Literary studies: poetry and poets

This wide-ranging and original book reappraises the role of genre, and genre theory, in British Romanticism.

This book offers a wide-ranging analysis of the entire corpus of Medbh McGuckian's published work.

This study provides a detailed account of the "e;Fables"e;, including humour, the representation of animals, the literary qualities and the "e;moraliste"e; core.

First printed for private circulation at The Westminster Press in 1897, this is a Victorian ode written for the Jubilee in 1897 by Francis Thompson.

Das Goethe-Jahrbuch 2021 versammelt die Vorträge zum Thema "Goethe im Streit", die für die ausgefallene Hauptversammlung 2021 vorgesehen waren.

This book examines Thomas Hardy's writing in both prose and poetry, focusing on issues of perception, 'being', class and environment.

This annotated critical edition is the first attempt to make Morris's 42,000-word verse sequence accessible to a modern audience.

Greek and Roman epic poetry has always provided creative artists in the modern world with a rich storehouse of themes.

First published in 1982, this penetrating, immensely readable biography of the brilliant poet, translator, and art critic, F.

A collection of specially-commissioned essays, enabling readers to explore Frost''s art and thought.

A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-option under the Islamic Republic offers, for the first time, an original, timely examination of the pivotal role poetry plays in policy, power and political legitimacy in modern-day Iran.

Louisa Stuart Costello (1799-1870) was a critically acclaimed poet, novelist, travel writer, historian, and artist.

This book reframes British First World War literature within Britain's history as an imperial nation.

Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) was a key writer of the revolutionary era and early U.

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What does it mean to feel time, to sense its passing along the sinews and nerves of the body as much as the synapses of the mind?

A fresh take on Romantic writers including Byron, the Shelleys, and Keats, within the culture of the Napoleonic War years.

Trehearne observes that in most cases the Aesthetic influence was sustained through the entire career of the poets whose work he examines.

In Romantic Aversions J.

This book is about an aspect of medieval Arabic culture and literature known in Arabic as mujun (roughly 'libertinism, licentiousness, frivolity, indecency, profligacy, shamelessness, impertinence', etc.

VIRGIL A truly useful introduction to Vergil and his poetry.

In this richly illustrated portrait, a prize-winning biographer surveys the entire sweep of William Blake’s creative work while telling the story of his life William Blake, overlooked in his time, remains an enigmatic figure to contemporary readers despite his near canonical status.

Alexander Pope’s heroi-comical, mock-epic poem, The Rape of the Lock, continues to sparkle after three hundred years as a peerless gem in the canon of English literature.

Since the rediscovery of the Nibelungenlied in the mid-eighteenth century, this medieval German poem has exercised a remarkable fascination, but very little work has been devoted to interpretation according to the methods of modern criticism.

Bekanntlich gehört Georg Trakl (1887-1914) zu den bedeutendsten deutschsprachigen Lyrikern des 20.

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

Der Band rekonstruiert den Lebenslauf des aus der Berliner jüdischen Gesellschaft stammenden und 1933 nach Paris und in die USA emigrierten Rudolf Bodländer (1903-1988).

A Concise Companion to MILTON A Concise Companion to Milton provides readers with essential guides to appreciating the works of John Milton, and to understanding the great influence they have had on literature.

Published simultaneously in Britain and America to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of T.

In seventeenth-century Britain every debate about loyalty oaths invoked the biblical Samson.

Combines textual, historical and even archaeological evidence to explode the orthodox view of Catullus'' life and work.

Shakespeare's 'Whores' studies each use of the word 'whore' in Shakespeare's canon, focusing especially on the positive personal and social effects of female sexuality, as represented in several major female characters, from the goddess Venus, to the queen Cleopatra, to the cross-dressing Rosalind, and many others.

Combining historical poetics and book history, Romantic Poetry and Literary Coteries shows Romanticism as characterized by tropes and forms that were jointly produced by literary circles.

Helden wie Tristan, Parzival oder der Artus-Ritter Wigalois teilen ein dunkles Schicksal: Ihnen fehlt der Vater.

An edited collection of poems by Alexander Brome in which Roman Dubinski has restored him to view.

Why would Snorri Sturluson (c.

In a major reassessment of Shakespeare's dominant dramatic genre, Paola Pugliatti explores the historiographical quality of Shakespeare's histories.

Maria Plaza sets out to analyse the function of humour in the Roman satirists Horace, Persius, and Juvenal.

This book examines William Langland's late medieval poem, The Vision of Piers Plowman, in light of contemporary intellectual thought.

Argues that Lucan''s Bellum Civile is a central text in the history of the sublime.

This book reveals how poets within the U.

Pia Becker entwirft eine Konzeption von Patientenautonomie, die sich im Gegensatz zu in der Medizinethik bisher dominierenden Konzeptionen an der grundsätzlichen Fähigkeit des Patienten zur Autonomie orientiert.

In the 19th century, an era that saw a reconfiguration of the relationship between the self, the world and the divine, women writers probed the theological depths of embodied faith in new ways through poetry, fiction, devotional prose and life writing.

Published to mark the bicentenary of Alfred Tennyson's birth, these essays offer an important revaluation of his achievement and its lasting importance.

Impossible bequests of the soul; an outlawed younger son who rises to become justice of the king's forests; the artificially-preserved corpse of the heir to an empire; a medieval clerk kept awake at night by fears of falling; a seventeenth-century noblewoman who commissions copies upon copies of her genealogy; Elizabethan efforts to eradicate Irish customs of succession; thoughts of the legacy of sin bequeathed to mankind by our first parents, Adam and Eve.

A stimulating exploration of the haiku masterpiece.

This book examines how Jacobean authors interpreted and responded to the works of King James VI and I.