Literary studies: poetry and poets

Este libro forma parte de una nueva línea editorial y, de hecho, inaugura la colección "La casa de fuego" que busca forjar un catálogo de poesía hispanoamericana contemporáneo.

'we can speak of no greater contest than Olympia'The Greek poet Pindar (c.

Es bien sabido que la décima tiene como segundo nombre el de espinela por atribuirse su creación a Vicente Espinel.

Whitman escribió 'Días ejemplares' en la vejez con el propósito de dejar constancia de lo que había sido su vida en unos momentos muy convulsos de la historia de los Estados Unidos.

'To see a World in a Grain of Sand'And a Heaven in a Wild FlowerHold Infinity in the palm of your handAnd Eternity in an hour'William Blake wrote some of the most moving and memorable verse in the English language.

`Now listen with good will, as I go straight to my subject matter, in which you may hear the double sorrows of Troilus in his love for Criseyde, and how she forsook him before she died'Like Romeo and Juliet, or Tristan and Iseult, the names of Troilus and Criseyde will always be united: a pair of lovers whose names are inseparable from passion and tragedy.

"Juan Manuel Roca dice aquí lo que piensa de la poesía, lo que sabe, lo que a ella le exige.

'To see a World in a Grain of Sand'And a Heaven in a Wild FlowerHold Infinity in the palm of your handAnd Eternity in an hour'William Blake wrote some of the most moving and memorable verse in the English language.

Este estudio constituye el primer acercamiento crítico, en el mundo académico hispano, a las poetas y artistas de la generación Beat que, junto con los componentes masculinos bien conocidos del grupo (Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs) revolucionaron la escena literaria urbana en la década de los cincuenta en los Estados Unidos, adelantándose así al cambio de mentalidad que colonizó el mundo en los sesenta y los setenta.

Anne Staël wurde von Napoleon gezwungen, Frankreich zu verlassen.

Liburu hau gonbita bat da Xabier Leteren poesia eta pentsamendu poetikoa ezagutzeko.

"Las voces de Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: trauma, silencios, balbuceos" es una tentativa de describir la poética de la artista estadounidense de origen coreano (1951-1982).

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

In The Art of Poetry, Shira Wolosky provides a dazzling introduction to an art whose emphasis on verbal music, wordplay, and dodging the merely literal makes it at once the most beguiling and most challenging of literary forms.

Anglo-American modernist writing and modern mass democratic states emerged at the same time, during the period of 1900-1930.

Rhyme's Challenge offers a concise, pithy primer to hip-hop poetics while presenting a spirited defense of rhyme in contemporary American poetry.

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

Drawing on his extensive experience of poetry workshops and courses, Peter Sansom shows you not how to write but how to write better, how to write authentically, how to say genuinely what you genuinely mean to say.

LIVES THAT NEVER GROW OLDPart of a radical series - edited by Richard Holmes - that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography.

The Poet Laureate's clear and entertaining account of how poetry works.

In the melody that is heard all day long In the teeming city and in nature's wilderness In all these notes I have lost myself.

Described as the perfect fusion of poetry and garage band rock and roll (the original concept was "e;rock and Rimbaud"e;), Horses belongs as much to the world of literary and cultural criticism as it does to the realm of musicology.

Controversial and passionate, XLI Poems is e.

"e;There was no patriotism in the trenches.

Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies; but no book-length portrait has appeared until now.

From the great events of the day to the patient workings of a spider, few poets responded to the life around them as powerfully as Walt Whitman.

“A colossus among critics.

Killed at Arras in 1917, Edward Thomas left behind him a short, vivid history of his own early life, covering the period from his birth to his entry into St Paul's.

In 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'.

Composed during the fourteenth century in the English Midlands, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight describes the events that follow when a mysterious green-coloured knight rides into King Arthur's Camelot in deep mid-winter.

Maggie Nelson's third collection of poems combines a wanderer's attention to landscape with a deeply personal exploration of desire, heartbreak, resilience, accident, and flux.

Subversive and satirical, inventive, wry and unconventional, John Hartley Williams has long been celebrated for his maverick sensibility, for his outsider's take on the way we live our lives.

First published in 1868, "e;Ave Atque Vale"e; is a poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne dedicated to French poet, art critic, and essayist Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821-1867).

A stunning volume of epic breadth which connects the lives and works of over 300 English-language poets of the last 700 years.

The poems in Robert Hass's new collectionhis first to appear in a decadeare grounded in the beauty and energy of the physical world, and in the bafflement of the present moment in American culture.

This edition gathers the expansive and spirited public lectures delivered by Simon Armitage during his 'conscientious and often amusingly self-conscious tenure' (TLS) as Oxford University Professor of Poetry.

In a memoir as vivid and unpredictable as any novel we follow Roger Garfitt on his journey from stable boy to jazz dancer, from Oxford dandy to Sixties drop-out.

Jose de Alencar's prose-poem Iracema, first published in 1865, is a classic of Brazilian literature--perhaps the most widely-known piece of fiction within Brazil, and the most widely-read of Alencar;s many works.

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Get on Stage and Perfect Your PerformanceHave you ever enjoyed a slam or two and thought, "e;I could do this,"e; but felt apprehensive staring at that empty mic-or worse, you climbed up on stage and struggled?

1988: at four-years-old, he short-circuited his home with a silver spoon and a Betamax video player.

'Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation'Olivia LaingIn this, her second anthology of poetry, Maggie Nelson experiments with poetic forms long and short as she charts intimate landscapes, including the poet's enmeshment in a beloved city-New York-before and after the events of 9/11.

Over seventeen years and nine collections, John Burnside built - in the words of Bernard O'Donoghue - 'a poetic corpus of the first significance', a poetry of luminous, limpid grace.

'Though unmarried I have had six children,' Walt Whitman claimed in a letter late in his life.

Adam Thorpe's fifth collection finds purpose in the discarded, the secretive, the failed.

The Secret Life of Poems is a primer which offers a poem - or on occasion an excerpt - succeeding with commentary in which rhythm, form, metre and sources are the order of the day, not ethical commentary or descriptive paraphrase.

AMERICA, BEFORE THE STORM Portrait of a NationBy Gerald Lewis Geiger (Copyright 2005)This is a collection of poems in rhythmic and rhymed verse, about America, her place in Atlantica and the World, and a Time in Our Age that brought out the best in us.

Down the centuries, poets have provided Wales with a window onto its own distinctive world.

After Nature is the very first literary work by W.

Sarah Maguire's rich and lyrical poems have been highly praised for the ease with which they ground precise, sensual detail within the wider context of world events.