Literary studies: poetry and poets Books
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
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales
Book SynopsisThis concise and lively survey introduces students with no prior knowledge to Chaucer, and particularly to The Canterbury Tales. Provides essential facts about Chaucer, as well as a framework for thinking about his poetry. Encourages an engaged reading of The Canterbury Tales. Introduces students to the historical and religious background needed to understand the contexts in which Chaucer wrote. Provides essential facts about Chaucer, as well as a framework for thinking about his poetry. Encourages an engaged reading of The Canterbury Tales. Introduces students to the historical and religious background needed to understand the contexts in which Chaucer wrote. Trade Review"This book is a lively, useful guide to beginning readers of the Canterbury Tales. It strikes a good balance between the cultural topics and historical interests that have shaped much contemporary scholarship and the poetic features – character, theme, structure, and linguistic play – that have always attracted Chaucer's readers." Robert Edwards, Pennsylvania State University "Hirsch releases the pleasure, vitality, and complexity of the Canterbury Tales by familiarizing us with the fascinating otherness of Chaucer's world, and key interpretations by modern scholars. For anyone studying or teaching the Canterbury Tales, this informative and readable book will save much labour, and stimulate much thought." Peter Brown, University of Kent at Canterbury "John Hirsh offers persuasive and vivid evocations of Chaucer's life and times, and his thought world, which provide useful contexts for his writings. An excellent and original introduction." Corinne Saunders, Durham University "Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales includes a great range of accurate information in its few pages; even more important, Hirsh's writing is clear and welcoming and his learning and critical judgments as undogmatic as they are stimulating. [...] Although always sensitive to what a novice reader might need to know, Hirsh is never condescending. [...] Hirsh involves us in the delight of the material and the questions it raises in such a way that we hardly realize how well we are being instructed...." SpeculumTable of ContentsNotes on Illustrations. Preface. Who Was Geoffrey Chaucer?. Gender and Religion, Race and Class. Others. Love. God. Visions of Chaucer. Death. Conclusion. Which Tale Was That? A Summary of theCanterbury Tales. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index. List of Authors, Compilers, Editors, and Translators Referred to in the Select Bibliography.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Romantic Poetry
Book SynopsisFeaturing the work of the six great Romantic Poets - Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats - this concise collection illustrates the new way of thinking voiced by the Romantic poets in an age of rebellion and revolution.Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface. Introduction. Part I: William Blake (1757-1827):. 1. Songs of Innocence:. Introduction. The Shepherd. The Echoing Green. The Lamb. The Little Black Boy. The Blossom. The Chimney Sweeper. The Little Boy Lost. The Little Boy Found. Laughing Song. A Cradle Song. The Divine Image. Holy Thursday. Night. Spring. Nurse's Song. Infant Joy. A Dream. On Another's Sorrow. 2. Songs of Experience:. Introduction. Earth's Answer. The Clod and the Pebble. Holy Thursday. The Little Girl Lost. The Little Girl Found. The Chimney Sweeper. Nurse's Song. The Sick Rose. The Fly. The Angel. The Tyger. My Pretty Rose-Tree. Ah, Sunflower!. The Lily. The Garden of Love. The Little Vagabond. London. The Human Abstract. Infant Sorrow. A Poison Tree. A Little Boy Lost. A Little Girl Lost. To Tirzah. The Schoolboy. The Voice of the Ancient Bard. A Divine Image. Part II: William Wordsworth (1770-1850):. Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey. The Two-Part Prelude (Part I only). Strange fits of passion I have known. Song (‘She dwelt among the 'untrodden ways'). A slumber did my spirit seal. Three years she grew in sun and shower. I travelled among unknown men. Composed upon Westminster Bridge, 3 September 1802. Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood. Daffodils. Stepping Westward. The Solitary Reaper. The River Duddon: Conclusion. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). Of the Fragment of ‘Kubla Khan'. Kubla Khan. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. In seven parts. Frost at Midnight. Christabel (Part I and conclusion only). George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824). From Don Juan: Canto II (extracts). Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822). To Wordsworth. Hymn to Intellectual Beauty. Mont Blanc. Lines written in the Vale of Chamouni. Ozymandias. The Mask of Anarchy. Written on the Occasion of the Massacre at Manchester. Ode to the West Wind. England in 1819. Sonnet (‘Lift not the painted veil'). To a Skylark. John Keats (1795-1821). On First Looking into Chapman's Homer. Addressed to Haydon. On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again. Sonnet (‘When I have fears that I may cease to be'). The Eve of St Agnes. La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Ballad. Ode to Psyche. Ode to a Nightingale. Ode on a Grecian Urn. Ode on Melancholy. Ode on Indolence. To Autumn. Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art. Index of titles and first lines.
£84.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Poetry from Chaucer to Spenser Based on Chaucer
Book SynopsisOpening with extracts from Chaucer''s Canterbury Tales and closing with Spenser''s Shepherd''s Calendar, this concise collection introduces readers to some of the most influential poetry produced between the mid-fourteenth and late sixteenth centuries. Provides a concise selection of the most important late medieval poetry. Ideal for general readers, or for students needing a digest of the poetry of the period. Introduces readers to the lives of the poets, their major works, and the historical context in which they were written. Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface. Introduction. 1. Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343-1400):. From The Canterbury Tales:. The General Prologue. The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale. The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale. 2. William Langland (fl.1375-80):. The Vision of Piers Plowman (C-Text) (extracts). Prologue. Passus III. Passus V. Passus VI. 3. The Gawain-Poet (fl. 1390):. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Fit 3. 4. Robert Henryson (c. 1430-c. 1505):. The Testament of Cresseid. The Fables. The Fox and the Wolf. The Wolf and the Wether. 5. William Dunbar (c. 1456-c. 1515):. Meditation in Winter. Christ in Triumph. The Golden Targe (extracts). The Treatise of the Two Married Women and the Widow (extracts). ‘Timor Mortis Conturbat Me'. 6. Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-42):. ‘The longe love, that in my thought doeth harbor'. ‘Who-so list to hunt, I knowe where is an hynde'. ‘Farewell, Love, and all thy lawes for ever'. ‘My galy charged with forgetfulnes'. ‘Madame, withouten many wordes';. ‘They fle from me that sometyme did me seke'. ‘What no, perdy, ye may be sure!'. ‘Marvaill no more all-tho'. ‘Tho I cannot your crueltie constrain'. ‘To wish and want and not obtain'. ‘Some-tyme I fled the fyre that me brent'. ‘The furyous gonne is his rajing yre'. ‘My lute, awake! perfourme the last'. ‘In eternum I was ons determed'. ‘Hevyn and erth and all that here me plain'. ‘To cause accord or to agre'. ‘You that in love finde lucke and habundaunce'. ‘What rage is this? what furour of what kynd?'. ‘Is it possible?'. ‘Forget not yet the tryde entent'. ‘Blame not my lute for he must sownde'. ‘What shulde I saye'. ‘Spight hath no powre to make me sadde'. ‘I abide and abide and better abide'. ‘Stond who-so list upon the slipper toppe'. ‘Throughout the world, if it wer sought'. ‘In court to serve decked with freshe aray'. 7. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-47):. ‘When raging love with extreme payne'. ‘The soote season, that bud and blome furth bringes'. ‘Set me wheras the sonne doth perche the grene'. ‘Love, that doth raine and live within my thought'. ‘Alas, so all thinges nowe do holde their peace'. ‘Geve place, ye lovers, here before'. Epitaph for Wyatt. 8. Edmund Spenser (1552-99):. From The Shepherd's Calender. January. Index of titles and first lines.
