This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers a comprehensive selection of the work of Robert Browning (1812-1889).
The year 2009 marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of Dannie Abse's first poetry collection, After Every Green Thing, and since that time he has published an astonishing range of books, including poetry, fiction, criticism and autobiography.
Scholars and students working on the early courtly and chivalric literature of medieval Europe will have often felt the need for contemporary theoretical material with which to illustrate their arguments about courtesy and chivalry in romances, etc.
FROM THE WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRYWhen My Brother Was an Aztec is a work of courage and invention - one that foregrounds the particularities of family dynamics and individual passion against the backdrop of Western mythologies and a deeply rooted cultural history.
Lughano Mwangwegho,s Echoes of a Whisper is an imaginative array of poetic verse steeped in Africa and tackling the fraught space of being betwixt and between, within and without, memory and the present.
In 1824, when the novel was issued in Kingston, Upper Canada, it became not only the first work of fiction written by a native-born Canadian and published in what is now Canada, but also a significant early attempt by a Canadian of English and French heri
Using the idea of a "e;flexible design,"e; John Pierce examines the ways in which Blake's mythology and his poem possess a flexibility that allows for significant change to characters, symbols, and poetic techniques within a previously constructed framework.
1987 Beatrice Hawley Award Laurel Trivelpiece writes beautifully Her spectacular use of imagery leads us into deeply personal and yet transcendent places Rosalie Moore Laurel Trivelpiece is the real thing She breathes new life into language and blessed with a splendid ear that also seems to see and hear and touch and taste she sings of everything she s ever known or felt These are beautiful spirit soothing poems that say yes and yes and yes to life in melodious laughter and speech Al Young
In this series of intricately related texts, internationally known poet, critic, and performance artist David Antin explores the experience of time-how it's felt, remembered, and recounted.
In this second collection Messages from the Bees Robin Winckel-Mellish shows the same qualities as A Lioness at my Heels, but this time runs deeper, darker and stronger.
As partisan attacks have become increasingly bitter in American politics, contemporary culture has found ways to channel this outrage into the outrageous, responding with comedy and satire from both sides of the political spectrum.
*A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Pick* ';By turns hilarious and provocative, it's an affecting character study and modern mythic retelling.
'Heather Christle's poems may well be one of the places readers turn when they want to know what it was like to be young and paying attention in the early 21st century .
Guillaume de Machaut, the most important poet and musician of fourteenth-century France, had considerable influence on subsequent generations of writers in both France and England.
The 2018 edition of the Best American Poetry';a ';best' anthology that really lives up to its title' (Chicago Tribune)collects the most significant poems of the year, chosen by Poet Laureate of California Dana Gioia.
inside sadness is glory / if you see it right way round, / find the seam, reverse it to perspectivize, / unwind light, joy's unravelling spoolInspired by mystical traditions, birdwatching, tree planting, ethics, neuropsychology, and quantum physics, Gabrielle McIntire's poems draw us in with their passionate attention to what it means to be human in a still-wondrous natural environment.
In time for the bimillennium of Ovid's relegation to Tomis on the Black Sea by the emperor Augustus in 8 AD, Jo-Marie Claassen here revises and integrates into a more popular format two decades of scholarship on Ovid's exile.
';Drew may have lived many years among the Yanks, but his Mississippi roots are having their say, shining through in every irreverent/reverent syllable.
A moral exemplum about courtship and marriage, this "e;essentially Canadian"e; tale, which takes place in the 1760s, reflects its author's profound and sometimes disturbing knowledge of the bicultural and bilingual society in which she lived.
A fresh, new prose translation of the classic Indian poem, ideally focused for students and teachers and for yoga teacher training The Bhagavad Gita, a small section of the massive Sanskrit epic the Mahabharata, is one of the central texts of Indian culture and philosophy, and one of the great works of world literature.
What the Earth Seemed to Say is a powerful collection of more than three decades of profound, luminous poetry from one of Americas most daring and courageous poets.
CBC BOOKS CANADIAN POETRY COLLECTIONS TO WATCH FOR IN SPRING 2023Feminist poems both serious and absurd that question our obsession with productivity instead of with care.
Ana Blandiana is one of Romanias foremost poets, a leading dissident before the fall of Communism, and now one of her countrys strongest candidates for the Nobel Prize.
Paper Bridge is the first bilingual collection by Ukrainian poet Vasyl Makhno, a "e;master of the contemporary Ukrainian Ballad, who builds a lifeline for the broken-hearted wanderers, homeless heartbreakers, hopeless romantics, and helpful ironists,"e; in the words of Valzhyna Mort, winner of the Griffin Poetry prize.
