Literary studies: poetry and poets

Over the course of his life (550-460 BC), the Greek poet Simonides produced poetic work of every kind then extant.

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In December of 1862, having read his brother's name in a casualty list, Walt Whitman rushed from Brooklyn to the war front, where he found his brother wounded but recovering.

Questions of Possibility examines the particular forms that contemporary American poets favor and those they neglect.

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

Extending and reframing the works of Bakhtin, Gadamer, Ong, and Foucault--with particular emphasis on Bakhtin's late essays --Macovski constructs a theoretical model of literary dialogue and applies it to a range of Romantic texts.

This provocative study of the lives and works of Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Adrienne Rich, and Gwendolyn Brooks focuses on the historical struggles and differences among and within women writers and among feminists themselves.

Bremen's study examines the development of William Carlos Williams's poetics, focusing in particular on Williams's ongoing fascination with the effects of poetry and prose, and his life-long friendship with Kenneth Burke.

Female Characters play various roles in the Odyssey: patron goddess (Athena), seductress (Kirke, the Sirens, Nausikaa), carnivorous monster (Skylla), maid servant (Eurykleia), and faithful wife (Penelope).

The New Red Negro surveys African-American poetry from the onset of the Depression to the early days of the Cold War.

Although it has long been commonplace to imagine the archetypal American poet singing a solitary "e;Song of Myself,"e; much of the most enduring American poetry has actually been preoccupied with the drama of friendship.

The aim of this book is to restore to the story of Englishness the lively material interactions between words, bodies, plants, stones, metals, and soil, among other things, that would have characterized it for the early medieval English themselves.

'If something else can capture your attention Then it's not love, but just a trivial passion -Love is that flame which, once it blazes up, Burns everything but the Beloved up.

'If something else can capture your attention Then it's not love, but just a trivial passion -Love is that flame which, once it blazes up, Burns everything but the Beloved up.

Keats and Shelley: Winds of Light combines unrivalled textual knowledge, biographical and contextual expertise, and profoundly insightful close readings of the poetry in a selection of outstanding essays from a leading critic of English Romantic Poetry.

Keats and Shelley: Winds of Light combines unrivalled textual knowledge, biographical and contextual expertise, and profoundly insightful close readings of the poetry in a selection of outstanding essays from a leading critic of English Romantic Poetry.

This book presents Czeslaw Milosz's poetic philosophy of the body as an original defense of religious faith, transcendence, and the value of the human individual against what he viewed as dangerous modern forms of materialism.

This book presents Czeslaw Milosz's poetic philosophy of the body as an original defense of religious faith, transcendence, and the value of the human individual against what he viewed as dangerous modern forms of materialism.

Rhetoric is an engine of social discourse and the art charged with generating and swaying emotion.

Rhetoric is an engine of social discourse and the art charged with generating and swaying emotion.

This book offers the first comprehensive close reading in any language of the complete works of Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867).

This book offers the first comprehensive close reading in any language of the complete works of Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867).

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

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

Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry explores how American poets of the last hundred years have used laughter to create communities of readers and writers.

Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry explores how American poets of the last hundred years have used laughter to create communities of readers and writers.

A selection of new and revised essays from eminent scholar and critic Professor Christopher Ricks.

A selection of new and revised essays from eminent scholar and critic Professor Christopher Ricks.

In a time of aggressive imperial expansion, Latin elegists expressed geographical concerns about boundaries and limits through masculine and feminine subjects in their poetry.

In a time of aggressive imperial expansion, Latin elegists expressed geographical concerns about boundaries and limits through masculine and feminine subjects in their poetry.

The Art of Complicity in Martial and Statius examines the relationship between politics and aesthetics in two poets from the reign of Domitian.

The Art of Complicity in Martial and Statius examines the relationship between politics and aesthetics in two poets from the reign of Domitian.

What would medieval English literature look like if we viewed it through the lens of the compendium?

What would medieval English literature look like if we viewed it through the lens of the compendium?

Hesiod, who lived in Boetia in the late eighth century BC, is one of the oldest known, and possibly the oldest of Greek poets.

Portugal was not always the best place for poets in the sixteenth century.

Portugal was not always the best place for poets in the sixteenth century.

Dante's Vita nuova has taken on a wide variety of different forms since its first publication in 1294.

A first-hand account of the creative process that engages with the language of oppression and with politics in our time.

A first-hand account of the creative process that engages with the language of oppression and with politics in our time.

This interdisciplinary and archival study explores the reception of ancient Rome in the artistic, literary, and philosophical works of David Jones (1895-1974)-the Anglo-Welsh, Roman Catholic, First World War veteran.

This interdisciplinary and archival study explores the reception of ancient Rome in the artistic, literary, and philosophical works of David Jones (1895-1974)-the Anglo-Welsh, Roman Catholic, First World War veteran.

This book advances a new concept of the "e;Asian diaspora"e; that creates links between Asian American, Asian Canadian, and Asian Australian identities.

This book advances a new concept of the "e;Asian diaspora"e; that creates links between Asian American, Asian Canadian, and Asian Australian identities.

The history of China, as any history, is a story of and in translation.

The history of China, as any history, is a story of and in translation.

The Augustan period in Rome was a golden age for poetry, and also the age in which the cult of the author began in the west.

The Augustan period in Rome was a golden age for poetry, and also the age in which the cult of the author began in the west.

Jewish American Writing and World Literature: Maybe to Millions, Maybe to Nobody studies Jewish American writers' relationships with the idea of world literature.

Jewish American Writing and World Literature: Maybe to Millions, Maybe to Nobody studies Jewish American writers' relationships with the idea of world literature.