Literary studies: poetry and poets

This lively and provocative study offers a radical reappraisal of a century of Shakespearean theatre.

Stephen Scully both offers a reading of Hesiod's Theogony and traces the reception and shadows of this authoritative Greek creation story in Greek and Roman texts up to Milton's own creation myth, which sought to "e;soar above th' Aonian Mount [i.

A clear, jargon-free and comprehensible survey of a diverse and voluminous canonical British author.

Johnson himself wrote in 1782: 'I know not that I have written any thing more generally commended than the Lives of the Poets'.

The presentation of Tennyson's personal and poetic development is supplemented by an introduction, brief biographical sketches of more than 30 of his friends, and maps of relevant areas in Lincolnshire and the Isle of Wight.

This collection of sixteen articles, written by leading specialists in Classical and English literature, is an important contribution to the critical assessment of Ted Hughes, one of the most popular and controversial English poets of the late 20th century.

Sacrifice and Modern War Literature is the first book to explore how writers from the early nineteenth century to the present have addressed the intimacy of sacrifice and war.

The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley takes stock of current developments in the study of a major Romantic poet and prose-writer, and seeks to advance Shelley studies in new directions.

Die Dissertation beleuchtet das japanische Haiku, seinen Weg in den Westen, den Einfluss auf die Dichtung Ezra Pounds und der Imagisten, auf das Werk von Autoren wie Yeats, Hemingway, Eliot, Huxley, Salinger, den "Black Poets" und "Black Mountain Poets", W.

In this original study, Rachel Coventry expands Heidegger's philosophy of art to include his ontological account of poetry and technology.

The skirmish between painting and poetry-from Plato and Praxiteles to Rembrandt and ShakespeareWhy do painters sometimes wish they were poets-and why do poets sometimes wish they were painters?

Ullrich Langer investigates why lyric representation holds a particular power to address our humanity from Virgil to Flaubert.

Re-envisions epic from Homer to Nonnus through theories of the gaze.

'Social Shakespeare is a thoughtful and frequently incisive book wabout an important and complex topic.

The Owl and the Nightingale is clearly one of the few major Middle English poems.

At the heart of the Castilian plateau, far from the coastal towns and ports of Spain, sits the great city of Madrid.

A literary study of the Odyssey based on the central economic and symbolic importance of the eating of meat.

This book investigates how subjectivity is encoded in the texts of a wide variety of medieval narratives and lyrics - not how they express the subjectivity of individuals, but how subjectivity, escaping the bounds of individuality, is incorporated in the linguistic fabric of their texts.

This volume includes many of the best essays by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy (1951-2015), one of the most original scholars of Russian culture of her generation.

A concise study of the life and poetry of the Victorian priest-poet.

How do we experience poetry as readers?

This edition collects all the epigrams attributed to Epicurean philosopher and poet Philodemos of Gadara (ca.

This stimulating study takes a fresh look at Browning's poetry and at some of the key themes that run through his work.

A Century of Sonnets is a striking reminder that some of the best known and most well-respected poems of the Romantic era were sonnets.

An engaging collection of new essays covering Romantic poetry, its historical and literary contexts, its forms, and its enduring appeal.

Designed to work with the acclaimed course text How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology, the How to Read Chinese Poetry Workbook introduces classical Chinese to advanced beginners and learners at higher levels, teaching them how to appreciate Chinese poetry in its original form.

This handbook offers analysis of diverse genres and media of neo-Victorianism, including film and television adaptations of Victorian texts, authors' life stories, graphic novels, and contemporary fiction set in the nineteenth century.

Brown Romantics: Poetry and Nationalism in the Global Nineteenth Century proceeds from the conviction that it is high time for the academy in general and scholars of European Romanticism to acknowledge the extensive international impact of Romantic poetry.

This book is a historical and theological look into the deliverance and exorcism ministry of John Wesley.

La risa en la literatura mexicana (apuntes de poética) es una propuesta de relectura de la tradición literaria mexicana que, a contracorriente de la crítica empeñada en ver sólo el lado melancólico y trágico en el perfil de la cultura mexicana, busca develar las formas en las que la risa ha sido la fuerza organizadora de géneros y obras fundamentales.

Milton''s Visual Imagination contends that Milton enriches his biblical source text with acute and sometimes astonishing visual details.

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This volume makes conveniently available to students and others the group of chapters in Professor Geoffrey Tillotson's Augustan Studies in which he deals with the poetic theory and practice of the Augustan age as a whole, rather than with particular works.

The History of Ottoman Poetry, first published in six volumes between 1900 and 1909, was the principal product of E.

Dass Reisen nicht nur zu Prosa anregen, veranschaulicht in prägnanter Weise die Gattung der Reiselyrik.

A revealing look at how the Orpheus myth helped Renaissance writers and thinkers understand the force of eloquenceIn ancient Greek mythology, the lyrical songs of Orpheus charmed the gods, and compelled animals, rocks, and trees to obey his commands.

Locating John Milton's works in national and international contexts, and applying a variety of approaches from literary to historical, philosophical, and postcolonial, Milton and Toleration offers a wide-ranging exploration of how Milton's visions of tolerance reveal deeper movements in the history of the imagination.

Key issues surrounding the composition and recording of folklore include its frequently intensely political aspect and it preoccupation with chimerical cultural authority.

A rollicking story of the strangest creative writing class ever-as only Andrei Codrescu could tell it"e;Intro to Poetry Writing is always like this: a long labor, a breech birth, or, obversely, mining in the dark.

This study examines how Milton''s polemical and imaginative literature intersects with representations of English Protestant nationhood.

Lyrical Ballads have always been wedded to controversy.

Every major poet or philosopher develops their own distinctive semantic field around those terms which matter most to them, or which contribute most profoundly to the imagined world of a particular work.

Poetry in Dialogue in the Duecento and Dante provides a new perspective on the highly networked literary landscape of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italy.

This book explores a variety of critical approaches to the whole range of Horace''s poetry.