for the first time, from Cynewulf's Christ.
One of the most racy, entertaining, and valuable contemporary accounts of Byron, Medwin's Conversations created a furor among Byron's many friends and enemies, especially those who appear in it.
The author deals with the shock of World War I as it was registered in the work of Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, Edmund Blunden, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Herbert Read, and David Jones.
Isabel MacCaffrey contends that, in allegory, the mind makes a model of itself, and she shows that The Faerie Queene, mirroring as it does the mind's structure, is both a treatise on and an example of the central role that imagination plays in human life.
"e;The importance of Dunseath's study is that it proposes an original interpretation of the allegory of The Faerie Queene, Book V, and a fresh theory of its poetic function.
In this highly perceptive and original study Evert traces Keats' formulation in his early work of mythography of the imagination founded on Apollo through its radical qualification in his later work.
Although it has been recognized that Edmund Spenser's poetry owes a debt to the work of the French poets of the Pleiade, particularly to Joachim du Bellay and Pierre de Ronsard, there has been no critical analysis of this relationship.
Bringing together more than a thousand unpublished letters as well as all the widely scattered published ones, these four volumes represent the first attempt at a complete edition of the letters of Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883).
Michael Andre Bernstein offers a systematic analysis of the tradition of modern epic poetry--its different structural problems and their diverse but inter-related solutions, and considers issues central to contemporary literary and philosophical theory.
This book offers a revealing analysis of the influence of Isaac Newton's Opticks on the poetic imagination during the first half of the eighteenth century.
Bringing together more than a thousand unpublished letters as well as all the widely scattered published ones, these four volumes represent the first attempt at a complete edition of the letters of Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883).
Defining "e;romance"e; as a form that simultaneously seeks and postpones a particular end, revelation, or object, Patricia Parker interprets its implications and transformations in the works of four major poets-Ariosto, Spenser, Milton, and Keats.
In a controversial examination of the conceptual bases of Blake's myth, Leopold Damrosch argues that his poems contain fundamental contradictions, but that this fact docs not imply philosophical or artistic failure.
One of the few theological formulas of medieval times to survive the scrutiny of the Reformation was that of the infernal triad of the sins of the Flesh, the World, and the Devil.
Josef Korbel, whose career encompasses both scholarly and diplomatic roles, presents a crisp, up-to-date survey of postwar relations between East and West.
In this work William Ulmer boldly advances our understanding of Shelley's concept of love by exploring eros as a figure for the poet's political and artistic aspirations.
As the first full treatment of Walt Whitman's French sources and his later impact on French writers, this book revises our image of the poet and challenges many critical assumptions.
More than 100 poems about Britain's nature in a beautifully illustrated bookSeven chapters touch on different aspects of the British countryside, including seasons, birds and wildlife, woods, water, moors and mountains.
