Literary studies: poetry and poets Books
The University of Michigan Press Living Off the Country
Book SynopsisWhen he was a homesteader in Alaska, poet John Haines moved away from language and institutions to an older and simpler existence. In solitude, listening to his own voice, the events of his life reached into the past and the future.'
£20.85
The University of Michigan Press Wonderful Words Silent Truth
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LUP - University of Michigan Press A Poetics of Resistance
Book SynopsisA survey of the empowering poetry of politically active women in El Salvador, South Africa, and the United States.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Set in Motion
Book SynopsisCollects for the first time the prose writings of A.R. Ammons, one of America’s most important and enduring contemporary poets. Set in Motion includes essays, reviews, and interviews as well as a selection of Ammons's poems, with commentary from the author about their inspiration and effects.Trade Review. . . provides the reader with insights into Ammons's poetics, into his views on literary criticism, and into his perspective on teaching creative writing." —North Carolina Libraries
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The University of Michigan Press Quarter Notes
Book SynopsisCollects reviews, essays, memoirs, and interviews by acclaimed poet Charles Wright. This collection includes meditations on the details of memory and what it means to visit the past; the vices of titleism and the hydrosyllabic foot in poetry; a comparison of poems and journeys; an attempt to define “image”; and discussions of the current state of poetry.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Written in Water Written in Stone
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Ami and Amile
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The University of Michigan Press The Passionate Spectator
Book SynopsisFocusses on some of the renowned poets and artists, such as John Ashbery, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Robert Creeley. This work contains eleven essays, which include: ""Passionate Spectator: On Frank O'Hara's Art Criticism""; ""At the Movies with Weldon Kees and Frank O'Hara""; ""The Poet as Art Critic (On John Ashbery and Frank O'Hara)""; and more.
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The University of Michigan Press Beyond Text
Book SynopsisTaking up the work of prominent theater and performance artists, Beyond Text reveals the audacity and beauty of avant-garde performance in print. Jennifer Buckley shows how live performance and print aesthetically revived one another during a period in which both were supposed be in a state of terminal cultural decline.Trade ReviewBy delineating the numerous relationships print can assume to performance, Beyond Text opens up new ways of looking at, thinking about, and appreciating familiar performance works and artists as well as some less familiar ones." - Philip Auslander, Georgia Institute of Technology"Well researched, clearly written, engaged in current debates, and compelling in its argumentation, Beyond Text makes an important and overdue contribution to the fields of theatre, literary, performance and cultural studies. It will also speak to art historians and design scholars and anyone interested in the history of the book as a cultural artifact." - James M. Harding, University of Maryland
£64.95
The University of Michigan Press From the Valley of Bronze Camels
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Poetry and the Cult of the Martyrs
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Ovids Literary Loves
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Dantes Aesthetics of Being
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The University of Michigan Press The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of
Book SynopsisExamines the literary culture, including the small presses and literary anthologies, in which Black Arts Movement poets were first published. Focusing on the material production of Black Arts poetry, the book combines genetic criticism with cultural history to shed new light on the period, its publishing culture, and the collaborations of its participants.
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The University of Michigan Press Making Men Ridiculous
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The University of Michigan Press A Poetry Precise and Free
Book SynopsisCollects 150 lyric poems by the Renaissance Italian poet Giovanni Battista Guarini in new translations, accompanied by the Italian originals and commentary that will enlighten and engage both scholars and general readers. Guarini's madrigals provide insight into northern Italian court culture of the late Renaissance, when poetry and music were enjoyed as companion arts.
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The University of Michigan Press Following Chaucer
Book SynopsisUses Chaucer's likely reading, circumstances, and literary and social affiliations as guides to understanding his poetry, within the context of late medieval English culture and the reshaping of the concept of these particular offices that suited the needs of a future whose dynamics he anticipated.Trade ReviewStaley is expert on the three offices and on medieval spirituality more generally. Her knowledge of classical, medieval, and early modern primary sources, and especially of religious and literary texts, is commanding. What makes this book so extremely interesting are its clarity, its exploration of an intriguing subject toward which very few Chaucerians have directed any attention, and, most especially, Staley's intelligence." —David Raybin, Eastern Illinois University
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The University of Michigan Press Tales of Dionysus
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The University of Michigan Press Reciprocity Truth and Gender in Pindar and
Book SynopsisExplores the notoriously difficult ancient Greek poetry of Aeschylus and Pindar and seeks to articulate the complex relationship between them. Previous scholarship has often treated Pindar and Aeschylus as representatives of contrasting worldviews. This comparative study offers the alternative perspective of understanding them as complements.Trade Review“This book is persuasive, engaging, and thought-provoking. Park’s arguments and interpretations are compelling . . . I very much hope the book will generate conversation and further engagement with the issues it raises and will lead to more classicists looking at Pindar and Aeschylus side by side.”—Louise Pratt, Emory University “This study is unique both in its thematic breadth and in its generic scope. It offers new insights into the construction of gender in Greek literature by exploring in detail how gender informs the performance and the perception of truth and lies in epinician and tragedy. It also advances our epinician poetics by examining the intersection of truth and reciprocity between poet and patron, but also by exposing Pindar’s treatment of female desire and seduction as inherently threatening to male-dominated reciprocal relationships.”—Zoe Stamatopoulou, Washington University in St. LouisTable of Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PROLOGUE: CONTEXTS FOR COMPLEMENTARITY The Structure of the Book CHAPTER ONE: RECIPROCITY AND TRUTH IN PINDAR AND AESCHYLUS Reciprocity Reciprocity and Truth in Pindaric Epinician Poetry and Reciprocity in Pindar Alētheia and Poetic Reciprocity Truth Personified: Fragment 205 and Olympian 10 Reciprocity, Revenge, and Truth in Aeschylus The Language of Reciprocity in Aeschylus Reciprocity and Truth? The Danaids’ Ode to Zeus Truth as “What Happens” Truth in Untruth: Clytemnestra The Truth of Reciprocity Conclusion CHAPTER TWO: THE TRUTH OF RECIPROCITY IN PINDAR’S MYTHS Olympian 10: Truth, Obligation, and Reciprocity Truth, Praise, and Poetic Obligation in Olympian 1 Parity, Reality, and Poetry: Nemean 7 Conclusion CHAPTER THREE: GENDER, RECIPROCITY, AND TRUTH IN PINDAR The Significance of Gender The Hera-Cloud of Pythian 2 The Active-Passive Paradox: Feminizing Male Deception The Hera-Cloud’s Ancestors and Epinician Poetry Coronis in Pythian 3: Alētheia, Myth, And Poetry Coronis and Poetry Hippolyta in Nemean 5: Seduction, Deception, Poetry Male Seduction Aegisthus and Clytemnestra in Pythian 11 Jason and Medea in Pythian 4 Conclusion CHAPTER FOUR: WOMEN KNOW BEST: AESCHYLUS’ SEVEN AGAINST THEBES Eteocles’ Attempt at Narrative Control The Chorus’ Messengers Etumos and Alēthēs Sight, Sound, and Interpretation Danaus as Comparison The Shields: Partial Visions And Truths Tydeus Capaneus and Eteoclus Hippomedon and Parthenopaeus Amphiaraus Polyneices: Symmetry and Repetition The Chorus and the Continuity of Reciprocity Alēthēs Conclusion CHAPTER FIVE: FEMALE AUTHORSHIP: FORGING TRUTH IN AESCHYLUS’ SUPPLIANTS Truth and Time Truth and Dikē The Danaids as Autobiographers The Danaids and Pelasgus: Forging Collaboration The Limits of Female Narrative Control Conclusion CHAPTER SIX: TRUTH, GENDER, AND REVENGE IN AESCHYLUS’ ORESTEIA Clytemnestra and the Herald: Different Sources of Truth Gendered Truths: Etumos and Alēthēs Cassandra: Truth in Prophecy Cassandra as Mirror: Time, Truth, Reciprocity Female Truth and Tragedy Aegisthus: Revenge without Truth The Evolution of Reciprocity and Truth in Choephori and Eumenides Conclusion EPILOGUE BIBLIOGRAPHY
