Literary studies: poetry and poets

Savant Singh (16941764), the Rajput prince of Kishangarh-Rupnagar, is famous for commissioning beautiful works of miniature painting and composing devotional (bhakti) poetry to Krishna under the nom de plume Nagaridas.

In the fall of 1373, the city of Florence commissioned Giovanni Boccaccio to give lectures on Dante for the general population.

A study of Shelley's poetry, approaching it from the viewpoint of contemporary Jungian analytical psychology that incorporates the theories of Melanie Klein and D.

Baudelaire's work entered China in the twentieth century amidst political and social upheavals accompanied by a "e;literary revolution"e; that called for classical models and modes of expression to be replaced by vernacular language and contemporary content.

Catullus is one of the liveliest and most appealing Roman poets.

In his preface Maynard Mack writes, "e;Criticism in the case of literary figures is never entirely separable from literary history and biography; yet it is more or less separable, and the merit of this book, if it has any, lies in the two latter areas.

The Jargon Society, a boundary-pushing publisher of poetry and experimental writing, was founded by Jonathan Williams (19292008) in 1951.

In this unparalleled study of the forms of Hebrew poetry, preeminent authority Benjamin Harshav examines Hebrew verse during three millennia of changing historical and cultural contexts.

The importance of Milton's poetry as a source of inspiration for artists, poets and men of letters from the end of the seventeenth until the middle of the nineteenth centuries is equalled only by that of Shakespeare.

Gegenstand des Buches ist der in den Kulturwissenschaften ebenso verbreitete wie umstrittene Begriff des implied author, der seit seiner Einfuhrung vor einem halben Jahrhundert Anlass fur literaturtheoretische Kontroversen gewesen ist.

The message of Virgil's Aeneid once seemed straightforward enough: the epic poem returned to Aeneas and the mythical beginnings of Rome in order to celebrate the city's present world power and to praise its new master, Augustus Caesar.

This book repositions thinking about rhythm, meter and versification during the "e;Mechanical Age.

By investigating the relationship between acoustical technologies and twentieth-century experimental poetics, this collection, with an accompanying compact disc, aims to 'turn up the volume' on printed works and rethink the way we read, hear, and talk about literary texts composed after telephones, phonographs, radios, loudspeakers, microphones, and tape recorders became facts of everyday life.

This book argues that Milton used innovative and cunning means to persuade readers in an age distrustful of traditional rhetoric.

Brings together experts who inform new readings of Ted Hughes''s work, with a new awareness of his posthumous importance.

A wide-ranging study of the lyric as a literary genre in Renaissance Europe, by a leading scholar of the period.

The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry offers a critical overview of major and emerging American poets of the twentieth century.

The last two decades have witnessed a profound change in the way we receive the literary texts of early modern England.

Before, during and after the preparation of Classical Hebrew Poetry: A Guide to its Techniques, Wilfred Watson published several articles on Hebrew poetry in a wide range of periodicals.

The Protean Virgil argues that when we try to understand how and why different readers have responded differently to the same text over time, we should take into account the physical form in which they read the text as well as the text itself.

A celebration of holiday poetry, fiction, essays, recipes, and songs by more than sixty of the Bluegrass state's finest writers.

This book provides an in-depth introduction to the multifaceted life and times of Wallace Stevens, one of the great twentieth-century American poets.

Comprehensive collection of essays by leading scholars on Byron''s place in the English poetic tradition, his influences and his afterlife.

Poetry and Work offers a timely and much-needed re-examination of the relationship between work and poetry.

In Thomas Hardy: Texts and Contexts distinguished critics from Canada, Japan, the USA and the UK, offer fresh and challenging readings of Hardy's works.

The poet and preacher John Donne (1572-1631) was one of the most influential authors of early modern England.

Following the Formula in Beowulf, Orvar-Odds saga, and Tolkien proposes that Beowulf was composed according to a formula.

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Wordsworth and Coleridge: Promising Losses  assembles essays spanning the last thirty years, including a selection of Peter Larkin's original verse, with the concept of promise and loss serving as the uniting narrative thread.

This is the first book on Irish literature to focus on the theme of loss, and how it is represented in Irish writing.

This lively, accessible book is the first to explore Victorian literature through scent and perfume, presenting an extensive range of well-known and unfamiliar texts in intriguing and imaginative new ways that make us re-think literature's relation with the senses.

Wie lese ich Gedichte der Klassik?

The Cambridge Companion to the American Modernist Novel offers a comprehensive analysis of US modernism as part of a global literature.

Acknowledged Legislator: Critical Essays on the Poetry of Martin Espada stands as the first-ever collection of essays on poet and activist Martin Espada.

An in-depth study of early modern women's modesty rhetoric from the English Reformation to the Restoration.

Early modern skepticism contributed to literary invention, aesthetic pleasure, and the uneven process of secularization in England.

Documents of Protest and Compassion offers the first extensive critical assessment of Bauer's considerable poetic oeuvre.

The first collection of essays dedicated to experimental practice in contemporary British poetry, Modernist Legacies provides an overview of the most notable trends in the past 50 years.

In this incisive study, Sarah Ehlers returns to the Depression-era United States in order to unsettle longstanding ideas about poetry and emerging approaches to poetics.

The Art of Complicity in Martial and Statius examines the relationship between politics and aesthetics in two poets from the reign of Domitian.

Once a byword for Protestant sobriety and moral idealism, Spenser is now better known for his irony and elusiveness.

Broad-ranging and pluralistically investigative, the essays in Thinking with the Poem document Rachel Blau DuPlessis's authorial interventions as a poet, scholar, and cultural critic steeped in the linguistic and political frames of her time.