Literary studies: poetry and poets

In this engaging book David Rosen offers a radically new account of Modern poetry and revises our understanding of its relation to Romanticism.

Twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes was one of the most influential figures in Western literature, for his romantic poems on the legend of King Arthur gave rise to a tradition of storytelling that continues to this day.

This is the first book devoted to Horace’s Carmen Saeculare, a poem commissioned by Roman emperor Augustus in 17 B.

Poems vivifying nature have gripped people for centuries.

This comprehensive guide to the poetry and letters of John Keats offers a highly readable and detailed textual analysis of the themes and techniques of his work.

In a 1995 interview, prolific Chicano writer Gary Soto noted, "e;Wonderment has always been a part of my life.

This Pivot book provides a wide-ranging and diverse commentary on issues of legibility (and illegibility) around poetry, antifascist pacifist activism, environmentalism and the language of protest.

Wallace Stevens's musicality is so profound that scholars have only begun to grasp his ties to the art of music or the music of his own poetry.

Friedrich Schiller is justly celebrated for his dramas and poetry.

This book demonstrates the way in which William Blake aligned his idiosyncratic concept of the Selfhood - the lens through which the despiritualised subject beholds the material world - with the atomistic materialism of the Epicurean school as it was transmitted through the first-century BC Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius' De Rerum Natura.

This book explores the different functions and metaphorical concepts of alchemy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English poetry and bridges them together with the exempla tradition in late medieval English literature.

An invaluable companion for any writer seeking to make the writing life a more complex and cooperative venture "e;Illuminating, deeply endearing essays.

Dieses bibliographische Handbuch verzeichnet alle selbständigen als Buch erschienenen deutschsprachigen Lyrik-Veröffentlichungen von 1945 bis 2020 in einfacher Titelaufnahme.

This book examines organizations of consumerist economics, which developed at the turn of the twentieth century in the West and at the turn of the twenty-first century in China, in relation to modernist poetics.

This book explores how two early modern and two modern Japanese writers - Yosa Buson (1716-83), Ema Saiko (1787-1861), Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902), and Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) - experimented with the poetic artifice afforded by the East Asian literati (bunjin) tradition, a repertoire of Chinese and Japanese poetry and painting.

"e;[A] collection of Clive James's essays on a variety of literary topics .

This volume brings together 29 junior and senior scholars to discuss aspects of Hesiod's poetry and its milieu and to explore questions of reception over two and half millennia from shortly after the poems' conception to Twitter hashtags.

Mellado estudia un corpus literario amplio y diverso, conformado por Joaquin Machado de Assis, José Martí, Jesús Díaz, José Rodó, José Mariátegui, Roberto Bolaño y los argentinos Roberto Arlt y Graciela Cros.

A collection of important essays from one of Ireland''s foremost literary and cultural historians.

A new literary history of the origins of metaphysical poetry in the urban environment of early modern London.

A nadie sorprende que se diga que un gran escritor es un mentiroso, y Anton Chejov no es la excepcion.

Argues that the ephemeral appears in enduring forms through the body and inscribed texts in Greek poetry.

Shows how African writers grapple with and make meaning out of the possibilities and limitations of globalization in a multipolar world.

This book provides a concise introduction to lists in literature from the early modern period to the twenty-first century.

Shows how African writers grapple with and make meaning out of the possibilities and limitations of globalization in a multipolar world.

Book of Longing is Leonard Cohen's first book of new poetry since Book of Mercy was published two decades ago.

This book explores the "e;battles"e; of words, songs, poetry, and performance in Africa and the African Diaspora.

This book provides a concise introduction to lists in literature from the early modern period to the twenty-first century.

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This is the first full-scale biography of Osip Mandelstam to combine an analysis of his poetry with a description of his personal life, from his beginnings as a young intellectual in pre-revolutionary Russia to his final fate as a victim of Stalinism.

Graceful modern translations of all the surviving poems and fragments of Sappho, Greece''s most famous woman poet.

Across more than 30 chapters spanning migration, queerness, and climate change, this handbook captures how the interdisciplinary and intersectional endeavor of Age(ing) studies has shaped contemporary literary and film studies.

Across more than 30 chapters spanning migration, queerness, and climate change, this handbook captures how the interdisciplinary and intersectional endeavor of Age(ing) studies has shaped contemporary literary and film studies.

En esta obra incluí una poesía comprometida con la realidad de los que padecen, de las tragedias que pudieron evitarse, de los suicidios o crímenes que aún hoy nos siguen sorprendiendo en su magnitud y por su impunidad.

La publicación forma parte del proyecto Monumenta Landivariana, serie menor, la cual busca divulgar la obra poética del P.

This book explores the "e;battles"e; of words, songs, poetry, and performance in Africa and the African Diaspora.

The poets of the Northern Song dynasty (960-1126) were writing after what was then and still is acknowledged to be the Golden Age of Chinese poetry, the Tang dynasty (618-907).

This book argues that the theory of force elaborated in Immanuel Kant's aesthetics (and in particular, his theorization of the dynamic sublime) is of decisive importance to poetry in the nineteenth century and to the connection between poetry and philosophy over the last two centuries.

This collection of essays offers crucial and luminous insights into one of the best-known Czech authors, Milan Kundera, including his lesser known works.

When will American poetry and poetics stop viewing poetry by racialized persons as a secondary subject within the field?

Seeking to Make the World Anew is a collection of poems that confront the crisis of modern society, that yearn for change, and that wonder about what kind of social order might replace the one we have.

A mature poet, Larry Thomas has an extraordinary gift which has evolved through decades at his craft.

Robinson Jeffers and the American Sublime is the most comprehensive and most substantial critical work ever devoted to the major American poet Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962).

Julian Bell explores the life of a younger member, and sole poet, of the Bloomsbury Group, the most important community of British writers and intellectuals in the twentieth century, which includes Virginia Woolf (Julian's aunt), E.

What Persists contains eighteen of the nearly fifty essays on poetry that Judith Kitchen published in The Georgia Review over a twenty-five-year span.