Literary studies: poetry and poets

This Companion brings together sixteen essays that explore the full diversity of British poetry since the Second World War.

Nobody's Nation offers an illuminating look at the St.

"e;I was born to grow, / alongside my garden of plants, / poems / like / this one"e;So writes Alice Walker in this new book of poems, poems composed over the course of one year in response to joy and sorrow both personal and global: the death of loved ones, war, the deliciousness of love, environmental devastation, the sorrow of rejection, greed, poverty, and the sweetness of home.

The May Fourth Movement launched an era of turmoil and transformation in China, as Western ideas and education encroached on the Confucian traditions at the root of Chinese society.

The centenary of Patrick Kavanagh's birth in 2004 provides the ideal opportunity to reappraise one of modern Ireland's greatest poets.

An overview of this important early twentieth-century female writer''s work and career and her contribution to the development of modernism.

This volume assembles exciting new scholarship canvassing the entire geographic and historical range of Langston Hughes''s storied career.

Die Lyrik, die Goethe zwischen seinem Aufenthalt in Italien 1786/88 und dem Tod Schillers 1805 geschrieben hat, bildet einen Höhepunkt in seinem Werk und in der deutschen Literatur.

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In this book, leading Wallace Stevens scholars explain in clear language fundamental aspects of his work.

This highly innovative work on poetic influence among women writers focuses on the relationship between modernist poet Elizabeth Bishop and her mentor Marianne Moore.

An exciting new reference work that illuminates the beliefs, customs, events, material culture, and institutions that made up Emily Dickinson's world, giving users a glance at both Dickinson's life and times and the social history of America in the 19th century.

In this revisionist account of romantic-era poetry and language philosophy, Tristram Wolff recovers vibrant ways of thinking language and nature together.

This volume explores Caribbean literature from 1800–1920 across genres and in the multiple languages of the Caribbean.

Analyzing the poets Melvin B.

Virginia Woolf's career was shaped by her impression of the conflict between poetry and the novel, a conflict she often figured as one between masculine and feminine, old and new, bound and free.

The correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson is one of the foundational literary exchanges of twentieth-century American poetry.

The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.

Reeve provides a detailed discussion of Klesel's importance in Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg and examines possible predecessors for the Federfuchser: Wurm from Friedrich von Schiller's Kabale und Liebe, the Sekretar in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Die naturliche Tochter, and Leonhard in Friedrich Hebbel's Maria Magdalene.

This volume examines the long and complex history of the Greco-Roman tradition in South America, arguing that the Classics have played a crucial, though often overlooked, role in the self-definition in the New World.

This book theoretically defines and linguistically analyses the popular notion that poetry is 'difficult' - hard to read, hard to understand, hard to engage with.

Despite its widely acknowledged importance in and beyond the thought of the Romantic period, the distinctive concept of the symbol articulated by such writers as Goethe and F.

Annual volume showcasing the best new work in this field.

Abu Bakr al-Suli was an Abbasid polymath and table companion, as well as a legendary chess player.

Esteemed literary critic Marjorie Perloff reconsiders the nature of the poetic, examining its visual, grammatical, and sound components.

Provides a complete and socially and politically contextualised survey of Roman verse satire.

Sooner or later, our words take on meanings other than we intended.

Early in the twentieth century, Americans and other English-speaking nations began to regard adolescence as a separate phase of life.

This book explores the perception of modern Greek landscape and poetry in the writings of Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon.

The Poetry of the Americas offers a lively and detailed history of relations among poets in the US and Latin America, spanning three decades from the Good Neighbor diplomacy of World War II through the Cold War cultural policies of the late 1960s.

In 1966, John Ashbery wrote: 'The English language is constantly trying to stave off invasion by the American language; it lives in a state of alert which is reflected to some degree in English poetry.

This collection combines previously unpublished letters between African-American poet Langston Hughes and South-African writers of the 1950s and 1960s with scholarly commentary and criticism.

For Dante and Petrarch, posthumous love was a powerful conviction.

This book aims to provide the reader of Homer with the traditional knowledge and fluency in Homeric poetry which an original ancient audience would have brought to a performance of this type of narrative.

While the sociology of literary translation is well-established, and even flourishing, the same cannot be said for the sociology of poetry translation.

Unhistorical Shakespeare argues against the ideas of difference that underpin historicist studies of the past and its desires, offering, instead, the idea of homo-history to engage with issues of narcissism, anachronism, and recursiveness in conjunction with sexual desire.

Die hier versammelten Beiträge untersuchen anhand des Grünen Heinrich, ausgewählter Gedichte sowie des Martin Salander wesentliche Aspekte von Gottfried Kellers Werk.

This collection explores the many intellectual and social contexts in which Emerson lived, thought and wrote.

This book shows how Emily Dickinson used philosophy in her poetry and anticipated later philosophical movements.