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Caitlin Press The Brightest Thing
Book SynopsisIn her first full-length collection, award-winning poet Ruth Daniell offers work that is both earnest and hopeful, even in the face of trauma. In formally exquisite and lyrical poems, The Brightest Thing tells the story of a young woman who is raped by her first boyfriend and her struggle afterwards to navigate her fairy-tale expectations of romantic love. This contemporary story of hurt and healing is paired with poems that give voice to silenced princesses from fairy talesincluding Rapunzel, Donkeyskin, The Little Mermaids sister and the princess who feels the pea beneath two hundred mattresses. At turns heartbreaking and joyful, with an unabashed eye for beauty and an unapologetic hope for love, Daniell questions the pursuit of happily ever after, and probes deep into darkness while looking for the light.
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U Press Beowulf - The Tragedy of a Hero: A Reading
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HarperCollins Elektra
Book SynopsisOrestes has returned to his homeland intent on exacting a bloody vengeance upon its rulers: his mother Klytemnestra and his step-father Aegisthus, who together murdered Orestes' father, Agamemnon. The prince's sister, Elektra, has long awaited his return, fueding with Klytemnestra over her mother's moral justifications for killing Agamemnon.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Battle of Maldon
Book SynopsisThe first-ever standalone edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkien’s most important poetic dramas, that explores timely themes such as the nature of heroism and chivalry during war, featuring previously unpublished and never-before-seen texts and drafts.In 991 AD, Vikings attacked an Anglo-Saxon defense-force led by their duke, Beorhtnoth, resulting in brutal fighting along the banks of the river Blackwater, near Maldon in Essex. The attack is widely considered one of the defining conflicts of tenth-century England, due to it being immortalized in the poem, The Battle of Maldon.Written shortly after the battle, the poem now survives only as a 325-line fragment, but its value to today is incalculable, not just as a heroic tale but in vividly expressing the lost language of our ancestors and celebrating ideals of loyalty and friendship.J.R.R. Tolkien considered The Battle of Maldon “the last surviving fragment of ancient English heroic minstrelsy.” It would inspire him to compose, during the 1930s, his own dramatic verse-dialogue, The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son, which imagines the aftermath of the great battle when two of Beorhtnoth’s retainers come to retrieve their duke’s body.Leading Tolkien scholar, Peter Grybauskas, presents for the very first time J.R.R. Tolkien’s own prose translation of The Battle of Maldon together with the definitive treatment of The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth and its accompanying essays; also included and never before published is Tolkien’s bravura lecture, “The Tradition of Versification in Old English,” a wide-ranging essay on the nature of poetic tradition. Illuminated with insightful notes and commentary, he has produced a definitive critical edition of these works, and argues compellingly that, Beowulf excepted, The Battle of Maldon may well have been “the Old English poem that most influenced Tolkien’s fiction,” most dramatically within the pages of The Lord of the Rings.
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Oxford University Press Algernon Charles Swinburne
Book SynopsisThis volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers a comprehensive selection of the work of Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909). This authoritative edition presents students with a new, more complete, more challenging, but also more credible Swinburne than ever before. This edition presents the first rigorous scholarly edition of a substantial selection of Swinburne''s work ever produced. Swinburne was one of the most brilliant and controversial poets of the nineteenth century: a republican; a scorner of established Christianity; a writer of sexual daring; a poet of loss and of love. Yet he is also the most misunderstood poet of the Victorian period. This new edition, with substantial editorial material, presents a new and convincing portrait of a man sharply different from what is usually said of him. Beginning with his unpublished ''Ode to Mazzini'' (1857) and ending with his last major critical work on The Age of Shakespeare (1908), this edition offers Swinburne in the round--a man of astonishing consistency whose formal innovations and critical penetration remain persistently engaging as well as provocative. A major introduction explores Swinburne''s complicated reaction to the scandal of his first major collection, Poems and Ballads (1866); his life-long commitment to radical voices (Blake, Hugo, Landor, Shelley); his permanent hostility to tyranny; his sense of literature as a living form and of the heroic personality of the artist; his dazzling art criticism and adroit analysis of Renaissance and modern literature; his exceptional elegies for dead friends; his burlesques and richly atmospheric fiction and drama. The edition draws on rich contemporary sources, manuscripts, and the diverse print culture of Swinburne''s day, as well as moving through ancient and modern languages that Swinburne wrote with fluency.Explanatory notes and commentary are included to enhance the