Poetry

2 Maccabees is a Jewish work composed during the 2nd century BCE and preserved by the Church.

**Winner of the 2020 Sunday Times/University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year Award**Jay Bernard's extraordinary debut is a fearless exploration of the New Cross Fire of 1981, a house fire at a birthday party in which thirteen young black people were killed.

Die deutsche Gegenwartsliteratur erledigte Rolf Dieter Brinkmann bekanntlich im Rundumschlag: "Andersch … lasch, und Walser, Enzensberger, Grass, Hildesheimer, Wellershoff, Richter gar nicht zu ertragen wie gar nicht der dumme humane Böll zu ertragen ist – sowas Abgestandenes ringsum, sowas Trübes".

The New Politics of Olympos explores the dynamics of praise, power, and persuasion in Kallimachos' hymns, detailing how they simultaneously substantiate and interrogate the radically new phenomenon of Hellenistic kingship taking shape during Kallimachos' lifetime.

The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations.

Seated one, loved by the lavishing comband fingers of another woman demon-strating how attention and technique coalesceinto art.

One Word Can Inspire Unending GratitudeThere is power in words.

A magnificent new collection from National Book Award finalist and Kingsley Tufts Award winner Linda Gregerson In eloquent poems about Ariadne, Theseus, and Dido, the death of a father, a bombing raid in Lebanon, and in a magnificent series detailing Masaccio's Brancacci frescoes, The Selvage deftly traces the ';line between' the ';wonder and woe' of human experience.

This program is read by Tony Award-winning actor Laura Benanti.

Seated one, loved by the lavishing comband fingers of another woman demon-strating how attention and technique coalesceinto art.

A debut poetry collection about Earth and to Earth that contemplates imposed systems-gender, capitalism, time, wage and exploitation-and how they are mapped onto us, the trees, and the planet.

Gitanjali (1912) is a collection of poems by Rabindranath Tagore.

En este libro, Gerhard Lohfink interpreta multitud de textos bíblicos, tanto conocidos como desconocidos; los examina lleno de curiosidad, los cuestiona con detenimiento y los confronta con nuestro presente, desde el COVID-19 hasta la soledad interior de muchas personas.

By popular demand, Follow the Star returns for 2019 with 12 brand-new reflections for the Christmas period.

Lays and Legends is a 1886 collection of poetry by poet and author Edith Nesbit (1858 - 1924).

The experimental and L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E influence is clear, yet The Devotion Field offers, in a number of urban elegies, more narrative and personal (though still political) detail than has been Keelan's habit.

Exploring the diverse factors that persuaded Christopher Columbus that he could reach the fabled "e;East"e; by sailing west, Dante, Columbus and the Prophetic Tradition considers, first, the impact of Dante's Divine Comedy and the apocalyptic prophetic tradition that it reflects, on Columbus's perception both of the cosmos and the eschatological meaning of his journey to what he called an 'other world.

An introduction reviews previous scholarship, and concludes that the cultic aspects of Judges 17-18 have not been examined in any depth.

Traditionally, Wordsworth's greatness is founded on his identity as the poet of nature and solitude.

Sleeper's lucid exposition of James restores this often neglected work to its rightful place in the Christian canon.

A new and comprehensive selection of Dryden's poetry, revealing him as a master of theatricality, ventriloquism, and unmistakable originality.

Diane di Prima (1934-2020) was one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century, and her career is distinguished by strong contributions to both literature and social justice.

Presents a selection of the best poems of Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), including many uncollected and previously unpublished poems.

First published in 1982, The Truth of Poetry attempts to answer a seemingly simple question: What kind of truth does poetry offer in modern times?

2 Baruch is one of the more important apocalyptic writings among the Jewish Pseudepigrapha (written at the end of the 1st century AD and so contemporary with the New Testament).

This book revisits British Romanticism as a poetics of heightened attention.

Es gibt Sätze, die nehmen einen Menschen geradezu an die Hand.

Basil Bunting (1900-1985) was one of the most important British poets of the 20th century.

,In this wide-ranging collection of forty-three poems, John Ngong Kum Ngong undertakes a critical and acerbic diagnosis of the socio-political situation in postcolonial Africa through a deceptively simple, aesthetically complex, and ideologically intriguing style.

The poems of Arundhathi Subramaniam's Love Without a Story celebrate an expanding kinship: of passion and friendship, mythic quest and modern-day longing, in a world animated by dialogue and dissent, delirium and silence.

The Routledge Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature explores the interplay between the domination of nature and the oppression of women, as well as liberatory alternatives, bringing together essays from leading academics in the field to facilitate cutting-edge critical readings of literature.

Volume 2 of the Text on the Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, spanning from 1804 to 1808.

When does a poem end?

This fully-annotated anthology of sixteenth-century English verse features generous selections from the canonical poets, alongside judicious selections from lesser-known authors.

This book contains poetry attributed to Omar Khayyaam (1048-1131), a popular Iranian poet whose philosophies provoke strong reactions from those who agree or disagree with his ideas.

Each of us is in the middle of a story.

In Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems Tim Armstrong brings together over 180 poems in the first comprehensively annotated selection of Hardys poetry.

Eine Studie zu Paul Celans Verhältnis zu Deutschland - im Jahr seines 100.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

A study of the poetry of Hardy, Yeats, and Larkin in relation to their shared preoccupation with time, change, and loss, the most ancient and fertile theme in lyric and reflective verse, known to earlier English poets as mutability.

The ancient Greek lyric poet Simonides of Keos was the first poet in the Western tradition to take money for poetic composition.

Seeing Shakespeare's Style offers new ways for readers to perceive Shakespeare and, by extension, literary texts generally.