Literary studies: poetry and poets

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Offering a transdisciplinary analysis of works by Gloria Anzaldua, Cherrie Moraga, Ana Castillo, Emma Perez, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, and Sandra Cisneros, this book explores how radical Chicanas deal with tensions that arise from their focus on the body, desire, and writing.

This study explores the interrelationship between spatiality and subjecthood in the work of Stephane Mallarme, Guillaume Apollinaire, Maurice Maeterlinck, and Alfred Jarry.

In American Poetic Materialism from Whitman to Stevens, Mark Noble examines writers who rethink the human in material terms.

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This collection of essays by leading scholars offers a comprehensive overview of contexts important for the study of Emily Dickinson''s writings.

Dora Wordsworth and Sara Coleridge, were life-long friends.

No other ancient poet has had such a hold on the imagination of readers as Ovid.

This book is a bit of literary detective work.

This book proposes the term 'emergent poetics' to synthesize two divergent strands in contemporary literary media theory - the media archaeology of material inscriptions and the systems view of media ecology, which considers media as complex nodes of exchange.

In this new edition of Best Words, Best Order, Stephen Dobyns further explains the mystery of the poet's work.

The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the twentieth century's most famous poet and its most influential literary arbiter, T.

Recent years have witnessed a growing fascination with the printed annotations accompanying eighteenth-century texts.

Gesamtüberblick über die Gattung der Lyrik.

Coleridge and Contemplation is a multi-disciplinary volume on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, founding poet of British Romanticism, critic, and author of philosophical, political, and theological works.

This book is a critical experiment that tracks the literary and poetic uses of musical notation and notational methods in North American long poems from the middle of last century to the contemporary moment.

Although Coleridge's thinking and writing about the fine arts was both considerable and interesting, this has not been the subject of a book before.

Modernist Poetry, Gender and Leisure Technologies: Machine Amusements explores how modernist women poets were inspired by leisure technologies to write new versions of the gendered subject.

This volume is the first to focus on a particular complex of questions that have troubled Wittgenstein scholarship since its very beginnings.

This book provides the first overview of classical presences in Anglophone Irish poetry after 1960.

Ollam ("e;ollav"e;), named for the ancient title of Ireland's chief poets, celebrates the career of Tomas O Cathasaigh, Henry L.

Introduces students to one of the greatest Romantic writers and thinkers.

Victorian Poetry and the Culture of Evaluation argues that the dialectic and dynamic relationship between the periodical review and poetry creates a culture of evaluation which shapes Victorian poetic form.

No practicing poet has more talent than Robert Hass.

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This book investigates the relationship between poetry and ontology in the works of Martin Heidegger.

At the heart of all Ben Jonson's nondramatic poetry, argues Michael McCanles, lies the concept of true nobility.

Walt Whitman has long been regarded as the quintessential American bard, the poet who best represents all that is distinctive about life in the United States.

When a poet addresses a living personwhether friend or enemy, lover or sisterwe recognize the expression of intimacy.

Milton's Paradise Lost, the most eloquent, most intellectually daring, most learned, and most sublime poem in the English language, is a poem about angels.

While recent works of criticism on Frank O'Hara have focused on the technical similarities between his poetry and painting, or between his use of language and poststructuralism, Frank O'Hara and the Poetics of Saying 'I' argues that what is most significant in O'Hara's work is not such much his "e;borrowing"e; from painters or his proto-Derridean use of language, but his preoccupation with self exploration and the temporal effects of his work as artifacts.

Romanticism and the Museum argues that museums were integral to Britain's understanding of itself as a nation in the wake of the French Revolution.

Wordsworth: A Poet's History examines the range of Wordsworth's poetry and criticism over the course of his career.

In Building Natures, Julia Daniel establishes the influence of landscape architecture, city planning, and parks management on American poetry to show how modernists engaged with the green worlds and social playgrounds created by these new professions in the early twentieth century.

This book explores Della Cruscan poetry in the late eighteenth-century literary scene.

Compiled by the award-winning poet and author of children's books, Donald Hall, this delightful anthology follows in the tradition of Iona and Peter Opie's classic Oxford Book of Children's Verse.

Ranging from Jonson to Rochester and including several critically neglected figures, select poetic contemporaries variously illuminate the scope of Hobbes's writing and the reach of his influence, in turn shedding diverse lights on the nature of their own work.

Describes how interwar modernism responded to the global crisis in the liberal world order after 1919.

This textbook teaches the writing of poetry by examining all the major verse forms and repeating stanza forms in English.

Peter Robinson's third book of literary criticism presents a sequence of chapters exploring ways that selves and situations interact and become imaginatively identified with each other in poems.

Its lines and verses have become part of the western literary canon and his translation of this most famous of poems has been continuously in print in for almost a century and a half.

This volume explores how poets use different kinds of formal experimentation to change the way we think, and to allow us to try out new ways of perceiving existence and positioning ourselves within the world.

A career-spanning collection of essays from a leading scholar of avant-garde poetry Writing into the Future: New American Poetries from "e;The Dial"e; to the Digital collects Alan Golding's essays on the futures (past and present) of poetry and poetics.

Cole examines the rich literary and cultural history of masculine intimacy in the twentieth century.

Examining the ways in which modernism is created within specific historical contexts, as well as how it redefines the concept of history itself, this book sheds new light on the historical-mindedness of modernism and the artistic avant-gardes.