Literary studies: poetry and poets

Expressivity in Modern Poetry explores three interrelated subjects.

This edited collection addresses the role of ritual representations and religion in the epic poems of the Flavian period (69-96 CE): Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica, Silius Italicus' Punica, Statius' Thebaid, and the unfinished Achilleid.

In 1949, after years of nomadic existence, nine-year-old Aeronwy Thomas and her family arrived at the Boat House in Laugharne, a small village on the Welsh coast.

This book explores Yeats's later poetry through the metaphor of the poetic tower, where different kinds of 'building' - architectural, textual, political and symbolic - were closely interrelated.

A bilingual volume that reveals an intriguing world of courtly love and satire in medieval Portugal and SpainThe rich tradition of troubadour poetry in western Iberia had all but vanished from history until the discovery of several ancient cancioneiros, or songbooks, in the nineteenth century.

This is the first English translation of the major Armenian epic on Adam and Eve composed by Arak'el of Siwnik' in the early fifteenth century.

Where Is All My Relation?

This Companion brings together sixteen essays that explore the full diversity of British poetry since the Second World War.

This Companion engages with key debates surrounding the interpretation and reception of Elizabeth Bishop''s published and unpublished writing.

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What was the soul?

The most prominent woman in Renaissance Florence, Lucrezia Tornabuoni de' Medici (1425-1482) lived during her city's golden age.

This book offers the first comprehensive close reading in any language of the complete works of Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867).

In recent years, New Historicists have situated the iconoclasm of Milton's poetry and prose within the context of political, cultural, and philosophical discourses that foreshadow early modernism.

The Plural of Us is the first book to focus on the poet's use of the first-person plural voice-poetry's "e;we.

One of America's most celebrated women, Emily Dickinson was virtually unpublished in her own time and unknown to the public at large.

This volume assembles exciting new scholarship canvassing the entire geographic and historical range of Langston Hughes''s storied career.

The Author's Effects: On the Writer's House Museum is the first book to describe how the writer's house museum came into being as a widespread cultural phenomenon across Britain, Europe, and North America.

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Of The Moon Reflected Fire and its subject, the Vietnam War, poet James Tate writes: "e;These are trenchant, wrenching poems.

Explores the representation of emotions as psychological concepts and cultural constructs in Geoffrey Chaucer's narrative poetry.

This work focuses upon one word among several that make up Homer's psychological terminology.

In addition to being the leading philosopher of English Romanticism and one of its greatest poets, Coleridge explores the dynamics of consciousness and mental functioning more extensively than any of his contemporaries.

This book focuses on the autobiographical poetry of early twentieth century author Antonia Pozzi and her lifelong friend and fellow poet, Vittorio Sereni.

Companion to the work of one of the most admired of English writers and artists.

Die Beiträge dieses Heine-Jahrbuchs entstammen meist noch dem Umkreis des Heine-Jahrs 1997.

This work provides a comprehensive account of the life and writings of Andrew Marvell (1621-78), as well as the reception of his work in the century after his death.

Elizabeth Bishop and the Music of Literature brings together the latest understandings of how central music was to Bishop's writing.

A new, provocative treatment of the Alexandrian poet Callimachus and his reception, approaching his work from four varied yet complementary angles.

Establishing the text of works in Anne Finch''s early manuscript book, this first volume includes previously unpublished poetry and surviving plays.

Wandering in Circles: Venichka's Journey of Redemption in "e;Moskva-Petushki"e; examines the definition of redemption in Venedikt Erofeev's Moskva-Petushki.

An innovative introduction to writing poetry designed for students of creative writing and budding poets alike.

This volume offers a glimpse into the rich tradition of literary devices in Persian language and literature.

This book examines a pivotal moment in the history of science and women's place in it.

This volume is the only collected edition of poems by Jean Toomer, the enigmatic American writer, Gurdjieffian guru, and Quaker convert who is perhaps best known for his 1923 lyrical narrative Cane.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

This book analyses intersemiotic translation, where the translator works across sign systems and cultural boundaries.

Nach der textkritischen Gesamtausgabe von Günthers Werken in vier Bänden werden die erhaltenen Autographen, Abschriften und Einzeldrucke in den Dokumentenbänden V.

Tolkien's Lost Chaucer uncovers the story of an unpublished and previously unknown book by the author of The Lord of the Rings.

This volume brings together 29 junior and senior scholars to discuss aspects of Hesiod's poetry and its milieu and to explore questions of reception over two and half millennia from shortly after the poems' conception to Twitter hashtags.

Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's most influential poets.

This History explores the genealogy of Anglophone verse in India from its nineteenth-century origins to the present day.

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This book explores the political significance of formal experimentation in American poetry written during the 1960s, 70s and 80s.

Wallace Stevens the poet and Wallace Stevens the insurance executive: for more than one critical generation it has seemed as if these two men were unacquainted--that Stevens was a poet who existed only in the rarefied world of language.