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The University of Michigan Press Bad Chaucer
Book SynopsisFrom a vexing catalog of trees in the Knight’s Tale to the flirtations with blasphemy in the Parson’s Tale, this volume progresses through the Canterbury Tales story by story, tale by tale, pondering the most egregious failing of each in turn.Trade ReviewBad Chaucer’s best features are its provocative starting point and its comprehensive commitment to identifying ‘a wider range of lapses and blunders in such topics as thematic consistency, narrative coherency, and character development’ in each of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, even the ones that are frequently overlooked by critics. The author has an impressively broad and comprehensive knowledge of Chaucerian texts and criticism. The writing is lucid, lively, and graceful." - Carissa Harris, Temple UniversityTable of Contents Introduction: On Chaucer’s Badness 1. The Catalog of Trees and Epic Digressions of the Knight’s Tale 2. The Broken Arm and Sympathetic Cuckold of the Miller’s Tale 3. The Stoic Dawn Song and Comic Rapes of the Reeve’s Tale 4. The Fornicating Wife and Incomplete Completion of the Cook’s Tale 5. The Bounteous Boat and Prosperity Theology of the Man of Law’s Tale 6. The Forgotten Maiden and Phallic Renaissance of the Wife of Bath’s Tale 7. The Damned Pan and Exemplary Inconsistencies of the Friar’s Tale 8. The Dead Children and Anti-Carnivalesque Humor of the Summoner’s Tale 9. The Wretched Smock and Gendered Theodicy of the Clerk’s Tale 10. The Apologetic Narrator and Fragmented Perspectives of the Merchant’s Tale 11. The Nurse of Digestion and Camp Pleasures of the Squire’s Tale 12. The Stony Lady and Lovely Contradictions of the Franklin’s Tale 13. The Executed Governess and Errant Themes of the Physician’s Tale 14. The Dead Man Walking and Pseudo Crux of the Pardoner’s Tale 15. The Groanworthy Puns and Semantic Enigmas of the Shipman’s Tale 16. The Forgiving Readers and Mitigated Antisemitism of the Prioress’s Tale 17. The Singsong Meter and Aural Agonies of the Tale of Sir Thopas 18. The Immoral Allegory and Boring Maxims of the Tale of Melibee 19. The Hundred Endless Threats and Tragic Genres of the Monk’s Tale 20. The Cock’s Words and Chaucerian Tripletalk of the Nun’s Priest’s Tale 21. The Invisible Nun and Chaste Orgasms of the Second Nun’s Tale 22. The Textbook Rhetoric and Pedantic Poetics of the Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale 23. The Empty Birdcage and Paradoxical Punishment of the Manciple’s Tale 24. The Meek Heretic and Narrativeless Narrative of the Parson’s Tale Conclusion: The Better Badness of Chaucer’s Retraction
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Talking All Morning
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University of California Press Illustrated Introduction to Latin Epigraphy
Book SynopsisPresents 100 Latin inscriptions arranged in chronological order and illustrated by photographs. In this book, the inscriptions, which range in date from the sixth century B C to A D 525, are collated with standard texts and are accompanied by translations and full annotation.
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University of California Press Catullan Provocations
Book SynopsisThis text argues that Catullus challenges us to think about the nature of lyric in new ways. It shows how Catullus's poetry reflects the conditions of its own consumption as it explores the terms and possibilities of the poet's license.
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University of California Press Encomium of Ptolemy Philadelphus
Book SynopsisUnder Ptolemy II Philadelphus, who ruled Egypt in the middle of the third century BCE, Alexandria became the brilliant multicultural capital of the Greek world. This work considers the workings and representation of poetic patronage in the Ptolemaic age.Table of ContentsPreface Conventions and Abbreviations Introduction 1. Beginning from Zeus 2. Genre 3. Poets and Patrons 4. An Egyptian Dimension? 5. The Language of the Encomium 6. The Meter of the Encomium 7. A Note on the Transmission of the Text Sigla Theocritus, Encomium of Ptolemy Philadelphus Commentary References Subject Index Index of Greek Words Index of Passages Discussed
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University of California Press Crowded by Beauty
Book SynopsisPhilip Whalen was an American poet, Zen Buddhist, and key figure in the literary and artistic scene that unfolded in San Francisco in the 1950s and '60s. When the Beat writers came West, Whalen became a revered, much-loved member of the group. This book deals with his life and work.Trade Review"With this book, Schneider has opened the window on a man who was not originally one of the 'famous Beats' but who may find a posthumous place in the new generation's pantheon." Shambhala Times "An unconventional man deserves an unconventional biography ... A major figure in both American poetry and the growth of Zen Buddhist practice in America, Whalen was brilliant, erudite, humorous, earthy yet chaste, improvident, as lovable to those who knew him as he probably will be, thanks to Schneider, to those who read about him." - STARRED Booklist "If Whalen was a poet's poet, then Schneider's book is a biographer's biography... Schneider, who was ordained as a Zen priest in 1977, writes with verve and precision, and draws creatively on Whalen's unpublished journals and voluminous correspondence. Quotations are woven into the text and make for lively reading." San Francisco Chronicle "The whole book is a must-read." The Allen Ginsberg Project "Not only one of the most keenly observed books on the Beats ever published, but it's also a fascinating exploration of the life and dharma of one of the first American-born Zen teachers." -- Steve Silberman Buddhadharma "One garners from this well written and sensitive biography of a key American author a sense of the energy and openness of the whole Beat and San Francisco Poetry Renaissance of the 1950s to 1970s." -- Larry Smith New York Journal of Books "Crowded by Beauty serves as a reminder that among all the celebrity and cachet of rebelliously prescient intellects, the one most radical in his approach to American poetry has been overlooked." -- Pat Nolan The New Black Bart Poetry Society
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University of California Press Selected Prose Daybooks and Papers
Book SynopsisOffers a selection of Pulitzer Prize-winning objectivist poet George Oppen's extant writings outside of poetry, including the essay "The Mind's Own Place" and "Twenty-Six Fragments," which were found on the wall of Oppen's study after his death. This work presents an inspiring portrait of this writer and a testament to the creative process itself.Trade Review"A book that will undoubtedly deepen readers' experience and understanding of Oppen, and broaden the scope of Oppen scholarship." -- Joseph Bradshaw Rain Taxi Review Of Books "Carefully transcribed and annotated... Cope's book is well organized and makes an admirably clear text for readers." Times Literary Supplement (TLS)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Textual Apparatus PROSE Three Poets The Mind's Own Place A Review of David Antin's Definitions On Armand Schwerner A Note on Tom McGrath etc. A Letter Untitled: " ... will" Non-Resistance, etc. Or: Of the Guiltless Statement on Poetics DAYBOOKS I II:I II:II II:III II:IV II:V III IV:I IV:II V v TWENTY-SIX FRAGMENTS List of Abbreviations Notes Index
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University of California Press The Poems of Catullus
