Literary studies: poetry and poets

Richard Bradford's new introduction to poetry begins with and answers the slippery question, 'what is poetry?

The night can sweat with terror as beforeWe pieced our thoughts into philosophy,And planned to bring the world under a rule,Who are but weasels fighting in a hole.

The poetry produced by the British poets of the 17th and 18th centuries is considered to be among the best ever written.

Friedrich von Hagedorn ist der erste deutsche Fabeldichter im eigentlichen Sinne und zugleich einer der interessantesten der Epoche der Aufklärung.

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

Interdisciplinary in approach and methodologically sophisticated, this book explores the dynamic reception of Latin erotic elegy in Renaissance love poetry.

In the first book-length study of Paula Meehan, one of Ireland's leading contemporary poets emerges as an original voice whose perspectives on gender, class, and ecology are transforming the Irish literary landscape and beyond.

The pioneering Iranian poet and filmmaker Forugh Farrokhzad was an iconic figure in her own day and has come to represent the spirit of revolt against patriarchal and cultural norms in 1960s Iran.

The Political Poetess challenges familiar accounts of the figure of the nineteenth-century Poetess, offering new readings of Poetess performance and criticism.

The early twenty-first century has seen a sharp rise in Black US poets employing the mask of persona, often including and interrogating archival materials as they do so.

Instapoetry is one of the most popular literary phenomena of our time.

Thomas Hardy frequently insisted that his poems were not self-expressive, but dramatic or 'impersonative'.

What is poetry?

Essays by leading scholars explore the work, life and times of the notorious libertine poet John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester.

This study explores the interrelationship between spatiality and subjecthood in the work of Stephane Mallarme, Guillaume Apollinaire, Maurice Maeterlinck, and Alfred Jarry.

The first of eight volumes of Hopkins's Collected Works to be published, Oxford Essays and Notes presents a remarkable cache of previously unpublished papers, including forty-five essays which Hopkins produced during his undergraduate career at Oxford (1863-1867), only seven of which were reproduced in the 1959 edition of Journals and Papers.

This unique and exciting collection, inspired by the scholarship of literary critic Stephanie Trigg, offers cutting-edge responses to the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer for the current critical moment.

A comprehensive guide to the literary, religious and political contexts that shape Edmund Spenser''s poetry.

This book offers new analyzes of canonical texts, contextualizations of Romantic forms in relation to war, nationalism and empire, reassessments of neglected and marginalized writers and explorations of the relationship between form and reader.

Loving finds in the lives and works of the two writers a symbiosis of spirit that transcends the question of literary influence.

Sharon Olds divides this new book into five sections - 'Blood', 'Tin', ' 'Straw', ' 'Fire' and 'Light' - each made up of fourteen poems whose dominant imagery is drawn from one of these elements.

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This book examines the dramatic work of Dickens, Browning, Collins, and Tennyson, their interaction with the theatrical world, and their attempts to develop their reputations as playwrights.

This is a study of the collaborative creation behind literary works that are usually considered to be written by a single author.

This is a complete Concordance to the A, B and C texts of Piers Plowman in the Athlone Press editions.

Demonstrating how Chaucer uses the Bible in The Canterbury Tales as an authoritative literary source and model for his own literary production, this book explores the ways in which the Bible was a key tool for Chaucer's self-definition and innovation as an author.

Shortlisted for the 2024 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book PrizeA wealth of scholarship has highlighted how commercial, political and religious networks expanded across the Arabian Sea during the seventeenth century, as merchants from South Asia traded goods in the ports of Yemen, noblemen from Safavid Iran established themselves in the courts of the Mughal Empire, and scholars from across the region came together to debate the Islamic sciences in the Arabian Peninsula's holy cities of Mecca and Medina.

This book makes Milton''s works accessible and enjoyable by providing engaging and lucid explanations of his life, times and writings.

What is the role of providence in Paradise Lost?

This study analyses concepts and representations of the soul in the poetry of William Shakespeare and John Donne.

A commentary on seven of Ovid''s twenty-one epistles in elegiac verse.

The classic work on the sublime interplay between the arts and poeticsThis book explores the rich and complex relationship between art and poetry, shedding invaluable light on what makes each art form unique yet wholly interdependent.

Using a variety of approaches from the traditional to the post-modern, this volume brings together essays by 14 scholars who examine T.

Hebrew culture experienced a renewal in medieval Spain that produced what is arguably the most powerful body of Jewish poetry written since the Bible.

Literacy: Made for All is a classroom-ready, teacher-friendly resource for English and Writing teachers of Grades 9 through 12.

Dieses bibliographische Handbuch verzeichnet alle selbständigen als Buch erschienenen deutschsprachigen Lyrik-Veröffentlichungen von 1945 bis 2020 in einfacher Titelaufnahme.

A fresh, accessible and authoritative study that conveys the richness and diversity of Irish poets, their lives and times.

This is an imaginative exploration of the art of David Jones which addresses Christian teaching through engagement with selected artistic works: a poem, a painted inscription and a wood engraving.

The Mirror for Magistrates, the collection of de casibus complaint poems in the voices of medieval rulers and rebels compiled by William Baldwin in the 1550s, was central to the development of imaginative literature in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

During Walt Whitman's decade in Washington, DC, 1863-1873, he labored intensely, at times seeming to have three lives at once.

Considered by many to be the greatest Irish song poet of her generation, Maire Bhui Ni Laeire (Yellow Mary O Leary; 1774 1848) was an illiterate woman unconnected to elite literary and philosophical circles who powerfully engaged the politics of her own society through song.

In Hexametrical Genres from Homer to Theocritus, Christopher Faraone discusses a number of short hexametrical genres such as oracles, incantations and laments that do not easily fit the generic models provided by the extant poetry of Hesiod and Homer.

Testament is an imaginative improvisation on the Bible that engages with the intensities, the ups and downs, of existence in our complex and fragmented world.

Shakespeare's Culture in Modern Performance is an original study at the interface of a historicizing literary criticism and the study of modern performance.

For centuries, investigations into the origins of words were entwined with investigations into the origins of humanity and the cosmos.