Literary studies: poetry and poets Books
Princeton University Press Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shortlisted for the John Florio Prize, The Society of Authors""A welcome addition to Princeton University Press’s excellent series, the Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation."---David Cooke, Modern Poetry in Translation
£15.29
Princeton University Press Hosts and Guests
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Nate Klug’s Hosts and Guests examines the sometimes uneasy, shifting economies between what serves as host and what is hosted in an array of contexts, from the Anthropocene to mother and fetus. . . . But it is perhaps in his delicate, intricate syntactical suspensions and arrangements, as much as in his arresting image systems, that Klug conveys the beautiful struggle of risking love and belief in bodies seemingly made to be lost to us."---Lisa Russ Spaar, Los Angeles Review of Books"Klug is writing some of the strongest poetry you can find in American letters these days. Stoically fierce and vividly alert. The signature surfaces of a Nate Klug poem . . . are often somehow simultaneously beautifully smooth and a little edgy. But they are also chiseled and efficient, and these qualities together are a sign of the richness in the depths they signify."---Jesse Nathan, McSweeney's"Intelligent, wry, learned, and at times witty . . . Klug bears witness to the fruitful cross-pollinations of contemporary poetry and contemporary religious faith…he is worth watching. - Library Journal""Klug is a poet of attention for whom metre is a slow-mo technology that lets you notice what’s in front of you. But he also finds words for interiority, helping you notice emotions that get lost in the rush of the everyday. - James K.A. Smith, Image Journal newsletter""Klug, at his best, can marry image, movement, and melody into precise order… I find myself…so refreshed by the poems of Hosts and Guests. - Christian Detisch, 32poems.com""Quirky and philosophical. . . . the poems in Hosts and Guests are . . . both exploratory and concise; they wander without filler or clutter. Klug’s descriptions are sharp, subtle, perceptive. . . . Here is the startling opposite of dogma’s violence: a free thinker who keeps running into God despite his disavowals."---Caroline Pittman, Threepenny Review
£42.50
Princeton University Press Rain in Plural Poems
Trade Review"Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry, Arrowsmith Press""A splendid follow-up to the LJ best-booked The Ruined Elegance with broader appeal." * Library Journal, starred review *"Fiona Sze-Lorrain’s fourth book of original poems, Rain in Plural . . . uses language to uncover questions of citizenship, memory, and image. We love Sze-Lorrain’s lush, musical sensibilities. . . . If you’ve enjoyed her work in the past, you’re sure to enjoy Rain in Plural, too!" * Lantern Review *"The poetry in her newest collection, Rain in Plural, is neither a mélange nor a mosaic of cultural, intellectual and linguistic referents, but a deeply intertwined layering . . . Sze-Lorrain seems at home and a visitor everywhere, connecting dots across cultures and continents, dipping into languages and cuisines. If there is a globalized future for English-language literature, this is perhaps an early glance at it."---Asian Review of Books, Peter Gordon"Provocative . . . lyrical. . . . These lovely poems slide between equally compelling realities that don’t seem to belong together but ultimately unify and bring sense, compassion, and beauty."---Kyle Torke, Colorado Review"The collection reveals the inner-life of a truly remarkable poet. Radiantly intelligent, Sze-Lorrain’s work is as musically intoxicating as the zheng she plays with precision . . . Rain in Plural is a collection of poetry deserving of multiple reads in the quietude of soft light over one’s left shoulder."---Michael Escoubas, Quill & Parchment"Rain in Plural is a collection that quietly insists on your attention."---Lisa Higgs, The Adroit Journal"There is something for every reader in Rain in Plural . . . Rain in Plural is an invitation to a myriad of entanglements with the inner life, and what grows from the seeds planted there."---Hannah VanderHart, EcoTheo Review"Rain in Plural is a lush and intimate study of the porous boundaries of personal life. Inflected with quietude and hardened by rigorous examination, Sze-Lorrain’s careful eye ranges over landscapes both within and outside the self, mining language for new entry points." * Yaddo News *"Fiona Sze-Lorrain's much-awaited fourth poetry collection, Rain in Plural, is a polyphonic gathering of wide-ranging themes. . . . Sze-Lorrain’s work allows us to grasp, for a moment, the points of contact that translation perpetually seeks. Therein lies the philosophical importance of Rain in Plural: eschewing equivalence, Sze-Lorrain crafts a poetics of border spaces and contact zones."---Lara Norgaard, Singapore Unbound"Such unexpected juxtapositions lend the collection a quirky vividness. Though consecutive lines and stanzas often touch on drastically different subjects, the poems still offer a sense of wholeness. . . . Regardless of her subject, Sze-Lorrain manages to be inventive and original without sacrificing authenticity and musical balance."---Maggie Wang, Harvard Review"The poems in this very good collection, even those that are slight on the page, have an epic, Yeatsian sweep to them, a grandeur of statement found in a lightness of touch."---Dominic Leonard, Poetry London
£42.50
Princeton University Press Dear Ms. Schubert
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Written by a Mr. Butterfly, these brief, playful poems show the intimacies of love while maintaining deep cultural skepticism." * New York Times *"Dear Ms. Schubert is an admirable addition to international literature, a gift to the English-speaking world."---L. Ali Khan, NY Journal of Books"Readers lucky enough to find themselves immersed in the poems [in Dear Ms. Schubert] will discover a lovely garden of delights…The poems, in a confident translation by Robin Davidson and Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska, are pleasant to read…clever and startling. —Kyle Torke, Colorado Review""The fascinating puzzle Lipska has put in front of us continues with the blurring of the boundary between prose and poetry. According to Lipska herself, the poems were written as prose postcards, and indeed only the poems of Dear Ms. Schubert are set as free verse poems. This is a revolutionary act, a democratization that anchors poetry in spoken and written nonliterary texts and gives it the rhythm of breathing; its speaker/writer perceives the world in a particular, poetic rhythm."---Alice-Catherine Carls, World Literature Today
£15.29
Princeton University Press The Trials of Orpheus
