Literary studies: poetry and poets

The poetry of John Berryman occupies an incomparable place in modern American literature.

Perhaps the most powerful feature of the Romantic imagination is its ability to dissolve existing form and order and create it anew.

Synge was the victim of a cruel paradox: those who loved his works knew no Irish and those who loved Irish despised his works.

Stanley Fish's Surprised by Sin argues here that Paradise Lost is a poem about how its readers came to be the way they are and therefore the fact of their divided responses makes perfect sense.

Through National Book Award-winning translator Allen Mandelbaum's poetic artistry, this gloriously entertaining achievement of literature classical myths filtered through the worldly and far from reverent sensibility of the Roman poet Ovid is revealed anew.

Im Gegensatz zu den bisher vorrangig werkorientierten Untersuchungen zur frühbarocken Dichterin Sibylla Schwarz (1621-1638) versteht sich dieser Band durch eine kulturgeschichtliche Kontextualisierung ihrer Poesie als Korrektur und Erweiterung früherer Forschungen.

Estética del error es una invitación a repensar qué es el arte, qué son la belleza y la verdad.

This book examines the unresolved tensions in Milton''s writings, as he grapples with the paradox of freedom in a universe ruled by an all-powerful God.