Literary studies: poetry and poets

This book describes the practice of poetic inquiry and takes the reader through the process of translating lived experience into poetry that attends to the lives of others.

Antonio Machado (1875-1939) is one of Spain's most original and renowned twentieth-century poets and thinkers.

Noted as a 'civil poet' by Alberto Moravia, Pier Paolo Pasolini was a creative and philosophical genius whose works challenged generations of Western Europeans and Americans to reconsider not only issues regarding the self, but also various social concerns.

Provides readings, interpretations, and explorations of Whitman in the many contexts through which he charted his life and wrote his texts.

The Latin poet Ovid was famously exiled by the Emperor Augustus to the shores of the Black Sea for his self-confessed crimes of 'a poem and a mistake'.

This book explicates Jonathan Swift''s poetry, reaffirming its prominence in competing literary traditions.

Der Florentiner Humanist Angelo Poliziano (14541494) zählt zu den zentralen Figuren der Renaissance.

An insightful collection of new approaches to the debate on Milton and Judaism.

This illuminating book is the first to consider Dickinson''s religious imagery outside the dynamic of her personal faith and doubt.

An attempt to define a humanistic and pluralistic ideology of reading which takes recent theory into account.

One of America's most celebrated poets, Emily Dickinson was virtually unpublished in her lifetime.

Este trabajo, sobre los poetas de la segunda mitad del siglo XX en Chile y España, es una aproximación a un tema mayor que incluye las relaciones de los mismos con la vanguardia en términos de ruptura o continuidad, tradición o antitradición, poesía popular, poesía social o poesía de élites.

Beginning in outer space and ending up among the atoms, "Bucolic Ecology" illustrates how these poems repeatedly turn to the natural world in order to define themselves and their place in the literary tradition.

This book examines Thomas Hardy's writing in both prose and poetry, focusing on issues of perception, 'being', class and environment.

This innovative study analyzes the range of representation of farming in Irish literature in the period since independence/partition in 1922, as Ireland moved from a largely agricultural to a developed urban society.

This broad and original study of the full range of John Clare's work is the first to take seriously his repeated appeals to the judgement of future readers.

The New American Poetry: Fifty Years Later is a collection of critical essays on Donald Allen's 1960 seminal anthology, The New American Poetry, an anthology that Marjorie Perloff once called "e;the fountainhead of radical American poetics.

Combines textual, historical and even archaeological evidence to explode the orthodox view of Catullus'' life and work.

In The Work of Self-Representation Ivy Schweitzer examines early American poetry through the critical lens of gender.

The South African literature of iimbongi, the oral poets of the amaXhosa people, has long shaped understandings of landscape and history and offered a forum for grappling with change.

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Reorienting understandings of Adrienne Rich's later work through her interest in Marx and Marxist politics, this book engages with this overlooked part of her oeuvre through considerations of issues such as race, nationhood, and gender.

Romantic Visualities offers a culturally informed understanding of the literary significance of landscape in the Romantic period.

How four American cities shaped Poe's life and writingsEdgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) changed residences about once a year throughout his life.

This book offers a radical new theory of the role of poetry in the rise of cultural nationalism.

While postcolonial studies of Romantic-period literature have flourished in recent years, scholars have long neglected the extent of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's engagement with the Orient in both his literary and philsophical writings.

This innovative look at previously neglected poetry in British America represents a major contribution to our understanding of early American culture.

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These essays are lectures, mostly revised or expanded, given to the Tennyson Society by leading Victorianists, including one of the doyens of Tennyson studies, Jerome H.

The Ukrainian national poetess Lesya Ukrainka (1871–1913) has contributed greatly to the development of Ukrainian Modernism and its transition from Ukrainian ethnographic themes to subjects that were universal, historical and psychological.

The Ryerson Poetry Chap-Books were a landmark achievement in Canadian poetry.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

This book is the first of its kind in providing a lexicon of kinship terms prevalent in the Western dialects of Iran, with a parallel glossary in English.

Representing the best of ten books and twenty years' work, Matthew Sweeney's Selected Poems is a magical mystery tour into his strange, unsettling world.

This book is an invitation to rethink our understanding of Turkish literature as a tale of two "e;others.

For more than 200 years, the limerick has been loved for its mordant wit, breathtaking rhymes, swinging rhythm, groaning puns, and ability to paint outrageous mental pictures.

Part literary history and part medical sociology, Gilman's book chronicles the careers of three major immigrant Yiddish poets of the twentieth century-Solomon Bloomgarten (Yehoash), Sholem Shtern, and H.

The End of the Poem contains the fifteen lectures delivered by Paul Muldoon as Oxford Professor of Poetry, from 1999 to 2004.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

Poetry's relevancy as a tool for social and political change continues to be overlooked in a global context.

This Introduction, first published in 2005, is designed to help students reading Pound for the first time.

This book examines how the concept of the poet as a male professional emerged during the Restoration and eighteenth century.

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The Bible serves Wordsworth as a basis for his poetry and poetics, providing language, images, figures, and importantly, a paradigm of poetic genres.

William Blake: Modernity and Disaster explores the work of the Romantic writer, artist, and visionary William Blake as a profoundly creative response to cultural, scientific, and political revolution.