Literary studies: poetry and poets

This study explores the way Calvinist experientialism provided both a theology and an epistemology in the poetry of five early modern English poets: William Shakespeare, Robert Herrick, John Donne, Fulke Greville, and John Milton.

This book explores sixteenth-century humanism as an origin for the idea of literature as good, even great, books.

This study explores the way Calvinist experientialism provided both a theology and an epistemology in the poetry of five early modern English poets: William Shakespeare, Robert Herrick, John Donne, Fulke Greville, and John Milton.

Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health explores the politicized role of sexual health as a concept, discourse, and subject of debate within Irish literary culture from 1880 to 1960.

Modern American Poetry and the Architectural Imagination: The Harmony of Forms assesses the relationship between architectural and poetic innovation in the United States across the twentieth century.

This is the story of a literary marriage.

The topic of force has long remained a problem of interpretation for readers of Homer's Iliad, ever since Simone Weil famously proclaimed it as the poem's main subject.

Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health explores the politicized role of sexual health as a concept, discourse, and subject of debate within Irish literary culture from 1880 to 1960.

In the essays of this volume, Michael Putnam shows how seriously Statius pays homage to his canonical predecessor, Virgil, how thoroughly he interprets the complexities of Virgilian poetry, and how he often, by placing a Virgilian reference in a different social and cultural context, boldly turns Virgil to new and more positive purposes.

In the essays of this volume, Michael Putnam shows how seriously Statius pays homage to his canonical predecessor, Virgil, how thoroughly he interprets the complexities of Virgilian poetry, and how he often, by placing a Virgilian reference in a different social and cultural context, boldly turns Virgil to new and more positive purposes.

In twelfth-century Byzantium, poetry played a key part in various contexts of textual production and consumption.

This is a book about the works that six twentieth-century American poets created in and about the state of Florida--or, in one case, refused to create.

The topic of force has long remained a problem of interpretation for readers of Homer's Iliad, ever since Simone Weil famously proclaimed it as the poem's main subject.

One of the most famous voices to have survived from the Roman world, Catullus's poetry is still amongst the most popular and widely read.

Sketches and Scholarly Studies: Part II, Musical Settings and Sketches brings together two crucial aspects of Gerard Manley Hopkins's insatiable drive to create: drawing, predominantly (but not exclusively) from the early part of his life, when he had ambitions to be a painter; and music, from the later part of his life, when he found in music suggestions of a new contact with the eternal.

Ovid's Heroides ('Letters from Heroines') are one of the most remarkable works of classical literature.

One of the most famous voices to have survived from the Roman world, Catullus's poetry is still amongst the most popular and widely read.

In fourteenth-century Italy, literacy became accessible to a significantly larger portion of the lay population (allegedly between 60 and 80 percent in Florence) and provided a crucial means for the vernacularization and secularization of learning, and for the democratization of citizenship.

"e;Poetry puts intent into words; singing lengthens words"e;--this is one of the earliest Chinese comments on artistic expression.

"e;Poetry puts intent into words; singing lengthens words"e;--this is one of the earliest Chinese comments on artistic expression.

This volume proposes a method for reading Milton's De Doctrina Christiana as an artifact of his process of theological thinking rather than as a repository of his doctrinal views.

This volume proposes a method for reading Milton's De Doctrina Christiana as an artifact of his process of theological thinking rather than as a repository of his doctrinal views.

In fourteenth-century Italy, literacy became accessible to a significantly larger portion of the lay population (allegedly between 60 and 80 percent in Florence) and provided a crucial means for the vernacularization and secularization of learning, and for the democratization of citizenship.

George Herbert, his contemporaries, and readers inhabited a world of material things that were spiritually animated but deeply troubling.

Frank O'Hara's New York School and Mid-Century Mannerism offers a ground-breaking account of the poet Frank O'Hara and the extraordinary cultural blossoming O'Hara catalysed, namely the mid-century experimental and multi-disciplinary arts scene, the New York School.

George Herbert, his contemporaries, and readers inhabited a world of material things that were spiritually animated but deeply troubling.

Este libro ofrece una aproximacion critica al boom literario hispanoamericano mediante un conjunto de estudios que exploran tanto la obra de Gabriel Garcia Marquez como la de Carlos Barral, asi como los vinculos historicos y culturales que los unieron a ese movimiento.

Este libro ofrece una aproximacion critica al boom literario hispanoamericano mediante un conjunto de estudios que exploran tanto la obra de Gabriel Garcia Marquez como la de Carlos Barral, asi como los vinculos historicos y culturales que los unieron a ese movimiento.

Winner of the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, Academy of American PoetsA bilingual edition of three major poetry collections by one of the most important Greek poets of the twentieth centuryOne of the most prolific and popular of modern Greek poets, Yannis Ritsos follows such eminent predecessors as Cavafy, Sikelianos, and Seferis in the dramatic and symbolic expression of a tragic sense of life.

Winner of the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, Academy of American PoetsA bilingual edition of three major poetry collections by one of the most important Greek poets of the twentieth centuryOne of the most prolific and popular of modern Greek poets, Yannis Ritsos follows such eminent predecessors as Cavafy, Sikelianos, and Seferis in the dramatic and symbolic expression of a tragic sense of life.

Of all the Victorian poets, Edward Lear has a good claim to the widest audience: admired and championed by critics and poets from John Ruskin to John Ashbery, he has also been read, heard, and loved by generations of children.

What is meant by the Puritan literary tradition, and when did the idea of Puritan literature, as distinct from Puritan beliefs and practices, come into being?

A text (with apparatus criticus), translation, and commentary, with introduction, of the first book of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica, an unfinished Roman epic extending to eight books and several thousand lines, written in the Flavian period (69-96 CE).

What is meant by the Puritan literary tradition, and when did the idea of Puritan literature, as distinct from Puritan beliefs and practices, come into being?

The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns treats the extensive writing of and culture surrounding Scotland's national 'bard'.

The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns treats the extensive writing of and culture surrounding Scotland's national 'bard'.

The Eucharist, Poetics, and Secularization from the Middle Ages to Milton explains the astonishing centrality of the eucharist to poets with a variety of denominational affiliations, writing on a range of subjects, across an extended period in literary history.

The forty-two chapters in this book consider Yeats's early toil, his practical and esoteric concerns as his career developed, his friends and enemies, and how he was and is understood.

The forty-two chapters in this book consider Yeats's early toil, his practical and esoteric concerns as his career developed, his friends and enemies, and how he was and is understood.

A comprehensive reevaluation of Chaucers early poetry, from the dream visions to Troilus and CriseydeWhile covering all the major work produced by Geoffrey Chaucer in his pre-Canterbury Tales career, Chaucer from Prentice to Poet seeks to correct the traditional interpretations of these poems.

»Am Ende blieb Cohen noch Zeit für ein Spätwerk, das die Vergänglichkeit besiegt.

Rilke ist auch ein Jahrhundert nach seinem Tod noch eine unverwechselbare Gestalt: durch seine ebenso kunstvolle wie kühne Art zu schreiben, die ihn zu einem der großen Autoren des frühen 20.

Rilke ist auch ein Jahrhundert nach seinem Tod noch eine unverwechselbare Gestalt: durch seine ebenso kunstvolle wie kühne Art zu schreiben, die ihn zu einem der großen Autoren des frühen 20.

Is taste a quick, momentary experience in the individual mind?

This book combines literary and historical analysis in a study of sexuality in Walt Whitmans work.

This book will change how readers read not only Milton but any poetry.

This book will change how readers read not only Milton but any poetry.