Literary studies: poetry and poets

Christina Rossetti (1830-94) is regarded as one of the greatest Christian poets to write in English.

This fully revised and updated fourth edition of Motion Picture and Video Lighting explores the technical, aesthetic, and practical aspects of lighting for film and video.

Explores Shakespeare''s plays in their most immediate context: the hundreds of plays known to original audiences, but lost to us.

A collection of the reviews of Pound''s work that were published in his lifetime.

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This highly acclaimed volume contains thirty essays by such leading literary critics as A.

A pesar de los numerosos estudios que se han sucedido en las últimas décadas, la intertextualidad sigue siendo un terreno complejo y escurridizo, sobre todo por tratarse de una noción inestable, vinculada a horizontes críticos diversos.

Morrison examines the legacy of the modernist poetics of Ezra Pound and T.

A wide-ranging introduction to Byron''s life and works by a range of eminent Byron scholars.

The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue in literature, theology, and philosophy, in social, political, jurisprudential, and intellectual history, the history of art, and the history of science but also that combines these subjectsproductively.

The poet of the Odyssey was a seriously flawed genius.

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Ceniza provides a dramatic rereading of Walt Whitman's poetry through the lens of 19th-century feminist culture.

The experimental and diverse writings of John Milton's early career offer tantalizing evidence of a precocious and steadily ripening author.

The Poetry Handbook is a lucid and entertaining guide to the poet's craft, and an invaluable introduction to practical criticism for students.

Along with Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas is by any reckoning a major first world war poet.

Heroic poetry was central to the construction of Anglo-Saxon values, beliefs, and community identity and its subject matter is often analyzed as a window into Anglo-Saxon life.

The four-hundred-year story of readers' struggles with a famously unreadable poem-and what they reveal about the history of reading and the future of literary studies"e;I am now in the country, and reading in Spencer's fairy-queen.

With Mathilde Blind: Late-Victorian Culture and the Woman of Letters, James Diedrick offers a groundbreaking critical biography of the German-born British poet Mathilde Blind (1841-1896), a freethinking radical feminist.

In zwölf Essays nähert sich Richard Schuberth dem Dichter Lord Byron an und setzt dessen innere Widersprüche in Beziehung zu den Widersprüchen seiner Zeit sowie zu Problemen und Diskursen der Gegenwart.

This study maps a new approach to the works of W.

This is the first edition for fifty years of one of the greatest of English lyric poets.

A detailed treatment of Switzerland in British literature, the book shows how a republican myth contributed to Romanticism and liberalism.

Featuring a moment in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England before the disciplinary divisions that we inherit today were established, Empiricist Devotions recovers a kind of empiricist thinking in which the techniques and emphases of science, religion, and literature combined and cooperated.

Professional ethics require continuous self-improvement of professors, through writing, reading, and learning: no less than for students.

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This volume takes as its subject one of the most important Greek poems of the Hellenistic period: the Alexandra attributed to Lykophron, probably written in about 190 BC.

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.

A collection of essays celebrating the talents of Philip Larkin, poet, critic and fiction writer who died in 1985.

Mark Parker argues that magazines became pre-eminent literary vehicles of the 1820s and 1830s.

Foreign Accents examines the various transpacific signifying strategies by which poets of Chinese descent in the U.

Nott, who published Jefferson and/or Mussolini (1935), was an interested and encouraging interlocutor for a poet seeking re-invention as an economist and political commentator - someone who sustained Pound as he swam against the tide.

This book understands digital cultural production of electronic literatures and digital art by looking at electronic and digital works that produce subjective positionality, clouded knowledges of quantum theories, and metaphysical patterns grounded in a cultural ideology.

In this set of thorough and revisionary readings of Percy Bysshe Shelley's best-known writings in verse and prose, Hogle argues that the logic and style in all these works are governed by a movement in every thought, memory, image, or word-pattern whereby each is seen and sees itself in terms of a radically different form.

The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry offers thirty-eight chapters of ground breaking research that form a collaborative guide to the many groupings and movements, the locations and styles, as well as concerns (aesthetic, political, cultural and ethical) that have helped shape contemporary poetry in Britain and Ireland.

Was the experience of poetry-or a cultural practice we now call poetry-continuously available across the two-and-a-half millennia from the composition of the Homeric epics to the publication of Ben Jonson's Works and the death of Shakespeare in 1616?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought.

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This book provides a stylistic and cognitive poetic account of ekphrastic poetry (poetry whose subject matter is predominantly artworks and images), examining the linguistic processes through which works of art can become literary objects.

This book traces the major writing of New Orleans through its five most famous streets as well as its outskirts.

Hart Crane's Queer Modernist Aesthetic argues that the aspects of experience which modernists sought to interrogate - time, space, and material things - were challenged further by Crane's queer poetics.

This early works was originally published in 1900.

Drawing on an extensive knowledge of the critical history of Olympian One, Professor Gerber here presents a thorough analysis of the language thought, myth, structure, and poetic technique of Pindar's most famous ode.

Through a series of 34 essays by leading and emerging scholars, A Companion to Romantic Poetry reveals the rich diversity of Romantic poetry and shows why it continues to hold such a vital and indispensable place in the history of English literature.

This catalogue of the Shakespeare First Folio (1623) is the result of two decades of research during which 232 surviving copies of this immeasurably important book were located a remarkable 72 more than were recorded in the previous census over a century ago and examined in situ, creating an essential reference work.

The Printed Voice of Victorian Poetry starts from a simple fact: our written language does not represent the way we speak.

This work attempts to analyze Shakespeare's tragedies, concentrating on the accidental irregularities and the inspired "e;unconformities"e; to the found there.

The Vercelli Book is one of the oldest surviving collections of Old English homilies and poems, compiled in England in the tenth century.