Literary studies: poetry and poets

'The finest translation in and for our time'(Kevin Crossley-Holland)Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, with its intricate plot of enchantment and betrayal is probably the most skilfully told story in the whole of the English Arthurian cycle.

Georg Trakls lyrisches Werk besticht durch die sinnliche Kraft seiner Bilder und eine "Lyrik in Moll".

Los poemas de Principia son rezos ateos que celebran aquello que no podemos ver.

Ya se dijo todo sobre Borges.

A partir d'una conversa amb Jordi Llavina en la qual s'invocava la proximitat del centenari de Joan Vinyoli (1914-2014), Josep Piera va iniciar una prolongada indagació sobre la seua relació amb el poeta: la correspondencia, els llibres de Vinyoli i els fragments d'una conversa intermitent que van mantenir entre 1978 i 1981.

Este volumen desentraña las claves del vínculo entre poesía y nostalgia, al tiempo que identifica los tipos de discurso y la retórica de innumerables poemas impulsados por este sentimiento a lo largo de los últimos cien años en la poesía anglo-norteamericana de Canadá y Estados Unidos.

A nadie sorprende que se diga que un gran escritor es un mentiroso, y Anton Chejov no es la excepcion.

'Thomas y Beulah', de la laureada Rita Dove, es un libro de poesía que, a diferencia de la mayoría de los poemarios contemporáneos, exige una lectura «en secuencia», como una narración en verso.

Aunque la desaparición de las abejas es un signo de los tiempos, Donald Wellman construye una colmena de poemas de resistencia cívica donde se oye el zumbido de numerosas voces fundidas con la suya: Virgilio y Cicerón, Emily Dickinson y Sylvia Plath, Bertolt Brecht y Paul Celan, Gilles Deleuze y Félix Guattari, entre otros.

Este es el quinto volumen de un proyecto cuyo objetivo es la traducción y lectura crítica de los cuadernillos de Emily Dickinson, cuarenta secuencias poéticas cortas que plantean una serie de preguntas acerca de las intenciones y los logros artísticos de la misteriosa autora norteamericana.

Desde hace alrededor de un siglo, circula por el mundo –y con toda naturalidad– el concepto de "sueño americano", cual epítome de la cultura estadounidense (y por ende, a la vez, cual clave ideológica del sistema capitalista).

Distanzen entführt Sie in poetische Bilderwelten: Momentaufnahmen voller Gerüche, Farben, Klänge und Atmosphäre.

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

Elba Castro, educadora ambiental, muestra la relación que existe entre la poesía y la naturaleza.

'The finest translation in and for our time'(Kevin Crossley-Holland)Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, with its intricate plot of enchantment and betrayal is probably the most skilfully told story in the whole of the English Arthurian cycle.

The pride o' a' our Scottish plain; Thou gi'es us joy to hear thy strain, (Janet Little, 'An Epistle to Mr Robert Burns') The 18th century saw Scotland become one of the leading international centres of literature, philosophy, and publishing and yet still retain its lively oral tradition of ballads and poetry.

Elegies of Chu (in Chinese, Chuci), one of the two surviving collections of ancient Chinese poetry, is a key source for the whole tradition of Chinese poetry.

The pride o' a' our Scottish plain; Thou gi'es us joy to hear thy strain, (Janet Little, 'An Epistle to Mr Robert Burns') The 18th century saw Scotland become one of the leading international centres of literature, philosophy, and publishing and yet still retain its lively oral tradition of ballads and poetry.

Elegies of Chu (in Chinese, Chuci), one of the two surviving collections of ancient Chinese poetry, is a key source for the whole tradition of Chinese poetry.

In his volume of critical essays The Government of the Tongue, Seamus Heaney scrutinizes the poetry of many masterful poets.

Tolkien's famous translations and lectures on the story of two fifth-century heroes in northern Europe.

"e;The Sapphic impression of emotion poured out in unpremeditated speech is the product of sophisticated art.

A major rediscovery and reevaluation of a lost strand of English literature from one of today's most brilliant scholars.

Este conjunto de ensayos de diferentes autores realiza una revisión histórico-crítica de los autores más conocidos de la poesía mexicana de los siglos XIX y XX.

Este libro ofrece una visión global de la obra poética de Neruda, y a la vez encauzada hacia el tratamiento que en ella se da a la naturaleza, la historia y la reflexión poética, a través de los diferentes períodos de la vida literaria del chileno.

A collection of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour.

A selection of poems by William Cowper, edited by Michael Bruce

His pieces, on the literary world and some of its most fascinating figures and classics, bear his hallmark of vitality and distinctive approach.

Katharine Towers' second collection is a book of small wonders.

In 1944, at the age of five, William Graves was taken from England to the delightful mountain village of Deya in Majorca, where his father - the poet Robert Graves - had returned with his new family to the place he had lived with Laura Riding before the war.

Void Studies, Rachel Boast's extraordinary new collection, realizes a project that the French Symbolist poet Arthur Rimbaud had proposed, but never written.

Neuauflage von Anna Naves erstem Gedichtband "umrissen // outlined".

Includes the ever popular "e;If"e;, along with the best of Kipling's powerful, fluent poetry.

The spiritual traveler may carry this German/English bilingual book of poems for a lifetime and not exhaust its content.

Evelyn Waugh's first book: a portrait of one of the greatest artists of the nienteenth century, from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth'Biography, as books about the dead are capriciously catalogued, is still very much in the mode'This is a sparkling account of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's tragic and mysterious life, telling the story behind some of the greatest poetry and painting of the nineteenth century.

This biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, written with reference to Browning correspondence only recently available, argues that the poet was a strong and determined woman largely responsible for her own incarceration in Wimpole Street.

It's been ten years since Michelle Timeworth, known by the nickname Misfit, traveled to Han's Island as a member of the Barracudas, a CIA assault team.

'Orpheus, the pagan saint of poets, went through hell and came back singing.

The spiritual traveler may carry this German/English bilingual book of poems for a lifetime and not exhaust its content.

Roger McGough is one of Britain's best-loved poets, and something of a national institution.

In this haunting debut collection, Alex Niven explores a poetic hinterland that is also a psychological and cultural wilderness.

One of the most notable romantic poets of the early nineteenth century, John Keats had a poetic career lasting less than a decade.

Part of the pleasure of poetry is unravelling the mysteries and difficulties it contains and solving the puzzles that lie within.

Incisive, witty, and uncompromising: sixteen years of August Kleinzahler's best essays on literature, culture, and moreIn this scabrous and essential collection, "e;witty, gritty poet and memoirist"e; (Publishers Weekly) August Kleinzahler gathers sixteen years' worth of his most penetrating essays, remembrances, and reviews.

In his first two collections - Soft Keys and Raising Sparks - Michael Symmons Roberts established himself as a lyric and dramatic poet with metaphysical concerns.