Literary studies: poetry and poets

In Formal Revolution in the Work of Baudelaire and Flaubert, Kathryn Oliver Mills argues that despite the enduring celebrity of Baudelaire and Flaubert, their significance to modern art has been miscast and misunderstood.

Jane Austen and Lord Byron are often presented as opposites, but here they are together at last.

A critical reassessment of the life's work of a major American poet.

This volume of correspondence, the last in a three-volume edition, spans a pivotal moment in American history: the mid-twentieth century, from the beginning of World War II, through the years of rebuilding and uneasy peace that followed, to the election of President John F.

This book examines the idea of fictionality in the poems of Theocritus.

For nearly three years, Walt Whitman immersed himself in the devastation of the Civil War, tending to thousands of wounded soldiers and recording his experiences with an immediacy and compassion unequaled in wartime literature anywhere in the world.

In Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet's Art and His Nation, Mattawa pays tribute to one of the most celebrated and well-read poets of our era.

Essential reading for all those interested in Irish literature and culture and its far-reaching effects on the world.

After Florence Hester Edgar passed away in 1944, there was found among her effects a quantity of compositions in prose and verse almost ready for publication.

What does it mean to have an emotional response to poetry and music?

Saul and Selected Poems is an original and useful introduction to the work and poetic personality of Charles Heavysege (1816-76), an important but currently neglected nineteenth-century Canadian writer.

The Shepheardes Calender (1579) signalled Spenser's desire to assume the role of an English Virgil and at the same time his readiness to leave behind the pastoral world of his apprenticeship and his early persona, Colin Clout.

Lowell's continuing productivity and his ever-increasing stature as a poet demand a new evaluation of his work, and Cooper has provided it in this penetrating study.

Experience taught William Blake that "e;Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to buy.

Faced with the chaos and banality of modern, everyday life, a number of Victorian poets sought innovative ways of writing about the unpoetic present in their verse.

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The four-hundred-year story of readers' struggles with a famously unreadable poem-and what they reveal about the history of reading and the future of literary studies"e;I am now in the country, and reading in Spencer's fairy-queen.

This book explores how Romanticism was shaped by practices of popular magic.

Acclaimed poet and critic Maureen N.

This book engages with deictics ('pointing' words like here/there, this/that) of space.

This book re-examines scrupulously the writings and the life records of John Milton, in the context of a proper understanding of the recent developments in seventeenth-century historiography.

Ex Oriente Lux – aus dem Osten kommt das Licht.

This book explores the relationship between nineteenth-century poetry and liberal philosophy.

Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) is Russia's greatest poet, a 'founding father' of modern Russian literature, and a major figure in world literature.

There is no question that Emerson has maintained his place as one of the seminal figures in American history and literature.

Written texts of the Iliad and the Odyssey achieved an unprecedented degree of standardization after 150 BCE, but what about Homeric texts prior to the emergence of standardized written texts?

This book provides a fresh assessment of the works of British-born poet and painter Mina Loy.

Fundamentals of the Art of Poetry takes the reader on a journey that sets out with a consideration of the various arts humankind has created, and then focuses on the special art of poetry: what poetry is, what it does and must do in order to 'succeed' for whom it does what it does, and, in detail, how it goes about doing what it tries to do.

This book examines how Chaucer, Dante, and Jean de Meun represented medieval debates on the origin and history of language?

This book presents the first full-length study of the stylistically experimental and influential novelist George Moore's (1852-1933) repeated acts of rewriting.

The specially commissioned essays in Women and Poetry, 1660-1750 address the multiplicity of female poetic practice and the public image of the woman poet between the Restoration and mid-eighteenth century.

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is one of the oldest and most widely studied works of English literature.

Fossil Poetry provides the first book-length overview of the place of Anglo-Saxon in nineteenth-century poetry in English.

In his philosophic verse, Woodsworth identifies the history of poetry and geometrical thought as the two chief treasures of the mind and as main sources of his poetic inspiration.

Keats is the first major biography of this tragic hero of romanticism for some thirty years, and it differs from its predecessors in important respects.

This book is the first collection of essays on the British prose poem.

This work examines the more than one hundred analogues of Samson Agonistes, about half of them written earlier than Milton's drama.

Pinter's World: Pinter and Company is not a full-scale biography but a series of illuminating chapters about Pinter's life, character, and thought, employing new information found in his "e;Appointment Diaries,"e; recent biographical sources such as Simon Gray's memoirs, and Henry Woolf's reminiscences in addition to personal discussions with several in Pinter's world.

The White Savannahs, originally published in 1936, is the first study of Canadian poetry from a modern point of view.

Few stories capture the unique interplay of critical theory, mass media and public taste better than the story of the Spasmodics.

Das "Kleist-Jahrbuch" 2002 dokumentiert die Verleihung des Kleist-Preises 2001 mit den Reden der Preisträgerin Judith Hermann, des Vertrauensmanns der Jury, Michael Naumann, und des Präsidenten der Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft, Günter Blamberger, und bietet u.

Language writing, the most controversial avant-garde movement in contemporary American poetry, appeals strongly to writers and readers interested in the politics of postmodernism and in iconoclastic poetic form.

An original exploration of Ancient Greek conceptions of the relationship between memory, time, knowledge and identity across diverse genres.