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] fascinating and erudite book. . . . The Trials of Orpheus will be indispensable for decades to come to early modernists and those in other fields who seek to understand the complexities of classical reception and the uncanniness of poetic creativity from antiquity to the present."---Benjamin Parris, Modern Philology
£31.50
Princeton University Press Before Modernism
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Before Modernism is] full of fascinating detail and Jackson’s research is impeccable."---Alan Dent, Penniless Press
£64.00
Princeton University Press Before Modernism
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Princeton University Press Soul and Substance
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An incredibly beautiful volume."---Matthew Goulish, EcoTheo Review
£64.00
Princeton University Press Soul and Substance
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An incredibly beautiful volume."---Matthew Goulish, EcoTheo Review
£22.50
Princeton University Press Visionary and Dreamer
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Cecil] does more for both painters than simply recount their lives. He presents both the visionary and dreamer in the bright and captivating light of his own sympathy." * The Observer *
£32.30
Princeton University Press On the Laws of the Poetic Art
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the 1997 Tanning Prize for Lifetime Achievement, Academy of American Poets""This book is full of fruitful and fascinating suggestions about our commerce with the variety of art, and the many worlds it inhabits."---John Bayley, The Times
£27.00
Princeton University Press Words of Eternity Blake and the Poetics of the
Book SynopsisWilliam Blake called himself a "sublime Artist" and acknowledged his own power to create "the Most Sublime Poetry." Words of Eternity reveals the fundamental importance of the term "sublime" in a defining of Blake's poetic achievement. This first full-length study of Blake and the sublime demonstrates that a sophisticated theory of sublimity permeaTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. ix*ILLUSTRATIONS, pg. xi*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xiii*TEXTS AND ABBREVIATIONS, pg. xv*INTRODUCTION, pg. 3*CHAPTER ONE. Blake's Concept of the Sublime, pg. 15*CHAPTER TWO. The Bardic Style: Sublime Extension, pg. 55*CHAPTER THREE. The Iconic Style: Sublime Concentration, pg. 80*CHAPTER FOUR. Narrative Sequences: Modes of Organization, pg. 103*CHAPTER FIVE. The Setting of Nature and the Ruins of Time, pg. 145*CHAPTER SIX. The Setting of the Divided Nations: The Antiquarian Sublime, pg. 179*CHAPTER SEVEN. The Settings of Signs: Language and the Recovery of Origins, pg. 201*EPILOGUE. Blake's Sublime in the Romantic Context, pg. 225*INDEX, pg. 233
£31.50
Princeton University Press The Antifraternal Tradition in Medieval
Book SynopsisThis book is a history of a medieval literary tradition that grew out of opposition to the mendicant fraternal orders. Penn R. Szittya argues that the widespread attacks on the friars in late medieval poetry, especially in Ricardian England, drew on an established tradition that originated in the polemical theology, eschatology, and Biblical exegesTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*PREFACE, pg. ix*ABBREVIATIONS, pg. xiii*INTRODUCTION. The Puzzle of Sire Penetrans Domos, pg. 1*ONE. William of St. Amour and the Perils of the Last Times, pg. 11*TWO. William of St. Amour in England: Circulation and Dissemination, pg. 62*THREE. The Antifaternal Ecclesiology of Archbishop Richard FitzRalph, pg. 123*FOUR. John Wyclif and the Nominalist, pg. 152*FIVE. The English Poetic Tradition, pg. 183*SIX. Chaucer and Antifraternal Exegesis: The False Apostle of the Summoner's Tale, pg. 231*SEVEN. The Friars and the End of Piers Plowman, pg. 247*APPENDIX A: Sources of Omne Bonum, Article "Fratres", pg. 291*APPENDIX B: Sources ofBodl. 784, Part 3 and Collation with Omne Bonum, Article "Fratres", pg. 296*GENERAL INDEX, pg. 301*INDEX OF BIBLICAL REFERENCES, pg. 313*INDEX OF MANUSCRIPTS, pg. 315
£40.50
Princeton University Press The Letters of Edward Fitzgerald Volume 3 18671876 4475 Princeton Legacy Library
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Princeton University Press Selected Poems of Tudor Arghezi
Book SynopsisTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*Translators' Introduction, pg. ix*Acknowledgments, pg. xi*Preface, pg. xiii*Pronunciation Guide, pg. xxv*I. From Fitting Words (Cuvinte Potrivite), pg. 1*II. From Flowers of Mildew (Flori de Mucigai), pg. 75*III. From Evening Verses (Versuri se Seara), pg. 129*IV. From one Hundred and one Poems (Una suta una poeme), pg. 169*Epilogue, pg. 213
£78.20
Princeton University Press The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Volume 4
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Voltaire and Cr233billon p232re history of an enmity
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Pluto Press Culture as Politics
Book SynopsisThe selected writings of 1930s author Christopher Caudwell, a Marxist writer of extraordinary brillianceTrade Review'It is not difficult to see Caudwell as a phenomenon - as an extraordinary shooting-star crossing England's empirical night' -- E. P. Thompson'The selection of writings presented here does justice to the richness of Caudwell's thought, and will introduce a whole new generation of readers to this remarkable thinker' -- Anindya Raychaudhuri, School of English, University of St Andrews'A revealing set of texts by the most important British Marxist cultural critic before World War II, meticulously and lovingly edited by the greatest contemporary expert in the field. Indispensable' -- Edith Hall, Professor of Classics, King's College University of LondonChristopher Caudwell was a brief and breathtakingly brilliant presence in the world ... I commend Pluto for publishing these new editions and bringing Caudwell to the attention of new audiences' -- Marx & Philosophy Review of BooksTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Studies in a Dying Culture 1. D. H. Lawrence: A Study of the Bourgeois Artist 2. Freud: A Study in Bourgeois Psychology 3. Liberty: A Study in Bourgeois Illusion Part II: Illusion and Reality 4. The Birth of Poetry 5. The Death of Mythology 6. The Development of Modern Poetry 7. English Poets I: The Period of Primitive Accumulation 8. English Poets II: The Industrial Revolution 9. English Poets III: The Decline of Capitalism 10. The World and the ‘I’ Part III: 'Heredity and Development' 11. Heredity and Development: A Study of Bourgeois Biology Notes Works Cited Index
£16.14
Liverpool University Press Geoffrey Hill
Book SynopsisA clear introductory account of the work of Geoffrey Hill.
