Unlike the contrast between the sacred and the taboo, the opposition of "e;comic"e; and "e;tragic"e; is not a way of categorizing experience that we find in cultures all over the world or even at different periods in Western civilization.
Integrating the study of both music and art into an exploration of the early poetry of Eugenio Montale (1896-1982), this book situates Italy's premier poet of the twentieth century within the Modernist movement.
By analyzing Chaucer's major poetic works, Robert Burlin succeeds in isolating thematic undercurrents with a bearing on the poet's process of composition.
Las ocultaciones explora los rincones ocultos de la geografia personal de la autora, buscando desvelar los enigmas de la existencia con una lirica energica y profunda.
Frederick Garber takes up in detail several problems of the self broached in his previous book, The Autonomy of the Self from Richardson to Huysmans (Princeton, 1982).
This book provides a full-scale interpretation of Marianne Moore's poetry and prose, starting with her early experiments and exploring the range and variety of her artistic achievement.
The Psalms were of intense interest to Milton, who read them not only as impassioned voices conveying significant moments in life's journey, but also as examples of various genres, each containing rhetorical and poetical conventions appropriate to the expressive intent of the speaker.
Nacido en 1929, Jose Corredor-Matheos publica su primer libro de poemas en 1953, lo que le subordinaria a la generacion de medio siglo, una de las mas heterogeneas de las surgidas en el siglo XX.
In this work William Ulmer boldly advances our understanding of Shelley's concept of love by exploring eros as a figure for the poet's political and artistic aspirations.
An inviting and poignant new collection exploring our increasingly turbulent relationship with nature, from award-winning poet Michael Symmons Roberts'I love Michael Symmons Roberts' poetry' Jeanette Winterson'An existential wrestle between body and soul .
As the first full treatment of Walt Whitman's French sources and his later impact on French writers, this book revises our image of the poet and challenges many critical assumptions.
What YOU do in life echoes in eternity is not just a book—it is a call to awaken, to reclaim your inner light, and to live fully conscious of the eternal echoes of your actions.
More than 100 poems about Britain's nature in a beautifully illustrated bookSeven chapters touch on different aspects of the British countryside, including seasons, birds and wildlife, woods, water, moors and mountains.
The heart of this book is a dramatic love poem, the Rasa Lila, which is the ultimate focal point of one of the most treasured Sanskrit texts of India, the Bhagavata Purana.
Whereas modern criticism has emphasized the unity and sense of permanence in The Canterbury Tales, John Ganim alerts us to a dialectically opposing dimension that Chaucer's poetics shares with the popular culture of the late Middle Ages: his celebration of the ephemeral and his sense of performance.
Back in print for the first time in decades, Auden's National Book Awardwinning poetry collection, in a critical edition that introduces it to a new generation of readersThe Shield of Achilles, which won the National Book Award in 1956, may well be W.
Na ziekte, terug naar het leven en de liefdeAlice Nahon bracht verschillende jaren in een sanatorium door, in de veronderstelling dat ze tuberculose had en gauw zou sterven.
This is an informal collection of essays and speeches on the writers who in one way or another counted for Valery in the shaping of his mind or in his affections and interests: Descartes, Voltaire, Stendhal, Goethe, Villon, Nietzsche, Pascal, Proust, Huysmans, Pierre Louys, Nerval, Rilke, Bergson, and others.
In a detailed examination of the ways in which Blake's use of biblical tradition gives form and meaning to his early prophetic books, Leslie Tannenbaum shows what Blake meant when he called the Bible the Great Code of Art.
The concluding volume of a critical English edition of the monumental Indian epicThe seventh and final book of the monumental Ramayana of Valmiki, the Uttarakanda, brings the epic saga to a close with an account of the dramatic events of King Rama's millennia-long reign.
In an engaging discussion that will appeal to all students of poetry, including veteran scholars, this book shows which poems most occupied the attention of these moderns, summarizes their attitudes toward historical romanticism, explores what use they made of aesthetic and ethical ideas from the critical prose of 1800-1825, and takes notice of when, where, and precisely how they adapted images and echoed phrases from romantic poetry for use in their own work.
In this new edition of George Seferis's poems, the acclaimed translations by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard are revised and presented in a compact, English-only volume.
