Literary studies: poetry and poets

Panegyric poetry, in both Arabic and Persian, was one of the most important genres of literature in the medieval Middle East and Central Asia.

Dante is one of the towering figures of medieval European literature.

The Bedouin, or 'desert dwellers', have a rich cultural heritage often expressed through music and poetry.

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

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Beowulf is by far the most popular text of the medieval world taught in American classrooms, at both the high school and undergraduate levels.

The correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson is one of the foundational literary exchanges of twentieth-century American poetry.

Over the last sixty years scholars and critics have focused on literary history and interpretation rather than literary value.

Horace speaks of poetry delighting and instructing.

This exploration of the influence of Mayan hieroglyphics on the great American poet Charles Olson (1910-1970) is an important document in the history of New World verse.

The first book devoted exclusively to the poetry and literary aesthetics of one of Native America's most accomplished writers, this collection of essays brings together detailed critical analyses of single texts and individual poetry collections from diverse theoretical perspectives, along with comparative discussions of Vizenor's related works.

Poet, performance artist, and critic David Antin invented the "e;talk poem.

Using the works of Dante as its critical focus, Maria Rosa Menocal's original and imaginative study examines questions of truth, ideology, and reality in poetry as they occur in a series of texts and in the relationship between those texts across time.

In 1985 poet Ross Talarico began a grassroots program in creative expression in Rochester, New York.

Brazil, perhaps more than any other nation of the Americas, has placed poetry at the forefront of dialogue and debate about the limits and uses of art, the social duties of artists, and the nature of nationalism and national identity.

The controversy generated in Italy by the writings of Ludovico Ariosto and Torquato Tasso during the sixteenth century was the first historically important debate on what constitutes modern literature.

In Dying Modern, one of our foremost literary critics inspires new ways to read, write, and talk about poetry.

Sonia Sanchez is a prolific, award-winning poet and one of the most prominent writers in the Black Arts movement.

Hailed when first published in Spanish in 1988 as one of the best contemporary examples of Latin American critical thought, Josefina Ludmer's El genero gauchesco describes the emergence of gaucho poetry-which uses the voice of the cowboy of the Argentine pampas for political purposes-as an urgent encounter of popular and elite tradition, of subaltern and hegemonic discourses.

This volume provides a first-hand survey of the arts and literature during a crucial period in modern culture, 1915-1924.

In recent years, New Historicists have situated the iconoclasm of Milton's poetry and prose within the context of political, cultural, and philosophical discourses that foreshadow early modernism.

How do men imagine women?

This is the first paperback edition of a classic anthology of Chinese poetry.

With the Spanish conquest of Islamic Granada and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, the year 1492 marks the exile from Europe of crucial strands of medieval culture.

"e;No more passionate voice ever sounded in Russian poetry of the 20th century,"e; Joseph Brodsky writes of Marina Tsvetaeva.

Featuring the work of more than fifty poets writing across the last eight decades, Only the Road / Solo el Camino is the most complete bilingual anthology of Cuban poetry available to an English readership.

In Spill, self-described queer Black troublemaker and Black feminist love evangelist Alexis Pauline Gumbs presents a commanding collection of scenes depicting fugitive Black women and girls seeking freedom from gendered violence and racism.

Representing an international gathering of scholars, Fields Watered with Blood-now available in paperback-constituted the first critical assessment of the full scope of Margaret Walker's literary career.

An innovative exploration of early twentieth-century avant-garde poetry's relationship to the public sphere "e;It is difficult / to get the news from poems / yet men die miserably every day / for lack / of what is found there,"e; as the poet William Carlos Williams memorably declared.

WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH AGEE PRIZE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE A groundbreaking appreciation of Dylan as a literary practitioner.

A career-spanning collection of essays from a leading scholar of avant-garde poetry Writing into the Future: New American Poetries from "e;The Dial"e; to the Digital collects Alan Golding's essays on the futures (past and present) of poetry and poetics.

A diverse collection of essays and interviews on reading, teaching, and writing poetry from a preeminent critic and scholar Jed Rasula is a distinguished scholar of avant-garde poetics, noted for his erudition, intellectual range, and critical independence.

Restages fundamental debates about the relationship between poetry and music WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH AGEE PRIZE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE Orphic Bend: Music and Innovative Poetics explores the impact of music on recent pioneering literary practices in the United States.

Explores the ways American poetry engages with visual art, music, fiction, spirituality, and performance art Many people think of poetry as a hermetic art, as though poets wrote only about themselves or as if the subject of poetry were finally only poetry-its forms and traditions.

Incisive essays on modern poetry and translation by a noted poet, translator, and critic.

A critical analysis of the poetic representations and legacies of five landmark blues artists The Blues Muse: Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry focuses on five key blues musicians and singers-Gertrude "e;Ma"e; Rainey, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Robert Johnson, and Lead Belly-and traces the ways in which these artists and their personas have been invoked and developed throughout American poetry.

A history of fragmentary-or interrupted-writing in avant-garde poetry and prose by a renowned literary critic.

Songs of Degrees brings together 19 related essays on contemporary American poetry and poetics, published as journal articles between 1975 and 1989, by poet and theorist John Taggart.

An engaging and thought provoking volume that speculates on a range of textual works-poetic, novelistic, and programmed-as technical objects With the ascent of digital culture, new forms of literature and literary production are thriving that include multimedia, networked, conceptual, and other as-yet-unnamed genres while traditional genres and media-the lyric, the novel, the book-have been transformed.

Where sound speaks louder than meaning-Stevens's poetry as a metaphysical echo.

Innovative and thorough, Signs and Symbols in Chaucer's Poetry presents nine essays that reexamine the literary iconography of Middle English.

Experimental texts empower the reader by encouraging self-governing approaches to reading and by placing the reader on equal footing with the author.

Explores poetry as historical investigation, examining works by five contemporary poets whose creations represent new, materially emphatic methods of engaging with the past and producing new kinds of historical knowledge Archaeopoetics explores "e;archaeological poetry,"e; ground-breaking and experimental writing by innovative poets whose work opens up broad new avenues by which contemporary readers may approach the past, illuminating the dense web of interconnections often lost in traditional historiography.

A deft study of the evolving literary aesthetic of one of the first avant-garde black writers in America.