Literary studies: poetry and poets

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Awesome Nightfall: The Life, Times, and Poetry of Saigyo captures the power of Saigyo's poetry and this previously overlooked poet's keen insight into the social and political world of medieval Japan.

Introduces the Muslim prayer including its actions and its Divine origins through Prophets Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad.

Translating Apollinaire delves into Apollinaire's poetry and poetics through the challenges and invitations it offers to the process of translation.

Translating Apollinaire delves into Apollinaire's poetry and poetics through the challenges and invitations it offers to the process of translation.

Translating Rimbaud's Illuminations is a critique of the assumptions which currently underlie our thinking on literary translation.

This is the first new biography in English for nearly eighty years of Italy's foremost writer and thinker, and weaves into a single thread the whole of Dante's life and works.

Virgil, Horace and Ovid are often cited as the three great canonical poets of classical Roman literature.

What reader could fail to be enthralled by the Iliad and the Odyssey, those greatest heroic epics of antiquity?

The romantic lyricism of the great Persian poet Hafiz (1315-1390) continues to be admired around the world.

KIPLING may be best known as a commentator on the British Empire, but he was also a vivid observer and chronicler of the sea - and of ships and all who sailed in them.

The 6th/5th century BCE Greek melic (or songwriting) poet Pindar was one of the most celebrated lyricists of antiquity.

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'Horace tells us in his poetry almost everything we need to know about his life; it is curiously entangled with the Italian earth, with the history of his times, and an exact moment in that brief early summer of Latin poetry which had no autumn.

At the heart of the Castilian plateau, far from the coastal towns and ports of Spain, sits the great city of Madrid.

Peter Levi teases a remarkably vivid life from Virgil's poems, a life-long study of poetry and the few facts that have come down to us through Suetonius.

The pioneering Iranian poet and filmmaker Forugh Farrokhzad was an iconic figure in her own day and has come to represent the spirit of revolt against patriarchal and cultural norms in 1960s Iran.

Newlands provides an extensive overview and analysis of Ovid s works.

The 6th/5th century bce Greek melic (or songwriting) poet Pindar was the most celebrated lyricist of antiquity.

I hate and I love.

What reader could fail to be enthralled by the Iliad and the Odyssey, those greatest heroic epics of antiquity?

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The pioneering Iranian poet and filmmaker Forugh Farrokhzad was an iconic figure in her own day and has come to represent the spirit of revolt against patriarchal and cultural norms in 1960s Iran.

Peter Levi teases a remarkably vivid life from Virgil's poems, a life-long study of poetry and the few facts that have come down to us through Suetonius.

In the wake of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Iranian society and culture underwent massive changes.

Panegyric poetry, in both Arabic and Persian, was one of the most important genres of literature in the medieval Middle East and Central Asia.

Dante is one of the towering figures of medieval European literature.

The Bedouin, or 'desert dwellers', have a rich cultural heritage often expressed through music and poetry.

Few figures who were active in the English Romantic Movement are as fascinating as Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834).

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Beowulf is by far the most popular text of the medieval world taught in American classrooms, at both the high school and undergraduate levels.

After a distinguished career as a teacher, scholar, bibliographer and literary critic, Stanley Brian Greenfield, Professor of English at the University of Oregon, one of the founders of the annual Anglo-Saxon England and of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, died in 1987.

Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry collects personal and academic writing from Latino, Latin American, Latinx, and Luso poets about the nature of poetry and its practice.

In this poignant bilingual collection, preeminent New Mexican poet E.

The poems in The Gospel of Wildflowers and Weeds expand the sacred within a baroque, magical-realist poetics that immerses itself in the flora and fauna of the Caribbean and the region's complex interplay of African, Judeo-Christian, and Taino (Arawak) cultures.

The Peacock and the Buffalo presents the first complete English translation of the poetry of the celebrated and hugely influential German thinker, Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900).

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

In this innovative debut collection, Tacey M.

Over the last sixty years scholars and critics have focused on literary history and interpretation rather than literary value.

Horace speaks of poetry delighting and instructing.

This exploration of the influence of Mayan hieroglyphics on the great American poet Charles Olson (1910-1970) is an important document in the history of New World verse.

Caton Garcia's poems layer sound and image to offer a tangible point of access into the complex and often contradictory ideas contained within the work.

The first book devoted exclusively to the poetry and literary aesthetics of one of Native America's most accomplished writers, this collection of essays brings together detailed critical analyses of single texts and individual poetry collections from diverse theoretical perspectives, along with comparative discussions of Vizenor's related works.