Literary studies: poetry and poets

This book demonstrates Pindar''s importance for the coming into being of literature as it has been conceived of in the West.

Leading scholars in the field analyze Shakespeare's plays to show how their dramatic content shapes issues debated in conflicts arising from the creation and application of law.

This interdisciplinary study examines the literary, artistic and biographical afterlives in England of the great sixteenth-century Italian poet Torquato Tasso, from before his death to the end of the nineteenth century.

Eduard Mörike - Traditionalist oder Modernisierer in der Epoche des Biedermeier?

This edited collection explores the work of highly awarded and twice American Poet Laureate W.

This path-breaking book explores different ways in which writing about poetry can deepen and extend our critical engagement by deploying creatively the manifold resources of poetic language and form.

Florence Verducci challenges the presuppositions and expectations that have led to embarrassed censure of the wit and comic irreverence that Ovid wove into these dramatic monologues, addressed by his heroines to absent lovers.

Bridging feminist and cultural studies, the book shows how British and American women poets often operate as cultural insiders.

A comprehensive and accessible overview of modernist poetry, its forms, its major authors and its contexts.

An impressive new collection from a poet whose previous book was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle AwardTaking its title from Heraclitus's most famous fragment, The River Twice is an elegiac meditation on impermanence and change.

The first comprehensive English translation and commentary on Dante’s early verse to be published in almost fifty years, Dante’s Lyric Poetry includes all the poems written by the young Dante Aligheri between c.

This book provides a critical study of the relationship between Robert Burns and the United States of America, c.

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.

This book sprang from three handwritten lines by Ivan Bunin, Russia's first winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Wallace Stevens once described the "e;malady of the quotidian,"e; lamenting the dull weight of everyday regimen.

The Funambulists brings together the diverse poetry collections of six contemporary Arab diasporic women poets.

Modernism is typically associated with novelty and urbanity.

The History of Ottoman Poetry, first published in six volumes between 1900 and 1909, was the principal product of E.

This edited book represents the first cohesive attempt to describe the literary genres of late-twentieth-century fiction in terms of lexico-grammatical patterns.

The Poet Laureate's clear and entertaining account of how poetry works.

In this landmark collection of essays, renowned classicist Charles Segal offers detailed analyses of major texts from archaic and early classical Greek poetry; in particular, works of Alcman, Mimnermus, Sappho, Pindar, Bacchylides, and Corinna.

Recovering a lost literary movement that was the most consuming preoccupation of W.

"e;What have I in common with Jews?

This book offers a fresh contextual reading of Paradise Lost that suggests that a recovery of the vital intellectual ferment of the new science, magic, and alchemy of the seventeenth century reveals new and unexpected aspects of Milton's cosmos and chaos, and the characters of the angels and Adam and Eve.

Pablo Adalberto Ortiz Quinones (1914-2002) was one of the most gifted writers in Ecuador and all of Latin America.

The tenth-century Old English lament and twentieth-century blues song each speak the language of a distinct poetic tradition, yet the voices are remarkably similar in their emotive expression of loneliness.

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The first full-scale treatment, with introduction and commentary, that this important ancient Greek poet has ever received.

An exploration of the relationship between literature and religion, which adopts an interdisciplinary approach, aiming to provide an introduction to the variety of ways in which literature, literary theory and theology are related.

This Reader's Guide charts the reception history of Ted Hughes' poetry from his first to last published collection, culminating in posthumous tributes and assessments of his lifetime achievement.

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The Metaphor of Celebrity is an exploration of the significance of literary celebrity in Canadian poetry.

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Censorship pervades all aspects of political, social and cultural life in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

A scene-by-scene reader''s guide to Geoffrey Chaucer''s Trojan War poem specifically designed for student readers.

In August 1836, Alexander Pushkin wrote a poem now popularly known simply as "e;Monument.

In a unique collection of essays devoted to one of America's most significant twentieth-century poets, a group of international contributors considers the Transatlantic nature of Stevens' poetry, providing original accounts of how a poet wary of 'influence' created a poetics which continues to haunt contermporary verse.

For more than a century, American poets have heeded the siren song of Ezra Pound's make it new, staking a claim for the next poem on the supposed obsolescence of the last.

A fresh take on Romantic writers including Byron, the Shelleys, and Keats, within the culture of the Napoleonic War years.

This collection makes the compelling argument that Chaucer, the Perle -poet, and The Cloud of Unknowing author, exploited analogue and metaphor for marking out the pedagogical gap between science and the imagination.

With chapters written by leading scholars such as Steven Gould Axelrod, Cary Nelson, and Marjorie Perloff, this comprehensive Handbook explores the full range and diversity of poetry and criticism in 21st-century America.

By "e;literary criticism"e; we usually mean a self-conscious act involving the technical and aesthetic appraisal, by individuals, of autonomous works of art.

In twenty-one interviews spanning nearly half a century, Conversations with Ted Kooser chronicles the Nebraska writer's rise from a regional poet of the Great Plains to a Pulitzer Prize-winning artistic luminary.

Booktalking Nonfiction: 200 Sure-Fire Winners for Middle and High School Readers will provide an introduction to selecting and writing booktalks for nonfiction books with a focus on unique informational texts and biographies and autobiographies.

This collection of eleven essays positions Moore within a developing and expanding international readership during the course of the nineteenth century.