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Harvard University Press To Be the Poet
Book SynopsisTo Be the Poet is Kingston's manifesto, the avowal and declaration of a writer who has devoted a good part of her sixty years to writing prose, and who, over the course of this spirited and inspiring book, works out what the rest of her life will be, in poetry.Trade ReviewOn the opening page of this slim volume, Kingston declares that after decades of writing acclaimed memoirs and fiction...she has decided to devote herself to writing poetry. This work...explores this new dimension of her life, mostly written in verse. Kingston relays her past, how she looks at herself, and how she works to take on the life of a poet. What results is a multilayered book that is irreverent, serious, and playful but always instructive. She gives her readers the opportunity to see an accomplished artist at work in the creative process--a new one for her. This book should appeal to all who have had the urge to put pen to paper. -- Ron Ratliff * Library Journal *A handsome, sub-sized book, To Be the Poet includes drawings by the author and journal jottings of lunches, telephone calls, trips and conversations with friends. It's fast and interesting, and useful as a blueprint on how to get a poem. -- Chris Watson * Santa Cruz Sentinel *Maxine Hong Kingston's To Be the Poet reads like a documentary on the daily life of a writer, and it has the potential to become a classic...Her new book...is not simply about being a writer; it's also a memoir with suggestions for coping with life...A lifelong writer of prose transforming herself into a poet--becomes the central image of the book, establishing the structure for its collage of reflections and notes...She takes the reader with her as she rededicates herself to poetry...Every writer should have a copy of this book, along with more copies in storage, to pass out to friends and family who look askance at the writing life...[Kingston's] lyrical prose uses the specifics of one woman's life to make a universal statement about how writers live and work. -- A. Van Jordan * Washington Post *The poems themselves are not only good writing, but a kind of personal prescription for the development of wisdom. Poetry, Kingston said, has become an antidote and companion to the hard work of prose writing. I especially enjoyed how she moves from mundane tasks like selling her house to the loftiness of imagining peace in her poetry. Somehow, in the masterful hands of this writer, these disparate activities become whole. This first book of poetry by the author is also a sort of workbook of instructions for the creative, and I would highly recommend it to other writers and artists as well as those who love words. -- Ann-Marie Stillion * Northwest Asian Weekly *Kingston has written some mighty serious books over the years, and now, at 60, she's kicking up her heels and enjoying the fun of wordsmithing. To Be the Poet is her "manifesto"...Kingston pillages her past and plunders the future, assembling a slim volume that's deeply observational and disarmingly witty. -- Burl Burlingame * Honolulu Star-Bulletin *A suitably brief, lucid and intriguing invitation to the process of poetry, in which [Kingston] shares her own path after she "choose the poet's life"...Once again, she blazes her own trail. * Honolulu Advertiser *
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Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies Platos Rhapsody and Homers Music
Book SynopsisThis book examines the overall testimony of Plato as an expert about the cultural legacy of these Homeric performances. Plato's fine ear for language--in this case the technical language of high-class artisans like rhapsodes--picks up on a variety of authentic expressions that echo the talk of rhapsodes as they once practiced their art.
£14.20
Harvard University Press Poets Thinking
Book SynopsisPoetry has often been considered an irrational genre, yet Vendler argues that all poets of value are thinkers. The four poets taken up in this volume—Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, and Yeats—come from three centuries and three nations, and their styles of thinking are characteristically idiosyncratic.Trade ReviewPoetry is often regarded as the product of inspiration rather than intellect. Vendler seeks to emphasize the importance of thought in poetry...She shows poetic thought as reflected in poetic voice, structure, and prosody in four poets: Alexander Pope, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and W. B. Yeats...Vendler's convincing and illuminating arguments make this book highly recommended. -- Amy K. Weiss * Library Journal *[Vendler's] thoughtful and insightful readings of poems by Alexander Pope, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and William Butler Yeats demonstrate the central and indeed essential role of sophisticated thinking in the poetic enterprise...To navigate the intricacies of thought that a poem contains, it is hard to imagine a better guide than Vendler herself. Her most admirable achievement is perhaps her ability to illuminate the connection between what a poem says and the formally oriented issue of how it says it. One might have expected a book explicitly on poetic thinking to neglect form, and focus only on content. But Vendler considers this approach a serious mistake, and her insights regarding form constitute the strongest argument for this position. -- Troy Jollimore * San Francisco Chronicle *Some people seem surprised by the idea that poets do any thinking at all. There is a popular image of the poet as a wild, inspired, untutored and half-mad figure striding across the heath. Helen Vendler's new book, Poet's Thinking, if it is read as widely as it ought to be, will help considerably to correct this misperception. * San Francisco Chronicle *In her challenging and entertaining new book, Poets Thinking, Helen Vendler argues that poetry in all its manifestations, however ostensibly irrational, is a mode of thinking that commands not just our aesthetic appreciation but also our intellectual respect...Vendler is a wonderful elucidator of individual poems. Nobody writes more insightfully about a poem's stylistic armature, and the emotional and intellectual purposes that armature serves. And by examining the distinctive strategies of thinking in the work of such radically different poets as Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, and Yeats, Vendler makes visible aspects of style and language that other critics simply haven't seen. -- Alan Shapiro * Harvard Magazine *One of the most distinguished critics of poetry in the English-speaking world...Vendler engages in close reading to find a poem's distinctiveness of language and literary form...Vendler is really trying to enlarge our idea of what poetry can be...In reminding us to look at and listen to the actual words on the page, and not to leap too soon to some hackneyed idea that they recall, Vendler invites us to expand our own response to experience. -- Christopher Benfey * New York Review of Books *Vendler's close readings lay bare the process of poetic reflection: Poets Thinking is about how rather than what poets think, about the act of the mind rather than any 'embalmed thought' that readers might want to extract from verse...Vendler is exceptionally skilled at demonstrating that poetry offers us pictures of the mind at work rather than settled axioms to take away...[Poets Thinking] has a good deal to offer in the way of thought-provoking and sometimes dazzling readings of British and American poetry. -- Fiona Green * Times Literary Supplement *Helen Vendler's Poets Thinking is lucid, accessible, and inspired...Vendler's own voice is that rare academic combination of expertise and accommodation...Her arguments provide ample explanation and exempla for the lay reader while provoking the academic to revisit old assumptions. She is at ease with the broad sweep of American and English poetry and with the critical methods of the last half-century. Her conclusions seem remarkably self-evident, a voice of trustworthiness and reason that encourages us to lean closer, to listen carefully. -- Lynnell Edwards * Georgia Review *
£24.26
Harvard University, Asia Center Words Well Put
Book SynopsisThe vision of poetic competence evolved for over a millennium from calculated performances of inherited words to sincere passionate outbursts to displays of verbal wit combining calculation with the appearance of spontaneity. This book tells the story of the development of poetic competence to uncover the complexity of the concept.
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Harvard University, Asia Center Householders
Book SynopsisAs descendants of the great courtier-poets Fujiwara no Shunzei (11141204) and his son Teika (11621244), the heirs of the Reizei house can claim an unbroken literary lineage spanning over eight centuries. Carter combines family history, literary criticism, and historical research in a coherent narrative tracking the evolution of the Reizei Way.
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Harvard University Press Cristoforo Landino Poems
Book SynopsisCristoforo Landino (14241498) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance. His most substantial work of poetry was his Three Books on Xandra. Also included in this volume is the Carmina Varia, a collection whose centerpiece is a group of elegies directed to the Venetian humanist Bernardo Bembo.
£26.96
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies Californian Hymn to Homer Hellenic Studies
Book SynopsisThe contributors to this volume draw upon Homeric scholarship as inspiration for pursuing new ways of looking at texts, both within the Homeric tradition and outside it. The seven original essays here consider topics that transcend traditional generic distinctions between epic and lyric, choral and individual, performed and literary.
£16.10
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies Pindars Verbal Art
Book SynopsisWells argues that the victory song is a traditional art form that appealed to a popular audience and served exclusive elite interests through the inclusive appeal of entertainment, popular instruction, and laughter. Wells offers a new take on old Pindaric questions: genre, unity of the victory song, tradition, and epinician performance.
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Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies The Epic Rhapsode and His Craft
Book SynopsisThis book argues that oracular utterance, dramatic acting, and rhetorical delivery powerfully elucidate the practice of epic rhapsodes in Homeric performance. Attention to these domains reveals a shifting dynamic of competition and emulation among rhapsodes, actors, and orators that shaped their texts and their crafts.
£20.66
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies Comparative Literature and Classical Persian
Book SynopsisOlga M. Davidson applies comparative literary approaches to classical Persian traditions of composing and performing poetry and song. She focuses on the eleventh-century CE epic Shahnama and its relationship to other genres embedded in it, including forms of verbal art originally composed without the aid of writing, such as women's laments.Trade ReviewMany have forgotten the role of the gosan in oral epic literature. To believe that Persian poetics is only retelling what they learned in a book is to hold that old accentual meter is really newly borrowed from Arabic, which is hardly right. Dr. Davidson has well explained this in her revised book. -- Richard N. Frye, Harvard University
£16.10
Harvard University, Asia Center Knowing the Amorous Man
Book SynopsisOne of the central literary texts of the Heian period (7941185), Tales of Ise has inspired extensive commentary. Offering a comprehensive history of the work's reception, Jamie Newhard reveals the ideological and aesthetic issues shaping criticism over the centuries as the audience for classical Japanese literature expanded beyond the aristocracy.
£30.56
Harvard University, Asia Center Wang Anshi and Song Poetic Culture
Book SynopsisThe first book of its kind in any Western language, Wang Anshi and Song Poetic Culture brings into focus a cluster of issues that are central to the understanding of both the poet and his cultural milieu. Together, the chapters form a varied mosaic of Wang Anshi's work and its critical reception in the larger context of Song poetic culture.
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Harvard University Press Criteria of Truth
Book SynopsisAmidst conflicting information and personal experiences, how can someone distinguish between truth and falsehood? Criteria of Truth: Representations of Truth and Falsehood in Hellenistic Poetry tackles this fundamental question through a study of five Hellenistic poems by Aratus, Nicander, Callimachus, Apollonius of Rhodes, and Lycophron.
