Taking into account recent developments in historical and ecological criticism, and incorporating fresh research into poetry and politics in the 1790s, the second edition of The Politics of Nature enlarges and updates Nicholas Roe's acclaimed study of Romanticism.
Katarzyna Lecky explores how early modern British poets paid by the state adapted inclusive modes of nationhood charted by inexpensive, small-format maps.
This is the first collection of essays to focus on the extraordinary literary achievement of James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849), increasingly recognized as one of the most important Irish writers of the nineteenth century.
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.
During the 1790s and 1800s, cultural critics became convinced that Britain was being 'inundated' by pernicious literary translations imported from the European Continent.
This volume was original published in 1935 at the request of the Press Board of the University of Wales as a celebration of the life and work of Dafydd ap Gwilym.
Mahmoud Darwish: Palestine's Poet and the Other as the Beloved focuses on Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008), whose poetry has helped to shape Palestinian identity and foster Palestinian culture through many decades of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
This book attends to four poets - John Clare, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Edward Thomas, and Ivor Gurney - whose poems are remarkable for their personal directness and distinctiveness.
Whilst religion and the secular have been continually debated contexts for literature of the Romantic era, the dominant scholarly focus has been on doctrines and denominations.
The work of Geoffrey Hill (1932-2016) often provokes bemusement or even hostility; however, he was often referred to as 'the greatest living poet' and variants thereof.
Published to mark the bicentenary of Alfred Tennyson's birth, these essays offer an important revaluation of his achievement and its lasting importance.
Written between the years 1798 and 1801, The Lucy Poems is a charming, pocket-sized collection of William Wordsworth's Lucy poems, first published in one of his best-known works, Lyrical Ballads.
Der "poeta laureatus" Georg Sibutus wurde 1505 von Kurfürst Friedrich dem Weisen als Lektor der Humaniora an die neue Universität in Wittenberg berufen.
This volume offers a strikingly innovative account of Propertius' relationship with Virgil, positing a keen rivalry between two of the greatest poets of Latin literature, contemporaries within the circle of Maecenas.
Taking as its starting point the long-standing characterization of Milton as a "e;Hebraic"e; writer, Milton and the Rabbis probes the limits of the relationship between the seventeenth-century English poet and polemicist and his Jewish antecedents.
Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto, premodern Europe's three greatest comic poets, found abundant cause for laughter in the foibles and follies of human desire.
This book analyzes the iconographic traditions of Jeremiah and of melancholy to show how Donne, Herbert, and Milton each fashions himself after the icons presented in Rembrandt's Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem , Sluter's sculpture of Jeremiah in the Well of Moses, and Michelangelo's fresco of Jeremiah in the Sistine Chapel.
Limits and Languages in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry examines the transactions between the two main languages of Irish literature, English and Irish, and their formative role in contemporary poetry by Irish women.
The great world poets who are listed in this book include the following: Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Blake, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Robert Southey, Walter Savage Landor, Ebenezer Elliott, Leigh Hunt, Thomas Chatterton, John Clare, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, James Montgomery, Charlotte Turner Smith, Henry Kirke White , George Crabbe, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Bryan Procter, Thomas Hood, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, James Clarence Mangan, Thomas Davis, James Hogg, Robert Burns, Joanna Baillie, Walter Scott, James Macpherson, Thomas Moore, Rabindranath Tagore, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Satyendranath Dutta, Jane Austen, Carl Spitteler, Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Ivan Bunin, Giorgos Seferis, Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson, Vicente Aleixandre, Odysseas Elytis and W.
In Plain Sight explores how the poetry of nineteenth-century American women that was once so visible within American culture could have, with the exception of that by Emily Dickinson, so thoroughly disappeared from literary history.