£18.69
Liverpool University Press William Blake
Book SynopsisSteve Vine’s study introduces the full range of William Blake’s poetry and illuminated books from the early Songs to the late epics, and focuses on the socially radical and challenging nature of his art.
£18.69
Liverpool University Press Robert Browning
Book SynopsisIn this book, John Woolford specifies the precise meaning and scope of 'the grotesque' by placing Browning in a major aesthetic tradition running from the Romantic Sublime through to modern concepts and theorisations of the grotesque, such as the Bakhtinian.
£18.69
McGill-Queen's University Press Journey with No Maps
Book SynopsisPoet, traveller, artist, and mystic - the story of one extraordinary woman's many lives.Trade Review"This first full biography of a multitalented poet and visual artist, who won applause from such disparate figures as Stephen Spender, Joseph Brodsky and Margaret Atwood, is a foundational work future studies will consult for a full appreciation of Page's astonishing career as a major artist of our time." David Staines, The Globe & Mai "Journey with No Maps is not just a biography of a poet, but of a painter, and a relentless explorer of the human condition." Montreal Review of Books "[Journey with No Maps] is a body of work that will endure for generations." The Gazette
£21.84
The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer Modern
Book SynopsisBased on the ""The Canterbury Tales"", this work features an introduction by master scholar Harold Bloom, a chronology detailing Chaucer's life, a bibliography, and an index.
£34.81
MB - Cornell University Press The Jeweled Style Poetry and Poetics in Late
Book SynopsisIn The Jeweled Style, Michael Roberts offers a new approach to the Latin poetry of late antiquity, one centering on an aesthetic quality common to both the literature and the art of the period...Trade ReviewRobert skillfully delineates the qualities of the 'jeweled style' and shows that, although rhetorical ostentation was sometimes viewed with suspicion by Christian authors, it became an enduring part of late antique and medieval aesthetics. Roberts's discussions of poetry and the classical tradition are clear and informative, but it is primarily the extensive chapter on literature and the visual arts that makes this study so worthwhile. This book should not be overlooked by anyone interested in a readable treatment of early Christian and medieval Latin poetry. * Religious Studies Review *Roberts has produced a gem of a book about Latin poetry of the Roman dominate.... By analyzing the style of a number of the major poets of the period, Roberts makes it clear that late Roman poetry is just as sophisticated, in its own right, as the works of the early principate. He argues that the literature has to be considered against the background of the period in which it was produced, convincingly showing that it shares much in common with the art of the period. * The Classical World *
£45.00
Cornell University Press The Structure of Old Norse Dr243ttkv230tt Poetry
Book SynopsisThe drottkvett was a form of Old Norse skaldic poetry composed to glorify a chieftain's deeds or to lament his death. Kari Ellen Gade explores the structural peculiarities of ninth- and tenth-century drottkvett poetry and suggests a solution to the...Trade ReviewThis splendid book represents a triumph over the massive technical difficulties inherent in its production.... The originality and thoroughness of Gade's methodology, her awareness and synthesis of pertinent work by other scholars, and her ability to communicate lucidly to the reader are an inspiration throughout. * Journal of English and Germanic Philology *The Islandica Series from Cornell has come to be associated with scholarship of the highest standard in central areas of Icelandic studies. Gade's book is a controversial and stimulating account which succeeds admirably in living up to the expectations of the series. * Scandinavian Studies *
£80.10
Cornell University Press Baudelaires World
Book SynopsisCharles Baudelaire is often regarded as the founder of modernist poetry. Written with clarity and verve, Baudelaire's World provides English-language readers with the biographical, historical, and cultural contexts that will lead to a fuller...Trade ReviewTranslators are moody darlings—here ecstatic, there mischievous and ready to betray—and criticism is not more faithful either. Aware of this predicament, Lloyd does not only propose a reading but, most significantly, provides a rich ground on which other readings can be drawn. Ultimately, Baudelaire's World has many entries, and many streets entice the reader with illicit charms. * Literary Research/Recherche Litteraire *Drawing on her own translations as well as those of other poets, Lloyd offers a lively discourse on the possibilities and limitations of translation. For academic libraries with large collections of poetry and poetic criticism. * Library Journal *The prose is lively, passionate, even humorous, and scrupulously researched. * Times Literary Supplement *Lloyd's objective is to scrutinize the culture and influences that shaped the French poet. She does not recapitulate his life, except to illustrate something in the verse.... Few conventional biographies, though, offer so clear a picture of personality and thought process as does Lloyd's critical study. * The New Leader *Rosemary Lloyd's latest book brings a fresh approach to Baudelaire studies, thanks to the savvy use of English translations to stress elements easily lost or unappreciated by non-French readers.... Although not a biography in the full sense, her study avoids separating the man and the work. Lloyd wants to indicate how a reading that honors the complexities of his writings might proceed. And in this respect Baudelaire's World achieves its goal.... Accompanied by some previously unpublished illustrations and printed in an edition at once environmentally responsible and esthetically attractive, Rosemary Lloyd's Baudelaire's World makes a nice acquisition for undergraduate as well as graduate libraries. For Baudelaire specialists there are some excellent finds—such as the plate from Francois Baudelaire's illustrated Latin vocabulary—as well as Lloyd's exemplary translations and shrewd assessments of other translations. Specialists will also be usefully directed to lesser-known aspects of the many-sided Baudelaire. For the non-specialist seeking an introduction, Baudelaire's World is a fine place to start: thorough, balanced, thoughtful, amusing and pleasingly written. * Nineteenth-Century French Studies *
