Literary studies: poetry and poets

From the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Room, Inseparable explores the little-known literary tradition of love between women in Western literature.

In this powerful, evocative collection, master storyteller John O'Donohue explores themes of love and loss, beginnings and endings.

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.

'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.

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.

In this beautiful reissue, the author of 'Footsteps' collects the biographical curiosities he discovered while researching the romantic poets, creating a captivating mixture of biography and memoir.

Dive deep into the subjects of Love, Life and God with this profound poetry collection from Poet Radha Mulder.

»Dante ist der italienische Nationaldichter schlechthin, mit seiner ›Komödie‹ beginnt die italienische Literatur.

The author wishes to convey and provoke heartfelt memories, stirring emotions of love, desire, jealousy, abuse, melancholy, fear, anxiety, and mortally unanswerable questions.

Dreams are the currency of Okri's writing, particularly in this first book of poems, An African Elegy, but also in his books of short stories and prize-winning novel The Famished Road.

In A Season in Hell, at the age of eighteen, the French poet Arthur Rimbaud predicted the rest of his life: My day is done; Im leaving Europe.

'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.

Discover the esoteric knowledge in the works of Yeats, O Sullivan and other poets.

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.

An invigorating collection of Robert Burns to accompany you through the seasons.

Multi-millionaires are not supposed to write poetry.

William Noel Hodgson never intended to be a soldier; he wanted to write.

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.

Widely revered as the father of Western literature, Homer was the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, the epic poems which immortalised such names as Achilles, Cyclops, Menelaus, and Helen of Troy.

These ten letters, written by one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, offer deep and sincere advice to the young poet.

With this assured and powerful first collection, Henry Shukman springs fully-formed into the poetry world, having already won a raft of prizes for individual poems.

'James Anthony has done something I would have confidently stated to be impossible.

De Gloria Fuertes han perdurado en nuestra memoria sus apariciones en programas infantiles y su valía como poeta, pero todavía permanece velada esa otra Gloria Fuertes, la que no salía en los medios, la que arrastró sus últimos años en soledad escudándose en sus pitillos, su whisky y su casa atestada de objetos reflejando el paso —y el peso— de los años.

John Donne (1572-1631) forfeited his Parliamentary seat and was briefly imprisoned when his secret marriage to Ann More was uncovered in 1601.

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.

Aristóteles é um nome simbólico para a humanidade, ele é um patrimônio da humanidade.

Was an diesem kleinen Werk packt, ist vor allem die Energie, mit der der deutsche Literaturhistoriker Dr.

"Simplicidad" y "sencillez" son términos a los que con los años fui teniéndoles cada vez más desconfianza, sobre todo cuando se habla de poesía.

De Profundis Oscar Wilde - Während seiner Zeit im Reading Gaol geschrieben, ist De Profundis Oscar Wildes bewegender Brief an Lord Alfred Douglas, dessen Beziehung zu Wilde zur Inhaftierung des Dichters führte.

El arquetipo de la 'Bella mujer muerta', es gravitante todavía en la estética modernista de América Latina.

Una biografía poética con un temple, una originalidad y un tono que le permitirá a los lectores revivir aquello que experimentaron hace años.

This book collects for the first time a compendium of poems written in English by brigadists, sanitary personnel and journalists that participated or were involved in the Spanish Civil War, as well as by intellectuals, writers and journalists that supported the republican cause from the outside.

Els versos dels calaixos és una nova proposta de lectura del Llibre de meravelles, de Vicent Andrés Estellés, obra emblemàtica per a diverses generacions de lectors del País Valencià i una de les principals de la poesia en llengua catalana del segle xx.

He is the prince of poets, Ahmed Shawky, the prominent figure in the world of Arab poetry and the pioneers of literary renaissance in the modern era, which was characterized by the composition of poetic plays.

"Aziz Abaza" is among the flags of Arab and Egyptian poets in the twentieth century, and he is one of the pioneers of theatrical poetic art after the prince of poets Ahmed Shawky.

Auswahl aus den Dichtungen Eduard Mörikes Eduard Mörike - "Auswahl aus den Dichtungen Eduard Mörikes" von Eduard Mörike.

El pensamiento sobre la naturaleza y el lugar de la literatura y, en particular, de la poesia esta conociendo entre nosotros una renovacion que tal vez no se haya senalado suficientemente.

Gesänge und Inschriften Walt Whitman - Dieser Band enthält die folgenden Werke des großen Schriftstellers: Inhalt: Walt Whitman Das Selbst Sing Ich Als Ich Schweigend Brütete In Engen Schiffen Zur See An Fremde Lande An Einen Historiker Den Staaten An Eine Sängerin Schliesst Eure Türen Nicht Künftige Dichter An Dich Ausgehend Von Paumanok Der Grundstein Aller Metaphysik Ich Sah In Louisiana Eine Eiche Wachsen - Salut Au Monde!

Este volumen desentrana las claves del vinculo entre poesia y nostalgia, al tiempo que identifica los tipos de discurso y la retorica de innumerables poemas impulsados por este sentimiento a lo largo de los ultimos cien anos en la poesia anglo-norteamericana de Canada y Estados Unidos.

Espacios y emociones constituyen, hoy más que nunca, conceptos clave para la reflexión en humanidades y ciencias sociales.

'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.

…Contemplaron los atardeceres recostados en las reposeras ubicadas en la galería que daba al oeste.

Este es el segundo volumen de un proyecto cuyo objetivo es la traduccion y lectura critica de los cuarenta cuadernillos de Emily Dickinson, unas secuencias poeticas cortas que plantean una serie de preguntas fascinantes acerca de las intenciones y los logros artisticos de esta misteriosa autora norteamericana.

Der Neuen Gedichte: Anderer Teil Rainer Maria Rilke - KRETISCHE ARTEMISWind der Vorgebirge: war nicht ihreStirne wie ein lichter Gegenstand?

Los lectores de Emily Dickinson (Amherst, Massachusetts, 1830-1866) se cuentan por millones, tanto en el mundo de habla inglesa como fuera de el.

Se trata de compartir con usted una investigación que, además de sus propósitos evidentes, se plantea en la necesidad de tejer diferentes discursos.

Ibrahim Abdel -Qader Al -Mazni, the giant who illuminated the sky of modern literature with the sparkle of his brilliant poetry, and although he moved away from reading poetry for his professionalism, literature and criticism, his poetic effect is not denied.