Book SynopsisCatullus' poetry is by turns ribald, lyric, romantic, satirical; it offers us vivid pictures of the poet's friends, enemies, and lovers. This work is a bilingual translation of Catullus' poems. It provides an essay on the poet's life and literary background, and a historical sketch of the politically fraught late Roman Republic in which he lived.Trade Review“A splendid new translation.” * London Review of Books *“It is a superb piece of work. . . . Green’s translation should encourage readers of all kinds to read or re-read Catullus, one of the greatest and most influential of all classical poets. . . . Like Catullus himself, Green combines vast ambitions with a likeable boyish insouciance. His energetic and bracingly intelligent translation will bring new readers to Catullus and will bring a new Catullus to readers who thought they knew him. It deserves, as Catullus said of his own book, to ‘outlast at least one generation!’” -- Emily Wilson, * New Republic *“With typical zestful belligerence [Peter Green] assesses almost every aspect of Catullan scholarship. His translations . . . catch the Catullan tone, jazzily pitched between the schoolboyish and the erudite.” * Times Literary Supplement *“Green offers an accurate and spirited version in accentual equivalents of the Latin quantitative meter, with facing Latin text. In his informative introduction, which takes account of much recent scholarship, Green ranges from discussion of Catullus’ life and times to accounts of the Catullus manuscript tradition and literary influence to a defense of his own metrical practice. . . . The expository portions are characteristically exuberant.” * CHOICE *“Capably delivers on the longer poems and gives vivid color to the invective and to the lighter erotic verses.” * Bookforum *“Green is a celebrated classicist and his boyish enthusiasm is a perfect match for the bawdy ferocity of Catullus. . . . He perfectly captures Catullus’ voice-whose outrageousness may shock even the most jaded sophisticate. You don’t have to be a regular reader of poetry to like these poems.” * Slate *“Any fan of the Latin language, any student of the Roman Empire, which is so like and so unlike our own, must be grateful to Green and his publishers for such a useful and handsome book.” * Los Angeles Times *“In Green’s scrupulous translations, we feel the very pulse of this brilliant poet. A truly exciting discovery.” * Providence Journal *"Peter Green's rendition of Catullus is an important addition to the body of existing translations . . . Green's translations are elegant and stylish throughout, if not totally literal; his commentary, which touches on an impressive (if not, understandably, complete) range of modern scholarship, is compact and allusive, designed to pique the interest of the advanced student or the non-specialist scholar. . . . All in all, this is without question a book worth owning." * Classical Journal *"Green's work is a major contribution to the tradition of Catullan translation in English, achieving perhaps better than any attempt in the last hundred years a sense of Catullus' urbanity (as against obscenity), and, for those without Latin, an excellent way into the ancient poet." * Translation and Literature *"Peter Green's Catullus reveals care in translation, primarily in the most emphasized objective, that is, in maintaining the rhythm of the text." * Gnomon *"This is the finest English Catullus we now have or probably will have for the indefinite future. All future translators of Classical poetry should do what Green has done in detail . . . : lay out the exact forms of English rhythm and their variations that will represent quantitative meters. Translators who fail that minimum requirement should not see print." * Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Life and Background Lesbia/Clodia The Literary Context The Text: Arrangement and Transmission Reception and Reinterpretation Translation and Its Problems The Catullan Meters The Poems (1--116) Explanatory Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Robert Duncan
Book SynopsisA volume that collects poetry, non-critical prose, and plays of Robert Duncan. Including "Letters: Poems 1953-1956", it thoroughly documents the first phase of Duncan's distinguished life in writing, making it possible to trace the poet's development as he approaches the brilliant work of his middle period.Trade Review"Relentlessly beautiful... Everything seems to be here, laying the groundwork for a major career." Publishers Weekly "Reminds us that [Duncan] wrote some of the most stunningly beautiful lines in postwar American poetry." -- Micah Mattix Books & Culture
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University of California Press Robert Duncan
Book SynopsisA collection of poetry and plays that presents annotated texts of both collected and uncollected work from author's middle and late writing years (1958-1988), with commentaries on each of the five books, The Opening of the Field, Roots and Branches, Bending the Bow, and the two volumes of Ground Work.Trade Review"Includes some of Duncan's finest essays ... a great help to all readers." CHOICETable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Discovery Making The Opening of the Field (1960) Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow - The Dance The Law I Love Is Major Mover The Structure of Rime I The Structure of Rime II A Poem Slow Beginning The Structure of Rime III The Structure of Rime IV The Structure of Rime V The Structure of Rime VI The Structure of Rime VII Three Pages from a Birthday Book This Place Rumord to Have Been Sodom The Ballad of the Enamord Mage The Ballad of Mrs Noah The Maiden The Propositions Four Pictures of the Real Universe Evocation Of Blasphemy Nor Is the Past Pure Crosses of Harmony and Disharmony A Poem of Despondencies Poetry, a Natural Thing Keeping the Rhyme A Song of the Old Order The Question The Performance We Wait For At Christmas Proofs Yes, as a Look Springs to Its Face Yes, as a Look Springs to Its Face, A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar The Structure of Rime VIII The Structure of Rime IX The Structure of Rime X The Structure of Rime XI A Storm of White Atlantis Out of the Black Bone Dance Under Ground The Natural Doctrine The Structure of Rime XII The Structure of Rime XIII Another Animadversion After Reading Barely and Widely Ingmar Bergman's Seventh Seal Food for Fire, Food for Thought Uncollected Work 1957--1960 A Stray Poem (Notes Reading from Rene Fulop-Miller's The Power and Secrets of the Jesuits) Melville after Pierre Solitude The Song of the River to Its Shores Pre-face I Saw the Rabbit Leap Roots and Branches (1964) Roots and Branches Roots and Branches What Do I Know of the Old Lore? Night Scenes A Sequence of Poems for H.D.'s Birthday A Letter Nel Mezzo del Cammin di Nostra Vita A Dancing Concerning a Form of Women The Law Apprehensions Sonneries of the Rose Cross Now the Record Now Record Variations on Two Dicta of William Blake Cover Images Come, Let Me Free Myself Risk Four Songs the Night Nurse Sang Structure of Rime XV Structure of Rime XVI Structure of Rime XVII Structure of Rime XVIII Osiris and Set Windings Two Presentations After a Passage in Baudelaire Shelley's Arethusa Set to New Measures After Reading H.D.'s Hermetic Definitions Strains of Sight Doves Returning to the Rhetoric of an Early Mode Two Entertainments The Ballad of the Forfar Witches' Sing A Country Wife's Song What Happened : Prelude A Set of Romantic Hymns Thank You for Love From The Mabinogion Forced Lines A New Poem (for Jack Spicer) Sonnet 1 Sonnet 2 Sonnet 3 Answering Adam's Way: A Play upon Theosophical Themes Cyparissus A Part-Sequence for Change Structure of Rime XIX Structure of Rime XX Structure of Rime XXI The Continent Uncollected Work 1961--1964 A Play with Masks Weaving the Design Old Testament New Testament Bending the Bow (1968) Introduction Sonnet 4 Structure of Rime XXII 5th Sonnet Such Is the Sickness of Many a Good Thing Bending the Bow Tribal Memories Passages 1 At the Loom Passages 2 What I Saw Passages 3 Where It Appears Passages 4 The Moon Passages 5 The Collage Passages 6 Envoy Passages 7 Structure of Rime XXIII As in the Old Days Passages 8 The Architecture Passages 9 These Past Years Passages 10 Shadows Passages 11 Wine Passages 12 Structure of Rime XXIV Structure of Rime XXV Reflections The Fire Passages 13 Chords Passages 14 Spelling Passages 15 A Lammas Tiding My Mother Would Be a Falconress Saint Graal (after Verlaine) Parsifal (after Wagner and Verlaine) The Currents Passages 16 Moving the Moving Image Passages 17 The Torso Passages 18 The Earth Passages 19 Structure of Rime XXVI: For Kenneth Anger An Illustration Passages 20 