£46.80
Cornell University Press Nobodys Business
Book SynopsisThe first book to treat the emergence of Flarf, Conceptual Poetry, and other genres of contemporary avant-garde poetry in a serious way.Trade Review[Brian Reed] is a useful, intelligent,and well-read omnivore, able to offer not only incisive and theoretically personable insights but also witty and dynamic writing. Reed is one of the bestmidcareer critics writing about contemporary poetry in a poetics context; hemakes a person extremely eager to follow his work, now and in the future. Thisbook seems to be one cut of a developing careerlong argument, one calf of ahearty glacier. -- Rachel Blau DuPlessis * Modern Language Quarterly *In this radical, engaging critical study, Reed extends the work he did in Phenomenal Reading (2012) by discussing poets widely recognized as formal and linguistic innovators. Innovation and the interface of art and technology, along with sociology and politics, are his subjects.... He writes of 'better appreciat[ing] the sophistication, idiosyncrasy, and value of these oddball contemporary American efforts to find viable poetic strategies for dissent, critique, and utopian dreaming.' Despite what some readers regard as the willy-nilly hodge-podge that is today's poetry, this is a book not of dreaming but of focused attention on what is new. * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface: What Now?1. In Praise of Obsolescence2. New Consensus Poetics and the Avant-Garde3. Mechanical Form and Avant-Garde Aesthetics4. Flarf, Folly, and George W. Bush5. Andrea Brady's Peculiar Dissidence6. Danny Snelson’s Disco Operating SystemAcknowledgments Notes Index
£40.50
Cornell University Press The Jeweled Style
Book SynopsisIn The Jeweled Style, Michael Roberts offers a new approach to the Latin poetry of late antiquity, one centering on an aesthetic quality common to both the literature and the art of the period...Trade ReviewRobert skillfully delineates the qualities of the 'jeweled style' and shows that, although rhetorical ostentation was sometimes viewed with suspicion by Christian authors, it became an enduring part of late antique and medieval aesthetics. Roberts's discussions of poetry and the classical tradition are clear and informative, but it is primarily the extensive chapter on literature and the visual arts that makes this study so worthwhile. This book should not be overlooked by anyone interested in a readable treatment of early Christian and medieval Latin poetry. * Religious Studies Review *Roberts has produced a gem of a book about Latin poetry of the Roman dominate.... By analyzing the style of a number of the major poets of the period, Roberts makes it clear that late Roman poetry is just as sophisticated, in its own right, as the works of the early principate. He argues that the literature has to be considered against the background of the period in which it was produced, convincingly showing that it shares much in common with the art of the period. * The Classical World *
£20.79
Cornell University Press The Mute Immortals Speak PreIslamic Poetry and
Book SynopsisThe Mute Immortals Speak will be important for students and scholars in the fields of Middle Eastern literatures, Islamic studies, folklore, oral literature...Trade Review"The Mute Immortals Speak will be of interest to anyone seriously interested in Islam. It should also engage a wide, interdisciplinary audience through its demonstration that at the heart of the qasidah and its satellite genres is a central human dilemma involving human identity, conflict, belonging, and community."-International Journal of Middle East Studies "In this analysis of the great Arabic language classics, the pre-Islamic ode, or qasidah, Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych ventures into such various fields as anthropology, religion, gender studies, history, philology, and folklore to augment her effectiveness as a literary theorist. Combining insights gleaned using the tools of these many disciplines, she has produced a brilliantly original and thought provoking analysis... By giving voice to the mute immortals, Stetkevych has made these pre-Islamic masterworks accessible to a wider readership. In shedding much-needed light on these poems, the ethos of which has suffused the Arabic literary tradition since the beginning of Islam, Stetkevych has opened a door to understanding the Arab world."-American AnthropologistTable of ContentsForeword by Gregory NagyPrefacePART ONE: PRESENTING THE RITUAL PARADIGM1. Voicing the Mute Immortals: The Mu'allaqah of Labid and the Rite of Passage2. Eating the Dead / The Dead Eating: Blood Vengeance as SacrificePART TWO: THE PARADIGM OF PASSAGE MANQUÈ3. Ta'abbata Sharran and Oedipus: A Paradigm of Passage Manqué4. Archetype and Attribution: AI-Shanfara and the Lamiyyat al-'ArabPART THREE: ORALITY AND GENDER IN THE ELEGY5. The Obligations and Poetics of Gender: Women's Elegy and Blood Vengeance6. Memory Inflamed: Muhalhil ibn Rabi'ah and the War of al-BasusPART FOUR: THE MASTER POEM7. Regicide and Retribution: The Mu'allaqah of Imru' al-QaysAppendix of Arabic TextsWorks CitedIndex
£30.40
Cornell University Press Mallarm233 The Poet and His Circle
