Literary studies: poetry and poets

A new story about the relationships between major twentieth-century English-language poets.

This book helps readers make sense of the scope and complexity of the relationships between poetry and politics since 1900.

This radical new look at the literary and political climate of England during the reign of Queen Anne examines the work of the greatest poet of the age, Alexander Pope.

This book is the first comprehensive cultural and historical introduction to modern Georgia.

This book takes a bold new approach to the prehistory of Homeric epic, arguing for a fresh understanding of how Near Eastern influence worked.

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Adam O'Riordan's remarkable first collection traces the hidden paths from past to present, from the lost to the living, seeking familiarity in a world of 'false trails and disappearing acts'.

Portugal enjoyed one of the richest and most sophisticated cultures of the Middle Ages, in part because of its vibrant secular literature.

For more than 200 years, the limerick has been loved for its mordant wit, breathtaking rhymes, swinging rhythm, groaning puns, and ability to paint outrageous mental pictures.

Now available for the first time in English, Oleg Lekmanov's critically acclaimed Mandelstam presents the maverick Russian poet's life and work to a wider audience and includes the most reliable details of the poet's life, which were recently found and released from the KGB archives.

Poetical Matter examines the two-way exchange of language and methods between nineteenth-century poetry and the physical sciences.

A biography of a long-forgotten but vital American Transcendentalist poet.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

The idea of the end is an essential motivic force in the poetry of Geoffrey Hill (1932-2016).

The first substantial commentary for a generation on this book of Horace''s Odes, a great masterpiece of classical Latin literature.

Born around 84 BC Catullus belonged to an influential and wealthy family.

Homer and the Poetics of Hades offers a new and unique approach to the Iliad and, more particularly, the Odyssey through an exploration of the role and function of the Underworld as a poetic resource permitting an alternative perspective on the epic past.

In this comprehensive volume of the collected writings of James Monroe Whitfield (1822-71), Robert S.

BLOOD ORBITS is a series of poems and prose poems exploring various conceptualizations of history both as a generative principle of meaning and as particular contexts and events through which we shape our subjectivities.

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The first volume to be published in the new 21st-Century Oxford Authors series presents all of the surviving writings of Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918): poetry, plays, prose works, and letters.

The first critical collection of its kind devoted solely to this subject, this Companion covers both well-known and lesser-known poets.

A dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F.

This book explores the perception of modern Greek landscape and poetry in the writings of Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon.

Gabriel Vahanian's final work, Theopoetics of the Word weaves together Christian theology, continental philosophy and cultural studies to present a new theology of language and technology for the 21st century.

Christian Morgenstern ist der vielleicht bekannteste unbekannte Dichter der deutschen Literatur: Oft wird selektiv nur der komisch-groteske Teil oder allein die späte weltanschauliche Dichtung wahrgenommen.

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Though North Korea holds the attention of the world, it is still rare for us to hear North Korean voices, beyond those few who have escaped.

Vielfalt kann sich dort einstellen, wo einem Wert ein Gegenwert entgegengestellt wird, ohne dass Zweideutigkeiten im gleichen Zug einkassiert werden.

This book aims to expand our sense of poetry's reach and potential impact.

How predictable is a soccer game, what good does the change of a coach, which role does the salary of soccer players have?

This study revaluates the work of the scientist and radical, poet and dramatist and English exile in Germany Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849).

Wordsworth, Hemans, and Politics, 1800-1830: Romantic Crises is a study of the political lives of William Wordsworth and Felicia Hemans between 1800 and 1830.

'Someone recently said to me, in reference to my poetry podcast, that you'd think poetry would be more popular than ever, in the twenty-first century, because people don't have a lot of time and 'novels are often quite big while poems are often quite small'.

A bold study that reveals Dante''s medieval vision of Scripture as theophany through pioneering use of contemporary theory and phenomenology.

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

Using insights from translation theory, this book uncovers the value of female prophets'' riddling prophecies in Greek and Latin poetry.

The final two volumes in the CWE contain an edition and translation of Erasmus's poetry.

Pound, Frost, Moore and Poetic Precision: Science in American Modernist Poetry examines three major poets in light of the demand that poetry aspire to scientific precision.

Drei Beiträge des Heine-Jahrbuchs 2000 wenden sich einzelnen Heine-Texten zu: Tanja Rudtke und Gerhard Kluge beschäftigen sich mit dem Karnevalesken, Grotesken und Karikaturhaften in den »Memoiren des Herren von Schnabelewopski«; Anne Maximiliane Jäger stellt »Vitzliputzli« in den Mittelpunkt ihrer Anaylse.

Author of "e;Kubla Khan"e; and the epic "e;The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,"e; Samuel Taylor Coleridge is remembered principally for his contributions as a romantic poet.

This book discusses the extent of distrust and the extent of the misunderstandings that exist in the poetry world.

This volume completes John Kinsella's trilogy of critical activist poetics, begun two decades ago.