Literary studies: poetry and poets

Some of the great literary works such as the Bible and Indian epics, among others, provide society with the guiding principles of life.

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The fourteen contributors to this new collection of essays begin with Ted Hughes's proposition that 'every child is nature's chance to correct culture's error.

This book analyses intersemiotic translation, where the translator works across sign systems and cultural boundaries.

This book examines the use of multiple writing systems and scripts’ role as a narrative feature.

This book theoretically defines and linguistically analyses the popular notion that poetry is 'difficult' - hard to read, hard to understand, hard to engage with.

This book offers a timely examination of the relationship between Shakespeare and contemporary digital media.

This book examines the development of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's intellectual legacy in Britain and America from 1834 to 1934 by focusing on his late role as the Sage of Highgate and his programme of educating young minds who were destined for the higher professions (particularly preaching and teaching).

This book offers a radical new theory of the role of poetry in the rise of cultural nationalism.

Badiou and American Modernist Poetics explores the correspondence between Alain Badiou's thinking on art and that of the canonical modernists T.

This book provides a critical study of the relationship between Robert Burns and the United States of America, c.

As the essays in this volume reveal, Keats's places could be comforting, familiar, grounding sites, but they were also shifting, uncanny, paradoxical spaces where the geographical comes into tension with the familial, the touristic with the medical, the metropolitan with the archipelagic.

Browning Upon Arabia charts Robert Browning's early and enduring engagement with the East, particularly the Arab East.

This book explores poetry and pedagogy in practice across the lifespan.

Blake's 'Human Form Divine' has long commanded the spotlight.

Chaucerotics examines the erotic language in Chaucerian literature through a unique lens, utilizing the tools of "e;pornographic literary theory"e; to open up Chaucer's ribald poetry to fresh modes of analysis.

This book argues that poetry is compatible with systematic knowledge including science, and indeed inherent in it; it also discusses particular poems that engage with such knowledge, including those of Lucretius, Vergil, and Vita Sackville-West.

This book asserts that Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) was a major precursor of W.

This is the first book on Irish literature to focus on the theme of loss, and how it is represented in Irish writing.

This five-volume series, British Women's Writing From Bronte to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940, historically contextualizes and traces developments in women's fiction from 1840 to 1940.

Modern Marriage and the Lyric Sequence investigates the ways in which some of our best poets writing in English have used poetic sequences to capture the lived experience of marriage.

This book investigates the relationship between poetry and ontology in the works of Martin Heidegger.

This book is the first collection of essays on the British prose poem.

This book addresses the philosophy of Kant and the poetry of Shelley as historical starting points for a new way of thinking in the modern age.

Joe Bray's careful analysis of Jane Austen's stylistic techniques reveals that the genius of her writing is far from effortless; rather he makes the case for her as a meticulous craftswoman and a radical stylistic pioneer.

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).

The 1820s and 1830s, the gap between Romanticism and Victorianism, continues to prove a difficulty for scholars.

In a world awash in awesome, sensual technological experiences, wonder has diverse powers, including awakening us to unexpected ecological intimacies and entanglements.

At a time when the Humanities are under threat, this book offers a defense of poetry within the context of growing interest in mindfulness in business, health care, and education.

This book provides the first overview of classical presences in Anglophone Irish poetry after 1960.

This collection represents a new range of critical awareness and marks the burgeoning of what is a twenty-first-century Marianne Moore renaissance.

This book explores the deep, imaginative, and creative power of poetry as part of the human experience.

This book offers a phenomenologically-inspired approach to sharing stories via 'poetic inquiry', a research approach that is rapidly gaining popularity within psychology and the wider social sciences.

This book presents ten new chapters on John Keats's medical imagination, beginning with his practical engagement with dissection and surgery, and the extraordinary poems he wrote during his 'busy time' at Guy's Hospital 1815-17.

This book offers fresh critical interpretation of two of the central tenets of Irish culture - migration and memory.

This book examines Donald M.

This study offers a comprehensive examination of the work of the young poet and scholar, Veronica Forrest-Thomson (1947-1975) in the context of a literary-critical revolution of the late sixties and seventies and evaluates her work against contemporary debates in poetry and poetics.

This book offers a new reading of Marcell Mauss' and Lewis Hyde's theories of poetry as gift, exploring poetry exchanges within 20th and 21st century communities of poets, publishers, audiences and readers operating along a gift economy.

This book examines Uncreative Writing-the catch-all term to describe Neo-Conceptualism, Flarf and related avant-garde movements in contemporary North American poetry-against a decade of controversy.

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This book is a study of gender and place in twentieth-century Chicana/o literature and culture, covering the early period of regional writing to contemporary art.

This book is the first book devoted entirely to Hughes as an environmental activist and writer.

This book examines sonic signals as something both heard internally and externally, through imagination, memory and direct response.

This book examines intersections of poetry and performance during the British Poetry Revival.

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

This book analyses Black Consciousness poetry and theatre from the 1970s through to the present.

This book is the first collection of critical essays on Hilda Hilst (1930-2004) published in English.

This collection of poems and essays by both poets and scholars explores how John Donne's writing has entered into the language, the imagination, and the navigation of erotic and spiritual desires and experiences of twentieth- and twenty-first-century writers.

This book explores the utopian imagination in contemporary American poetry and the ways in which experimental poets formulate a utopian poetics by adopting the rhetorical principles of negative theology, which proposes using negative statements as a means of attesting to the superior, unrepresentable being of God.

This book offers a major reassessment of John Clare's poetry and his position in the Romantic canon.