Book SynopsisUpon his death in 1898, the French Symbolist poet Stephane Mallarmé (b. 1842) left behind a body of published work which though modest in quantity was to have a seminal influence on subsequent poetry and aesthetic theory. He also enjoyed an...Trade ReviewAn extremely thoughtful and well-documented new study, a book that sheds as much light on the cultural dynamics of the fin-de-siecle as it does on the aesthetics, ethics, and personality of Mallarmé himself.... In the end, Lloyd skillfully demonstrates that Mallarmé's correspondence holds much hidden significance. * French Forum *Lloyd's richly insightful study focuses on the way Mallarmé's correspondence with his friends and acquaintances (his circle) sheds light on the process of poetic composition.... Lloyd's style is elegant rather than artful, and the erudition of the author, while understated, is apparent on every page. * French Review *The book places Mallarmé within the blazing late-19th-century Parisian artistic ferment and offers credible looks at the origins of his endlessly complicated and beautiful work. * Publishers Weekly *Rosemary Lloyd's book stands out among recent publications on Mallarmé for its readability and its intimate portrait of the poet in the context of his times. * The European Legacy *This articulate literary biography... sheds new and important light on Mallarmé's own poems and essays.... An important addition to large public as well as scholarly collections,... this volume will be a sine qua non for any library supporting serious study in poetry, art, and music of late 19th-century France. Endnotes, a substantial bibliography, a useful index, and excellent print, paper, and binding add to the book's value. * Choice *Throughout her book Lloyd segues gracefully from the poet's life and milieu to his poems, always matched with her first-rate translations and subtle explications. While insisting on the everyday simplicity of Mallarmé's symbols (mirrors, sunsets, vases) she never tries to explain away the poems' irreducible complexity. This is biographical criticism of the highest order; it is also an absorbing portrait of a dazzling subculture. * Times Literary Supplement *
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Cornell University Press The Allegory of Female Authority
Book SynopsisThe first professional female writer, Christine de Pizan (1363-1431) was widowed at age twenty-five and supported herself and her family by enlisting powerful patrons for her poetry. Her Livre de la Cité des Dames (1405) is the earliest European work...Trade ReviewThe Allegory of Female Authority eleborates the case for the uniqueness and relevance of Christine de Pizan and her work and for bringing both 'the problem of the author' and the reexamination of medieval texts closer to current centers of critical and theoretical attention. * Speculum *
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Johns Hopkins University Press Homer
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewEdwards makes reading Homer exciting and meaningful. He's alert to every aspect of his subject, including the problem of translations. His book is an indispensable companion for anyone keen on drawing from this great source of wisdom and delight. Christian Science MonitorTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Characteristics of Homeric PoetryChapter 1. The Bard, Oral Poetry, and Our Present TextChapter 2. Narrative: The Poet's VoiceChapter 3. LanguageChapter 4. Meter and FormulaeChapter 5. Word Order and EmphasisChapter 6. Story Patterns and Use of MythChapter 7. Type-Scenes and ExpansionChapter 8. Battle ScenesChapter 9. DescriptionChapter 10. Speeches, Soliloquies, and CharacterizationChapter 11. Paradigms and AphorismsChapter 12. SimilesChapter 13. MetaphorsChapter 14. SymbolismChapter 15. SoundChapter 16. Word Play and Significant NamesChapter 17. gods, Fate, and MortalityChapter 18. Personification and PsychologyChapter 19. Honor, Proper, Behavior, and WarfareChapter 20. History and SocietyPart II. CommentariesChapter 21. Iliad Book 1Chapter 22. Iliad Book 3Chapter 23. Iliad Book 6Chapter 24. Iliad Book 9Chapter 25. Iliad Book 13Chapter 26. Iliad Book 14Chapter 27. Iliad Book 16Chapter 29. Iliad Book 22Chapter 30. Iliad Book 24Afterword: The World-view of HomerBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The American Face of Edgar Allan Poe
Book SynopsisRenza, Shawn Rosenheim, and Laura Saltz.Trade Review"Avoiding the mere Frenchification of Poe that was dominant in the eighties, on the one hand, but, on the other, steadfastly refusing to return to the traditional formalist and thematic style which never really accounted for the French Poe, these essays make a wonderful case for a vitally social Poe--returning him home again, but with a difference that makes all the difference. They do so because their authors are at once theoretically current and widely experienced with the American canon. And they do so, even more, because they are quality essays, valuable individually as well as collectively."--Kenneth Dauber, State University of New York, Buffalo
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Body of Beatrice
Book SynopsisHarrison's elegant poems follow in the steps of his work on interpreting the classic "Divine Comedy"by Dante. (Poetry)Trade ReviewThe quality and intensity of Harrison's attention, and the subtlety with which his argument gradually unfolds, makes The Body of Beatrice as compelling and pleasurable to read as a fine work of fiction... The best book on the Vita Nuova I have ever read. SpeculumTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsEditions and TranslationsIntroduction: Critical DifferencesPart I. Beatrice AliveChapter One. Dante's DreamChapter Two. The Ideal LyricChapter Three. Figures of LoveChapter Four. The Ghost of Guido CalvalcantiPart Two. Beatrice DeadChapter Five. The Death of Beatrice and the Petrarchan AlternativeChapter Six. Beyond the LyricChapter Seven. The Narrative BreakthroughChapter Eight. Vision and Revision: The Provisional Essence of the Vita NuovaEpilogueNotesIndex of Passages CitedGeneral Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Odyssey
Book SynopsisLouden's comprehensive achievement gives the reader a fresh perspective on the role of divine hostility and the artistry of an epic survivor on his timeless journey home.Trade ReviewOften illuminating... The reader will find much to welcome. -- Matthew Clark Phoenix
£25.20
University of Toronto Press Chaucers Pardoners Prologue and Tale
Book SynopsisThe Chaucer Bibliography series aims to provide annotated bibliographies for all of Chaucer's work. This book summarizes 20th-century commentaries on Chaucer's Pardoner's Prologue and Tale.
