An exhilarating biography of the iconic poet, essayist and activist Audre Lorde Read these chapters like a collection of poems that speak in chorus in all directions.
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.
Strange Meetings provides a highly original account of the War Poets of 1914-1918, written through a series of actual encounters, or near-encounters, from Siegfried Sassoon's first, blushing meeting with Rupert Brooke over kidneys and bacon at Eddie Marsh's breakfasts before the war, through famous moments like Sassoon's encouragement of Owen when both are in hospital at the same time; on to the poignant meeting between Edward Thomas's widow and Ivor Gurney in 1932; and the last, strange lunch and 'longish talk' of Sassoon and David Jones in 1964, half a century after the great war began.
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.
Michael Ondaatje has called Sharon Olds's poetry 'pure fire in the hands' and cheered the 'roughness and humour and brag and tenderness and completion in her work as she carries the reader through rooms of passion and loss'.
The rich and ongoing development of Russian lyric poetry, explored through close readings of thirty-four poems by poets ranging from Alexander Blok to Maria StepanovaThe Russian cultural tradition treats poetry as the supreme artistic form, with Alexander Pushkin as its national hero.
The rich and ongoing development of Russian lyric poetry, explored through close readings of thirty-four poems by poets ranging from Alexander Blok to Maria StepanovaThe Russian cultural tradition treats poetry as the supreme artistic form, with Alexander Pushkin as its national hero.
A rallying, celebratory essay about Sylvia Plath, Taylor Swift and unbridled female ambition by the beloved author of Bluets and The ArgonautsIn The Slicks, Maggie Nelson positions culture-dominating pop superstar Taylor Swift and feminist cult icon Sylvia Plath as twin hosts of the female urge towards wanting hard, working hard and pouring forth and as twinned targets of patriarchy s ancient urge to disparage, trivialise and demonise such prolific, intimate output.
This biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, written with reference to Browning correspondence only recently available, argues that the poet was a strong and determined woman largely responsible for her own incarceration in Wimpole Street.
COLLECTIVE WINNER OF THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE'This is the book that has been wanting to be written for decades: the ragged fringe of Britain as a laboratory for the human spirit' Adam NicolsonOver the course of a year, leading historian and nature writer David Gange kayaked the weather-ravaged coasts of Atlantic Britain and Ireland from north to south: every cove, sound, inlet, island.
A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020'Radical Wordsworth deserves to take its place as the finest modern introduction to his work, life and impact' Financial Times'Richly repays reading .
The first book to explore the extraordinary story of the legendary friendship - and quarrel - between Wordsworth and Coleridge, two giants of English Romanticism.
Leido por Salvador Novo el dia de su ingreso a la Academia Mexicana de la Lengua en 1953 -mismo ano en que fue publicado por vez primera por el FCE-, este ensayo hace una revision deliciosa y amplia de como las aves eran una imagen recurrente en la poesia castellana de los siglos de oro.
Este trabajo recoge 44 artículos escritos a lo largo de cinco décadas en los que se ofrecen diversas consideraciones en torno a la lírica popular que proliferó en la península ibérica durante la Alta Edad Media.
Este libro sostiene que, si bien hay una continuidad en la poesía de Pablo Neruda después de 1956 con respecto a su obra anterior, también hay una discontinuidad.
"Este libro se enfoca en un recorrido poético con una estructura psico-filosofal, adentrándonos en dimensiones como la vida, la espiritualidad, el amor y la lucha social.
Kittsteins eingehende Betrachtung von Gedichten vom Minnesang bis in die Moderne zeigt die Vielfalt einer faszinierenden Gattung in ihren kulturgeschichtlichen Kontexten.
Poetisa es una palabra dulce que dejamos de lado porque nos avergonzaba y sin embargo ahora vuelve en un pañuelo que nuestras antepasadas se ataron a la garganta de sus líricas roncas.
Bracing and essential, a radical reframing of British Romanticism through the lens of Black experience for fans of David Olusoga, Gretchen Gerzina, Saidiya Hartman and Emma DabiriWordsworth, Shelley, Byron, Keats the Romantic poets are titans of English literature, taught and celebrated around the world.
La busqueda permanente de un lenguaje que codifique la realidad, el matematico, y otro que la descodifique, el poetico, brinda una posibilidad interesante que plantea un juego transitorio como la poematica sobre la que trata este libro.
Este estudio sostiene que el espacio domestico constituye el eje vertebrador de la obra de Edith Wharton, desde su primer tratado dedicado al diseno y la decoracion de interiores hasta sus dos ultimas novelas publicadas.
