Wendell Berry teaches us to love our places--to pay careful attention to where we are, to look beyond and within, and to live in ways that are not captive to the mastery of cultural, social, or economic assumptions about our life in these places.
The Faerie Queene anticipates postmodernist concerns with destabilizing language, and Lauren Silberman's stimulating study of Books III and IV of the poem proceeds from the assumption that Spenser has something important to say to us in the late twentieth century.
Nabati Poetry: The Oral Poetry of Arabia offers a deep exploration of a vibrant poetic tradition that has long captured the cultural and social essence of Arabia.
Nabati Poetry: The Oral Poetry of Arabia offers a deep exploration of a vibrant poetic tradition that has long captured the cultural and social essence of Arabia.
From the Poetry of Sumer: Creation, Glorification, Adoration by Samuel Noah Kramer offers modern readers a rare window into the world's earliest recorded literature.
Fifty Spanish Poems introduces English-language readers to the lyrical intensity of Nobel laureate Juan Ramon Jimenez, the poet at the center of Spain's modernist revival.
Fifty Spanish Poems introduces English-language readers to the lyrical intensity of Nobel laureate Juan Ramon Jimenez, the poet at the center of Spain's modernist revival.
From the Poetry of Sumer: Creation, Glorification, Adoration by Samuel Noah Kramer offers modern readers a rare window into the world's earliest recorded literature.
Poems Without Names: The English Lyric, 1200-1500 is an in-depth exploration of the Middle English lyric tradition, offering a study of anonymous poems written between 1200 and 1500.
Poems Without Names: The English Lyric, 1200-1500 is an in-depth exploration of the Middle English lyric tradition, offering a study of anonymous poems written between 1200 and 1500.
Reflections on Poetry: Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten's Meditationes philosophicae de nonnullis ad poema pertinentibus makes newly accessible the 1735 dissertation that inaugurated the modern discipline of aesthetics.
Reflections on Poetry: Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten's Meditationes philosophicae de nonnullis ad poema pertinentibus makes newly accessible the 1735 dissertation that inaugurated the modern discipline of aesthetics.
Interpretations in Shakespeare's Sonnets offers a deep exploration into the timeless beauty and complexity of Shakespeare's celebrated poetic collection.
Interpretations in Shakespeare's Sonnets offers a deep exploration into the timeless beauty and complexity of Shakespeare's celebrated poetic collection.
The Christian Revolutionary offers a profound and reflective exploration of the shifting perception of classical art, its cultural resonance, and its philosophical underpinnings.
The Christian Revolutionary offers a profound and reflective exploration of the shifting perception of classical art, its cultural resonance, and its philosophical underpinnings.
Selected Essays of Hugh MacDiarmid, edited and introduced by Duncan Glen, brings together a wide-ranging selection of prose by the poet otherwise known as Christopher Murray Grieve, a towering figure of twentieth-century Scottish letters.
Selected Essays of Hugh MacDiarmid, edited and introduced by Duncan Glen, brings together a wide-ranging selection of prose by the poet otherwise known as Christopher Murray Grieve, a towering figure of twentieth-century Scottish letters.
The Kiss Sacred and Profane: An Interpretative History of Kiss Symbolism and Related Religio-Erotic Themes is an ambitious exploration of the kiss as a complex and multifaceted symbol throughout Western culture.
The Kiss Sacred and Profane: An Interpretative History of Kiss Symbolism and Related Religio-Erotic Themes is an ambitious exploration of the kiss as a complex and multifaceted symbol throughout Western culture.
The Intervals of Robert Frost: A Critical Bibliography by Louis and Esther Mertins is an illuminating exploration of the enduring friendship between the celebrated poet Robert Frost and collector Louis Mertins.
The Shakespeare Sonnet Order, Poems and Groups, by Brents Stirling, confronts one of the most persistent puzzles in Shakespeare studies: the sequence of the 1609 Quarto.
The Shakespeare Sonnet Order, Poems and Groups, by Brents Stirling, confronts one of the most persistent puzzles in Shakespeare studies: the sequence of the 1609 Quarto.
The Intervals of Robert Frost: A Critical Bibliography by Louis and Esther Mertins is an illuminating exploration of the enduring friendship between the celebrated poet Robert Frost and collector Louis Mertins.
Ovid: A Poet Between Two Worlds is Hermann Frankel's masterful reappraisal of Rome's most mercurial poet, presented as part of the Sather Classical Lectures.
The Year of My Life: A Translation of Issa's Oraga Haru by Nobuyuki Yuasa brings one of Japan's most beloved haiku poets into vivid English, capturing both the poignancy of his life and the deceptive simplicity of his art.
The Year of My Life: A Translation of Issa's Oraga Haru by Nobuyuki Yuasa brings one of Japan's most beloved haiku poets into vivid English, capturing both the poignancy of his life and the deceptive simplicity of his art.
Ovid: A Poet Between Two Worlds is Hermann Frankel's masterful reappraisal of Rome's most mercurial poet, presented as part of the Sather Classical Lectures.
The Country House in English Renaissance Poetry explores a unique literary genre that emerged during the seventeenth century, celebrating the ideals of the English manor estate while critiquing the societal shifts that threatened its values.