The Multiversity Passages 21 In the Place of a Passage 22 Benefice Passages 23 Orders Passages 24 Up Rising Passages 25 The Chimeras of Gerard de Nerval El Desdichado (The Disinherited) Myrtho Horus Anteros Delphica Artemis The Christ in the Olive Grove Golden Lines Earth's Winter Song Moira's Cathedral A Shrine to Ameinias Narrative Bridges for Adam's Way The Soldiers Passages 26 An Interlude Transgressing the Real Passages 27 The Light Passages 28 Eye of God Passages 29 Stage Directions Passages 30 God-Spell Epilogos Uncollected Work 1965--1968 At the Poetry Conference: Berkeley after the New York Style We heard it as a cry. It was the Word. Keeping the War Inside Yes I care deeply and yet Christmas Present, Christmas Presence! From a Poem by John Ashbery If I Had Kin Ground Work: Before the War (1984) Some Notes on Notation Achilles' Song Ancient Questions A Song from the Structures of Rime Ringing as the Poet Paul Celan Sings Despair in Being Tedious The Concert Passages 31 (Tribunals) Ancient Reveries and Declamations Passages 32 (Tribunals) Transmissions Passages 33 (Tribunals) The Feast Passages 34 (Tribunals) Before the Judgment Passages 35 (Tribunals) Santa Cruz Propositions A Glimpse And If He Had Been Wrong for Me For Me Too, I, Long Ago Shipping Out with the Cantos And Hell Is the Realm of God's Self-Loathing Childhood's Retreat Fragments of an Albigensian Rime O! Passages 37 Bring It Up from the Dark Structure of Rime XXVII Structure of Rime XXVIII: In Memoriam Wallace Stevens Over There The Museum Interrupted Forms Poems from the Margins of Thom Gunn's Moly Preface to the Suite The Moly Suite Near Circe's House Rites of Passage: I Moly Rites of Passage: II A Seventeenth Century Suite in Homage to the Metaphysical Genius in English Poetry (1590--1690) 1. Love's a great courtesy to be declared 2. Sir Walter Ralegh, What Is Our Life? 3. Go as in a dream 4. Robert Southwell, the Burning Babe 5. "A pretty Babe"--that burning Babe 6. George Herbert, Jordan (I) 7. George Herbert, Jordan (II) 8. These Lines Composing Themselves in My Head as I Awoke Early This Morning, It Being Still Dark, December 16, 1971 Passages 36 9. Ben Jonson, Hymenaei: Or the Solemnities of Masque, and Barriers 10. John Norris of Bemerton, Hymne to Darkness Coda Dante Etudes Preface Book One We Will Endeavor Secondary Is the Grammar A Little Language To Speak My Mind Everything Speaks to Me In the Way of a Question Speech Directed Enricht in the Increment The Individual Man Of Empire The Meaning of Each Particular The Whole Potentiality The Work The Household Let Him First Drink of the Fountain And Tho They Have No Vowel Letting the Beat Go Book Two A Hard Task in Truth Lovely The One Rule Our Art but to Articulate In Nothing Superior Enacted On Obedience Zealous Liberality We Convivial in What Is Ours! Mr. Philip Wicksteed Stumbling into Rime in Prose in Translating Dante's Convivio Go, My Songs, Even as You Came to Me Book Three My Soul Was as If Free Nor Dream in Your Hearts For the Sea Is God's Where the Fox of This Stench Sulks In Truth Doth She Breathe Out Poisonous Fumes Then Many a One Sang In My Youth Not Unstaind And a Wisdom as Such Four Supplementary Etudes Of Memory Hers I Too Trembling But We, to Whom the World Is The Missionaries Passages The Torn Cloth Songs of an Other Empedoklean Reveries Passages Jamais Passages An Interlude of Winter Light "Eidolon of the Aion" The Presence of the Dance{ths}/{ths}The Resolution of the Music Circulations of the Song Uncollected Work 1969--1982 O tree of lights! tree of colors Childless After Shakespeare's Sonnet 76 Second Take on Shakespeare's Sonnet 76 She Something Is Moving A Fantasy Piece for Helen Adam Feb. 22, 1973 I have{ths}/{ths}nothing to go on A Prepucal Face for Nigel Roberts Johnny's Thing An Epithalamium Poe et Cie Let Me Join You Again This Morning, Walt Whitman Ground Work II: In the Dark (1987) An Alternate Life In the South Homecoming Supplication The Quotidian To Master Baudelaire Toward His Malaise Among His Words The Face At Cambridge an Address to Young Poets Native to the Land of My Mothertongue Le Sonnet Ou Sonne la Sonnette des Dernieres Jours Toujours Fait Son Retour Pour Souffrir l'Envie Jusqu'a l'Amour en Vie Sets of Syllables, Sets of Words, Sets of Lines, Sets of Poems Addressing: Veil, Turbine, Cord, & Bird Preliminary Exercise Notes during a Lecture on Mathematics The Recall of the Star Miraflor The Naming of the Time Ever I Pour Forth My Life from This Bough The Turbine What the Sonnet Means the Sonnet Means For the Assignment of the Spirit The Cherubim (I) The Cherubim (II) Styx The Sentinels An Eros/Amor/Love Cycle Et Passages In Wonder Passages Constructing the Course of a River in the Pyrenees In Waking From the Fall of 1950, December 1980 Two Sets of Tens: Derived from Confucian Analects Regulators Set of Passages The Dignities Passages The First Passages Stimmung Passages Enthralld Passages Quand le Grand Foyer Descend dans les Eaux Passages In Blood's Domaine Passages After Passage Passages With In Passages Seams Passages You, Muses Passages Structure of Rime: Of the Five Songs The Five Songs Whose Passages Close At the Door Illustrative Lines After a Long Illness Uncollected Work 1983--1988 In Passage Hekatombe Appendix: Table of Contents for Roots and Branches Notes Selected Bibliography Index of Titles and First Lines
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University of California Press Symposium of the Whole
Book SynopsisIn three ethnographic sections, this book demonstrates how various poetries are structured and composed, how they reflect meaning and worldview, and how they are performed in cultures where all art may be thought of as art-in-motion.
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University of California Press Classicism and Christianity in Late Antique Latin
Book SynopsisAfter centuries of near silence, Latin poetry underwent a renaissance in the late fourth and fifth centuries CE evidenced in the works ofkey figures such as Ausonius, Claudian, Prudentius, and Paulinus of Nola. This period of resurgence markeda milestone in the reception of the classics of late Republican and early imperial poetry. In Classicism and Christianity in Late Antique Latin Poetry, Philip Hardie explores the ways in which poets writing on non-Christian and Christian subjects used the classical traditions of Latin poetry to constructtheir relationship with Rome's imperial past and present, and with the by now not-so-new belief system of the state religion, Christianity. The book pays particular attention to the themes of concord and discord, the cosmic sense of late antiquity, novelty and renouatio, paradox and miracle, and allegory. It is also a contribution to the ongoing discussion of whether there is an identifiably late antique poetics and a late antique practice of intertextuality. Not since Michael Robert's classic The Jeweled Style has a single book had so much to teach about the enduring power of Latin poetry in late antiquity. Trade Review"As always, Hardie’s work is erudite and articulate, displaying the author’s extensive knowledge of both early and late Latin poetic corpora. This recent work advocates for the uniqueness and vitality of late antique Latin poetry against the still-widespread stereotype of the period as one marked by decadence and degeneration. It should be widely appreciated by specialists in Latin poetry, late antiquity, and anyone interested in the complex interactions between ‘classical’ and Christian culture in the later Roman world. It is highly recommended." * The Society of Biblical Literature *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. Farewells and Returns: Ausonius and Paulinus of Nola 2. Virgilian Plots: Public Ideologies and Private Journeys 3. Cosmos: Classical and Christian Universes 4. Concord and Discord: Concordia Discors 5. Innovations of Late Antiquity: Novelty and Renouatio 6. Paradox, Mirabilia, Miracles 7. Allegory 8. Mosaics and Intertextuality References General Index Index Locorum
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University of California Press Robert Duncan