£18.86
Harvard University Press The Iliad and the Oral Epic Tradition
Book SynopsisThe Iliad reveals a traditional oral poetic style, but many believe that the poem cannot be treated as solely a product of oral tradition. In The Iliad and the Oral Epic Tradition, Karol Zielinski argues that neither Homer's unique artistry nor references to events known from other songs necessarily indicate the use of writing in its composition.
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Harvard University Press Introspection and Contemporary Poetry
Book SynopsisIn this bold defense of so-called confessional poetry, Alan Williamson shows us that much of the best writing of the past twenty-five years is about the sense of being or having a self, a knowable personal identity. The difficulties posed by this subject help explain the fertility of contemporary poetic experimentfrom the jaggedness of the later work of Robert Lowell to the montagelike methods of John Ashbery, from the visual surrealism of James Wright and W. S. Merwin to the radical plainness of Frank Bidart. Williamson examines these and other poets from a psychological perspective, giving an especially striking reading of Sylvia Plath.Table of Contents* Introduction *"I Am That I Am": The Ethics and Aesthetics of Personal Poetry * Real and Numinous Selves: A Reading of Plath * Language Against Itself: The Middle Generation of Contemporary Poets *"Surrealism" and the Absent Self * The Diffracting Diamond: Ashbery, Romanticism, and Anti-Art * The Future of Personal Poetry * Notes * Credits * Index
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Harvard University Press Poetry Manuscripts of Harvard Belknap Press
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsEditor's Introduction The Living Hand of Keats: An Essay on the Manuscripts, by Helen Vendler Facsimiles of the Holographs 1. On Receiving a Curious Shell, and a Copy of Verses, from the Same Ladies (fair copy) 2. Happy is England! I could be content (fair copy) 3. To My Brother George (pencil draft) 4. To My Brother George (flair copy) 5. On First Looking into Chapman's Homer (draft or early fair copy) 6. To My Brothers (pencil draft) 1-8 7. To My Brothers (fair copy) 8. To My Brothers (fair copy) 9. Addressed to the Same [B. R. Haydon] (fair copy) 10. To G. A. W (fair copy) 11. I stood tip-toe upon a little hill (parts of the draft) 12. I stood tip-toe upon a little hill (fair copy) 13. Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition (draft) 14. On Receiving a Laurel Crown from Leigh Hunt (fair copy) 15. To the Ladies Who Saw Me Crown'd (fair copy) 16. To Haydon with a Sonnet Written on Seeing the Elgin Marbles (fair copy) 17. On Seeing the Elgin Marbles (fair copy) 18. God of the golden bow (draft) 19. On a Leander Which Miss Reynolds, My Kind Friend, Gave Me (draft) 20. O grant that like to Peter I (draft and revision) 21. Apollo to the Graces (draft?) 22. Lines on Seeing a Lock of Milton's Hair (draft) 23. Lines on the Mermaid Tavern (fair copy) 24. To. J. R. (draft?) 25. Isabella (parts of the draft) 26. There is a joy in footing slow across a silent plain (draft?) 27. Hush, hush, tread softly, hush, hush, my dear (draft?) 28. The Eve of St. Agnes (draft) 29. Song of Four Fairies (fair copy) 30. Shed no tear-O shed no tear (fair copy?) 31. Otho the Great (parts of the draft) 32. Lamia (parts of the draft) 33. Lamia (fair copy) 34. To Autumn (draft) 35. To Fanny (draft) 36. King Stephen (parts of the draft) 37. The Jealousies (parts of the draft) 38. This living hand, now warm and capable (draft) 39. Notes to the Manuscripts
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Harvard University Press The Kalevala
Book SynopsisThe national folk epic of Finland is presented in an English translation. Magoun has used prose, printed line for line as in the original so that repetitions, parallelisms, and variations are apparent. The lyrical passages and poetic images, wry humor, tall-tale extravagance, and homely realism of the Kalevala come through with great effectiveness.Trade ReviewThanks to a…clear, accurate version by Francis Magoun, Kalevala is accessible to interested readers everywhere… The kaleidoscopic Kalevala opens with the creation of the world and the birth of the ancient hero, Väinämöinen, a being of supernatural origins. The work then turns to the relations between two communities: Kalevala (‘Land of the Kaleva’—the poetic name for Finland), led by Väinämöinen, and Pohjola (‘Land of the North’), ruled by Louhi, and old woman who can change into an avenging dragon… This…version, expertly…translated by Francis Magoun and recently issued by Harvard University Press, is probably the best translation readily available in English today. -- Donald V. Mehus and Thomas J. Martin * Western Viking *Into the shifting of tone from lyrically tragic poems to those about warfare, from wedding lays to sheer horseplay, Magoun has infused the unmistakable speech rhythm and diction of our own language… The Kalevala is a monumental work. -- John Godfrey * Christian Science Monitor *The original sense [of the Kalevala] breaks through in a refreshing new way… The philologist and folklorist will welcome the new precision of thought and expression. For English students of Kalevala…this is an indispensable book… Dr. Magoun’s re-appraisal of this museum piece from Finland brushes off some of the dust and helps us to see anew something of its originality and distinction. -- W. R. Mead * Folklore *This authoritative new translation of the Kalevala, together with the materials the volume contains relating the poetic style of the Finnish songs to the style of other orally composed poetry, is especially significant to students of European folklore… Both Professor Magoun and the Harvard University Press have placed many generations of folklorists in their debt. -- Robert Kellogg * Journal of American Folklore *What distinguishes this work from other Kalevala translations is the fact that Professor Magoun presents a prose translation of the national folk epic of Finland, a translation which is accurate and scholarly in every detail… The translator makes his translation agree line for line with the original; the result is that this translation makes readily apparent the parallelisms, the poetic images, and the wry humor as well as the homely realism of the Finnish original. * The Scandinavian-American Bulletin *Table of ContentsTranslator's Foreword The Kalevala Poem 1. Lonnrot's prologue; the creation of the world and the birth of Vainamoinen 2. Vainamoinen's sowing of the primeval wilderness; a sower's charm 3. Vainamoinen's defeat of Joukahainen in a contest of wisdom; the pledging of Aino; maxims 4. Vainamoinen's ill-fated wooing of Aino; Aino's drowning 5. Vainamoinen's unsuccessful fishing for Aino; his mother's advice to woo the maiden of North Farm 6. Joukahainen fells Vainamoinen's horse 7. Vainamoinen and Louhi of North Farm; his promise of a Sampo 8. Vainamoinen and the maiden of North Farm; his wounded knee 9. The origin of iron; blood-stanching charms; the healing of Vainamoinen 's knee 10. Ilmarinen forges the Sampo 11. The marriage of Lemminkainen and Kyllikki of the Island 12. Lemminkainen bewitches North Farm; protective charms 13. Lemminkainen woos the maiden of North Farm; he fails to catch the Demon's elk, assigned as a qualifying task 14. Huntsmen's charms; a ransom charm; Lemminkainen captures the Demon's elk and bridles the Demon's gelding; while going to shoot the swan of Death's Domain he is shot dead by Soppy Hat 15. At home blood on his brush reveals Lemminkainen 's death; his mother finds and reassembles the pieces of his body and restores him to life; vein, bee, and cowbane charms 16. Vainamoinen's boat-building and his visit to Death's Domain 17. Vainamoinen exacts charms from tortured Antero Vipunen; banishment charms and charms against disease and misadventure 18. Vainamoinen and Ilmarinen sue for the maiden of North Farm 19. The maiden of North Farm accepts Ilmarinen; IImarinen's three qualifying tasks; a snake charm, a huntsman's charm 20. The slaughtering of the big Karelian steer; preparations for the wedding feast at North Farm; the origin of beer 21. The wedding feast at North Farm; wedding lays 22. Wedding lay: Tormenting and consoling a bride 23. Wedding lays: The government of a bride; The lay of an abused daughter-in-law 24. Wedding lays: The government of a groom; Lay of a bride's going away; Ilmarinen and the maiden of North Farm set out for home 25. At home Ilmarinen and his bride are ceremoniously received 26. Lemminkainen intrudes upon the wedding at North Farm; snake charms; the origin of snakes 27. The duel at North Farm 28. Lemminkainen's hasty return from North Farm 29. Lemminkainen's self-exile on an island 