Literary studies: poetry and poets

Left unpublished for over 200 years, the poetry of colonial American writer Edward Taylor has left an undeniable impact on the American literary landscape.

Alfred Tennyson was a poet all his life, writing more than a thousand works in virtually every poetic genre.

This book gathers together some of the most important and influential scholarly articles of the last sixty to seventy years (three of which are translated into English here for the first time) on the Roman poet Lucretius.

This book provides a stylistic and cognitive poetic account of ekphrastic poetry (poetry whose subject matter is predominantly artworks and images), examining the linguistic processes through which works of art can become literary objects.

This concise companion provides a succinct introduction to Chaucer's major works, the contexts in which he wrote, and to medieval thought more generally.

A literary history of the Great Acceleration, Remainders examines an archive of postwar American poetry that reflects on new dimensions of ecological crisis.

A comprehensive study of the fascinating medieval poem Piers Plowman, consolidating the most enduring work with groundbreaking new research.

At the time of his death in 1935, Edwin Arlington Robinson was regarded as the leading American poet-the equal of Frost and Stevens.

Kabir was a great iconoclastic-mystic poet of fifteenth-century North India; his poems were composed orally, written down by others in manuscripts and books, and transmitted through song.

Dublin: A Writer''s City takes the reader, area by area, through one of the world''s great literary cities.

These essays extend an ongoing conversation on dialogic qualities of poetry by positing various foundations, practices, and purposes of poetic dialogism.

Part of the pleasure of poetry is unravelling the mysteries and difficulties it contains and solving the puzzles that lie within.

This monograph reorients discussion of Blake's prophetic mode, revealing it to be not a system in any formal sense, but a dynamic, human response to an era of momentous historical change when the future Blake had foreseen and the reality he was faced with could not be reconciled.

Das Goethe-Jahrbuch 2018 versammelt die Vorträge des "Symposiums junger Goetheforscher", das im Juni 2018 abgehalten worden ist.

The presence of these values, Deane contends, is not a curiosity but part of a vital and discernible tradition of modern neo-Augustanism that has been previously overlooked.

The first standard edition of the writings of Felicia Hemans (1793-1835), this volume marks a revival of interest in, and a new critical appreciation of, one of the most important literary figures of the early nineteenth century.

This book advances a new concept of the "e;Asian diaspora"e; that creates links between Asian American, Asian Canadian, and Asian Australian identities.

Few figures who were active in the English Romantic Movement are as fascinating as Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834).

The Romantic poet's intense yearning to share thoughts and feelings often finds expression in a style that thwarts a connection with readers.

This collection of twelve critical essays on women's poetry of the eighteenth century and enlightenment is the first to range widely over individual poets and to undertake a comprehensive exploration of their work.

The only book that shows readers how to ask the questions which will make poems to speak to them.

A bold study that reveals Dante''s medieval vision of Scripture as theophany through pioneering use of contemporary theory and phenomenology.

At the time of his death in 1935, Edwin Arlington Robinson was regarded as the leading American poet-the equal of Frost and Stevens.

A distinctive collection of more than 90 effective poetry-writing exercises combined with corresponding essays to inspire writers of all levels.

Vikram Seth is a critical enigma.

Ließ Brechts zum Diktum gewordenes Versfragment «Gespräch über Bäume» die Naturlyrik zum fragwürdigen Genre werden, so rief es gleichwohl bald Widerspruch hervor, nicht nur in Paul Celans lyrischer Replik «Ein Blatt, baumlos» und den ebenfalls auf Brecht antwortenden Gedichten Erich Frieds und Günter Eichs, sondern auch in der engagierten ökokritischen Dichtung seit den 1970er Jahren.

Authority, Piracy, and Captivity in Colonial Spanish American Writing examines the intricate bond between poetry and history writing that shaped the theory and practice of empire in early colonial Spanish-American society.

This is the first book to consistently read English Modernist literature as testimony to trauma of the First and Second World Wars.

This pivotal book of the Aeneid has Aeneas - like Odysseus in Odyssey XI - visiting the Underworld.

The early modern Ottoman poet Mihri Hatun (1460-1515) succeeded in drawing an admiring audience and considerable renown during a time when few women were accepted into the male-dominated intellectual circles.

Callimachus was arguably the most important poet of the Hellenistic age, for two reasons: his engagement with previous theorists of poetry and his wide-ranging poetic experimentation.

Aplicada a los años 80 argentinos, la teoría del Carnaval Negro que desarrolla este ensayo surgió de una realidad sociológica, la proliferación de poemarios escritos por mujeres, y una observación literaria: la recurrencia de un imaginario simbólico que recoge elementos escenográficos procedentes del teatro clásico, los rituales indígenas y, muy especialmente, el carnaval.

This book analyses the evolution of literary and artistic representations of the soul, exploring its development through different time periods.

Interviewed in 1966, Geoffrey Hill said, 'Language contains everything you want - history, sociology, economics: it is a kind of drama of human destiny'.

This book offers new insights into the twelfth-century Persian poet Nezami Ganjavi.

What kind of knowledge, if any, does poetry provide?

Implements stories of surgical alteration to consider how early modern individuals conceived the relationship between body, mind, and self.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing deutscher Dichter und großer Geist der Aufklärung.

This book covers nineteenth-century American poet Emily Dickinson who captured the multifaceted nature of life in all of its uncertainties.

One hundred years after his birth, Nobel laureate Octavio Paz is considered one of the most important thinkers of Mexican identity, one of the most influential Mexican poets, and one of the main representatives of a national cosmopolitanism.

Thirteen original essays on Gertrude Stein, H.

The Emprise of Poetry analyzes the insidious entwinement of anti-Americanism and antisemitism in modern and contemporary German culture through the writings of one of its most acclaimed literary figures: Dresden native Durs Grunbein (1962-).

In Gratitude for All the Gifts explores the literary and cultural links between the bestselling, Nobel Prize-winning Northern Irish poet Seamus Heaney and the preeminent Eastern European poets of the twentieth century, including fellow Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz and Zbigniew Herbert.

This book is a theoretical and practical guide to implementing an inquiry-based approach to teaching which centers creative responses to works of art in curriculum.

Victorian Poetry in Context offers a lively and accessible introduction to the diverse range of poetry written in the Victorian period.

While suburbs provide a rich field of research for sociologists, architects, urbanists and anthropologists, they have not been given much attention in literary and cultural studies.

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