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Includes some of Duncan's finest essays . . . a great help to all readers." * CHOICE *"The Collected Later Poetry and Plays represents the assured completion of the vital gathering already underway with The Collected Early Poetry and Plays. With these two volumes the canon of Duncan's poetry is fully established and readily available to a broad audience." * Bookslut *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Discovery Making The Opening of the Field (1960) Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow - The Dance The Law I Love Is Major Mover The Structure of Rime I The Structure of Rime II A Poem Slow Beginning The Structure of Rime III The Structure of Rime IV The Structure of Rime V The Structure of Rime VI The Structure of Rime VII Three Pages from a Birthday Book This Place Rumord to Have Been Sodom The Ballad of the Enamord Mage The Ballad of Mrs Noah The Maiden The Propositions Four Pictures of the Real Universe Evocation Of Blasphemy Nor Is the Past Pure Crosses of Harmony and Disharmony A Poem of Despondencies Poetry, a Natural Thing Keeping the Rhyme A Song of the Old Order The Question The Performance We Wait For At Christmas Proofs Yes, as a Look Springs to Its Face Yes, as a Look Springs to Its Face, A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar The Structure of Rime VIII The Structure of Rime IX The Structure of Rime X The Structure of Rime XI A Storm of White Atlantis Out of the Black Bone Dance Under Ground The Natural Doctrine The Structure of Rime XII The Structure of Rime XIII Another Animadversion After Reading Barely and Widely Ingmar Bergman’s Seventh Seal Food for Fire, Food for Thought Uncollected Work 1957–1960 A Stray Poem (Notes Reading from Rene Fulop-Miller’s The Power and Secrets of the Jesuits) Melville after Pierre Solitude The Song of the River to Its Shores Pre-face I Saw the Rabbit Leap Roots and Branches (1964) Roots and Branches Roots and Branches What Do I Know of the Old Lore? Night Scenes A Sequence of Poems for H.D.’s Birthday A Letter Nel Mezzo del Cammin di Nostra Vita A Dancing Concerning a Form of Women The Law Apprehensions Sonneries of the Rose Cross Now the Record Now Record Variations on Two Dicta of William Blake Cover Images Come, Let Me Free Myself Risk Four Songs the Night Nurse Sang Structure of Rime XV Structure of Rime XVI Structure of Rime XVII Structure of Rime XVIII Osiris and Set Windings Two Presentations After a Passage in Baudelaire Shelley’s Arethusa Set to New Measures After Reading H.D.’s Hermetic Definitions Strains of Sight Doves Returning to the Rhetoric of an Early Mode Two Entertainments The Ballad of the Forfar Witches’ Sing A Country Wife’s Song What Happened : Prelude A Set of Romantic Hymns Thank You for Love From The Mabinogion Forced Lines A New Poem (for Jack Spicer) Sonnet 1 Sonnet 2 Sonnet 3 Answering Adam’s Way: A Play upon Theosophical Themes Cyparissus A Part-Sequence for Change Structure of Rime XIX Structure of Rime XX Structure of Rime XXI The Continent Uncollected Work 1961–1964 A Play with Masks Weaving the Design Old Testament New Testament Bending the Bow (1968) Introduction Sonnet 4 Structure of Rime XXII 5th Sonnet Such Is the Sickness of Many a Good Thing Bending the Bow Tribal Memories Passages 1 At the Loom Passages 2 What I Saw Passages 3 Where It Appears Passages 4 The Moon Passages 5 The Collage Passages 6 Envoy Passages 7 Structure of Rime XXIII As in the Old Days Passages 8 The Architecture Passages 9 These Past Years Passages 10 Shadows Passages 11 Wine Passages 12 Structure of Rime XXIV Structure of Rime XXV Reflections The Fire Passages 13 Chords Passages 14 Spelling Passages 15 A Lammas Tiding My Mother Would Be a Falconress Saint Graal (after Verlaine) Parsifal (after Wagner and Verlaine) The Currents Passages 16 Moving the Moving Image Passages 17 The Torso Passages 18 The Earth Passages 19 Structure of Rime XXVI: For Kenneth Anger An Illustration Passages 20 The Multiversity Passages 21 In the Place of a Passage 22 Benefice Passages 23 Orders Passages 24 Up Rising Passages 25 The Chimeras of Gérard de Nerval El Desdichado (The Disinherited) Myrtho Horus Anteros Delphica Artemis The Christ in the Olive Grove Golden Lines Earth’s Winter Song Moira’s Cathedral A Shrine to Ameinias Narrative Bridges for Adam’s Way The Soldiers Passages 26 An Interlude Transgressing the Real Passages 27 The Light Passages 28 Eye of God Passages 29 Stage Directions Passages 30 God-Spell Epilogos Uncollected Work 1965–1968 At the Poetry Conference: Berkeley after the New York Style We heard it as a cry. It was the Word. Keeping the War Inside Yes I care deeply and yet Christmas Present, Christmas Presence! From a Poem by John Ashbery If I Had Kin Ground Work: Before the War (1984) Some Notes on Notation Achilles’ Song Ancient Questions A Song from the Structures of Rime Ringing as the Poet Paul Celan Sings Despair in Being Tedious The Concert Passages 31 (Tribunals) Ancient Reveries and Declamations Passages 32 (Tribunals) Transmissions Passages 33 (Tribunals) The Feast Passages 34 (Tribunals) Before the Judgment Passages 35 (Tribunals) Santa Cruz Propositions A Glimpse And If He Had Been Wrong for Me For Me Too, I, Long Ago Shipping Out with the Cantos And Hell Is the Realm of God’s Self-Loathing Childhood’s Retreat Fragments of an Albigensian Rime O! Passages 37 Bring It Up from the Dark Structure of Rime XXVII Structure of Rime XXVIII: In Memoriam Wallace Stevens Over There The Museum Interrupted Forms Poems from the Margins of Thom Gunn’s Moly Preface to the Suite The Moly Suite Near Circe’s House Rites of Passage: I Moly Rites of Passage: II A Seventeenth Century Suite in Homage to the Metaphysical Genius in English Poetry (1590–1690) 1. Love’s a great courtesy to be declared 2. Sir Walter Ralegh, What Is Our Life? 3. Go as in a dream 4. Robert Southwell, the Burning Babe 5. “A pretty Babe”—that burning Babe 6. George Herbert, Jordan (I) 7. George Herbert, Jordan (II) 8. These Lines Composing Themselves in My Head as I Awoke Early This Morning, It Being Still Dark, December 16, 1971 Passages 36 9. Ben Jonson, Hymenæi: Or the Solemnities of Masque, and Barriers 10. John Norris of Bemerton, Hymne to Darkness Coda Dante Études Preface Book One We Will Endeavor Secondary Is the Grammar A Little Language To Speak My Mind Everything Speaks to Me In the Way of a Question Speech Directed Enricht in the Increment The Individual Man Of Empire The Meaning of Each Particular The Whole Potentiality The Work The Household Let Him First Drink of the Fountain And Tho They Have No Vowel Letting the Beat Go Book Two A Hard Task in Truth Lovely The One Rule Our Art but to Articulate In Nothing Superior Enacted On Obedience Zealous Liberality We Convivial in What Is Ours! Mr. Philip Wicksteed Stumbling into Rime in Prose in Translating Dante’s Convivio Go, My Songs, Even as You Came to Me Book Three My Soul Was as If Free Nor Dream in Your Hearts For the Sea Is God’s Where the Fox of This Stench Sulks In Truth Doth She Breathe Out Poisonous Fumes Then Many a One Sang In My Youth Not Unstaind And a Wisdom as Such Four Supplementary Études Of Memory Hers I Too Trembling But We, to Whom the World Is The Missionaries Passages The Torn Cloth Songs of an Other Empedoklean Reveries Passages Jamais Passages An Interlude of Winter Light “Eidolon of the Aion” The Presence of the Dance{ths}/{ths}The Resolution of the Music Circulations of the Song Uncollected Work 1969–1982 O tree of lights! tree of colors Childless After Shakespeare’s Sonnet 76 Second Take on Shakespeare’s Sonnet 76 She Something Is Moving A Fantasy Piece for Helen Adam Feb. 22, 1973 I have{ths}/{ths}nothing to go on A Prepucal Face for Nigel Roberts Johnny’s Thing An Epithalamium Poe et Cie Let Me Join You Again This Morning, Walt Whitman Ground Work II: In the Dark (1987) An Alternate Life In the South Homecoming Supplication The Quotidian To Master Baudelaire Toward His Malaise Among His Words The Face At Cambridge an Address to Young Poets Native to the Land of My Mothertongue Le Sonnet Où Sonne la Sonnette dès Dernières Jours Toujours Fait Son Retour Pour Souffrir l’Envie Jusqu’à l’Amour en Vie Sets of Syllables, Sets of Words, Sets of Lines, Sets of Poems Addressing: Veil, Turbine, Cord, & Bird Preliminary Exercise Notes during a Lecture on Mathematics The Recall of the Star Miraflor The Naming of the Time Ever I Pour Forth My Life from This Bough The Turbine What the Sonnet Means the Sonnet Means For the Assignment of the Spirit The Cherubim (I) The Cherubim (II) Styx The Sentinels An Eros/Amor/Love Cycle Et Passages In Wonder Passages Constructing the Course of a River in the Pyrenees In Waking From the Fall of 1950, December 1980 Two Sets of Tens: Derived from Confucian Analects Regulators Set of Passages The Dignities Passages The First Passages Stimmung Passages Enthralld Passages Quand le Grand Foyer Descend dans les Eaux Passages In Blood’s Domaine Passages After Passage Passages With In Passages Seams Passages You, Muses Passages Structure of Rime: Of the Five Songs The Five Songs Whose Passages Close At the Door Illustrative Lines After a Long Illness Uncollected Work 1983–1988 In Passage Hekatombé Appendix: Table of Contents for Roots and Branches Notes Selected Bibliography Index of Titles and First Lines