30. Lemminkainen's and Snowfoot's wild goose chase and the big freeze; charms against Jack Frost and wizards 31. The feud between Untamo and Kalervo; Kullervo's unfortunate upbringing; an antifertility charm 32. Kullervo as a herdsman; cattle, milk, and bear charms 33. The death of Ilmarinen's lady 34. Kullervo's homecoming 3. The unhappy meeting of Kullervo and his sister 36. Kullervo's revenge on Untamo; his suicide 37. Ilmarinen's gold and silver bride 38. Ilmarinen's new bride from North Farm; a report on the Sampo 39. The expedition of Vainamoinen, Ilmarinen, and Lemminkainen to North Farm to steal the Sampo 40. Vainamoinen's pikebone harp; rapids charms 41. Vainamoinen plays the pikebone harp 42. The theft of the Sampo from North Farm 43. The sea and air battle for the Sampo; the lucky preservation in the Kaleva District of some fragments of the Sampo; a soldier's protective charm 44. Vainamoinen 's new birchwood harp 45. Magically induced diseases in the Kaleva District; the origin of pestilences; charms against pain 46. The slaying of the bear at North Farm and the great feast in the Kaleva District; a bear-hunter's charm; the origin of bears 47. The mistress of North Farm steals the sun and the moon; the disappearance of Ukko's fire 48. The difficult recovery of Ukko's fire; a fisherman's charm; a charm against burns 49. Ilmarinen's silver sun and golden moon; Vainamoinen's duel at North Farm; the mistress of North Farm releases the true sun and moon; divining charms 50. The virgin Marjatta's immaculate conception; her son is designated King of Karelia; Vainamoinen 's discomfiture and flight; Lonnrot's epilogue Appendices I. Materials For The Study of The Kalevala A. "Elias Lonnrot," by Aarne A. Anttila B. "The Kalevala," by Vaino W. Salminen and Viljo Tarkiainen C. Concordances: Old and New Kalevala D. Lonnrot 's Prefaces to the Kalevala E. Henrik Gabriel Porthan on Ceremonial Peasant Singing II. Translator's Appendix A. On the Translation of Certain Words B. Glossary of Proper Names C. Reference List of Finnish Names D. List of Charms, in Order of Occurrence F. Corrigenda
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Harvard University Press The Lyric in the Age of the Brain
Book SynopsisScience has transformed understandings of the mind, supplying physiological explanations for what once seemed transcendental. Nikki Skillman shows how lyric poets—caught between a reductive scientific view and naïve literary metaphors—struggled to articulate a vision of consciousness that was both scientifically informed and poetically truthful.Trade ReviewNikki Skillman’s clear and eloquent book reshapes the landscape of modern American poetry. It explores the distinctiveness of poets’ engagement with the experience of mind, whether as embattled defenders of human mystery or shrewd explorers of synapses. -- Jonathan Culler, Cornell UniversityThis important book argues that advances in brain science have made for significant changes in American poetry since the 1960s. Skillman’s writing is eloquent, often beautiful, meticulously alert to detail, and her judgments are sound and sensitive. -- Jahan Ramazani, University of Virginia
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Harvard University Press The Past That Poets Make
Book SynopsisThis analysis of the literary art of recapturing the past as the artist perceives it examines such questions as how a fictional narrative differs from other ways of seeing a past time; to what extent literature is nontemporal and to what extent it is tied to the institutions and traditions of its era; and how given works conjure up a sense of time.Table of ContentsIntroduction I. MODELS OF HISTORICAL RETRIEVAL 1. The Wayward Temporality of Literature 2. Recurrence, Institution, and Literary Kind II. REVIVALS AND CONTINUITY 3. Poetic Recollection and the Phantomized Past 4. Ancestral Gloom and Glory III. DISCONTINUITY 5. Milton's Siege of Contraries: Universal Waste and Redemption 6. Questers in an Icy Elysee: Moderns without Ancestry IV. LITERARY HISTORY? 7 Ceres and the Librarians of Babel Notes Index
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Harvard University Press Representative Men
Book SynopsisAs Judith Shklar has pointed out, Emerson built Representative Men around the principle of ‘rotation,’ which had become a political axiom in Jacksonian America—the idea that no man, no matter how imposing, should be accorded permanent authority. Representative Men honors the language of democracy in its very title.Table of ContentsHistorical Introduction Statement of Editorial Principles Textual Introduction REPRESENTATIVE MEN: SEVEN LECTURES 1. Uses of Great Men 2. Plato, or the Philosopher Plato: New Readings 3. Swedenborg, or the Mystic 4. Montaigne, or the Skeptic 5. Shakspeare, or the Poet 6. Napoleon, or the Man of the World 7. Goethe, or the Writer Notes Textual Apparatus Annex A: The Manuscript Appendix 1: The 1850 Compositors Appendix 2: Revisions in the Manuscript Annex B: Parallel Passages Index
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Harvard University Press The Ridiculous to the Delightful
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Harvard University Press Shelleys Major Verse
Book SynopsisShelley has long been viewed as a dreamer isolated from reality, a beautiful and ineffectual angel, in Arnold's words. In contrast, Sperry's book emphasizes the life forces originating in the poet's childhood that impelled and shaped his career, and reasserts Shelley's relevance to the social and cultural dilemmas of contemporary life.Trade ReviewTo trace the life force of his poetry and its transformation and efflorescence in the course of his development, Sperry has taken Shelley’s eight major poetic works—Queen Mab, Alastor, The Revolt of Islam, Prometheus Unbound Acts I–IV, The Cenci, The Witch of Atlas, Epipsychidion, and The Triumph of Love—and examined them chronologically within the context of the poet’s life. Supported by impeccable scholarship, Sperry’s incisive analyses illuminate for modern readers not only Shelley the poet but Shelley the man. -- Sharon Wong * Library Journal *One of the finest books on Shelley to appear in recent years. Its special strength lies in its elucidation of Shelley’s extreme idealism. Sperry finds in the major poetry life-values that are not only defensible but even prophetic for both individuals and societies. -- Donald H. ReimanTable of ContentsPreface 1. Our Proper Destiny: Queen Mab 2. Broodings in Solitude: Alastor 3. The Triumph of Love: The Revolt of Islam 4. The Human Situation: Prometheus Unbound, Act I 5. Hope and Necessity: Prometheus Unbound, Act II 6. The Transforming Harmony: Prometheus Unbound, Acts III and IV 7. Sad Reality: The Cenci 8. Romantic Irony: The Witch of Atlas 9. Love's Universe: Epipsychidion 10. Tragic Irony: The Triumph of Lift Notes Index
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Harvard University Press Allegories of the Iliad
Book SynopsisAs a didactic explanation of pagan ancient Greek culture to Orthodox Christians, John Tzetzes’s Allegories of the Iliad is deeply rooted in the mid-twelfth-century circumstances of the cosmopolitan Comnenian court. As a critical reworking of the Iliad, it is part of the millennia-long global tradition of Homeric adaptation.Trade ReviewGoldwyn and Kokkini have provided English-speakers with a wonderful edition of Ioannes (John) Tzetzes’s Allegories of the Iliad… The poem itself is beautiful and can be appreciated on its own. Scholars, however, will take a special interest in the translators’ faithful yet fluid rendering of the Greek… Many thanks are due the translators and Harvard University Press for making this less-known, fascinating work available to modern audiences. The elegant presentation is a bonus. -- F. A. Grabowski * Choice *
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Harvard University Press Milton and the Making of Paradise Lost
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Harvard University Press Chinese Literary Forms in Heian Japan Poetics
Book SynopsisBrian Steininger revisits Japan’s mid-Heian court of the Tale of Genji and the Pillow Book, where literary Chinese was not only the basis of official administration, but also a medium for political protest, sermons of mourning, and poems of celebration.
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Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies The Tears of Achilles
Book SynopsisThis study by Hélène Monsacré shows how Western ideals of inexpressive manhood run contrary to the poetic vision of Achilles and his warrior companions presented in the Homeric epics. Pursuing the paradox of the tearful fighter, Monsacré examines the interactions between men and women in the Homeric poems.
