Literary studies: poetry and poets

What is the political potential of poetry in the contemporary era?

John Thelwall and the Materialist Imagination reassesses Thelwall's eclectic body of work from the perspective of his heterodox materialist arguments about the imagination, political reform, and the principle of life itself, and his contributions to Romantic-era science.

Zwei Corpora aus der späten Lyrik Goethes werden in diesem Band neu gelesen; eines von ihnen sogar erstmalig für die Forschung entdeckt.

This is a book about the conflict between history and poetry - and historians and poets - in Atlantic World society from the end of the seventeenth century to the present day.

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Comparatively little is known about Shakespeare's first audiences.

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

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

Lowell's continuing productivity and his ever-increasing stature as a poet demand a new evaluation of his work, and Cooper has provided it in this penetrating study.

This book argues that the early modern public/private boundary was surprisingly dynamic and flexible in early modern literature, drawing upon authors including Shakespeare, Anne Lock, Mary Wroth, and Aphra Behn, and genres including lyric poetry, drama, prose fiction, and household orders.

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This is a study of the Bengali Kartabhaja sect and its place in the broader movement of Tantrism, an Indian religious movement employing purposely shocking sexual language and rituals.

From Dylan Thomas s eighteen straight whiskies to Sylvia Plath s desperate suicide in the gas oven of her Primrose Hill kitchen; from Chatterton s Pre-Raphaelite demise to Keats death warrant in a smudge of arterial blood, the deaths of poets have often cast a backward shadow on their work.

Here, essays use the latest theories in postcolonialism, globalization, and post-nationalism to explore how world cinema and theater respond to Bollywood's representation of Shakespeare.

Impossible Modernism reads the writings of German philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) and Anglo-American poet and critic T.

This book presents the first comprehensive examination of Homer''s similes in the Iliad as arenas of heroic competition.

Impossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry examines the limits of embodiment, knowledge, and representation at a disregarded nexus: the erotic carpe diem poem in early modern England.

The Poetry Toolkit: For Readers and Writers provides students with the essential intellectual and practical tools necessary to read, understand, and write poetry.

Ein Sinn, der verborgen oder enthüllt werden kann, ist eine der zentralen Denkfiguren der Neuzeit.

The first substantial commentary for a generation on this book of Horace''s Odes, a great masterpiece of classical Latin literature.

This book presents ten new chapters on John Keats's medical imagination, beginning with his practical engagement with dissection and surgery, and the extraordinary poems he wrote during his 'busy time' at Guy's Hospital 1815-17.

Why do we find it hard to explain what happens when words are set to music?

Provides new theatrical contexts for Romantic-period literary writing, reframing the relationship between theater and poetry in Regency London.

Advancing Medical Posthumanism Through Twenty-First Century American Poetry places contemporary poetics in dialogue with posthumanism and biomedicine in order to create a framework for advancing a posthuman-affirmative ethics within the culture of medical practice.

Permutations of a Self grapples with issues of belonging and connection, all from the perspective of someone who does a lot more observing and ruminating than living in the present.

Shakespeare s Widows moves thirty-one characters appearing in twenty plays to center stage.

Humor in recent American poetry has been largely dismissed or ignored by scholars, due in part to a staid reverence for the lyric.

Poems inspire our trust, argues James Longenbach in this bracing work, because they don't necessarily ask to be trusted.

Treasuring the past, savouring the present, and wanting to do right by the future, Archibald Lampman was a poet keenly focused on the workings of time.

This pioneering study is the first full-length treatment of feminism and the environment in children's literature.

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Einzelne Werke Heines stehen im Mittelpunkt des Heine-Jahrbuchs 2002: Stuart Ferguson befasst sich mit den "Bädern von Lucca", Christine Mielke mit den "Florentinischen Nächten" und Renate Schlesier mit dem Gedicht "Diesseits und jenseits des Rheins".

Band 7 enthält 430 Texte aus den Jahren November 1841 bis Dezember 1843.

In this beautifully illustrated book, one of the foremost Shakespeareans of our time explores the ways in which Shakespeare has been imagined from his time to ours.

Don Juan , Byron's best poem, is a sensational radical satire.

Writing Under Tyranny: English Literature and the Henrician Reformation spans the boundaries between literary studies and history.

Shakespeare's Extremes is a controversial intervention in current critical debates on the status of the human in Shakespeare's work.

In their practice of aemulatio, the mimicry of older models of writing, the Augustan poets often looked to the Greeks: Horace drew inspiration from the lyric poets, Virgil from Homer, and Ovid from Hesiod, Callimachus, and others.