Literary studies: poetry and poets

This book explores the political and literary culture of sixteenth-century Savoy through the lens of Emmanuel-Philibert de Pingon, a court poet, diplomat and historiographer embedded in the political life of the duchy.

Woman Much Missed is the first book-length study of the many poems (over 150) that Thomas Hardy composed in the wake of the death of his first wife Emma in November of 1912.

Mirabai, an iconic sixteenth-century Indian poet-saint, is renowned for her unwavering love of God, her disregard for social hierarchies and gendered notions of honor and shame, and her challenge to familial, feudal, and religious authorities.

Woman Much Missed is the first book-length study of the many poems (over 150) that Thomas Hardy composed in the wake of the death of his first wife Emma in November of 1912.

Elizabeth Bishop is now recognized as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century-a uniquely cosmopolitan writer with connections to the US, Canada, Brazil, and also the UK, given her neglected borrowings from many English authors, and her strong influence on modern British verse.

Elizabeth Bishop is now recognized as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century-a uniquely cosmopolitan writer with connections to the US, Canada, Brazil, and also the UK, given her neglected borrowings from many English authors, and her strong influence on modern British verse.

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This book offers the first in-depth analysis of Lawrence Durrell's entire poetic opus, from his early collections in the 1940s up to his last one published in 1973.

The Cuban writer Nicolas Guillen has traditionally been considered a poet of mestizaje, a term that, whilst denoting racial mixture, also refers to a homogenizing nationalist discourse that proclaims the harmonious nature of Cuban identity.

This book offers the first in-depth analysis of Lawrence Durrell's entire poetic opus, from his early collections in the 1940s up to his last one published in 1973.

The Cuban writer Nicolas Guillen has traditionally been considered a poet of mestizaje, a term that, whilst denoting racial mixture, also refers to a homogenizing nationalist discourse that proclaims the harmonious nature of Cuban identity.

Penelope Fitzgerald's fascinating portrait of the tragic poet and her life at the heart of the Bloomsbury set.

Authority, Piracy, and Captivity in Colonial Spanish American Writing examines the intricate bond between poetry and history writing that shaped the theory and practice of empire in early colonial Spanish-American society.

Authority, Piracy, and Captivity in Colonial Spanish American Writing examines the intricate bond between poetry and history writing that shaped the theory and practice of empire in early colonial Spanish-American society.

This anthology brings together the unpublished poetry of Jacob Bronowski (1908-74).

This anthology brings together the unpublished poetry of Jacob Bronowski (1908-74).

Music, race, politics, and conscience.

Redefining Faith in Dante’s "e;Divine Comedy"e; offers a bold reinterpretation of one of the world’s most studied poems.

Redefining Faith in Dante’s "e;Divine Comedy"e; offers a bold reinterpretation of one of the world’s most studied poems.

Romantic Women Poets: Genre and Gender focuses on the part played by women poets in the creation of the literary canon in the Romantic period in Britain.

This volume provides an analysis of the constitution of the idea of furor poeticus (poetic frenzy), the conception of the poet as an individual inspired and possessed by a kind of divine madness.

This volume provides an analysis of the constitution of the idea of furor poeticus (poetic frenzy), the conception of the poet as an individual inspired and possessed by a kind of divine madness.

This book explores Gerard Manley Hopkins's passion for Italian culture.

This book explores Gerard Manley Hopkins's passion for Italian culture.

The Kurals are the wisdom literature of the Tamils, at the southern cape of India; the Kural of Tiruvalluvar is the most famous of them.

Kirby Flower Smith explores the development of Greek and Latin elegiac meter from its origins to Imperial Rome.

This is the first book to identify and trace a theme of old age running throughout T.

This is the first book to identify and trace a theme of old age running throughout T.

Recent years have witnessed a growing fascination with the printed annotations accompanying eighteenth-century texts.

Recent years have witnessed a growing fascination with the printed annotations accompanying eighteenth-century texts.

Malin Pereira's collection of eight interviews with leading contemporary African American poets offers an in-depth look at the cultural and aesthetic perspectives of the post-Black Arts Movement generation.

One of the more intriguing developments within medieval Japanese literature is the incorporation into the teaching of waka poetry of the practices of initiation ceremonies and secret transmissions found in esoteric Buddhism.

Roger McGough is one of Britain's best loved poets and this collection 'charts [his] passage from youthful exuberance to the wry reflection of his later years.

In this intriguing literary experiment, Ian Marshall presents a collection of nearly three hundred haiku that he extracted from Henry David Thoreau's Walden and documents the underlying similarities between Thoreau's prose and the art of haiku.

The final book from the world's favourite medium, who died in 2002, contains 101 original poems about life and commentaries on each one.

This ebook is now available from Bloomsbury Academic.

Contemporary Italian Diversity in Critical and Fictional Narratives is about identity-individual and national-and belonging.

Contemporary Italian Diversity in Critical and Fictional Narratives is about identity-individual and national-and belonging.

This ebook is now available from Bloomsbury Academic.

Printers in the early modern Low Countries produced no fewer than 152 editions of Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Valedictory addresses offer a way to conceptualize the relation of self to others, private to public, ephemeral to eternal.

Friedrich Holderlin's translations have long been seen as some of the most fascinating ever made, so radical and unconventional that they have altered our ideas of what translation is.

Underlining (and undermining) the notion of literary merit, this book focuses on noncanonical works and asks: what happens when we look away from modernism?

This book examines African literature and society addressing visual language as stylistic and narrative technique in isiZulu editorial cartoons, translation evaluation in television adaptations, and social issues in novels.

Underlining (and undermining) the notion of literary merit, this book focuses on noncanonical works and asks: what happens when we look away from modernism?

Friedrich Holderlin's translations have long been seen as some of the most fascinating ever made, so radical and unconventional that they have altered our ideas of what translation is.

This book examines the poetry and prose of Anand Narain Mulla, an important figure in Urdu literature who defies conventional categorization.

Edward Lear as Victorian Modernist offers a bold new reading of Lear's limericks as foundational works of literary modernism.