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Harvard University Press Mughal Arcadia
Book SynopsisMughal rulers were legendary connoisseurs of the arts, whose patronage attracted poets, artists, and scholars from all parts of the world. Sunil Sharma explores the rise and decline of Persian court poetry in India and the invention of an enduring idea of a literary paradise, perfectly exemplified by the valley of Kashmir.Trade ReviewSunil Sharma’s Mughal Arcadia draws on Persian poetry produced in India to evoke a world that is now as lost and strange as Atlantis or Shangri-La. The Persian poets presented India as a land of wonders and riches, a pastoral paradise. As I read on, an impossible longing came over me—to visit seventeenth century Kashmir and see for myself what the poets described and the miniaturists painted: the spring festivals, harem processions, falcon hunts, well-watered gardens with their fruit trees, Sufis, nightingales, wild dogs, and cities devoted to love and poetry… This exploration of a hitherto largely neglected subject is based on remarkably wide reading and is a credit to scholarship. -- Robert Irwin, author of The Arabian Nights: A Companion and Wonders Will Never CeaseIt is the fragrance of pure Mughal sophistication which wafts through this erudite book. In elegant and eloquent detail, Sharma tells of the Mughal imperial family’s love for nature… Mughal Arcadia’s singularity is that, calling on [Sharma’s] ample scholarly knowledge of Indo-Persian poetry and culture, it offers an account of Mughal history for the non-specialist, including the Mughal love for tended and unspoiled bountiful nature. -- Christine van Ruymbeke * Times Literary Supplement *A celebration and deeply learned account of Persian poetry in Mughal India, this book traces how the idea of Hindustan in the Iranian imagination encountered the actuality of the place and ultimately transformed the literary and aesthetic landscape of the subcontinent. Mughal Arcadia is attractively written, with enthusiasm and erudition, and will delight anyone interested in the magnificent Indo-Persian culture it commemorates. -- Dick Davis, translator of Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of ShirazPersian poets have historically referred to the valley of Kashmir as a ‘second paradise.’ Thanks to Sunil Sharma’s fascinating account of the Mughal court’s love of Persian poets and poetry and its openness to artistic multiculturalism, we understand the full breadth of that paradise. -- Sholeh Wolpé, poet and translator of The Conference of the Birds by AttarSharma…takes us on a whirlwind tour of a hefty slice of the nearly forgotten universe of Mughal Persian poetry. The book is a delight. One emerges from it impressed by the beauty and complexity of Mughal poetry and even more impressed by Sharma’s deft reading skills and ability to translate this tradition for 21st century readers. -- Audrey Truschke * The Wire *
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Harvard University Press A Greeting of the Spirit
Book SynopsisRenowned scholar Susan J. Wolfson assembles seventy-eight selections—some beloved, others less well known—that illuminate the brief, extraordinary career of John Keats. Lively commentaries showcase the poems’ form, style, layers of meaning, and relevant contexts, offering a chronicle of Keats’s artistic evolution.Trade ReviewWolfson’s commentaries offer ‘tutorials’…in how to savour Keats’s poetry, arousing the sort of intense appetite that Keats felt for Homer. Each commentary is an immersion in language and effect, thickened by attention to a web of references…As a ‘series of close encounters’, A Greeting of the Spirit lends itself to browsing; the reader can drop in on her commentaries, skip and re-read them with pleasure. -- Christy Edwall * Times Literary Supplement *Destined to become required reading for all Keats lovers, students, and scholars…Wolfson writes beautifully and with infectious delight for her subject. -- Robert White * Review 19 *Wolfson serves a tempting selection of Keats’s poetry…Nothing—no sound, no pun, no pattern, no definition, no idiom, no punctuation mark, no part of speech, no poetic genre, no etymological possibility—is beyond probing and parsing, nuancing and scrutinizing; word roots are rooted out, marginalia is never marginal; the intertextual is necessarily contextualized; and variants are never unconsidered. Literary histories mesh with deep, formalistic insights and are easefully worked into and then through biographical observations—whatever it takes to get the most out of a poem. -- G. Kim Blank * European Romantic Review *Susan Wolfson offers a series of superb commentaries on Keats’s poems, opening up the verbal energies, complexities, peculiarities, and imaginative capacities of his writing. This book is an invitation for us all to read and reread Keats, accompanied by one of his most brilliant modern critics, who reveals him as a poet for everyone ready to be enchanted by genius. -- Nicholas Roe, author of John Keats: A New LifeA generous, expertly chosen selection of Keats's greatest poems, accompanied by commentaries which are learned and lithe, brilliantly perceptive, extraordinarily informative, and infectiously full of delight. Really, you could not imagine a better companion to guide you through these endlessly marvelous poems. -- Seamus Perry, editor of Coleridge's NotebooksWolfson’s is the book on Keats: a stirring feat of participatory stylistic insight and creative empathy. The rare idiomatic flair of her prose brings back Keats, man and craftsman, in his historical and mortal moment, tracked through impeccably re-estimated verses. With no stone left unturned, even settled gems are rubbed more brilliant by context. Metaphor, metrics, textual history, notes in Keats’s margins and letters, his inexhaustible word play, his philosophical ruminations on the horizons of poetry: all the varied facets of genius and aspiration are seen together in their glinting refraction as never before. -- Garrett Stewart, author of The Ways of the WordA fine selection of Keats’s work, richly analyzed and contextualized by a scholar whose formal attention to detail brings poetry to life on the page. Wolfson guides the reader step by step through both the best-loved and least-known of Keats’s poems, in an anthology that also becomes an enjoyable and thought-provoking tutorial. -- Angela Leighton, author of Hearing Things: The Work of Sound in LiteratureSusan Wolfson’s A Greeting of the Spirit generously tracks Keats’s ‘experiments with words,’ exercising the depth and breadth of her expertise to make his verses newly available to readers. Her commentaries, fresh and incisive, invite us to participate in the poet’s heady way of concentrating the resources of language. -- Frances Ferguson, author of Solitude and the Sublime
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Harvard University Press An Introduction to Chinese Poetry
Book SynopsisMichael A. Fuller's innovative textbook for learning classical Chinese poetry moves beyond the traditional anthology of poems translated into English and instead brings readers including those with no knowledge of Chinese as close as possible to the texture of the poems in their original language.
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Harvard University Press Beginning at the End
Book SynopsisRobert Stilling shows how aestheticism’s decadence became a key idea in postcolonial thought, describing the failures of revolutionary nationalism and asserting cosmopolitanism in poetry and art. Breaking down the boundaries around decadent literature, he takes it outside Europe and emphasizes the global reach of its imaginative transgressions.Trade ReviewGives new and global life to decadence…This is a deeply learned and original work that shows the necessity of bringing modernist and postcolonial studies together. -- Citation for First Book Prize, Modernist Studies AssociationIn a series of brilliant readings, Robert Stilling offers a new understanding of anticolonial anglophone cultural production, one in which liberatory aims are best served, counterintuitively, not by the nationalist arts of social realism but rather by a cosmopolitan modernist poetics of decadence: arts and literatures that celebrate the aesthetic for its own sake. -- Citation for Honorable Mention, First Book Prize, Modern Language AssociationA dazzling confluence of fin-de-siècle aesthetics and postcolonial thought. -- Robert Volpicelli * Modernism/modernity *One of the joys of Beginning at the End is its provision of fresh and surprising perspectives on canonical figures of literary decadence by embedding their writing in the material contexts of colonialism and postcolonial criticism. -- Conor Linnie * Irish Studies Review *This book presents a highly timely contribution to our understanding of modernism, decadence, and postcolonial literary history. Ranging impressively over a global frame of reference, and joining the wrongly divorced sensibilities of modernism and decadence, Stilling shows how a modernist poetics of decadence may serve equally to record a process of decline in history and a register of critique of those developments. This is a major work of literary history. -- Vincent Sherry, Washington University in St. LouisStilling argues that late-nineteenth-century ‘decadent’ writing—its styles, governing tropes, and ways of imagining the past—have proven crucial to poets, playwrights, and visual artists whom we now call postcolonial. These are artists whose subjects include new nations, immigrants, people of color, the new global economy, and new international relations, and decadence has helped them to address these topics without illusions and after the failure of simplist or ill-fated realist or revolutionary programs. This is a book that scholars across the discipline are going to have to read. -- Stephanie Burt, Harvard UniversityRobert Stilling is at the forefront of a group of scholars exploring the powerful legacy of fin-de-siècle culture in twentieth-century art and literature. Beginning at the End convincingly demonstrates that decadent texts and imagery were central to the project of postcolonial writing, and carried a political charge that few others have noticed. It will figure in discussions of both decadence and global modernism for many years to come. -- Matthew Potolsky, University of Utah