study, understanding, and enjoyment of these works, and the edition includes an Introduction to the life of Swinburne.Trade ReviewWith a lively introduction, expertly chosen selections, and a commanding scholarly apparatus, this volume presents a vital poet to a new generation of scholars and students. The full range of Swinburne's long and never-boring career is represented in bursts of poetry and criticism, from the unspeakably beautiful and fearsomely inventive to the politically confused and aesthetically derivative-all of them, for different reasons, fascinating. This definitive edition will help readers know the fullest version of our most enduring literary iconoclast. * Nathan K. Hensley, Georgetown University *Francis O'Gorman's excellent edition is the ideal introduction to Swinburne, presenting a generous representative selection of his poetry and prose that includes his best-known work along with some less familiar but significant texts. Meticulously edited and contextualized, this is an edition that will be of enormous value to established scholars and new students alike. * Catherine Maxwell, Queen Mary University of London *O'Gorman's handsome tome is an editorial feat that gives proportinate representation to all Swineburne's phases from the 1850s to the Edwardian period. ... The edition samples iconic poems and pivotal essays whilst recalibrating the Swinburne canon by including obscure yet fascinating work. The mixing of genres according to a rough chronological order offers a panoramic view of Swinburne's development and thematic concerns. * Notes and Queries *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION NOTE ON THE TEXT Ode to Mazzini Of the birth of Sir Tristram, and how he voyaged into Ireland (Queen Yseult) Letter to the Editor of The Spectator, 7 June 1862 (pp.632-3) [on George Meredith s Modern Love, and Poems of the English Roadside, with Poems and Ballads] Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal (The Spectator, 6 September 1862) Dead Love (1859) Atalanta in Calydon (1865) from Preface to A Selection from the Works of Lord Byron (1866) from Poems and Ballads (1866) Laus Veneris The Triumph of Time Les Noyades Itylus Anactoria Hymn to Proserpine Hermaphroditus The Leper Before the Mirror Dolores The Garden of Proserpine Dedication, 1865 from Mr Arnold s New Poems (1867) From Chapter 2, Lyrical Poems , William Blake: A Critical Essay (1868) from Notes on Designs of the Old Masters at Florence (1868) from Notes on the Royal Academy Exhibition, 1868 (1868) from The Poems of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1870) from Songs Before Sunrise (1871) Super flumina Babylonis Mentana: First Anniversary The Litany of Nations Hertha Before a Crucifix Tenebræ Cor Cordium In San Lorenzo On the Downs An Appeal from Simeon Solomon: Notes on his Vision of Love and Other Studies (1871) Tristram and Iseult: Prelude of an Unfinished Poem (1871) from Victor Hugo s L Année terrible (1872) from Bothwell (1874) from Songs of Two Nations (1875) from Diræ Celæno A Choice The Augurs A Counsel from Report of the First Anniversary Meeting of the Newest Shakespeare Society (1876) from Note of an English Republican on the Muscovite Crusade (1876) The Sailing of the Swallow (1877) from Poems and Ballads, Second Series (1878) The Last Oracle A Forsaken Garden Relics Ave Atque Vale: In Memory of Charles Baudelaire Memorial Verses on the Death of Théophile Gautier Sonnet (With a Copy of Madamemoiselle de Maupin) In Memory of Barry Cornwall Inferiae Cyril Tourneur A Ballad of François Villon, Prince of All Ballad-Makers A Vision of Spring in Winter The Epitaph in Form of a Ballad, which Villon made for Himself and his Comrades, Expecting to Hanged along with them' From A Study of Shakespeare (1880) from Songs of the Springtides (1880) Thallasius On the Cliffs from Specimens of Modern Poets: The Heptalogia or The Seven Against Sense: A Cap with Seven Bells (1880) The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell Nephelidia Poeta Loquitur (c.1880n) from Studies in Song (1880) After Nine Years Evening on the Broads By the North Sea Emily Brontë (1883) from A Century of Roundels (1883) In Harbour Plus Ultra The Death of Richard Wagner Plus Intra The Roundel Wasted Love Before Sunset A Flower-piece by Fantin To Catullus Insularum Ocelle from A Midsummer Holidayand Other Poems (1884) IX. On the Verge Lines of the Monument of Giuseppe Mazzini Les Casquets In Sepulcretis On the Death of Richard Doyle A Solitude Clear the Way! from Poems and Ballads, Third Series (1889) March: An Ode To a Seamew Neap-Tide In Time of Mourning The Interpreters To Sir Richard F. Burton (On his Translation of the Arabian Nights) A Reiver s Neck-Verse The Tyneside Widow Recollections of Professor Jowett (1893) from Astrophel and Other Poems (1894) A Nympholept Loch Torridon: To E.H. Elegy 1869-91 Threnody October 6, 1892 A Reminiscence Hawthorn Dyke The Ballads of the English Border from A Channel Passage and Other Poems (1904) The Lake of Gaube In a Rosary Trafalgar Day Cromwell s Statue On the Death of Mrs Lynn Linton Russia: An Ode Carnot The Transvaal Dedication of ACS s Poems (London: Chatto & Windus 1904) from The Age of Shakespeare (1908) Christopher Marlowe EXPLANATORY NOTES FURTHER READING
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Penguin Putnam Inc Paradise Lost
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Modern Humanities Research Association Gavin Douglas The Aeneid 1513 Volume 1 Introduction Books I VIII Mhra Tudor Stuart Translations
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