Literary studies: poetry and poets

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.

The definitive biography of one of the world's most popular writersBushrui and Jenkins have produces a biography that meticulously explores the complex intricacies of this philosopher-poet.

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.

Erudite and entertaining in equal measure, Somewhere Becoming Rain is a love letter from the much-loved writer Clive James to one of the world's most cherished poets: Philip Larkin.

"e;It sounds like a simple thing, to say what you see,"e; Mark Doty begins.

A Masterful Collection of Essays on Contemporary Poetry from an Acclaimed AuthorIn A Way of Happening, Fred Chappell, one of our most acclaimed and versatile authors, showcases his prowess as a literary critic.

Simon Armitage is one of the leading poets of his generation.

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

The complete collection of Tolkien's essays, including two on Beowulf, which span three decades beginning six years before The Hobbit to five years after The Lord of the Rings.

Este libro ofrece un acercamiento a algunas de las odas del poeta portugués Fernando Pessoa, en la figura de su heterónimo Ricardo Reis.

Beowulf is the longest and finest literary work to have come down to us from Anglo-Saxon times, and one of the world's greatest epic poems.

Was, wenn sie dich nicht lieben will?

Egal ob beim Blick ins Bücherregal oder ins Feuilleton – bei der riesigen Auswahl an guter Literatur zum richtigen Buch zu greifen, ist gar nicht so leicht.

Beowulf is the longest and finest literary work to have come down to us from Anglo-Saxon times, and one of the world's greatest epic poems.

A inicios de 1596, salía de las prensas de Antonio Ricardo en Lima el primer poema épico escrito por un criollo americano: el Arauco domado de Pedro de Oña.

The bestselling modern fairytale, with a new introduction from Luke Cutforth'I loved it .

Der Band enthält Porträts von Ilse Aichinger, Hilde Domin, Geno Hartlaub, Marlen Haushofer, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Ilse Langner, Johanna Moosdorf, Ruth Rehmann, Unica Zürn.

Literatur verstehen und interpretierenDie Natur ist ein beliebtes Motiv in der Lyrik, ob als Erlebnis- oder geheimnisvoller Bedeutungsraum, Ort der Sehnsucht oder der Erkenntnis.

El presente volumen cifra su interés en el análisis riguroso de la poesía completa de Thomas Merton, famoso en todo el mundo por su autobiografía 'La montaña de los siete círculos'.

Esclarecedora aproximacion a la poesia de Gomez Jattin, desvelamiento de una pugna existencial que senala su vision de mundo.

Gastón Soublette, en estas páginas, plasma una lectura sapiencial, atenta a la sabiduría ancestral y bíblica que recorre especialmente los poemas "La lámpara en la tierra" y "Alturas de Macchu Picchu", del Canto general, de Pablo Neruda.

A dazzling short assessment of the life and work of the poet and winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for literature.

An oddity among Aldiss works - verse translations.

Lush Diodorus sets the lads on fire,But now another has him in his net -Timarion, the boy with wanton eyes .

Lush Diodorus sets the lads on fire,But now another has him in his net -Timarion, the boy with wanton eyes .

'Nowhere, beloved, can world be but within us' Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the leading poets of European Modernism, and one of the greatest twentieth-century lyric poets in German.

`Verlaine, possessed by the madnesses of love, brimming over with desires and prayers, the rebel railing against the complacent platitudes of society, of love, of language'.

La concepcion amorosa de Ali Chumacero analiza un mismo tema en tres libros del poeta nayarita, estos son: Paramo de suenos, Imagenes desterradas y Palabras en reposo.

Un estudi complet i exhaustiu de la producció poètica publicada de Joan Fuster.

»Das Buch der Bilder«, eine der berühmtesten Gedichtsammlungen Rilkes, erfuhr zwei Auflagen: Die erste erschien 1902 und umfasst 45 Gedichte – »nichts Unwichtiges, nichts Unfestliches« finde sich in ihr, so Rilke.

El entrañable Pedro Casaldáliga nos ha dejado un poderoso legado.

El camino de Dante pretende ser un homenaje en el séptimo centenario de la muerte del poeta, a la vez que un aporte a los estudios dantescos en la Argentina.

Publicado originalmente por el FCE en 1997, El acto de las palabras reune los ensayos sobre Octavio Paz y las conversaciones que el ganador del Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1990 sostuvo con Enrico Mario Santi.

"Agnosticismo y fe poética en Jorge Luis Borges es un valioso e iluminador estudio abocado a la poesía del escritor argentino.

There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war.

There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war.

The Broken Guitar by Richard Greene is a collection of poems about war:MemorialReading the nameof a young man who died in warsaddens us.

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Frank Kermode is one of the pre-eminent practitioners of the art of criticism in the English speaking world.

This volume was original published in 1935 at the request of the Press Board of the University of Wales as a celebration of the life and work of Dafydd ap Gwilym.

Written between the years 1798 and 1801, The Lucy Poems is a charming, pocket-sized collection of William Wordsworth's Lucy poems, first published in one of his best-known works, Lyrical Ballads.

"e;Last Poems"e; is a 1936 collection of poetry by A.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), more commonly known under the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, lecturer, publisher and entrepreneur most famous for his novels "e;The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"e; (1876) and "e;The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"e; (1884).

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English novelist, journalist, poet, and short-story writer most famous for his stories set in and related to colonial India.

"e;I Thought My Spirit & My Heart Were Tamed"e; is a wonderful collection of poetry by British poet Amy Levy connected through the common themes of thoughts and emotions.