Literary studies: poetry and poets

Poetry and Sovereignty in the English Revolution presents a new interpretation of the poetry of the English revolution.

Equivocation replaced Thomistic analogy as a means of predicting God in the minds of many seventeenth-century divines.

Hebrew culture experienced a renewal in medieval Spain that produced what is arguably the most powerful body of Jewish poetry written since the Bible.

Three important literary questions in early Greek lyrics are addressed in this study.

The book reflects on the life and work of a significant poet, public figure, and influential commentator of the cultural, social, and political history of Greece post-World War II: Manolis Anagnostakis (1925-2005).

This collection demonstrates the centrality of Elizabeth Bishop''s poetry and prose to twentieth-century culture.

Poetic Community examines the relationship between poetry and community formation in the decades after the Second World War.

Explores the life, work and literary significance of the late Poet Laureate.

Ben Jonson was the greatest of Shakespeare's contemporaries.

This book provides an authoritative guide to debate on Elizabethan England's poet laureate.

This is the first book to cover the whole range of epistolary verse in the period, including the discursive type favoured by Pope and the familiar and dramatic epistles.

1913: The year of French modernism is the first book to respond to two deceptively simple questions: "e;What constituted modernism in France?

Wie keine andere literarische Gattung lebt die Lyrik von "Zwischentönen" - von Nuancen, Abstufungen, feinen Übergängen, Abtönungen.

A poetics appropriate to the digital era that connects digital poetry to traditional poetry''s concerns with being.

John Edgar Tidwell and Steven C.

This 2005 book examines the history of archaic Greek through its poetry, particularly the work of Solon.

This volume reassesses working-class poetry and poetics in Victorian Britain, using Scotland as a focus and with particular attention to the role of the popular press in fostering and disseminating working-class verse cultures.

This book is about African Pentecostalism and its relationship to religious beliefs about a pervading spirit world.

Presents an accessible introduction to poetry''s unusual uses of language that tackles a range of poetic features from a linguistic perspective.

The Augustan period in Rome was a golden age for poetry, and also the age in which the cult of the author began in the west.

The first collection of essays, by leading scholars, on a major Greek poet whose works have only recently been recovered.

Victorian Poets: A Critical Reader features a collection of critical essays focusing on various aspects of Victorian-era poetry from the 1830s to the 1890s.

Defining Pre-Raphaelite Poetics offers a range of Pre-Raphaelite literary scholarship, provoking innovative discussions into the poetic form, gender dynamics, political engagement, and networked communities of Pre-Raphaelitism.

Crossroads in the Black Aegean is a compendious, timely, and fascinating study of African rewritings of Greek tragedy.

Shortlisted for the 2024 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book PrizeA wealth of scholarship has highlighted how commercial, political and religious networks expanded across the Arabian Sea during the seventeenth century, as merchants from South Asia traded goods in the ports of Yemen, noblemen from Safavid Iran established themselves in the courts of the Mughal Empire, and scholars from across the region came together to debate the Islamic sciences in the Arabian Peninsula's holy cities of Mecca and Medina.

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

McSweeney discusses the sensory acuity that informed Wordsworth's, Coleridge's, Thoreau's, Whitman's, and Dickinson's finest achievements and then, when blunted by illness or age, contributed to an attenuation of their creative power.

The medieval Welsh bardic grammars were composed and transmitted during a period of intense social and political change in Wales.

The environmental challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century are not only acute and grave, they are also unprecedented in kind, complexity and scope.

How poetic modernism shaped Arabic intellectual debates in the twentieth century and beyondCity of Beginnings is an exploration of modernism in Arabic poetry, a movement that emerged in Beirut during the 1950s and became the most influential and controversial Arabic literary development of the twentieth century.

This book examines the impact of maternal mortality on Milton''s life and work, and provides important readings of his major poems.

This book is a critical study of the ancestors of contemporary poetry anthologies: the poetic miscellanies of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Explores English and Scottish court poetry written in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.

In Coterie Poetics and the Beginnings of the English Literary Tradition, R.

This study is a companion to the revised edition of W.

Jack Wheatcroft (1925-2016) had a transformative impact on five decades of Bucknell students (1952-1996).

A pioneering work in cognitive versification studies, scrutinizing the rhythmical means of free verse.

Fourteen essayists break new ground by focusing on a new generation of postmodern poets who are clearly indebted to John Ashbery's work This concentration on Ashbery's influence on contemporary American poetry provides new methods for interpreting and understanding his poetic achievement.

"e;Mazeppa"e; is a 1819 narrative poem composed by the seminal English romantic poet Lord Byron.

"e;No more passionate voice ever sounded in Russian poetry of the 20th century,"e; Joseph Brodsky writes of Marina Tsvetaeva.

Portugal was not always the best place for poets in the sixteenth century.

Corpus - Michael Symmons Roberts' Whitbread-Prize winning fourth collection - centres around the body.

Mit bewahrt einfachen Experimenten fuhrt Erfolgsautor Georg Schwedt seine Leser diesmal durch die vier Jahreszeiten.

Willard Spiegelman is considered one of the finest critics of poetry writing today and this volume collects his best work on the subject, offering essays that span his entire career and chart his changing relationship to an elusive form.