'Provides a compelling argument for Plath's revision of the painful parts of her life - the failed marriage, her anxiety for success, and her ambivalence towards her mother.
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First published in 1988, Priapea is a collection of eighty Latin epigrams, English translated, that make up the corpus Priapeorum, which displays remarkable skill, artistry and wit.
These fifteen essays, four of them commissioned for this volume, along with a discursive introduction which sets each essay into place and comments on its distinctive features, represent a gathering never before attempted: a symposium on Chaucer's craft that concentrates on his poetic forms, his rhythms, his riming, his versification, his prosody.
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.
Strasbourg The yellow and green rose, and the pink rock, The chestnuts blooming, the cobblestone square, Our Lady's tower rising everywhere, Dark timbered fronts; the mechanical clock Whose rooster crows three times for Peter's flock, The Apostles, the old man's and the child's share Of time-aspire I'd say to make me stare And stop.
The second full-length collection from sonneteer and formalist poet Catherine Chandler, Glad and Sorry Seasons brings together new suites of poemson grief, recovery, the deadly sins, and the virtues of faith, hope, and loveto meditate on those polarities of light and dark, joy and sorrow, that illuminate and cloud our lives by turn.
A Map of Faring holds three major poetical sequences meditating on particular places: an English wood, a Transylvanian valley, and a house in southern France, as well as poems of places in Austria, Germany, The Czech Republic, Italy, Spain and elsewhere.
The Book of Nature - Wordsworth's Poetry on Nature is a sublime collection of the best nature poetry by poet-laureate William Wordsworth, housed in a convenient pocket-sized edition.
Ira Sadoff's new volume of poems opens with a quotation from Rilke: "e;But because truly being here is so much; because everything here / apparently needs us, the fleeting world, which in some strange way / keeps calling us.
Ce recueil composé de cinq parties — Hiver en enfance, Aux rythmes du printemps, Feux d’été, Au firmament de l’automne et S’inventer en hiver — peut être considéré comme une autobiographie en poèmes.
The French poetry of some five centuries is here surveyed in a series of studies of the work and personality of individual poets from Villon to the present day.
This book unveils the legendary life and the mystic poems of the iconic Chinese Tang poet Han-shan (known by his pen name "e;Cold Mountain"e;) and investigates the dissemination and reception of the Cold Mountain Poems (CMPs) attributed to him.
Originally published in 1990, Memorization in the Transmission of the Middle English Romances tackles the long-standing issue of the role of memorization in the transmission of Middle English romances.
Dante's work has fascinated readers for seven hundred years and has provided key reference points for writing as diverse as that of Chaucer, the Renaissance poets, the English Romantics, Tennyson and the Pre-Raphaelites, American writers from Melville through to Eliot and Pound, Anglo-Irish Modernists from Joyce to Beckett, and contemporary poets such as Heaney and Walcott.
Conjoining diverse methodological and ideological approaches with a focus on specific texts, this inaugural volume to the new series presents ground-breaking insights on the Gospel of Matthew.
Dieser zweite Band von Parkers Gedichten enthält die Übertragungen ihrer verstreut publizierten, sogenannten »leichten Verse« – in Wahrheit Gedichte von kalkulierter und raffinierter Schlichtheit.
Drawing on the insights of ancient literary theory and practice, this book seeks to unlock the age-old puzzle of the relationship of John's gospel to the other gospels and to the early Christian church.
Bündnerromanisch, Dolomitenladinisch und Friaulisch: Zwischen den drei Sprachgemeinschaften aus Graubünden, Ladinien und dem Friaul bestehen enge Identitäts- und Kulturbeziehungen.
