Literary studies: poetry and poets

A trailblazing exploration of the poetic power of popular songs, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles to Beyonce and beyond.

An intimate, penetrating study of Joseph Brodsky’s life and work, written by his lifelong friend, the eminent Russian literary scholar Lev Loseff The work of Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996), one of Russia’s great modern poets, has been the subject of much study and debate.

Hédi Kaddour’s poetry arises from observation, from situations both ordinary and emblematic—of contemporary life, of human stubbornness, human invention, or human cruelty.

True Friendship looks closely at three outstanding poets of the past half-century-Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell-through the lens of their relation to their two predecessors in genius, T.

Winner of the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism  Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics explores the intersection of poetry, national life, and national identity in Poland and Russia, from 1917 to the present.

Poems vivifying nature have gripped people for centuries.

This indispensable anthology gathers texts and translations that cover major aspects of the Virgilian tradition from the Roman poet's own lifetime to the year 1500.

In this original book, distinguished literary scholar and critic Paul H.

A brief, passionate book about the nature of poetry and its use in the world Poetry doesn’t matter to most people, observes Jay Parini at the opening of this book.

Fady Joudah’s The Earth in the Attic is the 2007 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.

A perceptive literary critic, a world-famous writer of witty and playful verses for children, a leading authority on children’s linguistic creativity, and a highly skilled translator, Kornei Chukovsky was a complete man of letters.

This groundbreaking anthology brings together for the first time the works of women poet-composers, or trouvères, in northern France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

Twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes was one of the most influential figures in Western literature, for his romantic poems on the legend of King Arthur gave rise to a tradition of storytelling that continues to this day.

A loving and admiring companion for half a century to literary titan Ezra Pound, concert violinist Olga Rudge was the muse who inspired the poet to complete his epic poem, The Cantos, and the mother of his only daughter, Mary.

In this unparalleled study of the forms of Hebrew poetry, preeminent authority Benjamin Harshav examines Hebrew verse during three millennia of changing historical and cultural contexts.

In a major burst of creativity, Russian poet Alexander Pushkin during just three months in 1830 completed Eugene Onegin, composed more than thirty lyric poems, wrote several short stories and folk tales, and penned the four short dramas in verse that comprise the "e;little tragedies.

This is the first book devoted to Horace’s Carmen Saeculare, a poem commissioned by Roman emperor Augustus in 17 B.

This groundbreaking book of literary detective work alters our understanding of T.

Jay Hopler's Green Squall is the winner of the 2005 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.

In this engaging book David Rosen offers a radically new account of Modern poetry and revises our understanding of its relation to Romanticism.

A major poet, writer, and painter, Dante Gabriel Rossetti was seen as the dominating cultural presence in the second half of the nineteenth century.

One of the twentieth century’s most important poets, W.

This anthology presents substantial selections from the work of twenty Manchu women poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Two contemporary poets from Taiwan, Yang Mu (pen name for Wang Ching-hsien, b.

Emotion, raw and unadorned, is woven through the poems of Christianne Balk's The Holding Hours.

Verse Going Viral examines what happens when poetry, a central pillar of traditional Chinese culture, encounters an era of digital media and unabashed consumerism in the early twenty-first century.

From a Three-Cornered World presents 60 poems by James Mitsui, 25 of them new.

Savant Singh (16941764), the Rajput prince of Kishangarh-Rupnagar, is famous for commissioning beautiful works of miniature painting and composing devotional (bhakti) poetry to Krishna under the nom de plume Nagaridas.

In Accounting for Dante, Justin Steinberg reexamines Dante's relation to his contemporary public, an audience that included those poets who responded to Dante's early work as well as the readers who first copied, preserved, and circulated his poetry.

Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy is a literary-historical study of the many surprising ways in which Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy have assumed a position of importance in African American culture.

An examination of metaphor in poetry as a microcosm of the human imagination—a way to understand the mechanisms of creativity.

A poetics appropriate to the digital era that connects digital poetry to traditional poetry''s concerns with being.

English Romantic Poetry: Ethos, Structure, and Symbol in Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats delves into the profound complexities and intellectual struggles of four seminal English Romantic poets.

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The Ahmadiyya Muslim community represents the followers of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835-1908), a charismatic leader whose claims of spiritual authority brought him into conflict with most other Muslim leaders of the time.

Jazz emerged during the political and social upheaval of world war, communist revolution, Red Scares, and the Black Migration.

Kenneth Rexroth called Denise Levertov (1923-1997) "e;the most subtly skillful poet of her generation, the most profound, .

The Ballad as Song is a collection of essays tracing the author's decades-long exploration of the intersection between traditional ballads and their accompanying tunes.

English Romantic Poetry: Ethos, Structure, and Symbol in Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats delves into the profound complexities and intellectual struggles of four seminal English Romantic poets.

The Country House in English Renaissance Poetry explores a unique literary genre that emerged during the seventeenth century, celebrating the ideals of the English manor estate while critiquing the societal shifts that threatened its values.

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Author of "e;Kubla Khan"e; and the epic "e;The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,"e; Samuel Taylor Coleridge is remembered principally for his contributions as a romantic poet.

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A classic novel of post-war Europe, haunting and timelessly beautiful'The greatest writer of our time' Peter CareyIn 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents.

Discover Dancing by the Light of the Moon, a collection of poetry to last you a lifetime - poems that will bring you joy, solace, celebration and love for every occasion'Gyles has discovered the secret of finding happiness' DAME JUDI DENCHIncludes an updated chapter of poems to bring you hope and happiness this year _______ A POEM CAN .

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