Literary studies: poetry and poets

"e;I am talking about Milton because I enjoy talking about Milton,"e; This statement made by Northrop Frye at the beginning of The Return of Eden sets the tone for the entire book.

It hardly needs repeating that Plato defined philosophy partly by contrast with the work of the poets.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744) was the most important English poet of the 18th century, as well as an essayist, satirist, and critic.

Winner of the Literary Encyclopedia 2024 Book Prize, in the category of literatures originally written in English.

This is the first book to offer a systematic account of the concept of opacity in the aesthetic field.

The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series (general editor: Elleke Boehmer) offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English.

This critical edition provides unique access to a work which has challenged scholars and students alike.

The Scottish poet, author, and Christian minister George MacDonald is widely known as an inspiration for the works of C.

From William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsberg to Miguel Algar n and Wanda Coleman, this groundbreaking book explores the ways in which contemporary poets have engaged with America's changing urban experience since 1945.

Explores liturgical practice as formative for how three Victorian women poets imagined the world and their place in it and, consequently, for how they developed their creative and critical religious poetics.

This Companion offers a major re-examination of the poetry of the First World War at the start of the war''s centennial commemoration.

This book examines the male Romantics' versions of poetic authority in theory and practice in the context of their involvement in the political debates of Regency Britain and argues that their response to Burke's gendered discourse about power effected radical changes in the definitions of masculinity and femininity.

This collection by leading scholars in the field provides a fascinating and ground-breaking introduction to current research in Irish Romantic studies.

This ebook is now available from Bloomsbury Academic.

The sixth generation of wireless communication (6G), succeeding 5G cellular technology, opens up several possibilities in terms of technology and its offered services.

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.

Jüngste Forschungen zu Heine.

Erich Fried mischte sich ein, wo Unrecht geschah.

Rarity is a quality by which things flowers, leaves, light, sound fleetingly appear and disappear, leaving in their wake a resonance of something we just thought we had glimpsed.

"e;We have many poets of the First Book,"e; the poet and critic Louis Simpson remarked in 1957, describing a sense that the debut poetry collection not only launched the contemporary poetic career but also had come to define it.

This book is the first of its kind in providing a lexicon of kinship terms prevalent in the Western dialects of Iran, with a parallel glossary in English.

A literary history of the Great Acceleration, Remainders examines an archive of postwar American poetry that reflects on new dimensions of ecological crisis.

This compact volume makes available a selection of 402 entries from the widely praised Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, with emphasis on prosodic and poetic terms likely to be encountered in many different areas of literary study.

The poet Robert Graves' use of material from classical sources has been contentious to scholars for many years, with a number of classicists baulking at his interpretation of myth and his novelization of history, and questioning its academic value.

Drawing on recent theories of digital media and on the materiality of words and images, this fascinating study makes three original claims about the work of William Blake.

Medieval Venuses and Cupids analyses the transformations of the love deities in later Middle English Chaucerian poetry, academic Latin discourses on classical myth (including astrology, natural philosophy, and commentaries on classical Roman literature), and French conventions that associate Venus and Cupid with Ovidian arts of love.

Traditionally literary modernism has been seen as a movement marked by transcendent epiphanies, episodes of estrangement, and a privileging of the extraordinary.

Innovatively extending counterfactual thought experiments from history and the social sciences to literary historiography, criticism and theory, Counterfactual Romanticism reveals the ways in which the shapes of Romanticism are conditioned by that which did not come to pass.

Gillian Wright combines literary and bibliographical approaches to examine the work of five English women poets in the period 1600–1730.

Provides readings, interpretations, and explorations of Whitman in the many contexts through which he charted his life and wrote his texts.

This book is a collection of studies providing a unique view on two central aspects of poetry: sounds and emotive qualities, with emphasis on their interactions.

Contains a selection of letters from the English poet Matthew Arnold.

This book makes available Ronald Knox's hitherto unpublished lectures on Virgil's Aeneid delivered at Trinity College, Oxford, as part of a lecture course on Virgil in 1912.

Johnson himself wrote in 1782: 'I know not that I have written any thing more generally commended than the Lives of the Poets'.

In the Anteroom of Divinity focuses on the persistence of Pseudo-Dionysian angelology in England's early modern period.

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This book brings together about 2,500 quotations on various topics of interest to scientists and engineers, including students of STEM disciplines.

From an award-winning poet, a collection that explores the complexities of transformation, cultures, and politicsIn Radioactive Starlings, award-winning poet Myronn Hardy explores the divergences between the natural world and technology, asking what progress means when it destroys the places that sustain us.

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Shakespearean Echoes assembles a global cast of established and emerging scholars to explore new connections between Shakespeare and contemporary culture, reflecting the complexities and conflicts of Shakespeare's current international afterlife.

A full treatment of this major source on ancient literary education by two of the leading scholars in the field.