Literary studies: poetry and poets

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.

The message of Virgil's Aeneid once seemed straightforward enough: the epic poem returned to Aeneas and the mythical beginnings of Rome in order to celebrate the city's present world power and to praise its new master, Augustus Caesar.

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.

The four-hundred-year story of readers' struggles with a famously unreadable poem-and what they reveal about the history of reading and the future of literary studies"e;I am now in the country, and reading in Spencer's fairy-queen.

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.

Demonstrating how Chaucer uses the Bible in The Canterbury Tales as an authoritative literary source and model for his own literary production, this book explores the ways in which the Bible was a key tool for Chaucer's self-definition and innovation as an author.

The first English study of poet K.

How the tropes of science fiction infuse and inform avant-garde poetics and many other kindred arts This insightful, playful monograph from Golston does exactly what it advertises: modeling poetics based on how poetry (and some parallel artistic endeavors) has filtered through a century-plus of science fiction.

Compares monumental designs and performance spaces of Christian, Buddhist, and related sanctuaries, exploring how brain networks, animal-human emotions, and cultural ideals are reflected historically and affected today as "e;inner theatre"e; elements.

What is Sappho, except a name?

Der deutsche Minnesang ist eine der wichtigsten Ausprägungen der europäischen Liebeslyrik im Mittelalter.

Do you want to write a poem?

Black Surrealist.

Dive into the intricate and mesmerizing world of James Joyce's "e;Ulysses,"e; a groundbreaking novel that has captivated readers and scholars for decades.

Black Surrealist.