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Princeton University Press Eugene Onegin
Book SynopsisThe description for this book, Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse: Commentary, will be forthcoming.Trade Review"Nabokov's translation and commentary, taken together, can best be considered as a sui generis work of art--perhaps his ultimate masterpiece."--J. Thomas Shaw, Slavic and East European Journal
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Princeton University Press Arions Lyre
Book SynopsisExamines how Hellenistic poetic culture adapted, reinterpreted, and transformed Archaic Greek lyric through a complex process of textual, cultural, and creative reception. This book looks at the ways in which the poetry of Sappho, Alcaeus, Ibycus, Anacreon, and Simonides was preserved, edited, and read by Hellenistic scholars and poets.Trade Review"[T]his is a very important contribution to both Hellenistic poetry and archaic lyric. It offers copious material for further discussion on textual problems and interpretative approaches."--Flora P. Manakidou, European LegacyTable of ContentsPreface xi Abbreviations xv Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Preserving Her Aeolic Song: Traces of Alexandrian Sappho 12 Chapter 2: Lyric into Elegy: Sappho Again 62 Chapter 3: Alcaeus: Voice and Metaphor of the Symposium 105 Chapter 4: From Samos to Alexandria: Earlier Court Poets and Their Legacies 141 Chapter 5: Simonides Recalled: Imitations of a Poikilos Original 171 Epilogue: Lyric Transformed 214 References Cited 221 Index Locorum 239 Subject Index 247
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Princeton University Press Dance of Divine Love
Book SynopsisIntroduces the Rasa Lila, a dramatic love poem of exquisite poetry and profound theology to the Western world. This book explores the historical context and literary genre of the work and elucidates the aesthetic and emotional richness of the composition, highlighting poignant details of this drama of divine love.Trade Review"This is the most complete presentation of the Rasa Lila, focusing on the text and story itself and looking at it, as it requires, from each of its many viewpoints. The scholarship and teaching quality are first-rate... Schweig's approach is inclusive, consciously reaching out to all levels of reader/devotee/connoisseur and clearly wishing not to leave anyone behind... [E]veryone interested in Hinduism, literature, and religion should consider buying this book."--James D. Redington, S.J., Journal of Vaishnava Studies "A fascinating study and eloquent translation of the beloved story of the all-attractive god Krishna's nocturnal dalliances with the cowherder women of Vraja as described in the Bhagavata Purana... Schweig render[s] this Sanskrit classic into elegant English."--Joel Bordeaux, Altar Magazine This book is an event-for Vaishnavas and everyone else. Long awaited by insiders, it will be a grace to outsiders, too... [E]veryone interested in Hinduism, literature, and religion should consider buying this boo--especially those who incline to mystical love religion and its literature."--James D. Redington, Jr., Yoga and Vaishnavism "Scholars of Vaisnavism will be pleased by this volume and its singular focus."--Frederick M. Smith, Religious Studies ReviewTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables ix Foreword by Norvin Hein xi Acknowledgments xvii Pronunciation xxi Abbreviations xxv Introduction: The Sacred Love Story 1 A Drama of Love 1 Sacred Love Stories 6 India's Song of Songs 8 Bh gavata as the Ultimate Scripture 11 Sacred Context of the Rasa Lila 16 Part I: Poems from the Bhagavata Purana Dance of Divine Love: Rasa Lila 23 Act One. Krishna Attracts the Gop s and Disappears 25 Act Two. The Gop s Search for Krishna 39 Act Three. The Song of the Gopis: Gopi Gita 51 Act Four. Krishna Reappears and Speaks of Love 58 Act Five. The Rasa Dance 65 Song of the Flute: Venu Gita 78 Song of the Black Bee: Bhramara Gita 86 Part II: Textual Illuminations Chapter 1: Background of the Text 97 Devotional Love as "Rasa" 97 Ancient Sources of Devotional Love 101 Devotional Love as the Path to God 105 Forms of the Deity Vishnu 108 Chapter 2: Aspects of the Story 111 Framing Passages of the Rasa Lila 111 Poetic and Dramatic Dimensions 114 Krishna: Lord of Love and Beauty 117 Vraja: Pastoral Paradise 125 Yogamaya :Potency for Intimacy 130 The Gopis: Beloveds of Krishna 137 The Special Gopi :Radha 147 Chapter 3: Messages of the Text 152 Devotional Yoga Transcends Death 152 Ethical Boundaries and Boundless Love 158 The Vision of Devotional Love 166 Symbolism in the Rasa Lila 172 Part III: Notes and Comments Introduction 187 Act One 189 Act Two 222 Act Three 237 Act Four 250 Act Five 263 Part IV: The Sanskrit Text Introduction 291 Act One 293 Act Two 304 Act Three 313 Act Four 318 Act Five 322 Appendix 1: Note on Translation 331 Appendix 2: Poetic Meters in Sanskrit Text 336 Accent and Syllable Length: Emphasis and Rhythm in Sanskrit Verse 337 Sanskrit Meters Used in R sa L l Te x t 337 Story Line and Poetic Meter Analysis 339 Verse Number Variations and Actual Verse Count 342 Appendix 3: Synoptic Analysis of the Rasa Lila 344 Glossary 347 Bibliography 355 Index 367
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Princeton University Press The Origins of Criticism
Book SynopsisOffers an understanding of the development of criticism, demonstrating that its roots stretch back long before the sophists to public commentary on the performance of songs and poems in the preliterary era of ancient Greece.Trade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2003 "Andrew Ford has written lively and sophisticated account of the evolution of criticism as an autonomous activity, and illuminated the origins of the modern-day equivalent of those antique experts in literature--the professional academic... [W]hat distinguishes Ford's work from previous studies is the breadth of his scholarship, the detail of his analysis, and above all his historicist approach."--Penelope Murray, Times Literary Supplement "Andrew Ford has taken on the enormous task of tracing the historical background of critical language and the establishment of criticism as a distinct discilpine. He has executed this task with precision, poignancy, and insightful erudition... [T]his eloquent book will be an instant complement to any study of the history of criticism."--Eustratios Papaioannou, Bryn Mawr Classical Review "Ford collects in this volume much useful information about classica literary criticism from Homer to Aristotle... [An] important volume."--ChoiceTable of ContentsPREFACE ix ABBREVIATIONS xiii INTRODUCTION Defining Criticism from Homer to Aristotle 1 PART I ARCHAIC ROOTS OF CLASSICAL AESTHETICS 23 ONE Table Talkand Symposium 25 TWO Xenophanes and the "Ancient Quarrel" 46 THREE Allegory and the Traditions of Epic Interpretation 67 PART II: THE INVENTION OF POETRY 91 FOUR Song and Artifact: Simonidean Monuments 93 FIVE Singer and Craftsman in Pindar and Bacchylides 113 SIX The Origin of the Word "Poet" 131 PART III: TOWARD A THEORY OF POETRY 159 SEVEN Materialist Poetics: Democritus and Gorgias 161 EIGHT Literary Culture and Democracy: Poets and Teachers in Classical Athens 188 NINE Literary Culture in Plato's Republic :The Sound of Ideology 209 PART IV LITERARY THEORY IN THE FOURTH CENTURY 227 TEN The Invention of Literature: Theories of Prose and the Theory of Poetry 229 ELEVEN Laws of Poetry: Genre and the Literary System 250 TWELVE The Rise of the Critic: Poetic Contests from Homer to Aristotle 272 EPILOGUE 294 BIBLIOGRAPHY 297 INDEX OF PASSAGES ISCUSSED 331
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Princeton University Press Virgils Gaze
Book SynopsisVirgil's "Aeneid" invites its reader to identify with the Roman nation whose origins and destiny it celebrates. This work argues that the great Roman epic satisfies this identification only indirectly - if at all. It offers fresh readings of such major episodes as the fall of Troy, the pageant of heroes in the underworld, and the death of Turnus.Trade Review"Point of view or perspective, in all its forms, has been a chief concern of Virgilian criticism for decades now, and Reed's book shows that there is yet much to be discovered in these well-traveled areas of investigation, especially where narratology meets intertextuality... [T]he book both informs and provides much to contemplate."--Brian W. Breed, New England Classical Journal "Reed is an excellent interweaver of citations. He seems to have photographic recall of every metaphor ever penned in Hellenistic literature. His elucidation of the tangled ethnographies of peoples and cities of the ancient world is admirably precise. And he is correct to note the ironies that Virgil has built into his foundational epic."--Anthony Esolen, Claremont Review of Books "This book has many strengths. The close readings it extracts from the Aeneid's intertextuality with early Roman poetry, especially Naevius and tragedy, are often exciting."--Brian W. Breed, New England Classical JournalTable of ContentsPREFACE vii Introduction 1 CHAPTER ONE: Euryalus 16 CHAPTER TWO: Turnus 44 CHAPTER THREE: Dido 73 CHAPTER FOUR: Andromache 101 CHAPTER FIVE: Ancient Cities 129 CHAPTER SIX: Marcellus 148 CHAPTER SEVEN: Aeneas 173 BIBLIOGRAPHY 203 INDEX OF TEXTS CITED 211 GENERAL INDEX 223
