Literary studies: poetry and poets

At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a prolific master of this art.

Canidia is one of the most well-attested witches in Latin literature.

Ovid Unseens provides a bank of 80 practice passages of Latin verse, half elegiac and half hexameter.

Franceso Petrarch (1304-1374), creator of the sonnet form, remained for more than three hundred years the most influential poet in Europe, his works more widely read than even those of Dante.

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Provides an essential ethical history of courtly love poetry by tracing its engagement with the late medieval reception of Aristotelian ethics.

A unique account of the shifting cultures of poetry across the Age of Enlightenment.

In Poetic Sisters, Deborah Kennedy explores the personal and literary connections among five early eighteenth-century women poets: Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea; Elizabeth Singer Rowe; Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford; Sarah Dixon; and Mary Jones.

This study examines Exeter riddles, Anglo-Saxon biblical poems (Exodus, Andreas, Judith) and Beowulf in order to uncover the poetics of spolia, an imaginative use of recycled fictional artefacts to create sites of metatextual reflection.

This book offers an interpretation of the relations between theology and poetry in Milton, Donne, Shakespeare and others.

Manuscript Matters illuminates responses to some of John Donne's most elusive texts by his contemporary audiences.

The Room and the World: Essays on the Poet Stephen Dunn is the first book of its kind to explore and unpack the Pulitzer-winning poet's oeuvre.

With the weakening moral authority of the Catholic Church, the boom ushered in by the Celtic Tiger, and the slow but steady diminishment of the Troubles in the North, Ireland has finally stepped out from the shadows of colonial oppression onto the world stage as a major cosmopolitan country.

Writing in Real Time is the first book-length study of the American long poem as a complex adaptive system.

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Brink's provocative biography shows that Spenser was not the would-be court poet whom Karl Marx's described as 'Elizabeth's arse-kissing poet'.

What kind of allusion is possible in a poetry derived from a centuries-long oral tradition, and what kind of oral-derived poetry are the Homeric epics?

Poetic Community examines the relationship between poetry and community formation in the decades after the Second World War.

Ancient sport made a huge if indirect contribution to the literature of ancient Greece, since some sixty poems by Pindar and Bacchylides ('epinikian odes'), written to commemorate victories, survive from the Classical period.

Offers fresh understanding of British Romanticism by exploring how anxieties about decline impacted debates about literature''s form and meaning.

This new translation of Pindar's songs for victorious athletes marries philological rigour with poetic sensibility in order to represent the beauty of his language for a modern audience as closely as possible.

This book examines the development of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's intellectual legacy in Britain and America from 1834 to 1934 by focusing on his late role as the Sage of Highgate and his programme of educating young minds who were destined for the higher professions (particularly preaching and teaching).

This collection of essays approaches the works of Shakespeare from the topical perspective of the History of Emotions.

This concise book is an ideal introduction to Homer the poet and his two great epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey.

In a linked collection that presents the secreted small tragedies of an Anglican congregation struggling to survive, All Saints delves into the life of Simon, the Reverend, and the lives of his parishioners: Miss Alice Vipond, a refined and elderly schoolteacher, incarcerated for a horrendous crime; a woman driven to extreme anxiety by borderline-abusive sex; Owen, The Shitblood Man, who, lost in the woods, loses himself in a fit of rage; a receptionist and her act of improbable generosity; a writer making peace with her divorce.

The idea of the end is an essential motivic force in the poetry of Geoffrey Hill (1932-2016).

Transmissions of Memory: Echoes, Traumas and Nostalgia in Post-World War II Italian Culture discusses cultural products-films, poetry, fiction, architectural buildings, autobiographical writing, and social media-to individuate through them the dynamics of memory.

Some of the great literary works such as the Bible and Indian epics, among others, provide society with the guiding principles of life.

This innovative study analyzes the range of representation of farming in Irish literature in the period since independence/partition in 1922, as Ireland moved from a largely agricultural to a developed urban society.

Ollam ("e;ollav"e;), named for the ancient title of Ireland's chief poets, celebrates the career of Tomas O Cathasaigh, Henry L.

This illuminating book is the first to consider Dickinson''s religious imagery outside the dynamic of her personal faith and doubt.

Though his name might not be familiar to many twenty-first century readers, Laurence Whyte (d.

Offers a fresh interpretation of Virgil''s Aeneid via a detailed study of its child hero, Ascanius, young son of Aeneas.

Composición de 136 versos octosílabos de pie quebrado, el "Romance" de Luis de Miranda está considerado el primer texto literario de la época colonial en el Río de la Plata.

Constitutions of Self in Contemporary Irish Poetry explores the figure of the lyrical self in the work of six contemporary Irish poets: Paul Muldoon, Vona Groarke, Sinead Morrissey, Caitriona O'Reilly, Alan Gillis and Nick Laird.

A collection of essays on sexuality, desire and feminism in T.

Vocal music was at the heart of English Renaissance poetry and drama.

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Decimus Magnus Ausonius of Bordeaux, whose life spanned the greater part of the fourth century AD, was one of the most significant literary and political figures of his age.

Platonic concerns and conceptions profoundly affected early modern English and continental poetics, yet the effects have had little attention.

Poetry in Dialogue in the Duecento and Dante provides a new perspective on the highly networked literary landscape of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italy.

This annotated critical edition is the first attempt to make Morris's 42,000-word verse sequence accessible to a modern audience.