Literary studies: poetry and poets

The Poetry Handbook is a lucid and entertaining guide to the poet's craft, and an invaluable introduction to practical criticism for students.

A new, comprehensive study of Virgil''s Eclogues that reinterprets an ancient text and genre as imaginative fiction.

Written in three weeks of creative inspiration, Rainer Maria Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus (1923) is well known for its enigmatic power and lyrical intensity.

Manfred Osten liest Goethe mit Blick auf die Corona-Pandemie neu und entdeckt eine Fülle von überraschenden und nachdenklich machenden Einsichten.

What was the relationship between woman and politics in seventeenth-century England?

Herbert Leibowitz's "e;Something Urgent I Have to Say to You"e; provides a new perspective on the life and poetry of the doctor poet William Carlos Williams, a key American writer who led one of the more eventful literary lives of the twentieth century.

A new era in Canadian poetry began in 1880 with the publication of Charles G.

This book examines the difficult relationship between individual intellectual freedom and the legal structures which govern human societies in William Blake's works, showing that this tension carries a political urgency that has not yet been recognised by scholars in the field.

A passionately argued account of the value of experience and emotion in reading Shakespeare's sonnets and of the importance of reading poetry aloud.

This Companion gives an overview of Heaney''s career, with detailed readings of his major publications.

A fresh evaluation of Liszt''s symphonic poems, based on contextual, philosophical and musical evidence.

Beyond the Word challenges the reader to reconsider the role of artistic expression as cultural production within today's society, and questions many key aspects of contemporary critical thought.

This book traces the evolution of traditional English verse structures from their Old and Middle origins to the Modern English period.

An innovative study of the Renaissance practice of making epitaphic gestures within other English genres.

The Oxford Handbook of Andrew Marvell is the most comprehensive and informative collection of essays ever assembled dealing with the life and writings of the poet and politician Andrew Marvell (1621-78).

A revelatory, intimate, and sympathetic study of Philip Larkin, an iconic poet and a much misunderstood man, offering fresh understanding of the interplay of his life and work.

A biography of a long-forgotten but vital American Transcendentalist poet.

General Manley Hopkins was not alone among Victorians in his attention to the human self and to the particularities of things in the world around him, where he savoured the 'selving or 'inscape' of each individual existent.

Salvaging Spenser is a major new work of literary revision which places Edmund Spenser's corpus, from The Shepheardes Calender to A View of the Present State of Ireland, within an elaborate cultural and political context.

Gothic Romanticism: Wordsworth, Architecture, Politics, Form offers a revisionist account of both Wordsworth and the politics of antiquarianism in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Ein Sammelband zu Celans einzigem Israel-Besuch 1969 mit Beiträgen zu der Frage, wie diese »Wende« und »Zäsur« für sein Leben und Werk zu verstehen sind.

The angel can be viewed as a signal reference to modernist attempts to accommodate religious languages to self-consciously modern cultures.

As poet, critic, theorist and teacher, Charles Olson extended the possibilities of modern writing.

This book addresses the many interlocking problems in understanding the modes of performance, dissemination, and transmission of Greek poetry of the seventh to the fifth centuries BC whose first performers were a choral group, sometimes singing in a ritual context, sometimes in more secular celebrations of victories in competitive games.

An impressive new collection from a poet whose previous book was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle AwardTaking its title from Heraclitus's most famous fragment, The River Twice is an elegiac meditation on impermanence and change.

The Pursuit of Myth in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara, Ted Berrigan and John Forbes traces a tradition of revolutionary self-mythologising in the lives and works of Frank O'Hara, Ted Berrigan and John Forbes, as a significant trefoil in twentieth-century English language poetry.

Billy Collins "e;puts the 'fun' back in profundity,"e; says poet Alice Fulton.

Restages fundamental debates about the relationship between poetry and music WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH AGEE PRIZE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE Orphic Bend: Music and Innovative Poetics explores the impact of music on recent pioneering literary practices in the United States.

Contradicting common perception of them as mere footnotes in Tennyson's career, this book examines the influence of his strong-minded female forebears on the young poet and reveals that the women in Tennyson's family circle were prolific and engaging correspondents.

Modernity is made and unmade by the anecdotal.

This is the first book to present the life, times and poetry of one of the greatest poets in the Arab tradition, Abu Nuwas.

This is the first generously illustrated biography of the Mohawk poet-performer E.

This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 3) prescription of Ovid's Amores 1.

How can the study of Shakespeare contribute to equipping young people for the challenges of an uncertain future?

After its heyday in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, naturalism, a genre that typically depicts human beings as the product of biological and environmental forces over which they have little control, was supplanted by modernism, a genre in which writers experimented with innovations in form and content.

Bestselling novelist Alexander McCall Smith's charming account of how the poet W.

Poetry has often been defined by its closure, its condensation of meaning and value into discrete, self-referential textual objects.

Santanu Das uncovers the intimate history of how war was experienced by the body.

Winner of the Literary Encyclopedia 2024 Book Prize, in the category of literatures originally written in English.

In his 1837 speech "e;The American Scholar,"e; Ralph Waldo Emerson noted, "e;life is our dictionary,"e; encapsulating a body of work that reached well beyond the American 19th century.

From the early years, when he morphed from celebrated poet to provocative singer-songwriter, to his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Leonard Cohen has endured as one of the most enigmatic and profound figureswith a uniquely compelling voice and unparalleled depth of artistic visionin all of popular music.

Dante beyond influence is the first study to conceptualise and historicise the hermeneutic turn in Dante reception history and Victorian cultural history, charting its development across intellectual realms, agents and forms of readerly and writerly engagement.