Although it has been recognized that Edmund Spenser's poetry owes a debt to the work of the French poets of the Pleiade, particularly to Joachim du Bellay and Pierre de Ronsard, there has been no critical analysis of this relationship.
Bringing together more than a thousand unpublished letters as well as all the widely scattered published ones, these four volumes represent the first attempt at a complete edition of the letters of Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883).
Michael Andre Bernstein offers a systematic analysis of the tradition of modern epic poetry--its different structural problems and their diverse but inter-related solutions, and considers issues central to contemporary literary and philosophical theory.
This book offers a revealing analysis of the influence of Isaac Newton's Opticks on the poetic imagination during the first half of the eighteenth century.
Bringing together more than a thousand unpublished letters as well as all the widely scattered published ones, these four volumes represent the first attempt at a complete edition of the letters of Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883).
Defining "e;romance"e; as a form that simultaneously seeks and postpones a particular end, revelation, or object, Patricia Parker interprets its implications and transformations in the works of four major poets-Ariosto, Spenser, Milton, and Keats.
In a controversial examination of the conceptual bases of Blake's myth, Leopold Damrosch argues that his poems contain fundamental contradictions, but that this fact docs not imply philosophical or artistic failure.
One of the few theological formulas of medieval times to survive the scrutiny of the Reformation was that of the infernal triad of the sins of the Flesh, the World, and the Devil.
Josef Korbel, whose career encompasses both scholarly and diplomatic roles, presents a crisp, up-to-date survey of postwar relations between East and West.
In this work William Ulmer boldly advances our understanding of Shelley's concept of love by exploring eros as a figure for the poet's political and artistic aspirations.
As the first full treatment of Walt Whitman's French sources and his later impact on French writers, this book revises our image of the poet and challenges many critical assumptions.
In this collection of essays, talks, and reviews, Major Jackson revels in the work of poetry not only to limn and assess the intellectual and spiritual dimensions of poets, but to amplify the controversies and inner conflicts that define our age: political unrest, climate crises, the fallout from bewildering traumas, and the social function of the art of poetry itself.
More than 100 poems about Britain's nature in a beautifully illustrated bookSeven chapters touch on different aspects of the British countryside, including seasons, birds and wildlife, woods, water, moors and mountains.
Brown proposes a theory of poetic metaphor that attempts to account for literatures complex role in the discovery and creation of significant patterns within both language and life.
Ghosts and the Overplus is a celebration of lyric poetry in the twenty-first century and how lyric poetry incorporates the voices of our age as well as the poetic "e;ghosts"e; from the past.
The fragment poem, long regarded as a peculiarly Romantic phenomenon, has never been examined outside the context of thematic and biographical criticism.
'Provides a compelling argument for Plaths revision of the painful parts of her life the failed marriage, her anxiety for success, and her ambivalence towards her mother.
With essays by 13 leading scholars, this collection establishes the grounds for a new kind of poetics that considers the poetry book itself the concept and the material fact as an object of interpretation.
Lowells continuing productivity and his ever-increasing stature as a poet demand a new evaluation of his work, and Cooper has provided it in this penetrating study.
In this collection, eight distinguished critics of literature assess the nature and range of Dantes influence on the major British and American modernist writers.
The first monograph to address Ben Jonson's thought on the visual arts, Image, Word, and Catholicism in Ben Jonson's Works: Curating Pictures, shows how Jonson placed a high value on the visual arts and the extent to which he designed his poetics around visual frames.
The first monograph to address Ben Jonson's thought on the visual arts, Image, Word, and Catholicism in Ben Jonson's Works: Curating Pictures, shows how Jonson placed a high value on the visual arts and the extent to which he designed his poetics around visual frames.
The two Muslim poets featured in Scott Kugles comparative study lived separate lives during the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries in the Deccan region of southern India.
The career of Matthew Arnold as an eminent poet and the preeminent critic of his generation constitutes a remarkable historical spectacle orchestrated by a host of powerful Victorian cultural institutions.
The heart of this book is a dramatic love poem, the Rasa Lila, which is the ultimate focal point of one of the most treasured Sanskrit texts of India, the Bhagavata Purana.
Nelson Mandela brought the poetry of Ingrid Jonker to the attention of South Africa and the wider world when he read her poem "e;Die kind"e; (The Child) at the opening of South Africa's first democratic parliament on May 24, 1994.
Ghosts and the Overplus is a celebration of lyric poetry in the twenty-first century and how lyric poetry incorporates the voices of our age as well as the poetic "e;ghosts"e; from the past.
Back in print for the first time in decades, Auden's National Book Awardwinning poetry collection, in a critical edition that introduces it to a new generation of readersThe Shield of Achilles, which won the National Book Award in 1956, may well be W.
Walt Whitman has long been regarded as the quintessential American bard, the poet who best represents all that is distinctive about life in the United States.
'Provides a compelling argument for Plaths revision of the painful parts of her life the failed marriage, her anxiety for success, and her ambivalence towards her mother.