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University of California Press Ovid
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University of California Press Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews Vol. III
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University of California Press Wordsworths Heroes
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University of California Press Ovid
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University of California Press The BalladDrama of Medieval Japan
Book SynopsisThe Ballad-Drama of Medieval Japan delves into the kowaka, a ballad-drama genre that flourished during Japan's tumultuous Medieval Era, a period shaped by samurai culture and the heroic values of loyalty and chivalry. Emerging in the 16th century, kowaka captured the martial exploits and epic struggles of the early Medieval Era, including the famed Genji-Heike conflict. Despite its initial popularity among samurai, the kowaka faded into obscurity during the Edo Period, only to be rediscovered in modern times. This study aims to reconstruct the history, artistry, and literary significance of kowaka, drawing on Japanese scholarship, field observations in Kyushu's Oe Village (where the tradition endures), and textual analysis. The book is divided into two parts. The first examines kowaka as a performing art, detailing its historical development, influences, and stylistic elements while highlighting the author's original fieldwork and critiques of prior research. The second part focuses
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University of California Press The Frenzied Poets
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Life of W. B. Yeats
Book SynopsisW B Yeats, widely regarded as the greatest English-language poet of the twentieth century, believed that the life of a lyric poet was an experiment in living that should be told. This biography seeks to tell that story as it unfolded in the various contexts in which Yeats worked as an artist and as a public figure.Trade Review"For general readers and undergraduates, Brown's is the best choice. Brown's excellent biography is highly recommended for all readership levels."Choice "This is a wonderful critical history, meticulously providing a full context in time and place for all of Yeats's writings."The Sunday Tribune Brown is especially good at showing how Yeats constructed his volumes of poetry as a 'work in progress', and at rooting his acheivements in the venemous politics of Dublin culture wars."New York Times Book Review "The work is fascinating and a pleasure to read, Brown an illuminating and companiable guide."John McGahern, The Irish Times "One of the many splendid qualities of Terence Brown's recent biography is its critical appreciation of the poet's extraordinary cultural accomplishments within the broader context of a brilliantly rendered political and social history of modern Ireland. "Brown's book is nonetheless the finest single-volume biography of the Irish poet since the publication of Richard Ellmann's seminal Yeats: The Man and the Masks in 1948." Reason "Exceptional!!!!" Today's Books Table of ContentsList of Illustrations. Preface and Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. Prologue: Sindbad's Yellow Shore. 1. Victorian Cities: London and Dublin. 2. The English 1890s. 3. Poems 1895. 4. Conflicts and Crises. 5. Patronage and Powers. 6. An Irish Ireland. 7. The Strong Enchanter. 8. The Mid-Life Mask. 9. Darkened Rooms. 10. The Lonely Height. 11. All Changed. 12. Occult Marriage. 13. The Weasel's Tooth. 14. Senator and Seer. 15. Visionary Modernist. 16. Home and Abroad. 17. An Old Man's Frenzy. 18. Stroke of Midnight. Epilogue: Afterlife. Works Cited. Select Bibliography and Guide to Further Reading. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Book SynopsisPresents Samuel Taylor Coleridge - poet, critic, thinker, plagiarist, cultural omnivore, enchanting companion, feckless husband, fabled conversationalist, guilt-ridden opium addict - in his complexity. This biography shows how Coleridge's writings in verse and prose are especially directly expressive of his opinions and emotions.Trade Review"A fine addition to the biographical attempt to catch the complex and elusive figure of Coleridge. The volume is notable for its aliveness, its signal success in giving us a living breathing human being." Professor Thomas McFarland, Princeton University "This book provides the student or general reader with an excellent critical introduction to Coleridge's life and work. Ashton has a gift for elucidating difficult concepts in clear and straightforward language. I can think of no better single volume Coleridge biography." Duncan Wu, University of Glasgow "This is a stimulating study of a man of many obvious talents." Alan Bold, The Herald "Ashton writes lucidly, and the book will be accessible to the layman and student as well as useful to the card-carrying Coleridge scholar; it is good, at last, to have a biography one can recommend so highly." Seamus Perry, Times Literary Supplement "Rosemary Ashton sets store by telling the sheer story. As vitally documented narrative, altogether free from melodrama. The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a deft feat." Christopher Dicks, London Quarterly "Here is a new biography of Coleridge that is likely to become the standard life of the poet. Rosmary Ashton's The Life of Sammuel Taylor Coleridge: A critical Biography offers a comprehensive and judicious survey of the poet's life and writings. John Strachen University of Sunderland " Professor Ashton identifies the tangle of abilities and pursuits that ranged from poetry to criticism philosophy to politics, opium-induced imagination to sparkling conversation."Table of ContentsList of Illustrations. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part I:1772-1803:. 1. Inspired Charity Boy 1772-1791. 2. Cambridge and Pantisocracy 1791-1794. 3. Bristol and Marriage 1795-1796. 4. Nether Stowey and 'Kubla Khan' 1796-1797. 5. The Ancient Mariner. 6. To Germany and Back 1798-1800. 7. Greta Hall 1800-1802. Part II: 1803-1834:. 8. In Search of Health: To Malta and Back: 1803-1806. 9. Friendships and The Friend 1807-1810. 10. Life-in-Death: London 1810-1814. 11. Risen Again : Biographia Literaria 1814-1817. 12. Highgate 1818-1821. 13. Coleridge the Sage: Aids to Reflection 1821-1825. 14. Progress and Permanence 1826-1829. 15. Last Years: Church and the State 1830-1834. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Chaucer to Spenser
Book SynopsisThis collection of previously published essays acts as a companion to Chaucer to Spenser: An Anthology of Writings in English 1375 -1575. It pays particular attention to those critics who have had the most powerful recent impact on our reading of the texts of the period.Table of ContentsPreface. Notes on Contributors. 1. The Humanity of Christ: Reflections on Orthodox Late Medieval Representations and The Humanity of Christ: Representations in Wycliffite Texts and Piers Plowman: David Aers. 2. The Wife of Bath and the Painting of Lions: Mary Carruthers. 3. Eunuch Hermeneutics: Carolyn Dinshaw. 4. Misogyny and Economic Person in Skelton, Langland, and Chaucer: Elizabeth Fowler. 5. At the Table of the Great: More's Self-Fashioning and Self-Cancellation: Stephen Greenblatt. 6. The Colonial Wyatt: Contexts and Openings: Roland Greene. 7. Price and Value in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Jill Mann. 8. William Langland's Kynde Name: Authorial Signature and Social Identity in Late Fourteenth-Century England: Anne Middleton. 9. Historical Criticism and the Claims of Humanism: Lee Patterson. 10.'Abject odious': Feminine and Masculine in Henryson's Testament of Cresseid: Felicity Riddy. 11. Prison, Writing, Absence: Representing the Subject in the English Poems of Charles d'Orléans: A. C. Spearing. 12. False Fables and Historical Truth: Paul Strohm. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Chaucer to Spenser
