Literary studies: poetry and poets

The TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series: Florida The word tortillera means lesbian in Espaol.

Essential reading on the writing and development of American poetry from its beginnings to the end of the twentieth century.

First published in 1933, Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein contains three prose pieces written in the stream-of-consciousness style that Stein was famous for.

Reading Apollinaire's Calligrammes examines Guillaume Apollinaire's second major collection of poetry.

An uncompleted manuscript that combines lyric poetry and prose commentary, the Banquet (or Convivio) is one of Dante Alighieri’s most important and least understood philosophical texts.

This book defines, analyses, and theorises a late modern 'etymological poetry' that is alive to the past lives of its words, and probes the possible significance of them both explicitly and implicitly.

Offering a new theory of poetic constraint, this book analyses contributions of bound people to the history of the lyric.

A completely revised and considerably enlarged edition of this best-selling edition of Lucretius'' account of why death does not matter.

This ebook is now available from Bloomsbury Academic.

A New Statesman essential non-fiction read of 2021'Everybody should read [this]' Stylist"e;Blackness is an art, not a science.

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.

The first book to offer a universal linguistic theory of poetic meter.

Lyrik als Brennglas der deutschsprachigen Literatur.

Where Everyone Leaves, Never to Return is a captivating collection of poems in which Czech poet Bronislava Volkova, a jongleur of contemporary verse, masterfully combines voice and nuance as she saunters through love, loss, mortality, and eternal life.

The Continuity of Poetic Language is an insightful exploration of the evolution of English poetry spanning four centuries, from the 1640s to the 1940s.

The Ballad of the White Horse is a poem by G.

An essential handbook for literary studiesThe Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms-drawn from the latest edition of the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics-provides an authoritative guide to the most important terms in the study of poetry and literature.

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This book offers a broad re-evaluation of the key ideas developed by the German Romantics concerning philosophy and literature.

A collection of beautiful poems for children.

Explores the diverse forces that shaped developments in literature in the 1880s, an often overlooked literary decade.

Marsh locates Pound and Williams firmly in the Jeffersonian tradition and examines their epic poems as manifestations of a Jeffersonian ideology in modernist terms.

Exploring the potential of poetry and poetic language as a means of conveying perspectives on later life, this book examines questions such as 'how can we understand ageing and later life?

Following the recent publication of Philip Larkin's Collected Poems, this study draws on a previously unavailable range of work extending from 1938 to 1983.

This volume is an essential supplement to Pastoral poetry of the English Renaissance: An anthology (2016).

In den Aufsätzen des diesjährigen Heine-Jahrbuchs werden allgemeinere Themen der Heine-Forschung aufgegriffen.

Longfellow's Imaginative Engagement is a first-of-its-kind study of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's late-career poems and biography from 1861 until 1882, covering the poet's posthumous publications and the handling of his literary estate.

Sidney's Defence of Poesy-the foundational text of English poetics-is generally taken to present a model of poetry as ideal: the poet depicts ideals of human conduct and readers are inspired to imitate them.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was an English poet, theologian, literary critic, philosopher, and co-founder of the English Romantic Movement.

Philip Whalen was an American poet, Zen Buddhist, and key figure in the literary and artistic scene that unfolded in San Francisco in the 1950s and '60s.

This bilingual Ukrainian-English collection brings together the most interesting experimental works by Mykola (Nik) Bazhan, one of the major Ukrainian poets of the twentieth century.

This Companion is the first to explore postcolonial poetry through regional, historical, political, formal, textual and gender approaches.

This volume collects the critical prose of award-winning writer Anna Frajlich.

Healy demonstrates how Renaissance alchemy shaped Shakespeare''s bawdy but spiritual sonnets, transforming our understanding of Shakespeare''s art and beliefs.

Explores the pervasiveness of poetry''s impact on philosophy and, conversely, how philosophy has sometimes resisted or denied poetry''s influence.

This book offers an integrated study of the English princess and Castilian queen Catherine of Lancaster (1373-1418), drawing on available archival, architectural, and poetic sources in England and Spain.

"e;I was born to grow, / alongside my garden of plants, / poems / like / this one"e;So writes Alice Walker in this new book of poems, poems composed over the course of one year in response to joy and sorrow both personal and global: the death of loved ones, war, the deliciousness of love, environmental devastation, the sorrow of rejection, greed, poverty, and the sweetness of home.

A detailed analysis of Johnson''s complicated and controversial attitude to Milton in the context of eighteenth-century literary criticism.

In Whitman, Melville, Crane, and the Labors of American Poetry, Peter Riley confronts our enduring and problematic investment in poetic vocation-a myth, he argues, that continues to inform how all our multifarious labors are understood, valued, and exploited.

Exorbitant Enlightenment compels us to see eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literature and culture in new ways.

The Poet as Phenomenologist: Rilke and the New Poems opens up new perspectives on the relation between Rilke's poetry and phenomenological philosophy, illustrating the ways in which poetry can offer an exceptional response to the philosophical problem of dualism.

100 Romantic-era poems, both major and lesser-known, in English and translated from six languages, with an engaging introduction and notes.

Half a century ago, Norman Jeffares wrote the definitive biography of W.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

Conspiracy has been a political phenomenon throughout history, relevant to any form of power from antiquity to the post-modern era.