Literary studies: poetry and poets

In this biography Ekbert Faas pioneers a new kind of "e;life-writing.

David Scott Wilson-Okamura reframes long-standing questions about Edmund Spenser''s style in the wider context of long-term, European trends.

The essays in Moving Modernisms: Motion, Technology, and Modernity, written by renowned international scholars, open up the many dimensions and arenas of modernist movement and movements: spatial, geographical and political: affective and physiological; temporal and epochal; technological, locomotive and metropolitan; aesthetic and representational.

Ornamental Aesthetics offers a theory of ornamentation as a manner of marking out objects for notice, attention, praise, and a means of exploring qualities of mental engagement other than interpretation and representation.

This work brings together quantum theory and spectroscopy to convey excitation processes to advanced students and specialists wishing to conduct research and understand the entire fi eld rather than just single aspects.

This book analyzes major premises and practices of eighteenth-century English poets.

This book examines the influence of American poetry on Seamus Heaney's achievement by close attention to the themes, style, and resonances of his poetry at different stages of his career, including his appointments in Berkeley and Harvard.

Dante's persistent and pervasive presence has been a remarkable feature of modern writing since the late eighteenth century.

The first in-depth exploration of Borges'' classicism and a major contribution to the field of global classics and Borges studies.

Joseph Addison: Tercentenary Essays is a collection of fifteen essays by a team of internationally recognized experts specially commissioned to commemorate the three hundredth anniversary of Addison's death in 2019.

The first commentary in English entirely devoted to the Iliad Book 6, illuminating some of the best-loved episodes in the whole poem.

This book examines contemporary forms of digital poetry in emerging technologies such as drones, machine learning, Instagram, virtual reality and mobile devices.

The poetic memorialization of the Maghribi city illuminates the ways in which exilic Maghribi poets constructed idealized images of their native cities from the ninth to nineteenth centuries CE.

For centuries readers have struggled to fuse the seemingly scattered pieces of Donne's works into a complete image of the poet and priest.

Ließ Brechts zum Diktum gewordenes Versfragment «Gespräch über Bäume» die Naturlyrik zum fragwürdigen Genre werden, so rief es gleichwohl bald Widerspruch hervor, nicht nur in Paul Celans lyrischer Replik «Ein Blatt, baumlos» und den ebenfalls auf Brecht antwortenden Gedichten Erich Frieds und Günter Eichs, sondern auch in der engagierten ökokritischen Dichtung seit den 1970er Jahren.

The Interpersonal Idiom offers a timely reformulation of identity in the age of Shakespeare, recovering a rich and now obsolete language that casts selfhood not as subjective experience but as the experience of others.

Born in the small Extremaduran town of Moraleja in 1946, Spanish poet Pureza Canelo, at the age of twenty-five, published her first collections of poetry, Celda verde and Lugar comun (winner of the 1970 Adonais Prize).

Langston Hughes survived as a writer for over forty years under conditions that made survival virtually heroic.

A study of the linked themes of violation and identity in seven Shakespearean tragedies.

The poems of Into These Knots, Ashley Anna McHugh's debut collection, glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, interrogating and elucidating in elegant and supercharged speech ultimate questions and intimate foibles.

A New Companion to Milton builds on the critically-acclaimed original, bringing alive the diverse and controversial world of contemporary Milton studies while reflecting the very latest advances in research in the field.

This collection of essays offers an exploration of the meaning and significance of the Catalogue of Women, attributed to Hesiod.

Although modern English and Irish poetry arises from the different cultures of the two countries these poets have shared - throughout this century - the same editors and publishers, competed for the same prizes, and been judged, ostensibly, by the same standards.

Elizabeth Vandiver examines the ways in which British poets of the First World War used classical literature, culture, and history as a source of images, ideas, and even phrases for their own poetry.

The book explores novels, essays and poetry published by Spanish writers in response to the global economic crisis that began in 2008.

A mature poet, Larry Thomas has an extraordinary gift which has evolved through decades at his craft.

This textbook introduces the reader to contemporary approaches to language analysis such as cognitive stylistics and corpus stylistics, reflecting recent shifts in research trends and offering students a practical way to access and understand these developments.

Thomas Wyatt didn't publish "e;They Flee from Me.

This collection of essays examines how close analysis of William Blake's manuscripts can yield new discoveries about his techniques, his working habits, and his influences.

Marcel Beyer hat mit seinem vielfach ausgezeichneten Schaffen auf einzigartige Weise Grenzbereiche zwischen Literatur, Musik und Kulturtheorie erkundet.

Presented in one volume for the very first time, and updated with new archival discoveries, Early Auden, Later Auden reintroduces Edward Mendelson's acclaimed, two-part biography of W.

Michael Schmidt s anthology includes the work of more than a hundred poets from every part of the English-speaking world.

This book explores the relationship between ideas of the East and the struggle for democratic rights in the Romantic period.

Through an examination of paratextuality in late antique literature, this collection of essays reconsiders the importance of the written material that appears in the margins of ancient poetic texts.

Ranging far beyond the traditional canon, this ground-breaking anthology casts a vivid new light on poetic responses to the First World War.

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A rich, illuminating study of how Wordsworth''s late poetry reflects his lifelong engagement with the poetics and politics of peace.

What if the goddess Athena, who sprang fully-grown from Zeus's head and denied she had a mother, became aware of the compelling existence of her other parent?

Roger McGough is one of Britain's best-loved poets, and something of a national institution.

In the Romantic period's economics of 'fiat' money the legacy of romanticism involves absolutist gestures of verbal fiat.