Literary studies: poetry and poets

This book is a comprehensive survey of the field of Irish women''s poetry across all periods by leading scholars.

Covering a wide range of poets and poems, this volume narrates a compelling history of nineteenth-century American women''s poetry.

In this study of the study of the linguistic approach to narrative structures, the author examines the question of point of view in fiction, drawing examples from Czech literature.

Schwerpunktthema 2004: die Lyrik Heines aus allen Schaffensphasen.

This book explores poetry by Sherko Bekas, a Kurdish writer and Swedish Tucholsky award winner, providing contextualising biography (with original new information from an interview with his son) and critical stylistic analyses of two selected poems.

The surprising idea of pleasure as communal provides a new way of understanding Wordsworth''s poetry and the Enlightenment''s critical legacy.

This book gives readers a thorough introduction to the movements and schools of American poets in the twentieth century.

Tracing its origins back to Walt Whitman, the Modernist tradition in American poetry is driven by the same concern to engage with the world in revolutionary terms, inspired by the concept of democracy vital to the American dream.

This book considers metaphor as a communicative phenomenon in the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop and Seamus Heaney, in light of the relevance theory account of communication first developed by Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson in the 1980s.

In early modern Europe it has been estimated that up to one in two children did not survive to the age of ten.

The perfect introduction to poetry, The Poetry Book offers a fascinating exploration of more than 90 of the world's greatest poetic works.

Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life won the Whitbread Award for Biography in 1993 and was championed as 'an exemplary biography of its kind' (The Times).

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.

How Black poets have charted the direction of American poetics for the past two centuriesBefore Modernism examines how Black poetics, in antagonism with White poetics in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, produced the conditions for the invention of modern American poetry.

The Great War, The Waste Land and the Modernist Long Poem explores how cultural responses to the trauma of the First World War found expression in the form of the modernist long poem.

A completely accessible but thought-provoking 2007 introduction to one of the greatest of Latin poets, Lucretius.

Elizabeth Bishop is one of the greatest and most influential American poets of the 20th century.

Short, accessible essays from fifteen recognized Milton specialists touching on the most important topics and themes in Paradise Lost.

The essays in this volume interrogate the unique and often problematic relationship between early modern cultural studies and ecocriticism, providing theoretical insights and models for a future practice that successfully wed the two disciplines.

Constructing Coleridge examines Coleridge's penchant for re-invention and carefully demonstrates how the Coleridge family editors followed his lead in constructing his posthumous reputation.

This book examines organizations of consumerist economics, which developed at the turn of the twentieth century in the West and at the turn of the twenty-first century in China, in relation to modernist poetics.

David Simpson''s reading of Wordsworth examines Wordsworth''s reaction to changes in the modern world at the turn of the century.

The marriage of narrative and the computer dates back to the 1980s, with the hypertext experiments of luminaries such as Judy Malloy and Michael Joyce.

Edition for students and scholars of this climactic book in the epic featuring the fatal encounter between Hector and Achilles.

This uncompromising biography tells the story of a wounded D-Day veteran, a deserter, a violent drunk, a loving father who abandoned his first child, a boxer and brawler, a wife-beater, a bigamist, and a passionately romantic lover.

Palgrave Advances in Oscar Wilde Studies is a comprehensive guide to recent critical approaches.

Bentley includes eighteen long poems by writers with first-hand experience of Canada, including Henry Kelsey, Thomas Cary, John Strachan, Thomas Moore, Oliver Goldsmith, John Richardson, Joseph Howe, William Kirby, Isabella Valancy Crawford, and Archibald Lampman.

This comprehensive guide to the poetry and letters of John Keats offers a highly readable and detailed textual analysis of the themes and techniques of his work.

Twentieth-century Italian poetry is haunted by countless ghosts and shadows from opera.

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Presents a selection from Metamorphoses, designed for those who have completed an introductory Latin course.

Northern Irish Poetry and Theology argues that theology shapes subjectivity, language and poetic form, and provides original studies of three internationally acclaimed poets: Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley and Derek Mahon.

Scrutinizes Ovid''s tendency to edit his major works and advertise their revised status, a distinctive feature of his literary career.

Love begets poetry; poetry begets love.

Expanding Authorship collects important essays by Peter Middleton that show the many ways in which, in a world of proliferating communications media, poetry-making is increasingly the work of agencies extending beyond that of a single, identifiable author.

Tempests After Shakespeare shows how the 'rewriting' of Shakespeare's play serves as an interpretative grid through which to read three movements - postcoloniality, postpatriarchy, and postmodernism - via the Tempest characters of Caliban, Miranda/Sycorax and Prospero, as they vie for the ownership of meaning at the end of the twentieth century.

This volume is an essential supplement to Pastoral poetry of the English Renaissance: An anthology (2016).

In this comprehensive volume of the collected writings of James Monroe Whitfield (182271), Robert S.

The single largest category of Beowulf representation and adaptation, outside of direct translation of the poem, is children's literature.

Illuminates the ways that expressive cultures of frontline communities resist environmental racism while protecting and repairing the world.

The Roman Poetry of Love explores the formation of a key literary genre in a troubled historical and political setting.

Written as a cultural weapon and a call to arms, Howl touched a raw nerve in Cold War America and has been controversial from the day it was first read aloud nearly fifty years ago.

Sylvia Plath is one of the best-known and most widely-studied writers of the twentieth century.

This book lays bare numerous sexy Blakes, arguing for both chastity and pornography, violence and domination as well as desire and redemption, and also journeying in the realms of conceptual sex and conceptual art.

During the period 1900-1940 novels and poems in the UK and US were subject to strict forms of censorship and control because of their representation of sex and sexuality.

In this chronology Gordon Campbell brings his unique command of manuscripts associated with John Milton to the first synthesis of the Milton documents attempted in forty years.

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