Poetry

Poems ranging from "e;La Jeune Parque"e; and "e;Le Cimetiere marin"e; to occasional and light verse written as letters to friends, dedications in books, and inscriptions on ladies' fans demonstrate the wide scope of Valery's lyric preoccupation.

Includes some of Valery's finest strokes of imagination, Broken Stories; some of his wittiest observations, Mixtures, Poems in the Rough; and even two of his great poems, Parables and The Angel-all written in the form of prose.

This collection of Valery's occasional pieces-speeches, interviews, articles-shows him very much as the public figure, the first in demand when an "e;occasion"e; needed a prominent person.

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Grouped together in this book are several smaller volumes and plaquettes in which Valery had published selections of his shorter prose writings: aphorisms, moral reflections, poetic observations, flashes of wit or fancy, even jokes-a variety of remarks and impressions, many of them first recorded in his Notebooks.

Born in Pieve di Soligo (Treviso) in 1921, Andrea Zanzotto is the author of five books of poetry, a number of critical essays, and a book of prose.

"e;The poems are elegies for everything, including myself,"e; writes James Richardson.

"e;The first thing I recognize as the beginning of a poem,"e; writes Richard Pevear, "e;is a distinct rhythm, not only of stress but of movement.

Writing about poetry Diana O Hehir says, "e;I think of poetry as harnessed energy-as a marvelous way of taking the chaotic emotion, the turbulent perception, and recreating them as images that are specific, definite, directed.

"e;Every poet has one or two compulsive themes,"e; writes Leonard Nathan.

Ben Belitt writes, "e;This volume-my fifth-extends and deepens a preoccupation I have had with the visible and invisible manifestations of people, places, and things.

Michel Benamou's essays have established his reputation as a critical interpreter of Stevens' relation to the French poetic tradition.

Benny Andersen, currently Denmark's most popular poet, is virtually unknown in the United States.

Spanning the years from the early 1280s until about 1308, this collection of poems contains Dante's juvenilia as well as his more mature work prior to the Divine Comedy.

During the last sixty to seventy years avant-garde poetry in France has evolved in two directions: one toward poetry conceived as a means to an end, the other toward poetry as an end in itself.

By systematically analyzing Dante's attitudes toward the poets who appear throughout his texts, Teodolinda Barolini examines his beliefs about the limits and purposes of textuality and, most crucially, the relationship of textuality to truth.

Using a reader-oriented approach, Shadi Bartsch reconsiders the role of detailed descriptive accounts in the ancient Greek novels of Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius and in so doing offers a new view of the genre itself.

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Born in Budapest in 1938, Dezso Tandori is a novelist, playwright, translator, and graphic artist, as well as one of Hungary's most celebrated poets.

To make sense of free verse"e; in theory or in practice, the whole study of prosody--the function of rhythm in poetry--must be revised and rethought.

This fresh look at the social and political themes of Blake's poetry shows that he was a phenomenologist of liberation,"e; who contested the dominant ideology of his time and who still speaks passionately to our fears and hopes.

Glauco Cambon asserts the independent significance of Michelangelo's poetry vis-a-vis his overwhelming contribution to the visual arts, while also investigating the formal and thematic relations of his writing to his sculpture and paintings.

John Livingston Lowes's classic work shows how various images from Coleridge's extensive reading, particularly in travel literature, coalesced to form the imagistic texture of his two most famous poems, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"e; and "e;Kubla Khan.

This study of Baudelaire and English modernism observes his protean influence on poets from Swinburne, who wrote the first English review of Les Fleurs du Mai, to T.

Low discusses the courtly or aristocratic ideal as the great enemy of the georgic spirit, and shows that georgic powerfully invaded English poetry in the years from 1590 to 1700.

This study oilers a new definition of Shelley s place in English radical culture.

Paul Magnuson contends that the relationship between Coleridge's and Wordsworth's poetry is so complex that a new criticism is required to trace its intricacies.

This new bilingual edition of George Seferis: Collected Poems both supplements and revises the two earlier editions published in 1967 and 1969.

Despite their hopeful aspirations to wholeness in life and spirit, Thomas McFarland contends, the Romantics were ruins amidst ruins,"e; fragments of human existence in a disintegrating world.

Florence Verducci challenges the presuppositions and expectations that have led to embarrassed censure of the wit and comic irreverence that Ovid wove into these dramatic monologues, addressed by his heroines to absent lovers.

How does the consciousness of being a woman affect the workings of the poetic imagination?

This book is a history of a medieval literary tradition that grew out of opposition to the mendicant fraternal orders.

This comprehensive study interprets Paradise Lost as a rhetoric of literary forms, by attending to the broad spectrum of literary genres, modes, and exemplary works Milton incorporates within that poem.

The author ranges through Beckett's drama to analyze his approach to place, time, soliloquy, fiction, and repetition.

Born in Bucharest of peasant stock, Tudor Arghezi (1880-1967) was awarded Romania's National Poetry Prize in 1946 and the State Prize for Poetry in 1956.

Describing this collection of his poems, John Allman writes, "e;It is a book about the inner and outer worlds, a collection of multiple voices and relationships.

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Hugo von Hofmannsthal is one of the modern era's most important writers, but his fame as Richard Strauss's pioneering collaborator on such operas as Der Rosenkavalier and Die Frau ohne Schatten has obscured his other remarkable writings: his precocious lyric poetry, inventive short fiction, keen essays, and visionary plays.

Met de dichtkunst wilde Van Duyse de lezer duidelijk maken dat de taal vormend is, het maakt iemand tot wie hij is.

Met de dichtkunst wilde Van Duyse de lezer duidelijk maken dat de taal vormend is, het maakt iemand tot wie hij is.

In 'Bloemen mijner lente' brengt Karel Lodewijk Ledeganck een ode aan zijn idolen.

Clandestien uitgegeven werk van een dichter die zijn leven gaf voor de vrijheid.

"Meesterwerken van Jacob Cats" bevat een ruime selectie uit zijn gedichten, eerder verschenen in bundels als "Huis- en zedebeelden" en "Zelfstrijd van goede en kwade gedachten".

Het leven van Nobelprijswinnaar Rabindranath Tagore.

In het gedicht "Een klein heldendicht" beschrijft Herman Gorter het intellectuele groeiproces van een arbeider en een arbeidster, die zich wenden tot het socialisme.

Het studentenleven is zwaar voor dichter-student Piet Paaltjens.

Gedichten van de schrijver van de 'Camera obscura''Gedichten' bevat het verzameld dichtwerk van Nicolaas Beets.

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In het boek 'Zinne en minnebeelden' zijn toepasselijk 52 zinne- en minnebeelden opgenomen.

Als de jonge Jacques Perk tijdens een vakantie in de Belgische Ardennen Mathilde Thomas ontmoet, inspireert deze eerste liefde hem tot een reeks sonnetten die de literatuurgeschiedenis in zal gaan.