Literary studies: poetry and poets

Poetry is the most complex and intricate of human language used across all languages and cultures.

Poetry is the most complex and intricate of human language used across all languages and cultures.

FINALIST: 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHYA NEW STATESMAN AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021'A revelation.

'Superb, beautifully written, touching and occasionally very funny' Andrew RobertsDavid Gilmour's superb biography of Rudyard Kipling is the first to show how the life and work of the great writer mirrored the trajectory of the British Empire, from its zenith to its final decades.

At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself; these profound and lyrical letters have since become hugely influential for writers and artists of all kinds.

In early June 1943, James Eric Swift, a pilot with 83 Squadron of the Royal Air Force, boarded his Lancaster bomber for a night raid on M nster and disappeared.

James Fenton's An Introduction to English Poetry offers a master class for both the reader and writer of poetry.

Aurora Leigh (1856), Elizabeth Barrett Browning's epic novel in blank verse, tells the story of the making of a woman poet, exploring 'the woman question', art and its relation to politics and social oppression.

Franceso Petrarch (1304-1374), creator of the sonnet form, remained for more than three hundred years the most influential poet in Europe, his works more widely read than even those of Dante.

Controversy raged through England during the 1570-80s as Puritans denounced all manner of games & pastimes as a danger to public morals.

Across the Land and the Water is a stunningly beautiful selection of poetry by W.

George Herbert wrote, but never published, some of the very greatest English poetry, recording in an astonishing variety of forms his inner experiences of grief, recovery, hope, despair, anger, fulfilment and - above all else - love.

Published to commemorate the eightieth anniversary of Armistice, this collection is intended to be an introduction to the great wealth of First World War Poetry.

First published in July 1850, shortly after Wordsworth's death, The Prelude was the culmination of over fifty years of creative work.

Mr Jack has been nimble and he s been quick, searching through the history of nursery rhymes and he s found out all kind of plum tales, just like little Jack Horner.

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

A unique treatise by a poet, written for poets, on the art of poetry, LA VITA NUOVA is elaborately and symbolically patterned, consisting of a selection of Dante's early poems, interspersed with his own prose commentary.

The centenary of Patrick Kavanagh's birth in 2004 provides the ideal opportunity to reappraise one of modern Ireland's greatest poets.

How poetic modernism shaped Arabic intellectual debates in the twentieth century and beyondCity of Beginnings is an exploration of modernism in Arabic poetry, a movement that emerged in Beirut during the 1950s and became the most influential and controversial Arabic literary development of the twentieth century.

'You must be Odysseus, man of twists and turns.

"e;There was no patriotism in the trenches.

Presents the classical epic, glorifying the heroism of Charlemagne in the 778 battle between the Franks and the Moors.

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.

A rich cultural history of the creation, explosive impact, and enduring influence of T.

Representing an international gathering of scholars, Fields Watered with Blood-now available in paperback-constituted the first critical assessment of the full scope of Margaret Walker's literary career.

A compelling portrait of a beloved poet from one of today's most acclaimed novelistsIn this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influencesthe American poet Elizabeth Bishop.

The first standard edition of the writings of Felicia Hemans (1793-1835), this volume marks a revival of interest in, and a new critical appreciation of, one of the most important literary figures of the early nineteenth century.

Language writing, the most controversial avant-garde movement in contemporary American poetry, appeals strongly to writers and readers interested in the politics of postmodernism and in iconoclastic poetic form.

At the time of his death in 1935, Edwin Arlington Robinson was regarded as the leading American poet-the equal of Frost and Stevens.

In Fair Copy Jennifer Putzi studies the composition, publication, and circulation of American women's poetry in the antebellum United States.

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Kenneth Rexroth called Denise Levertov (1923-1997) "e;the most subtly skillful poet of her generation, the most profound, .

What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric?

Why do we need new art?

For Dante and Petrarch, posthumous love was a powerful conviction.

The first book on the central importance of literary sources in the paintings of Cy TwomblyMany of Cy Twombly's paintings and drawings include handwritten words and phrases-naming or quoting poets ranging from Sappho, Homer, and Virgil to Mallarme, Rilke, and Cavafy.

"e;We have many poets of the First Book,"e; the poet and critic Louis Simpson remarked in 1957, describing a sense that the debut poetry collection not only launched the contemporary poetic career but also had come to define it.

This book offers a novel interpretation of politics and identity in Ovid's epic poem of transformations, the Metamorphoses.

The Plural of Us is the first book to focus on the poet's use of the first-person plural voice-poetry's "e;we.

Anthropocene Poetry: Place, Environment and Planet argues that the idea of the Anthropocene is inspiring new possibilities for poetry.

This book explores Roman love elegy from postcolonial perspectives, arguing that the tropes, conventions, and discourses of the Augustan genre serve to reinforce the imperial identity of its elite, metropolitan audience.

Ovid transformed English Renaissance literary ideas about love, erotic desire, embodiment, and gender more than any other classical poet.

Innovative study that sees much of twentieth-century American poetry as enacting, in language, pragmatic philosophy.

This book analyses intersemiotic translation, where the translator works across sign systems and cultural boundaries.

This book is a unique contribution to scholarship of the poetics of Wallace Stevens, offering an analysis of the entire oeuvre of Stevens's poetry using the philosophical framework of Martin Heidegger.

Dublin: A Writer''s City takes the reader, area by area, through one of the world''s great literary cities.

Dublin: A Writer''s City takes the reader, area by area, through one of the world''s great literary cities.

This book traces the major writing of New Orleans through its five most famous streets as well as its outskirts.

This book traces the major writing of New Orleans through its five most famous streets as well as its outskirts.

The first English study of poet K.