Literary studies: poetry and poets

A Sense of Regard, says Laura McCullough, "e;is an effort to collect the voices of living poets and scholars in thoughtful and considered exfoliation of the current confluence of poetry and race, the difficulties, the nuances, the unexamined, the feared, the questions, and the quarrels across aesthetic camps and biases.

Nothing to Admire argues for the persistence of a central tradition of poetic satire in English that extends from Restoration England to present-day America.

In addition to his numerous works in prose and poetry for both children and adults, Daniil Kharms (1905-42), one of the founders of Russia's "e;lost literature of the absurd,"e; wrote notebooks and a diary for most of his adult life.

Romantic Organicism attempts to reassess the much maligned and misunderstood notion of organic unity.

Winner of the Ezra Pound Society Book Prize for 2021.

This collection of recent articles provides convenient access to some of the best recent writing on Horace's Odes and Epodes.

Exploring the potential of poetry and poetic language as a means of conveying perspectives on later life, this book examines questions such as 'how can we understand ageing and later life?

The history of literary and artistic production in modern Japan has typically centered on the literature and art of Tokyo, yet cultural activity in the country's regional cities and rural towns was no less vibrant.

Continuing where he left off with A Spillage of Mercury, Neil Rollinson's eagerly awaited new collection delves again into the dark, moist, unexpected bag of human experience.

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1798 is a significant date in literary history: in that year the Lyrical Ballads were published anonymously by Joseph Cottle, the Bristol bookseller.

Marianne Moore (1887-1972) has been heralded as America's greatest poet of the modernist movement.

Jose de Alencar's prose-poem Iracema, first published in 1865, is a classic of Brazilian literature--perhaps the most widely-known piece of fiction within Brazil, and the most widely-read of Alencar;s many works.

Explores how Victorian poetry and translation dynamically influenced one another in an age of empire.

The first collection to make a comprehensive study of nineteenth-century women's poetry from late Romantic to late Victorian 'new woman' writers.

This collection of essays is the first to reassess a range of Shakespeare's plays in relation to carnivalesque theory.

The history of China, as any history, is a story of and in translation.

Modern literature and environmentalism combined ecology, psychology, and aesthetics to restore communal well-being to the United Kingdom after world war.

The opening chapter of Poetry: Interpretations and Influence on the World tries to explain the correlation between history and poetry, as well as and the elements that currently aid in the recognizance of the presence of the poetic in the work of historians.

One of America's most influential women writers, Anne Sexton has long been overshadowed by fellow confessional poets Sylvia Plath and Robert Lowell and is seldom featured in literary criticism.

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This study reads Auden's poetry and plays through the shifts from modernism to postmodernism.

This is the first full-length study of the devotional poetry and poetics of the fourteenth-century poet-philosopher Vedantadesika, one of the most outstanding and influential figures in the Hindu tradition of Sri-Vaishnavism (the cult of Lord Vishnu).

Philip Whalen was an American poet, Zen Buddhist, and key figure in the literary and artistic scene that unfolded in San Francisco in the 1950s and '60s.

The Oxford Handbook of Dante contains forty-four specially written chapters that provide a thorough and creative reading of Dante's oeuvre.

Das Goethe-Jahrbuch 2019 versammelt die Vorträge des Podiums "Goethes ›West-östlicher Divan‹ aus heutiger Sicht".

Weyward Macbeth, a volume of entirely new essays, provides innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to the various ways Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'  has been adapted and appropriated within the context of American racial  constructions.

Dass im Umgang mit Kunst, speziell mit Musik ein Kontakt zu so etwas wie Wahrheit oder Erkenntnis zustandekommt - Intuitionen dieser Art durchziehen nicht nur die philosophische Ästhetik seit mehreren Jahrhunderten.

This collection of essays traces the emergence of the Western poem from the standpoint of its collision with "e;American"e; otherness, particularly, the Latin American tradition.

As poet, critic, theorist and teacher, Charles Olson extended the possibilities of modern writing.

The plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries has inspired interpretations in every genre and medium.

This volume replaces the traditional image of George Herbert as meditative recluse with a portrait of the poet as engaged throughout his life with the religion, politics and society of his time.

The Homeric Simile in Comparative Perspectives: Oral Traditions from Saudi Arabia to Indonesia investigates both the construction of the Homeric simile and the performance of Homeric poetry from neglected comparative perspectives, offering a revealing exploration of what made the epics such powerful examples of verbal artistry.

Minu Hedayati-Aliabadi zeigt anhand ihrer deutsch–US-amerikanischen Studie, dass der Begriff Slam Poetry in erster Linie als Bedeutungsträger für performative, zeitgenössische und interaktive Literatur verwendet wird, während die reale Ausprägung bei Veranstaltungen weniger interaktiv ist.

Dante's metaphysics--his understanding of reality--is very different from our own.

Robinson explains how poetry makes things happen through the interaction of its chosen words and forms with the reader''s responses.

This collection of essays by leading scholars offers a comprehensive overview of contexts important for the study of Emily Dickinson''s writings.

Pound, Frost, Moore and Poetic Precision: Science in American Modernist Poetry examines three major poets in light of the demand that poetry aspire to scientific precision.

Providing one of the first book-length accounts of Samuel Beckett's poetry, this work illustrates how Beckett's poetry, and its failures, reconfigure the lyric form.

Implementation of the Common Core State Standards with the integration of children's literature can transform teaching and learning into a holistic and engaging experience.

The expressive and literary capacities of post-Reformation English were largely shaped in response to the Bible.

This book explores the development of the global phenomenon of Prison Shakespeare, from its emergence in the 1980s to the present day.