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Princeton University Press Felicia Hemans Selected Poems Letters Reception
Book SynopsisA best-selling poet in England and America, Felicia Hemans was regarded as leading female poet in her day, celebrated as the epitome of national 'feminine' values. This title features a collection of her writings. It includes her letters, which reflect her views of her contemporaries, her work, her negotiations with publishers, and her celebrity.Trade Review"This excellent documentary edition should serve to revive interest in one of the most popular literary figures of the early 19th century."--Virginia Quarterly Review "It is one of the great triumphs of Susan Wolfson's fine new edition that she enables us to see so clearly and with such an unencumbered view the work of one of the greatest of British Romantic poets. This edition sets--and then meets--high standards for textual editing, for circumspect biography, and for intellectual aesthetic, and cultural sensitivity."--Stephen Behrendt, Criticism "This latest offering from Susan Wolfson will undoubtedly become a common reference-point and focus for further consideration of Hemans."--Myra Cottingham, Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION: Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, 1793-1835 xiii TEXTS, FORMATS, EDITORIAL PRINCIPLES, ABBREVIATIONS xxxi CHRONOLOGY xxxiii WORKS 1 From The Domestic Affections and Other Poems (1812) 3 The Statue of the Dying Gladiator 3 The Domestic Affections 4 Epitaph on Mr. W---, a Celebrated Mineralogist (ca. 1814-16) 16 The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy: A Poem (1816) 18 Modern Greece, A Poem (1817) 34 Tales, and Historic Scenes, in Verse (1819) 70 The Widow of Crescentius 70 The Abencerrage 90 The Last Banquet of Antony and Cleopatra 135 Alaric in Italy 139 The Wife of Asdrubal 145 Heliodorus in the Temple 148 Night-Scene in Genoa 151 The Troubadour, and Richard Coeur de Lion 157 The Death of Conradin 163 Patriotic Effusions of the Italian Poets (1821) 171 From The Siege of Valencia; A Dramatic Poem ... With Other Poems (1823) 173 Elysium 173 The Siege of Valencia: A Dramatic Poem 176 Appendix 1: MS Songs 254 Appendix 2: MS, Scene 6 255 Songs of the Cid 256 England's Dead 265 From The Forest Sanctuary; anal Other Poems (1825) 268 The Forest Sanctuary 268 Lays of Many Lands 322 The Suliote Mother 322 Miscellaneous Pieces 324 The Treasures of the Deep 324 Bring Flowers 326 From New Monthly Magazine, 1826 327 The Sound of the Sea 327 From Records of Woman: With Other Poems (1828) 329 Records of Woman 330 Arabella Stuart 331 The Bride of the Greek Isle 340 The Switzer's Wife 347 Properzia Rossi 351 Gertrude, or Fidelity till Death 356 Imelda 358 Edith, a Tale of the Woods 362 The Indian City 368 The Peasant Girl of the Rhone 374 Indian Woman's Death-Song 377 Joan of Arc, in Rheims 380 Pauline 383 Juana 387 The American Forest-Girl 389 Costanza 391 Madeline, a Domestic Tale 395 The Queen of Prussia's Tomb 398 The Memorial Pillar 401 The Grave of a Poetess 403 Miscellaneous Pieces 405 The Homes of England 405 The Sicilian Captive 407 The Lady of the Castle 410 Tasso and his Sister 412 To Wordsworth 415 The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England 416 The Palm-Tree 418 The Illuminated City 419 The Spells of Home 421 The Graves of a Household 422 The Image in Lava 423 A Parting Song 425 From The Forest Sanctuary: With Other Poem; (1829) 426 Miscellaneous Pieces 426 The Traveller at the Source of the Nile 426 Casabianca 428 Our Daily Paths 430 The Lost Pleiad 432 The Dying Improvisatore 433 From the Annuals (1826-30) 435 Forget Me Not 436 Evening Prayer at a Girls' School 436 The Cliffs of Dover 438 Night-Blowing Flowers 439 The Keepsake 440 The Broken Chain 440 The Amulet 441 Woman and Fame 441 The Literary Souvenir 443 The Mirror in the Deserted Hall 443 From Songs of the Affections, with Other Poems, (1830) 444 Songs 444 A Spirit's Return 444 The Two Homes 452 The Land of Dreams 453 Woman on the Field of Battle 455 Supplement: To the Memory of Lord Charles Murray 457 The Deserted House 458 Miscellaneous Poems 460 Corinne at the Capitol 460 The Diver 462 Late Poems (1831-34) 46,5 The Last Song of Sappho 465 To My Own Portrait 467 The Lyre and Flower 469 From Records of the Autumn of 1834 470 Design and Performance 470 From Blackwood's Edinburgb Magazine 1835 471 Sabbath Sonnet 471 LETTERS 473 To her aunt, 19 December 1808 475 To Matthew Nicholson, 17 July 1811 476 Felicity Browne to Matthew Nicholson, 7 February 1812 477 To Matthew Nicholson, 12 March 1812 479 To William Stanley Roscoe, 22 October 1813 479 To John Murray, 26 February 1817 480 To John Murray, November 1817 481 To James Simpson, 22 October 1819 482 To B. P Wagner, November 1819 484 To Harriett Browne, October 1820 484 To William Jerdan, 11 June 1821 485 To ?, 1822 486 To Fanny Luxmoore, mid-July 1822 487 To William Jacob, 1 May 1823 488 To William Jerdan, 8 May 1823 489 To Miss?, 15 May 1823 490 To William Jerdan, 19 May 1823 491 To Maria Jane Jewsbury, mid-1826 491 To an old friend, January 1827 493 To William Blackwood, 13 June 1827 494 To William Blackwood, 3 November 1827 495 To William Blackwood, 14 February 1828 495 To Rev. Samuel Butler, 19 February 1828 496 To William Blackwood, 1 March 1828 497 To Mary Russell Mitford, 23 March 1828 498 To William Henry Atherton, 9 May 1828 499 To William Blackwood, 29 July 1828 500 To Mary Russell Mitford, 10 November 1828 501 To a friend, early 1829 502 To William Blackwood, ca. January 1830 502 To ?, 22 June 1830 503 To John Lodge, 24 June 1830 504 To Rose Lawrence, ca. 24 June 1830 505 To ?H. F Chorley, 24 June 1830 505 To a male friend from Coniston, 25 June 1830 506 TO "Mr.----," 2 July 1830 507 To Thomas Cadell, 5 July ? 1830 508 To ?Harriett Hughes, early July 1830 508 To ?H. F Chorley's sister, mid July 1830 509 TO John Lodge, 20 July 1830 510 To Rose Lawrence, late July 1830 511 To a new friend in Dublin, Fall 1830 511 To a new friend in Dublin, early 1831 512 To ?, after 12 February 1831 513 To John Lodge, July 1831 513 To Clara Graves, July 1831 514 To William Blackwood, 18 September 1831 515 William Blackwood to FH, 26 September 1831 515 To ?Harriett Hughes, May 1832 516 To ?H. F Chorley, August 1832 516 To Rev. Samuel Butler, 7 November 1833 517 To Wordsworth, before April 1834 517 To?, 28 June 1834 518 To a friend, ?28 June 1834 518 To a friend, early July 1834 519 To Archdeacon Samuel Butler, 26 July 1834 519 To Robert Peel, 10 February 1835 520 To Rose Lawrence, 13 February 1835 521 RECEPTION 523 Lifetime 525 Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1808-11 526 British Critic, 1816 529 Monthly Review, 1819 529 Edinburgh Monthly Review, 1820 530 British Review, 1820 532 Hannah More, 1820 532 Quarterly Review, 1820 533 Byron to John Murray, 1816-20 535 British Critic, 1823 537 British Review, 1823 540 Monthly Review, 1823 541 Joanna Baillie, 1824-27 542 Walter Scott, 1823-29 545 William Blackwood to Hemans, 1828-30 546 Noctes Ambrosianae, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1828 548 Francis Jeffrey, Edinburgh Review, 1829 549 The Wordsworths, 1830-37 556 Maria Jane Jewsbury, The Three Histories, 1830 560 "Felicia Hemans," Atbenaum, 1831 562 Andrews Norton to Hemans, 26 June 1831 569 Grants to Hemans, 1835 569 Death 571 L.E.L., Stanzas on the Death of Mrs. Hemans 571 Elizabeth Barrett, StanzasAddressed tO Miss Landon 574 Joanna Baillie to Andrews Norton 576 William Wordsworth, Extempore Effusion 576 Nineteenth-Century Retrospects 580 L.E.L., "On the Character of Mrs. Hemans's Writings," New Monthly, 1835 580 Felicia Hemans, 1838 582 Henry F Chorley, "Personal Recollections," Athenrum, 1835 584 Memorials of Mrs. Hemans, 1836 586 Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1842 590 George Gilfillan, "Mrs. Hemans," Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, 1847 591 Jane Williams, The Literary Women of England, 1861 599 William Michael Rossetti, "Prefatory Notice," 1878 603 BIBLIOGRAPHY 611 INDEX OF TITLES 621 GENERAL INDEX 623
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Princeton University Press Being Numerous
Book SynopsisOffers a fresh way to understand the divisions that organize twentieth-century poetry. The author argues that the most important conflict is not between styles or aesthetic politics, but between poets who seek to preserve or produce the incommensurable particularity of experience by making powerful objects.Trade Review"A blazingly astute assessment of postmodern poetics, Oren Izenberg's Being Numerous examines the role contemporary poetry plays in representing being and what constitutes value of being."--Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Brooklyn Rail "[Izenberg] makes an intriguing case for focusing on the ontological dimension of poetic practice in general; readers might move beyond seeing the poem as a self-contained artifact and instead see it as a function of the poet's desire to define the person."--Choice "Izenberg's conclusive meditation on known and unknown readers, then, seems to open and invite the readings that this book will generate, as it powerfully, scrupulously recalls us to the responsibilities inherent in any literary response."--Siobhan Phillips, Contemporary LiteratureTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii INTRODUCTION: Poems, Poetry, Personhood 1 CHAPTER ONE: White Thin Bone: Yeatsian Personhood 40 CHAPTER TWO: Oppen's Silence, Crusoe's Silence, and the Silence of Other Minds 78 CHAPTER THREE: The Justice of My Feelings for Frank O'Hara 107 CHAPTER FOUR: Language Poetry and Collective Life 138 CHAPTER FIVE: We Are Reading 164 Notes 189 Index 225
£31.50
Princeton University Press On Empson
