Literary studies: poetry and poets

This study is a theoretical reconsideration of the concept of the "e;tragic"e; combined with detailed analyses of Japanese literary texts.

Haikai is an art that parodies and often subverts its linguistic, generic, and personal predecessors, and its intersections include imaginative links to the rest of Japanese literature and culture.

This book is the first full-scale account of the growth of Wordsworth's thinking about the theory of poetry.

This book explores sacrifice as a narrative theme and a stylistic strategy in works by May Sinclair, Mary Butts and H.

This book provides a critical and biographical account of the fascinating hand-made book of rector William Greswell (1848-1923), in which he assembled British and American reviews and accounts of the Romantic poet, critic, philosopher, and religious thinker Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834).

This book argues that the term 'Romanticism' should be more culturally-inclusive, recognizing the importance of scientific and medical ideas that helped shape some of the key concepts of the period, such as natural rights, the creative imagination and the sublime.

Unter dem Begriff 'Vokalität' untersucht der vorliegende Band mit Schwerpunkt im differenzierten Korpus der skandinavischen Balladen (Folkeviser) zentrale Aspekte von Oralität, Stimme, Verschriftlichung und zeittiefer Überlieferung.

Throughout his career in poetry, Seamus Heaney maintained roles in education and was a visible presence in the print and broadcast media.

Postmodern society seems incapable of elaborating an ethical critique of the market economy.

This collection of essays explores all aspects of a life in poetry: reading, writing, teaching, editing, publishing, and reviewing it.

The fragment poem, long regarded as a peculiarly Romantic phenomenon, has never been examined outside the context of thematic and biographical criticism.

More than any other English monarch before or since, Queen Elizabeth I used her annual progresses to shape her royal persona and to bolster her popularity and authority.

Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That casts new light on the life, prose and poetry of Graves, without which the story of Great War poetry is incomplete.

An examination of metaphor in poetry as a microcosm of the human imagination—a way to understand the mechanisms of creativity.

The most complete guide to Pushkin''s work available in English.

The Oxford poets of the 1930s--W.

Als Isidore Ducasse unter dem Pseudonym Comte de Lautréamont im Paris des 19.

Now thoroughly revamped with a diverse selection of poetic voices from the last fifty years, this third edition of Rhian Williams's bestselling book, The Poetry Toolkit guides readers through key terms, genres and concepts that help them to develop a richer, more sophisticated approach to reading, thinking and writing about poetry.

When Discovering Modernism was first published, it shed new and welcome light on the birth of Modernism.

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 investigates the presence of disability in British Romantic literature, as subject matter, as metaphorical theme, and as lived experience.

Arguing on recent cognitive evidence that reading a Bible is much more difficult for human brains than seeing images, this book exposes the depth and breadth of Protestant theologians' misunderstandings about how people could reform their spiritual lives - how they could literally change their minds.

The legendary poet and boxer Arthur Cravan, a fleeting figure on the periphery of early twentieth-century European avant-gardism, is frequently invoked as proto-Dada and Surrealist exemplar.

This volume distils into two hundred pages some of the most influential poetry of the Victorian period.

This book offers the first sustained examination of fatness in the early modern period.

This collection of poems and essays by both poets and scholars explores how John Donne's writing has entered into the language, the imagination, and the navigation of erotic and spiritual desires and experiences of twentieth- and twenty-first-century writers.

This book contains the first comprehensive account of writing by women from the mid sixteenth century through to 1700.

This book offers new dating of the poems of the Old Norse Poetic Edda , perhaps our best sources about the mythology and legends of the Viking Age.

This bilingual Ukrainian-English collection brings together the most interesting experimental works by Mykola (Nik) Bazhan, one of the major Ukrainian poets of the twentieth century.

Chamberlin's focal point for this synthesis is the concept of ambiguity, which has played an important role in the liberal arts tradition and in medieval discourses regarding reading and preaching - discourses that are fundamental to Langland's poetic ways with words.

This text discusses the visual and graphic conventions in contemporary poetry in English.

In this revisionary study of the poetry of Coleridge, Wordsworth and their friends during the 'revolutionary decade' David Fairer questions the accepted literary history of the period and the critical vocabulary we use to discuss it.

For centuries, critics, poets, poet-scholars, and philosophers have either openly proclaimed or tacitly assumed the long poem as the highest expression of literary ambition and excellence.

Ezra Pound was an influential propagandist for British, Italian and ultimately German fascist movements.

David Lawton approaches later medieval English vernacular culture in terms of voice.

This is the first paperback edition of a classic anthology of Chinese poetry.

A COMPANION TO MODERNIST POETRY A Companion to Modernist Poetry A Companion to Modernist Poetry presents contemporary approaches to modernist poetry in a uniquely in-depth and accessible text.

Critics since the eighteenth century have puzzled over the form of James Thomson's composite long poem, The Seasons (1730, 1744, 1746), its generically hybrid make-up, and its relationship to established genres both Classical and modern.

Lyrik wird in der Regel als eigenständige Gattung betrachtet – in Abgrenzung zu erzählenden und szenisch vermittelnden Texten.

This book argues that the poetry of Cesar Vallejo announces the event, as a moment of irruption of a truth that destabilises the usual state of reality.