Poetry

The Abingdon New Testament Commentaries series provides compact, critical commentaries on the writings of the New Testament.

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Bronwen Wallace was recognized in the last decade of her short life as a major Canadian poet and a significant figure in the growth of the feminist movement.

In the world of Chilean poet Ariel Dorfman, men and women can be forced to choose between leaving their country or dying for it.

Published in 1987: Erec and Enide, the first of five surviving Arthurian romantic poems by a twelfth-century French poet, narrates a vivid chapter from the legend of King Arthur.

Albania's Luljeta Lleshanaku grew up in negative space, living under family house arrest during the years of Enver Hoxha's autocratic communist rule.

LONGLISTED FOR THE GERALD LAMPERT MEMORIAL AWARDDeer with binoculars, wolves with resumes: bioengineered poetry that unsettles truth, fact, and history.

Rich Murphy's Practitioner Joy is the poet's confrontation with his practice as a poet and, at least in part, his inevitable death.

An introduction for university students to important poets and forms of poetry between Dryden and Wordsworth.

This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors.

In Tell Me the Stories of Jesus, pastor and theologian R.

El título alude al séptimo sello del mensaje del Apocalipsis en la Biblia, que significa el silencio, y sirve de pretexto a la autora para sumergirnos en su estimulante universo poético, donde se abordan los límites entre real e irreal, sagrado y profano, banal y absolutamente necesario, plasmado aquí con gran talento.

Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the most influential works of Western literature, inspiring artists and writers from Titian to Shakespeare to Salman Rushdie.

MacFadyen focuses on Brodsky's poetic beginnings.

The Poems of T.

This handbook provides the background necessary for fully understanding the nearly one thousand poems of Hardy.

The forty days of Lent open up a journey from the top of Transfiguration Mountain to the bottom of the Valley of the Cross.

Poesie und Punk, Catull und die Toten Hosen - zwischen diesen nur auf den ersten Blick widersprüchlichen Polen eröffnet Christoph W.

The best of Bukowskis novels, stories, and poems, this collection reads like an autobiography, relating the extraordinary story of his life and offering a sometimes harrowing, invariably exhilarating reading experience.

First published in 2003.

'Hear and attend and listen.

Poems to Lisi is presented here as an undergraduate student text with parallel-text English verse translationsThis edition of Quevedo's Poems to Lisi is a successor to the same editor's original text in Exeter Hispanic Texts, which only contained the Spanish text of the poems (published in 1988).

This collection of prose writing from the pen of Dryden dates from 1668 to 1691, and contains work that the editors describe as "e;a sampler of Dryden as biographer-historian, political commentator, religious controversialist, literary polemicist, literary theorist, and practical critic.

First published in 1979, this is a very welcome reissue of Kathleen Raine's seminal study of William Blake - England's only prophet.

What can God's creation teach us about ourselves, our communities, and modern Christianity?

In Deepfake Serenade, Chris Banks's sixth poetry collection, irreverent charm, emotional distance and surprising hot takes leap off every page.

Mawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi's great poem, the Mathnawi is one of the best known and most influential works of Muslim mysticism.

In einer Zeit voller Umbrüche, politischer Instabilität und sozialer Spannungen erhebt der Prophet Habakuk seine Stimme – und ringt in einem aufrüttelnden Dialog mit Gott um Antworten.

From the 1880s to the 1920s, a profound social awakening among women extended the possibilities of change far beyond the struggle for the vote.

A classic in the Bukowski poetry canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love.

Spring and All (1923) is a book of poems by William Carlos Williams.

When he first hiked the Don Valley trails / all he heard was river as he strode / beside its glitter of smashing glassGrounded in the local and immediate - from Toronto's rivers and ravines to its highways and skyscrapers - Metromorphoses explores some of the radical changes that have taken place in the city during the course of its history.

In small town suburbia, three young men are ready to make their mark.

The author, Daniel Bourguet, addresses readers as a friend on a potentially difficult pathway along which we need to proceed one step at a time.

First published in 1955, this exegesis on the writings of Alexander Pope reveals the technical felicities of his poetry, and is the first to be devoted to the great meaning inherent in his work.

This selection presents for the first time the thirty year trajectory of an acclaimed Irish poet who has lived and worked between the secular and the religious, Eros and history, Ireland and elsewhere, be it west Africa after civil war, south-east Asia after the Khmer Rouge or Europe at the collapse of the Berlin Wall, and whose extraordinary body of work has re-defined what it means to be Irish in the twenty-first century.

Christine M.

In Saint Saul, Donald Harman Akenson offers a lively and provocative account of what we can learn about Jesus by reading the letters of Paul.

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This is a book about a color-the vivid, explosive yellow of the English broom that blooms outrageously, uproariously, all over the mountain that dominates the view from Nicolas Pesques' window.

The poems in Writing the Silences represent more than 60 years of Richard O.

For the first time in one volume, the most elegant and accessible translation of Dante's enduring masterpieceCharles Singleton's English-language translation of The Divine Comedy is widely considered to be one of the finest renderings of Dante's masterpiece.