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A brilliant introduction to one of the most original and beguiling intellects of the 20th century."--Michael Dirda, Washington Post "An elegant and concise study of the great British literary critic William Empson (1906-1984)... If we come away with one thing from On Empson, it is the reminder, in the age of STEM courses, of just how much poetry matters--matters not on ethical or political grounds but simply for its own sake, for its exposure of the possibilities of the language that we use every waking moment of every day without taking into account its astonishing possibilities for knowledge, power, and, especially, pleasure."--Marjorie Perloff, Weekly Standard "Part of the dexterity of Wood's own critical idiom lies in using the resources of the colloquial register to say just enough, leaving us to complete and digest the thought. His stylish brevity avoids the dogmatising implicit in all attempts to turn an observation into a theory ... Wood even manages to make Milton's God (1961), Empson's grumpiest, most obsessive book, seem attractive ... An appropriately subtle yet spirited introduction to the seductive power of a particular form of literary criticism."--Stefan Collini, The GuardianTable of Contents1 Empson's Intentions 1 2 The Strangeness of the World 26 3 Large Dreams 55 4 The Other Case 82 5 All in Flight 113 6 Sibylline Leaves 143 7 The Smoke of Hell 171 Acknowledgments 201 Abbreviations 203 Bibliography 207
£19.00
Princeton University Press The First Book
Book Synopsis"We have many poets of the First Book," the poet and critic Louis Simpson remarked in 1957, describing a sense that the debut poetry collection not only launched the contemporary poetic career but also had come to define it. Surveying American poetry over the past hundred years, The First Book explores the emergence of the poetic debut as a uniqueTrade Review"A fascinating story of poetic debuts. With nuanced understanding as well as clear-eyed realism, Jesse Zuba traces the self-fashioning that goes into the making of careers, allowing poets to strike a delicate balance between institutional demands and personal aspirations."—Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University"The First Book combines social theory, cultural and publishing history, and close attention to individual poems to argue that notions of the poet's career, or the poet's profession, have shaped poems, books, and poetic oeuvres in the American twentieth century in ways that prior critics have not seen. Zuba's claims are true, new, and important."—Stephen Burt, Harvard University"Exploring the professionalization of poetic culture over the last hundred years, The First Book represents a confluence of often mutually exclusive kinds of excellence: Zuba is at once an adept close reader of poems, a scrupulous literary historian, a curator of cultures popular and unpopular, and synthesizer of sophisticated critical thinking. Even more rarely, Zuba writes with a quietly stylistic panache that makes The First Book an uncommon pleasure to read."—James Longenbach, University of RochesterTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Abbreviations xiii Introduction: The History of the Poetic Career 1 1 Apprentices to Chance Event: First Books of the 1920s 21 2 "Poets of the First Book, Writers of Promise": Beginning in the Era of the First-Book Prize 68 3 "Everything Has a Schedule": John Ashbery's Some Trees 104 4 From Firstborn to Vita Nova: Louise Gluck's Born-Again Professionalism 128 Conclusion: Making Introductions 154 Notes 169 Bibliography 191 Index 203
£40.50
Princeton University Press The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Helpful spin-offs from an acclaimed 'mother volume.'"--Library JournalTable of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments ix Alphabetical List of Entries xi Bibliographical Abbreviations xiii General Abbreviations xvii Contributors xix Entries A to Z 1 Index 393
£28.80
Princeton University Press Virgils Gaze Nation and Poetry in the Aeneid
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Point of view or perspective, in all its forms, has been a chief concern of Virgilian criticism for decades now, and Reed's book shows that there is yet much to be discovered in these well-traveled areas of investigation, especially where narratology meets intertextuality... [T]he book both informs and provides much to contemplate."--Brian W. Breed, New England Classical Journal "Reed is an excellent interweaver of citations. He seems to have photographic recall of every metaphor ever penned in Hellenistic literature. His elucidation of the tangled ethnographies of peoples and cities of the ancient world is admirably precise. And he is correct to note the ironies that Virgil has built into his foundational epic."--Anthony Esolen, Claremont Review of Books "This book has many strengths. The close readings it extracts from the Aeneid's intertextuality with early Roman poetry, especially Naevius and tragedy, are often exciting."--Brian W. Breed, New England Classical JournalTable of ContentsPREFACE vii Introduction 1 CHAPTER ONE: Euryalus 16 CHAPTER TWO: Turnus 44 CHAPTER THREE: Dido 73 CHAPTER FOUR: Andromache 101 CHAPTER FIVE: Ancient Cities 129 CHAPTER SIX: Marcellus 148 CHAPTER SEVEN: Aeneas 173 BIBLIOGRAPHY 203 INDEX OF TEXTS CITED 211 GENERAL INDEX 223
£20.90
Princeton University Press Prose Poetry
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shortlisted for the Prize for Literary Scholarship, Australian University Heads of English""The rich variety of work featured in this study provides a hugely valuable sense of just how vibrant the form currently is. . . . The book’s robust championing of prose poetry in its many manifestations — and the recognition that this is a contemporary literary mode growing in significance — are perspectives to which we ought to attend."---Simon Collings, Fortnightly Review"With this work, Hetherington and Atherton enrich understanding of and debates about the 'new' genre of prose poetry. Their impressive explication of the genre’s history from the mid-19th century to the present sets a frame for their equally impressive exploration of many facets of this protean art." * Choice Reviews *
£85.00
Princeton University Press An Essay on Man
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An Essay on Man . . . was one of the most widely disseminated and well-known publications of the 18th century, notably impacting Enlightenment writers Voltaire, David Hume, Adam Smith, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Jones provides a reliable modern version." * Library Journal *"The book is exemplary in its scholarship. [Jones] has unearthed a multiplicity of references and illuminates the antecedents of Pope's ideas with authority. This is an edition which should be recommended to every student and teacher of the poem…. There is no sensible criticism that could be levelled at his work in this volume." * Penniless Press *"Jones's edition makes the energetically paradoxical Essay on Man accessible…. The introduction is extensive and excellent."---Robert Phiddian, Australian Book Review
£14.24
Princeton University Press The Man of the Crowd
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A deeply informed, academic work, but highly readable."---Steven Carroll, Sydney Morning Herald"The Man of the Crowd, by Scott Peeples, has something for everyone. It should be equally attractive to Edgar Allan Poe scholars, aficionados, and those who simply want to read more of Poe’s stories, poems, and essays."---Henry T. Edmonson III, Law & Liberty"Engaging. . . . [The Man of the Crowd] succeeds admirably in bringing us closer to a man we can now better appreciate as part of the crowd rather than a remote and inexplicable monad."---Ian Finseth, Edgar Allan Poe Review"Peeples convincingly demonstrates that Poe remained “in transit” throughout his life, despite his literary successes, and was never in full control of his career. This accessible book will interest casual readers and Poe scholars alike." * Choice *"What sets Scott Peeples’s ‘compact biography’ apart from other recent work is that it also concerns cities, specifically Richmond, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York, where Poe spent much of his life and which stirred his imagination. Peeples’s aim is to re-contextualize the image of Poe as a campy ‘nowhere man,’. . . . In detailing Poe’s moves from city to city, Peeples presents an ambitious young man seeking to support his family and to establish himself as a writer, critic, and editor."---Katherine J. Kim, The Metropole"[A] superb new biograph[y] of Poe. . . . The Man of the Crowd . . . give[s] us a clearer view of Poe as a man and an artist, while at the same time showing how the myth mill about him was busy from the start, forming and deforming his choices, and creating the brand of Poe we know today."---Jonathan Elmer, Public Books"A welcome, engaging introduction to Poe’s life. . . . This compact biography is an affable ramble, a genial journey, with Poe through the years. It knowledgeably and accessibly recounts Poe’s urban contexts and relates his relevant texts. . . . The whole is interestingly complemented by archival images of contemporary maps and periodicals and by archival photographs, blended photographs, and recent photographs by Michelle Van Parys of various Poe sites and locales. This volume is a useful vade mecum for our armchair Poe peregrinations."---Richard Kopley, Poe Studies"Well-researched . . . [and] deeply informed. . . . Scott Peeples's streamlined account of Poe's journeys . . . grounds itself determinedly in the arc of his life's movement through various urban social realities. . . . This biography achieves its freshness through framing Poe's life as a series of chapters related to the cities in which he took up primary residence."---Stephen Rachman, Poe Studies"A highly absorbing, important, and superbly crafted study that deserves a place on the top shelf of Poe biographies."---Jason Richards, American Literary History
£18.00
