When Vladimir Nabokov's translation of Pushkin's masterpiece Eugene Onegin was first published in 1964, it ignited a storm of controversy that famously resulted in the demise of Nabokov's friendship with critic Edmund Wilson.
Pocos escritores de lengua española tuvieron una disciplina epistolar tan intensa y extensa como Octavio Paz: miles de cartas a otros escritores, a sus amigos, a sus editores y, desde luego, a las mujeres que amó.
Whitney's two volumes of verse miscellany, 'Sweet Nosegay' (1573) and 'The Copy of a Letter' (1567), were part of a literary trend of combining classical and Biblical references with popular and vernacular sources, and reflect the growing literary appetites of the urban population.
It is his clear-sightedness, his candour, his steely strength of will, the immediacy of his writing, his insolence and cynicism, his love of liberty, his hatred of hypocrisy, his originality, his rational enlightened toughness which attached Byron to the present age as much as to his own.
A collection of new and startlingly original essays from an acclaimed poet, essayist, and playwrightJay Wright is widely recognized as one of the most important American poets of the past half century.
Uno más de los legados del maestro Jaime Sabines es este puñado de poesías que, de entre toda su obra quiso, como agua del pensamiento, compartir con los enamorados y entusiastas de su oficio.
Presented in one volume for the very first time, and updated with new archival discoveries, Early Auden, Later Auden reintroduces Edward Mendelson's acclaimed, two-part biography of W.
A definitive new edition of one of the greatest philosophical poems in the English languageVoltaire called it "e;the most sublime didactic poem ever written in any language.
Inside "e;Paradise Lost"e; opens up new readings and ways of reading Milton's epic poem by mapping out the intricacies of its narrative and symbolic designs and by revealing and exploring the deeply allusive texture of its verse.
The most important poetry reference for more than four decades-now fully updated for the twenty-first century Through three editions over more than four decades, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics has built an unrivaled reputation as the most comprehensive and authoritative reference for students, scholars, and poets on all aspects of its subject: history, movements, genres, prosody, rhetorical devices, critical terms, and more.
A rollicking story of the strangest creative writing class ever-as only Andrei Codrescu could tell it"e;Intro to Poetry Writing is always like this: a long labor, a breech birth, or, obversely, mining in the dark.
Vladimir Nabokov's famous and brilliant commentary on Pushkin's Eugene OneginWhen Vladimir Nabokov first published his controversial translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin in 1964, the great majority of the edition was taken up by Nabokov's witty and exhaustive commentary.
Drawn from the acclaimed New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, the articles in this concise new reference book provide a complete survey of the poetic history and practice in every major national literature or cultural tradition in the world.
How Black poets have charted the direction of American poetics for the past two centuriesBefore Modernism examines how Black poetics, in antagonism with White poetics in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, produced the conditions for the invention of modern American poetry.
Arion's Lyre examines how Hellenistic poetic culture adapted, reinterpreted, and transformed Archaic Greek lyric through a complex process of textual, cultural, and creative reception.
El camino de Dante pretende ser un homenaje en el séptimo centenario de la muerte del poeta, a la vez que un aporte a los estudios dantescos en la Argentina.
La nuestra es una historia de lo más normal, por eso buscamos un bar tranquilo donde desgranarnos las manos y comernos los ojos con las miradas hambrientas.
Concierto sin fin, Abrazo plácido de las noches Junto al mar en vela Cada estrella, cada lunar Cada gramo de arena en su lugar en cada olauna frazada de sueño llega y se va.
Este libro ofrece una visión global de la obra poética de Neruda, y a la vez encauzada hacia el tratamiento que en ella se da a la naturaleza, la historia y la reflexión poética, a través de los diferentes períodos de la vida literaria del chileno.
Nuit des dames Si tu me retiens, je serai brisé Je ne peux pas me ressaisir Chaque fois que tu te libères, je suis ton sillage pour attraper ton frisson
”Merveilleuse explication des douleurs et des désirs d'amour de manière subtile et décente.
