Literary studies: poetry and poets

Explores the urban, cosmopolitan sensibilities of Urdu poetry written in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Lucknow.

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

Tolkien's Lost Chaucer uncovers the story of an unpublished and previously unknown book by the author of The Lord of the Rings.

Companion to the work of one of the most admired of English writers and artists.

John Milton's Paradise Lost has long been celebrated for its epic subject matter and the poet's rhetorical fireworks.

The first full study of corpse mistreatment and funeral violation in Greco-Roman epic poetry, illuminating many major texts.

This handbook provides a broad overview of left-wing extremism and its associated key issues and themes.

Poetry is often viewed as culturally homogeneous-"e;stubbornly national,"e; in T.

Dylan Thomas: A Centenary Celebration is a unique collection of specially commissioned essays celebrating the poet's life and work one hundred years after his birth in 1914.

Coleridge is admired as a genius and derided as an opium addict and plagiarist.

Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum offers unique insight into the works of Samuel Johnson by re-considering William Hazlitt's oft-cited comparison between Johnson's prose and a pendulum.

This volume explores 'the labyrinth of what we call Coleridge' (Virginia Woolf): his poems and prose, their sources, interpretation and reception; his life, troubled marriage and fatherhood, conversation, changing intellectual contexts and legacy.

From the bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes this essential primer to reading poetry like a professor that unlocks the keys to enjoying works from Lord Byron to the Beatles.

This book offers a revisionist account of poetry and embodiment from Milton to Romanticism.

Historicizing Blake puts Blake back into the cultural context of his times.

This book argues for the importance of disability to authors of the Wordsworth-Coleridge circle.

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Agnieszka Salska 's illuminating study of the patterns of consciousness in the poetry of two major nineteenth-century American poets borrows from Northrop Frye's phrase "e;the structure of the poet's imagination.

The work of Nizami Ganjavi, a classical poet of the twelfth century, is fueling new cultural debate in Iran in recent years.

Activism through Poetry: Critical Spanish Poems in Translation is a compiled anthology of translated poems, which explore cultural, political, social, and ecological issues in the context of contemporary Spain.

Hundreds of animal species provide the cast of characters for these newly composed bio-limericks, arranged into 17 chapters by taxonomic group (such as Birds, Fishes, Insects) or biological subject (such as Ecology, Genetics, and Anthropology).

Shakespeare's Sonnets both generate and demonstrate many of today's most pressing debates about Shakespeare and poetry.

This book presents an extended account of the language of dystopia, exploring the creativity and style of dystopian narratives and mapping the development of the genre from its early origins through to contemporary practice.

God and the Gothic: Romance and Reality in the English Literary Tradition provides a complete reimagining of the Gothic literary canon to examine its engagement with theological ideas, tracing its origins to the apocalyptic critique of the Reformation female martyrs, and to the Dissolution of the monasteries, now seen as usurping authorities.

This collection of essays offers a dynamic reconsideration of the places, times, and influences that made Seamus Heaney a poet.

A fresh examination of Harper's body of work as an archive of Black life, thought, and cultureThe first book devoted to the groundbreaking poet's work, Understanding Michael S.

Rhetoric is an engine of social discourse and the art charged with generating and swaying emotion.

Für Chemiker, Polymerchemiker und besonders für Chemiestudenten ist die zweite Auflage des Tiekes wieder ein gelungenes und ausgewogenes Lehrbuch über das Basiswissen in der Makromolekularen Chemie.

This vintage book contains William Morris's 1867 poem, "e;The Life and Death of Jason: A Poem"e;.

In einem programmatischen Dokument hat Dario Fo die epische Dramatik Bertolt Brechts für die Praxis seines politischen Theaters als die geeignetste erklärt.

Heaven in Ordinary is like a love affair with poetry that engages with religious questions, for good or ill, concerned with five poets who are haunted by God.

This volume is the first to provide a book-length study of Pinter's overtly political activity.

Russian Silver Age writers were full participants in European literary debates and movements.

Blake's Drama challenges conventional views of William Blake's multimedia work by reinterpreting it as theatrical performance.

Blanchot and his writings on three major poets, Mallarm , H lderlin, and Char, provide a decisive new point of departure for English language criticism of his philosophical writings on narrative in this study by leading Blanchot scholar, Kevin Hart.

Nothing to Admire argues for the persistence of a central tradition of poetic satire in English that extends from Restoration England to present-day America.

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Written by a leading critic, this invigorating introduction to modernist American poetry conveys the excitement that can be generated by a careful reading of modernist poems.

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The Modern Irish Sonnet: Revision and Rebellion discusses how and why the sonnet appeals to Irish poets and has grown in popularity over the last century.