This original collection of essays written by scholars and poets explores the life and work of Hyam Plutzik (1911-1962), whose poetry came to fruition at a time of cultural change set against the historical rupture of the Holocaust and World War II.
A queer disabled love song to trees and beavers, tremors and dreams, Unfurl explores the pulsing core and porous edges of survival, sorrow, and dreaming.
Keine ausfuhrliche Beschreibung fur "e;Fruhe sozialistische satirische Lyrik aus den Zeitschriften Der wahre Jakob"e; und Suddeutscher Postillon"e;"e; verfugbar.
The poetry of Herbert, Vaughan, and Traherne represents "e;an attempt to shape their lives and verse around the fact of divine presence and influence,"e; writes Sharon Seelig.
This original collection of essays written by scholars and poets explores the life and work of Hyam Plutzik (1911-1962), whose poetry came to fruition at a time of cultural change set against the historical rupture of the Holocaust and World War II.
The almost universal adulation given Edmund Waller in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries-an adulation which, often as not, attached to his reform of poetry-has been commonly accepted with little question of the grounds on which it is based.
After falling in love with and marrying a man two lifetimes older than her, Irving Layton's last wife shares the story of her life with the acclaimed poet.
In the symbolic language of ballads, a lady's costly dress tells of the beauty of the body beneath it or of the wearer's happiness; a lost hawk or hound foreshadows the hunter's fate long before the plot reaches a turning point.
More often than not, critics have looked upon Milton's great epic not as a literary work but rather as a theological tract or a display of Renaissance learning.
John Dryden's celebrated conversion to Roman Catholicism is revealed in this provocative study as the culmination of a lifelong search that began with his youth in an actively Puritan family.
After falling in love with and marrying a man two lifetimes older than her, Irving Layton's last wife shares the story of her life with the acclaimed poet.
Giraldi Cinthio's Discorso intorno al comporre dei romanzi, here translated into English for the first time, was one of the most important critical works of the Renaissance.
Distinguishing figural or typological allegory-a method adapted from the Christian exegesis of the Old Testament-from the broader Hellenistic concept of allegory, this book examines its use in representative poems of early Hispanic literature.
This book is the first to consider the work of Herman Melville's later years as a whole, in the light of his life and reading during those years and of the intellectual and artistic ambience of the later nineteenth century.
A leading critic of contemporary Spanish poetry examines here the work of ten important poets who came to maturity in the immediate post-Civil War period and whose major works appeared between 1956 and 1971: Francisco Brines; Eladio Cabanero; Angel Crespo; Gloria Fuertes; Jaime Gil de Biedma; Angel Gonzalez; Manuel Mantero; Claudio Rodriguez; Carlos Sahagun; and Jose Angel Valente.
'The Ghetto, and Other Poems' (1918), traduit al catala per primera vegada en aquest llibre, retrata en el primer poema, "e;El gueto"e;, d'una manera intima i vivida, el mon dels immigrants jueus ubicats al Lower East Side de Nova York.
Written in 1929-1930, when Federico Garcia Lorca was visiting Columbia University, Poet in New York stands as one of the great Waste Land poems of the 20th century.