Book SynopsisThis collection of previously published essays acts as a companion to Chaucer to Spenser: An Anthology of Writings in English 1375 -1575. It pays particular attention to those critics who have had the most powerful recent impact on our reading of the texts of the period.Table of ContentsPreface. Notes on Contributors. 1. The Humanity of Christ: Reflections on Orthodox Late Medieval Representations and The Humanity of Christ: Representations in Wycliffite Texts and Piers Plowman: David Aers. 2. The Wife of Bath and the Painting of Lions: Mary Carruthers. 3. Eunuch Hermeneutics: Carolyn Dinshaw. 4. Misogyny and Economic Person in Skelton, Langland, and Chaucer: Elizabeth Fowler. 5. At the Table of the Great: More's Self-Fashioning and Self-Cancellation: Stephen Greenblatt. 6. The Colonial Wyatt: Contexts and Openings: Roland Greene. 7. Price and Value in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Jill Mann. 8. William Langland's Kynde Name: Authorial Signature and Social Identity in Late Fourteenth-Century England: Anne Middleton. 9. Historical Criticism and the Claims of Humanism: Lee Patterson. 10.'Abject odious': Feminine and Masculine in Henryson's Testament of Cresseid: Felicity Riddy. 11. Prison, Writing, Absence: Representing the Subject in the English Poems of Charles d'Orléans: A. C. Spearing. 12. False Fables and Historical Truth: Paul Strohm. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge A Critical
Book Synopsis* A major account of the life and work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge* Author an authority on Anglo--German cultural connections in the 19th century -- so this book is particularly strong and very accessible too on the German philosophical and literary background. .Trade Review"A fine addition to the biographical attempt to catch the complex and elusive figure of Coleridge. The volume is notable for its aliveness, its signal success in giving us a living breathing human being." Professor Thomas McFarland, Princeton University "This book provides the student or general reader with an excellent critical introduction to Coleridge's life and work. Ashton has a gift for elucidating difficult concepts in clear and straightforward language. I can think of no better single volume Coleridge biography." Duncan Wu, University of Glasgow "This is a stimulating study of a man of many obvious talents." Alan Bold, The Herald "Ashton writes lucidly, and the book will be accessible to the layman and student as well as useful to the card-carrying Coleridge scholar; it is good, at last, to have a biography one can recommend so highly." Seamus Perry, Times Literary Supplement "Rosemary Ashton sets store by telling the sheer story. As vitally documented narrative, altogether free from melodrama. The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a deft feat." Christopher Dicks, London Quarterly "Here is a new biography of Coleridge that is likely to become the standard life of the poet. Rosmary Ashton's The Life of Sammuel Taylor Coleridge: A critical Biography offers a comprehensive and judicious survey of the poet's life and writings. John Strachen University of Sunderland " Professor Ashton identifies the tangle of abilities and pursuits that ranged from poetry to criticism philosophy to politics, opium-induced imagination to sparkling conversation."Table of ContentsList of Illustrations. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part I:1772-1803:. 1. Inspired Charity Boy 1772-1791. 2. Cambridge and Pantisocracy 1791-1794. 3. Bristol and Marriage 1795-1796. 4. Nether Stowey and 'Kubla Khan' 1796-1797. 5. The Ancient Mariner. 6. To Germany and Back 1798-1800. 7. Greta Hall 1800-1802. Part II: 1803-1834:. 8. In Search of Health: To Malta and Back: 1803-1806. 9. Friendships and The Friend 1807-1810. 10. Life-in-Death: London 1810-1814. 11. Risen Again : Biographia Literaria 1814-1817. 12. Highgate 1818-1821. 13. Coleridge the Sage: Aids to Reflection 1821-1825. 14. Progress and Permanence 1826-1829. 15. Last Years: Church and the State 1830-1834. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd SeventeenthCentury Poetry
Book SynopsisProvides work by fifty poets in texts freshly credited from contemporary sources. Offers much fuller annotation than customarily available. Includes canonical poets and works as well as works of writers rarely anthologised.Table of ContentsIndex of Topics. Alphabetical List of Authors. Acknowledgements. Preface. Goerg Chapman (1559-1634). Michael Drayton (1563-1631). Thomas Campion (1567-1620). Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645). John Donne (1572-1631). Be3n Jonson (1572-1637). Martha Moulsworth (1578-1646). Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1583-1648). William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585-1649). Lady Mry Wroth (1587-c.1653). Robert Herrick (1591-1674). Henry King (1592-1669). Francis Quarles (1592-1633). Thomas Carew (1595-1640). Owen Felltham (1602-1668). Thomas Randolph (1605-1654). Edmund Waller (1606-1687). Sir Richard Fanshawe (1608-1666). John Milton (1608-1674). Sir John Suckling (1609-1642). Richard Crawshaw (1612-1649). Samuel Butler (1613-1680). John Cleveland (1613-1658). Sir John Denham (1615-1669). Richard Lovelace (1618-1658). Abraham Cowley (1618-1667). Lucy Hutchinson (1620-1681). Andrew Marvell (1621-1678). Henry Vaughan (1622-1695). Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastel (1624-1674). Charles Cotton (1630-1687). John Dryden (1631-1700). Katherine Philips (1632-1664). Thomas Traherne (1637-1674). Aphra Behn (1640-1689). John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1674-1680). John Oldham (1653-1683). Anne Wharton (1659-1685). Index of Authors Cited. Index of Titles and First Lines.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Romantic Poetry
Book SynopsisEasily adaptable as both an anthology and an insightful guide to reading and understanding Romantic Poetry, this text discusses the important elements in the works from poets such as Smith, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, Barbauld, Byron, Shelley, Hemans, Keats and Landon.Trade Review" ... this anthology's real strength lies in its wide-ranging, brilliant, and erudite annotations, which sometimes occupy as much space as the poetry itself. One could nearly read this volume in lieu of formal instruction. Packed with wonderful readings, excellent references (and recommendations for additional reading), extremely helpful footnotes, and engaging attention to the workings of form, Romantic Poetry: An Annotated Anthology could make a significant contribution to many instructors, students, and general readers." (Keats-Shelley Journal) "The head notes and commentary will prove invaluable, as they expertly identify literary sources and allusions.... The extensive biographies are superb, especially Charles Mahoney's on Keats, and the suggestions for further reading helpful ... Romantic Poetry does what it sets out to do and is a useful new addition to Blackwell's ongoing series of annotated anthologies." (Keats-Shelley Reviews, December 2008) "The editors have a particular commitment to the role that an appreciation of poetic form can play in critical understanding, and it is on account of this formal detail that the anthology is so valuable. Introductory headnotes elucidate the subtleties of each poem's craft, while footnotes comment on line endings, rhyme patterns, and other features of the text. Some comments are so brilliantly incisive as to deserve separate publication, such as the account of the metre of Christabel: 'each line seems like a stealthy event' (p. 207). Without question, this is by far the best way that any reader could be introduced to these poets, and the anthology is careful not to suggest that an attention to poetic detail precludes other types of investigation. Understanding how a poem creates meaning, however, is the vital first step, and for this reason Romantic Poetry: An Annotated Anthology will doubtless be the standard teaching anthology for many years." Year's Work of English Studies (2010) Table of ContentsSelected Contents by Theme. List of Plates. Note on Texts and Editorial Method. Index of Themes. Chronology of Events and Poetic Landmarks. Introduction: Romantic Doubleness. Acknowledgements. Anna Laetitia Barbauld, neé Aikin (1743--1825). The Rights of Woman. Inscription for an Ice-House. To Mr. S. T. Coleridge. Charlotte Smith, neé Turner (1749--1806). Sonnet 1 ['The partial Muse, has from my earliest hours']. Sonnet VII. On the Departure of the Nightingale. Sonnet XII. Written on the Sea Shore. – October, 1784. Sonnet XXX. To the River Arun. Sonnet XXXII. To Melancholy. Sonnet XXXIX. To Night. Sonnet XLIV. Written in the Church-yard at Middleton in Sussex. William Blake (1757--1827). from Songs of Innocence and of Experience. (from Innocence). Introduction. The Ecchoing Green. The Lamb. The Little Black Boy. The Chimney Sweeper. Holy Thursday. Nurse’s Song. (from Experience). Introduction. The Clod and the Pebble. Holy Thursday. The Sick Rose. The Fly. The Tyger. Ah! Sun-flower. London. A Poison Tree. Visions of the Daughters of Albion. The First Book of Urizen. The Mental Traveller. The Crystal Cabinet. William Wordsworth (1770--1850). Lines written at a small distance from my House, and sent by my little Boy to the Person to whom they are addressed. Simon Lee, the old Huntsman, With an incident in which he was concerned. Anecdote for Fathers, Shewing how the practice of Lying may be taught. Lines written in early Spring. The Thorn. The Last of the Flock. The Idiot Boy. Expostulation and Reply. The Tables Turned; An Evening Scene, on the same subject. Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798. The Ruined Cottage. Strange Fits of Passion I have Known. Song: 'She Dwelt among th'untrodden Ways'. A Slumber did my Spirit Seal. The Two April Mornings. The Fountain, A Conversation. Nutting. Michael, A Pastoral Poem. From The Prelude (1805), Book 1. Resolution and Independence. The World is Too Much With Us. Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1803. Ode (from 1815 entitled ‘Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood’). The Solitary Reaper. Elegiac Stanzas, Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772--1834). The Eolian Harp. Composed at Clevedon, Somersetshire. Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement. This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison. Kubla Khan. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Christabel. Frost at Midnight. France: An Ode. The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem, April, 1798. The Pains of Sleep. Dejection: An Ode. George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788--1824). Stanzas to [Augusta]. [Epistle to Augusta]. Stanzas to the Po. Don Juan. The Dedication. Canto 1. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792--1822). Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude. Hymn to Intellectual Beauty. Mont Blanc. Lines written in the Vale of Chamouni. Prometheus Unbound, Act I. Ode to the West Wind. Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of ‘Endymion’, ‘Hyperion’, etc. Felicia Hemans, née Browne (1793--1835). Properzia Rossi. The Homes of England. The Spirit’s Mysteries. The Graves of a Household. The Image in Lava. Casabianca. The Lost Pleiad. The Mirror in the Deserted Hall. John Keats (1795--1821). On First Looking into Chapman's Homer. The Eve of St Agnes. La Belle Dame Sans Merci. Ode to Psyche. If by dull rhymes our english must be chain’d. Ode to a Nightingale. Ode on a Grecian Urn. Ode on Melancholy. Ode on Indolence. To Autumn. Bright star, Would I Were Stedfast as thou art. Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) (1802--38). Lines Written under a Picture of a Girl Burning a Love-Letter. A Child Screening a Dove from a Hawk. By Stewardson. Lines of Life. Felicia Hemans. Index of Titles and First Lines
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Chaucer
Book SynopsisPresents a comprehensive selection of the key views of Chaucer in the twentieth century. This volume addresses the growth of Chaucer criticism over the centuries. It reflects the three major divisions of Chaucer's writing: The Dream Vision poetry, Troilus and Criseyde, and The Canterbury Tales.Trade Review"The acuteness of Corinne Saunders's analyses makes this volume considerably more than a collection of critical extracts; it manages to be at once illuminating about Chaucer, Chaucerian criticism, and twentieth-century criticism in general, its range, its concerns, its disagreements, and its radical insights." Medium Aevum LXXI/2002 "Saunders's Chaucer is a thought-inspiring and highly recommended coursebook to use beside The Riverside Chaucer." English StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction. Part I: The Development of Chaucer Criticism:. Chaucer's Reading and Audience: Critical Extracts. 'The English and European Literary Traditions': Derek Brewer:. Introduction. Reading. From 'Chaucer: The Teller and the Tale': Gabriel Joipovici:. Introduction. Reading. From 'Audience': Paul Strohm:. Introduction. Reading. PArt II: Dream Vision Poetry:. Dream Vision Poetry: Critical Extracts. 'The Lady White and the White Tablet: The Book of the Duchess': Judith Ferster:. Introduction. Reading. ' "The Dido Episode," in The House of Fame': Wolfgang Clemen. Introduction. Reading. 'Chaucer's Fame and Her World: The Poem': Piero Boitani:. Introduction. Reading. 'Park of Paradise and Garden of Love': J. A. W. Bennett:. Introduction. Reading. 'The Parliament of Fowls': A. C. Spearing:. Introduction. Reading. 'The Narrator as Translator': Donald W. Rowe:. Introduction. Reading. 'Chaucer's Classical Legendary': Lisa J. Kiser:. Introduction. Reading. Part III: Troilus and Criseyde:. Troilus and Criseyde: Critical Extracts. From 'The Ending of Troilus': E. Talbot Donaldson:. Introduction. Reading. From 'The Heart and the Chain': John Leyerle:. Introduction. Reading. From 'Criseyde: Woman in Medieval Society': David Aers:. Introduction. Reading. 'Coda: The Narrator': B David Benson:. Introduction. Reading. 'History versus Romance': Lee Patterson. PArt IV: The Canterbury Tales:. The Canterbury Tales: Critical Extracts. From 'The Unity of the Canterbury Tales': Robert M. Jordan:. Introduction. Reading. 'The Esthetics of this Form': Donald R. Howard:. Introduction. Reading. 'An Encyclopedia of Kinds': Helen Cooper:. Introduction. Reading. From ' The Night's Tale and Its Settings': V. A. Kolve:. Introduction. Reading. 'Fabliau, Confession, Satire': W. A. Davenport:. Introduction. Reading. 'Gems of Chastity': Ian Bishop:. Introduction. Reading. From 'Antifeminism': Jill Mann:. Introduction. Reading. From 'The Franklin's Tale': Angela Jane Weisl:. Introduction. Reading. From 'Glose/Bele Chose: The Wife of Bath and Her Glossators' and 'Eunuch Hermeneutics': Carolyn Dinshaw:. Introduction. Reading. Bibliography.
£38.90
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Order and Disorder
Book SynopsisOrder and Disorder, the first epic poem by an Englishwoman, has never before been available in its entirety. David Norbrook has attributed the work to the republican, Lucy Hutchinson. In this volume, he provides a wealth of editorial matter, along with the full version of Order and Disorder.Trade Review"This eagerly awaited volume largely meets the high expectations readers have of Norbrook. Norbrook's edition belongs in the library of all colleges that grant a degree in English - not only because new scholarly topics include comparisons of Hutchinson and John Milton but because Hutchinson's "meditations" reveal a writer of considerable gifts. For that revelation readers are all deeply in Norbrook's debt." Choice "Norbrook's presentation of Order and Disorder is exemplary: finely judged, meticulous, and alert to textual resonance." Notes and QueriesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations. Abbreviations and References. Chronology. Order and Disorder: The Poem and its Contexts:. Lucy Hutchinson. Reading the Bible. Biblical Verse. The Divine Narrative. Politics and Religion. Eve's Version? Genesis, Women and the Woman Writer. Note on the Text and Editing. Acknowledgements. Order and Disorder. Appendix: 'Elegies', no. 3. Further Reading. Bibliography.
£104.36
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Order and Disorder
Book SynopsisOrder and Disorder, the first epic poem by an Englishwoman, has never before been available in its entirety. The first five cantos were printed anonymously in 1679, but fifteen further cantos remained in manuscript, probably because they were so politically sensitive.Trade Review"This eagerly awaited volume largely meets the high expectations readers have of Norbrook. Norbrook's edition belongs in the library of all colleges that grant a degree in English - not only because new scholarly topics include comparisons of Hutchinson and John Milton but because Hutchinson's "meditations" reveal a writer of considerable gifts. For that revelation readers are all deeply in Norbrook's debt." Choice "Norbrook's presentation of Order and Disorder is exemplary: finely judged, meticulous, and alert to textual resonance." Notes and QueriesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations. Abbreviations and References. Chronology. Order and Disorder: The Poem and its Contexts:. Lucy Hutchinson. Reading the Bible. Biblical Verse. The Divine Narrative. Politics and Religion. Eve's Version? Genesis, Women and the Woman Writer. Note on the Text and Editing. Acknowledgements. Order and Disorder. Appendix: 'Elegies', no. 3. Further Reading. Bibliography.
£44.60