£85.00
University of Toronto Press The White Savannahs
Book SynopsisThe White Savannahs, originally published in 1936, is the first study of Canadian poetry from a modern point of view. It contains essays on Archibald Lampman, Marjorie Pickthall, E.J. Pratt, Leo Kennedy, A.M. Klein, A.J.M. Smith, F.R. Scott, Marie Le Franc, and Dorothy Livesay. The contributions are based on a series of analytical essays originally published in the Canadian Forum and in the University of Toronto Quarterly. Professor Collin's work added much to the establishment of a new climate of opinion among readers and publishers of poetry in Canada.
£30.60
University of Toronto Press Saul and Selected Poems
Book SynopsisSaul and Selected Poems is an original and useful introduction to the work and poetic personality of Charles Heavysege (1816-76), an important but currently neglected nineteenth-century Canadian writer. Heavysege was handicapped by a limited education and a lack of public support, yet nonetheless established himself in Great Britain and America as the 'leading intellect of [the] Dominion' in a period when native literature was scantily regarded. His struggle to express himself and to find an audience for his work mirrors the dilemma of the émigré writer of his time.Heavysege's work is related in this volume to the early nineteenth-century English revival of poetic drama, and seen in the context of the Canadian cultural milieu of the 1860s. Saul is a powerful presentation of the tormented soul caught in a world of order and universal degree. Its main interest is to be found in the psychological frankness - Saul's recognition of his demon resonates with the deeper impl
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MY - University of Toronto Press Xenophanes of Colophon
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University of Toronto Press Catullus
Book SynopsisThis work contains a major revision of Douglas Thomson''s Catullus: A Critical Edition (1978), with the addition of a full commentary and a wholly new introduction. For the introduction and for each of the poems there is an extensive and current bibliography.In the introduction, apart from sections on the life of Catullus, on the arrangement of the poems, and on their literary background, there is a lengthy discussion of the history of the text, as well as a review of the progress of Catullan studies from the editio princeps to the present day.There are about seventy changes from the previous edition in the text of the poems. The critical apparatus has also been extensively revised. In addition, the Table of Manuscripts, which has come to be regarded as standard, has been updated without alteration to the numbering sequence.Though this is not primarily intended as a ''school edition,'' the commentary includes, in addition to critical judgments, traTrade Review'Thomson is a most reliable and sympathetic guide to the poet. In addition to issues of text, he is especially concerned with matters of language and structure ... Here a well-known poem appears in a new light, and this is characteristic of the very considerable achievement of this edition. Thomson has made a significant contribution to the study of Latin poetry by producing a freshly considered and sharply illuminated text of Catallus that is founded upon the sound practice of philology.' -- Christopher G. Brown University of Toronto Quarterly
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MY - University of Toronto Press Sounding Objects
Book SynopsisOften abstracted by the aesthetic implications of music itself, musical instruments can be seen as physical signifiers apart from the music that they produce. In Sounding Objects, Carla Zecher studies the representation of musical instruments in French Renaissance poetry and art, arguing that the efficacy of these material objects as literary and pictorial images was derived from their physical characteristics and acoustic properties, as well as from their aesthetic product.Sounding Objects is concerned with ways in which musical culture provided poets with a rich, nuanced vocabulary for reflecting on their own art and its roles in courtly life, the civic arena, and salon society. Poets not only depicted the world of musical practice but also appropriated it, using musical instruments figuratively to establish their literary identities. Drawing on music treatises and archival sources as well as poems, paintings, and engravings, this unique study aims to enrich our unTable of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Of Strings, Trumpets, and the Future of French Poetry Musical Rivalries Musical Instruments, Governance, and Oratory The Anatomy of the LuteEpilogueNotes Bibliography Index
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MY - University of Toronto Press Snorri Sturluson and the Edda
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University of Nebraska Press The Poetry of Ezra Pound
Book SynopsisAn examination of the Cantos and other major works that would strongly influence the course of contemporary poetry.Trade Review"An indispensable text for the student of modern literature in any of its manifestations."—New Yorker"Mr. Kenner has gone far to achieve what he set out to do, make the reader see Mr. Pound as a poet possibly great and certainly important to our time."—Bonamy Dobrée, Spectator"The book contains numerous quotations from Ezra Pound's works and gives some excellent examples of the gusto and vitality of Pound's dealing with ideas."—Serge Hughes, Commonweal"Kenner's work of gathering the essential statement of [Pound's] intelligences merits the serious attention of those still supple enough to accept the demands of a difficult beauty."—J. H. Edwards, San Francisco Chronicle
