Literary studies: poetry and poets

Between Two Fires is about the transnational movement of poetry during the Cold War.

Lost Plays in Shakespeare's England examines assumptions about what a lost play is and how it can be talked about; how lost plays can be reconstructed, particularly when they use narratives already familiar to playgoers; and how lost plays can force us to reassess extant plays, particularly through ideas of repertory studies.

An introduction for university students to important poets and forms of poetry between Dryden and Wordsworth.

Der gesamte Aufbau des Heine-Handbuchs ist von der Absicht geleitet, umfassend und auf dem Stand der neuesten Forschung über die vielfältigen Aspekte von Zeit, Person, Werk und Wirkung Heinrich Heines zu informieren.

Approaching the writings of Mary Wroth through a fresh 21st-century lens, this volume accounts for and re-invents the literary scholarship of one of the first "canonized" women writers of the English Renaissance.

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.

This book provides an accessible account of the poet and politician Andrew Marvell's life (1621-1678) and of the great events which found reflection in his work and in which he and his writings eventually played a part.

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This History explores the genealogy of modern American verse by women from the early twentieth century to the millennium.

The elegiac aspect of Ted Hughes' poetry has been frequently overlooked, an oversight which this book sets out to rectify.

This Companion surveys over four thousand years of epic poetry in a series of accessible essays.

Four hundred years after his birth, John Milton remains one of the greatest and most controversial figures in English literature.

Richard Bradford's new introduction to poetry begins with and answers the slippery question, 'what is poetry?

From 1923, when he emigrated from Bucharest, to his deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944, Benjamin Fondane made a unique and independent-minded contribution to the literary and intellectual life of Paris.

American Rendering showcases twenty-four new poems as well as a generous selection from Andrew Hudgins’s six previous volumes, spanning a distinguished career of more than twenty-five years.

Mawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi's great poem, the Mathnawi is one of the best known and most influential works of Muslim mysticism.

From the 1880s to the 1920s, a profound social awakening among women extended the possibilities of change far beyond the struggle for the vote.

Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature argues that, ironically, custom was a supremely generative literary force for a range of Renaissance writers.

This book draws out connections between ideas of space in cultural and social theory and developments in contemporary poetry.

Reading Poetry with College and University Students aims to help faculty foster students' intellectual and aesthetic engagement with poems while enabling them to sharpen critical and creative thinking skills.

Taking its title from Uccello's famous painting of a band of men - on foot and on horseback - massing for the chase, John Burnside's new poems take us on a journey out of the light and into the darkness, where we may just as easily lose ourselves as find what we are looking for.

The ethos of poetry and its social efficacy cannot be underestimated in the quest for a fair society.

Part of a series which offers accounts of the literary careers of the most widely read British and Irish authors.

Originally published in 1994.

For thousands of years, philosophers, theologians, and poets have tried to pierce through the veil of death to gaze with wonder, fear, and awe on the final and eternal state of the soul.

Joseph Rolnik is widely considered one of the most prominent of the New York Yiddish poets associated with Di Yunge, an avant-garde literary group that formed in the early twentieth century.

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Love has been an important trope in the literature of the region we now call the Middle East, from ancient times to modern.

This book examines the interactions between social assumptions about womanhood and women's actual voices represented in plays and writings by authors of both genders in Jacobean England, placing the special emphasis on Lady Mary Wroth.

Where Is All My Relation?

This book shows how modernist poetry understood itself to be complicit in the social injustice and unhappiness of its time.

Throughout his career, Derek Walcott turned to the literature and cultures of ancient Greece and Rome.

Environmental writing is an increasingly popular literary genre, and a multifaceted genre at that.

Based entirely on archival research, Poets in the Public Sphere traces the emergence of the "e;New Woman"e; by examining poetry published by American women in newspapers and magazines between 1800 and 1900.

Now a global bestseller, the remarkable life of Rigoberta Mench,, a Guatemalan peasant woman, reflects on the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America.

The celebrated and beloved fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafez continues to play an essential role in the lives of Iranians today.

This beautiful anthology brings together over 250 poems about flowers, plants and trees from eight centuries of writing in English, creating a rich bouquet of intriguing juxtapositions.

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

Moderne Lyrik ist zugleich Medienpoesie, die auf die Herausforderungen einer modernen Medienlandschaft reagiert.

La poesía norteamericana es una poesía vinculada a la naturaleza, tanto la naturaleza salvaje como la domesticada, descriptiva de la vida rural y la urbana, y de la sociedad industrializada.