Literary studies: poetry and poets

A comprehensive account of features of Latin that emerge from dialogue, drawing on the data from Roman comedy and drama.

This book offers an in-depth discussion of the evolution of modernist poetry in Taiwan, with a focus on periods preceding and following World War II, and contextualizes the movement within the broader frameworks of Western, Japanese, and Chinese modernism.

Bodies abound in Rimbaud's poetry in a way that is nearly unprecedented in the nineteenth-century poetic canon: lazy, creative, rule-breaking bodies, queer bodies, marginalized and impoverished bodies, revolting and revolutionary, historical bodies.

Literary modernism emerged as death, stripped in the developing world of traditional meanings and practices, became strange.

This study describes in detail the development of Coleridge's attitude to nature as it is reflected in his poetry.

Ein Überblick über Schillers gesamtes literarisches SchaffenDieses kleine Buch bietet eine gleichermaßen kompakte wie umfassende Einführung in Schillers Werk und setzt dabei einen Akzent auf seine poetischen Texte.

No American author of the early 19th century enjoys a larger international audience than Edgar Allan Poe.

The Wordsworth volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series is the most comprehensive selection currently available of the poetry and prose of one of the finest poets in the English language.

O Westport in the Light of Asia Minor was first published in a tiny edition in Dublin in 1975.

Frederick Klaeber's Beowulf has long been the standard edition for study by students and advanced scholars alike.

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724–1803) war in der Mitte des 18.

This book presents an extended account of the language of dystopia, exploring the creativity and style of dystopian narratives and mapping the development of the genre from its early origins through to contemporary practice.

Unbestritten gehört Klopstock zu den Schlüsselautoren des 18.

How do poems remember?

This book presents a stylistic framework for analysing embodiment in lyric texts.

An invaluable companion for any writer seeking to make the writing life a more complex and cooperative venture "e;Illuminating, deeply endearing essays.

Illustrated by 130 languages and literatures, this book explores poetry''s unique psychological qualities.

A collection of essays presenting an "e;insider"e; view of the Irish poetic tradition.

This book is about the resonance and implications of the idea of 'eternal recurrence', as expounded notably by Nietzsche, in relation to a range of nineteenth-century literature.

This book presents the first full-length study of the stylistically experimental and influential novelist George Moore's (1852-1933) repeated acts of rewriting.

The Verse Revolutionaries tells the story of the Imagists, a turbulent and colourful group of poets, who came together in London in the years before the First World War.

Shows how medieval Italian poets viewed their authorship of poetry as a function of their engagement in a human community.

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An overview of the great achievements of modern poets in Britain in the twentieth century.

Developing a reading of modernist poetics centred on the three-way relationship between literature, modern physics and avant-garde art movements, this book focuses on four key poets William Carlos Williams, Mina Loy, the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and Wallace Stevens whose lives crossed paths in 20th-century New York.

Portugal enjoyed one of the richest and most sophisticated cultures of the Middle Ages, in part because of its vibrant secular literature.

The early Stuart funeral elegy was a copious and digressive genre, and exceptional deaths pressed elegists to stretch beyond the usual rhetoric of grief and commemoration.

Following the acclaimed first volume, Among the Mandarins, this is the second and concluding volume of the authorized biography of William Empson, one of the foremost poets and literary critics of the twentieth century.

This book reads the work of contemporary women poets against recent debates in third wave feminism and democratic theory in exploring the range of ways in which women poets have interrogated the complexities of being public in contemporary U.

The life of John Selden (1584-1654) was both contemplative and active.

This book contains Percy Byssche Shelley's 'Epipsychidion', a seminal poetic work published by the prolific English romantic poet in 1821.

This book describes the emergence of ecological understanding among the English Romantic poets, arguing that this new holistic paradigm offered a conceptual and ideological basis for American environmentalism.

An examination of the subject of "e;fame"e; in Lydgate, showing it as central to his work.

With special attention to Emily Dickinson's growth into a poet, this literary biographical study charts Dickinson's hard-won brilliance as she worked, largely alone, to become the unique American woman writer of the nineteenth century.

Poetry: A Survivor's Guide has earned high praise from students, teachers, and readers from around the globe for its playful sincerity and idiosyncratic humor and for its approach to a subject both loved and feared.

First-person poetry is a familiar genre in Latin literature.

Heralding a new period of creativity, In the Wake of the Poetic explores the aesthetics and politics of Palestinian cultural expression in the last two decades.

Comprehensive survey of the conductus over a period of more than one hundred years, demonstrating how music and poetry interact.

Up-to-date edition of one of Euripides'' most appealing plays, exploring language, style, meter, dramatic technique, myth, religion, politics, and society.

The Poetry and Poetics of Michael Heller: A Nomad Memory is the first comprehensive treatment of a singularly important American poet of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

From antiquity to the Renaissance the pursuit of patronage was central to the literary career, yet relationships between poets and patrons were commonly conflicted, if not antagonistic, necessitating compromise even as they proffered stability and status.

How can humour and irony in writing both create and destroy boundaries?

How unfair', wrote one national newspaper in 1951, 'that accomplishments enough to satisfy the pride of six men should be united in Mr Day-Lewis.

In his compelling new book Ian Smith addresses the pernicious influence of systemic whiteness on our interpretation of Shakespeare''s plays.

Professor Kane is widely regarded as the leading middle English textual and literary scholar of our time and this collection of his essays will be widely welcomed.

A critical study of Persius'' poetic aims, aversions and techniques.