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Ohio University Press Zen Poetry the Art of Lucien Stryk
Book SynopsisLucien Stryk has been a presence in American letters for almost fifty years. Those who know his poetry well will find this collection particularly gratifying. Like journeying again to places visited long ago, Stryk’s writing is both familiar and wonderfully fresh.For
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Ohio University Press A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke
Book SynopsisThis timely and accessible companion to the work of twentieth-century American poet Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) gathers essays that illuminate his poetics, themes, and the contexts of his poems through the diverse critical approaches that have emerged in the past five decades.Trade Review“[T]his new anthology’s many critical voices suit Roethke’s multi-faceted work…. A Field Guide should bring new readers closer to the liveliness of Roethke’s poems, which will become their own.” * Poetry Northwest *“[T]he Field Guide brings together all the elements needed for a sophisticated understanding of Roethke, his contexts, and his art. It presents leading historical and contemporary critical approaches to his poetry, and it suggests areas deserving further study.” -- Philip A. Greasley * MidAmerica *“This book draws readers closer to Roethke’s poetry than any other single study has. Recommended.” * Choice *“Barillas’s thoroughly diverse and democratic reassessment of Roethke’s radically diverse oeuvre resituates Roethke’s high and proper place in American poetry…. A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke has altered and deepened my thinking, not just about Roethke but poetry itself.” * Poetry International Online *“This ingeniously structured ‘field guide’ to Roethke’s poetry reintroduces us to a body of work that changed the sound and sense of twentieth-century poetry. Timely, engaging, and stylistically diverse essays consider Roethke’s poems from new angles, and situate him as an early practitioner of ecopoetry. These reappraisals remind us of the power of Roethke’s ‘weird word-music,’ his mastery of the greenhouse’s ‘alien textures,’ and the reach of his ‘defamiliarizing’ poetic language, which influenced Sylvia Plath, Robert Bly, James Wright, Seamus Heaney, and so many others. This is an indispensable collection for a new generation of Roethke’s readers.” -- Heather Clark, author of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath“What a lovely model this book sets: a gathering of short essays by skilled readers on a great poet whose work is ripe for rediscovery. William Barillas has devised an elegant format that allows many voices to sound in a variety of registers, while keeping the poems themselves constantly in the foreground. This book offers scholars, poets, teachers, and students a wide array of paths through the inexhaustibly rich terrain of Roethke’s poems, traversing their vibrant renderings of both inner and outer landscapes, their sustained dialogue with poetic tradition, and their prescient engagement with environmental concerns.” -- Roger Gilbert, author of Walks in the World: Representation and Experience in Modern American Poetry“These essays, written from multiple perspectives, make a welcome and accessible companion to Roethke’s Collected Poems, while making the case for exploring the full range of the poet’s work.” -- Christopher MacGowan, author of Twentieth-Century American Poetry“A long overdue re-examination and celebration of the incandescent work of poet Theodore Roethke, bringing his work to a whole new generation of readers. Highly recommended.” -- Nicholas O’Connell, author of On Sacred Ground: The Spirit of Place in Pacific Northwest Literature“Roethke’s large, multitudinous body of work, while never out of print, has somehow gotten lost in the past decades. This book, expertly edited by William Barillas, should help rectify that odd neglect. It puts his work in perspective.” -- Edward Hirsch, from the Foreword“One of the great strengths of this book is its reconsideration of Roethke’s work in the light of critical developments such as ecocriticism, feminist criticism, and reader response theory. This is an extremely timely and important collection.” -- Sally Connolly, author of Grief & Meter: Elegies for Poets after AudenWhat the Field Guide effectively reveals in its contributions, all of which are worthy of critical celebration, is that when we read closely, from any perspective[,] . . . we can discover the lasting qualities of poetry, and in this instance a poet whose quality of self-critique has never been more needed for the nation. * American Book Review *Table of ContentsForeword (EDWARD HIRSCH) Preface Acknowledgments House, Field, Stones, and Stars: An Introduction (WILLIAM BARILLAS) Open House (1941) 1. “Open House”: Prying and Potential in an Early Poem (BRANDON RUSHTON) 2. “To My Sister” (WILLIAM HEYEN) 3. “Beneath an Undivided Sky”: Environmental Disorder and Human Passivity in “Interlude” (KRISTIN M. DISTEL) 4. “Sharper on the Ear”: “The Light Comes Brighter” and the Subtle Phenomena of Place (ROD PHILLIPS) 5. Smart Like Auden? “Lull” and “September 1, 1939” (PATRICK GILL) 6. Ironic Quest in “Highway: Michigan” (RONALD PRIMEAU) 7. Movement through Space, Sound, and Time in “Night Journey” (MARCEL INHOFF) The Lost Son and Other Poems (1948) 8. “Cuttings” and “Cuttings (later)”: Roethke’s Minute Carnivals (MICHAEL HINDS) 9. All the Small, Unlovely Things: “Root Cellar” (JOHN ROHRKEMPER) 10. Locating the Poet in “Weed Puller” (LYN COFFIN) 11. “Orchids”: Undomesticating the Greenhouse (BROOKE HORVATH) 12. “Moss-Gathering” and Roethke’s Romantic Child of Nature (MARC MALANDRA) 13. The Storm of the Mind vs. Family and Machine in “Big Wind” (RUSSELL BRICKEY) 14. “Long Days under the Sloped Glass”: Greenhouse Memories in “Transplanting” (CARRIE DUKE) 15. “Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze” and the Sleeping Beauty Tale (MARCIA NOE and LAURA DUNCAN) 16. Meter in “My Papa’s Waltz” (WILLIAM BARILLAS) 17. Syntax and Diction in “Dolor” (LUKE BREKKE) 18. Imagery and Abstraction in “Night Crow” (SARAH KATHRYN MOORE) 19. “The Lost Son”: An Emotional Journey through the Landscapes of Loss (BORJA AGUILÓ OBRADOR) 20. Respite for the Lost Son: “A Field of Light” (JEFFREY CLAPP) Praise to the End! (1951) 21. Homegrown Cosmologies: Animism and Elegy in “Where Knock Is Open Wide” (DAVID WOJAHN) 22. “Give Way, Ye Gates” and Roethke’s Praise to the End! Sequence (PETER BALAKIAN) The Waking (1953) 23 “The Visitant” (CAMILLE PAGLIA) 24. “Elegy for Jane”: The Nature of Grief (DAVID RADAVICH) 25. Dancing “The Dance”: Roethke’s Poetics of Appropriation (ADAM PUTZ) 26. Subduing Fear in “The Waking” (FRANK J. KEARFUL) Words for the Wind (1958) 27. Love, Selfhood, and Sublimation in “Words for the Wind” (ANDREW DAVID KING) 28. Moving Circles in “I Knew a Woman” (JAY PARINI) 29. “First Meditation” and Roethke’s Career (DON BOGEN) I Am! Says th e Lamb (1961) 30. A Few Thousand Words on Theodore Roethke, Children’s Poetry, and Three Poems Concerning Two Turtles (One of Whom Is Named Myrtle) (JOSEPH T. THOMAS JR.) The Far Field (1964) 31. “The Longing”: Alienation, Place, and the Desire for Home (KATHARINE BUBEL) 32. Spirit, Self, and Shorebirds: The Pacific Pastoral of “Meditation at Oyster River” (NICHOLAS BRADLEY) 33. “Journey to the Interior,” “The Longing,” and the Search for a Definitive Text (NEAL BOWERS) Contents 34. Mnetha in “The Long Waters” (JOHN J. MCKENNA) 35. The Ecological Vision of “The Far Field” (BERNARD QUETCHENBACH) 36. Nature Mysticism in “The Rose” (EDWARD MORIN) 37. “The Abyss”: Finding the Next Life in This One (TRENTON HICKMAN) 38. “Otto”: An Insight into Roethke’s Poetic Vision (JEFF VANDE ZANDE) 39. “The Meadow Mouse”: A Poem of Compassion (NORMAN CHANEY) 40. The Zoopoetics of “The Pike” (AARON M. MOE) 41. Roethke’s Dark Society: Revisiting “In a Dark Time” (WALTER KALAIDJIAN) 42. “I Am Not Yet Undone”: Navigating the Journey from Life to Death in “Infirmity” (LAURA GILL) 43. Symbolism and the Mystic’s Way in “The Tree, the Bird” (CHRISTOPHER GIROUX) 44. “Once More, the Round”: Roethke’s Last Word (WILLIAM BARILLAS) Works Cited Notes on Contributors Index
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Stanford University Press The Course of Remembrance and Other Essays on
Book SynopsisIn a series of studies over the last 30 years, Henrich has shown that Holderlin played a decisive role in the development of philosophy from Kant to Hegel. This book includes six of Henrich's most important essays on Holderlin.
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Stanford University Press Pushkin and Romantic Fashion Fragment Elegy
Book SynopsisThis book is about the interpenetration of culture and personality, specifically Alexander I's Russian Empire, a latecomer in post-Napoleonic European history, and Aleksandr Pushkin, virtuoso improvisor yet prisoner of the Golden Age discourses that now bear his name.Trade Review"Greenleaf's notes demonstrate her impressive research in an unusually broad range of sources. . . . If all interpretations are contingently valid, few are more powerfully and sensitively argued than Greenleaf's." -- Choice"This is one of those rare books that both present new material (the result of extensive research) and new understanding (the result of intensive and luminous thought). . . . It is a major contribution." -- William Mills Todd III * Harvard University *Table of ContentsA note to the reader; Pushkin and the fragment: an introduction; 1. The romantic fragment: a genealogy; 2. From epitaph to elegy: Russia's entry into European culture; 3. The foreign fountain: self as other in the oriental poem; 4. 'What's in a name?' the rhetoric of imposture in Boris Godunov; 5. The sense of not ending: romantic irony in Eugene Onegin; 6. How to read an epitaph: the 'Kleopatra' tales; Autoportraiture: an afterword; Notes; Index.
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Stanford University Press Against Coercion Games Poets Play
Book SynopsisThis book looks at how poems work, showing how they speak to historical, ethical, and aesthetic questions. It also demonstrates how to read poetry—how to go beyond an elementary approach, to recover the sheer pleasure of good poems.Trade Review“This brilliantly written work is authentic literary criticism: sharp, perceptive, learned, original, individual, and life-enhancing. The scholarship is both astonishing and in itself a mode of wit; its handling is exquisite. The book establishes Cook as a first-rate critic.”—Harold Bloom, Yale University.Table of ContentsForeword; Introduction; Part I. Empire, War, Nation: 1. Eliot, Keynes, and Empire: The Waste Land; 2. Schemes against coercion: Geoffrey Hill, Elizabeth Bishop, and others; 3. Fables of war in Elizabeth Bishop; 4. Faulkner, typology and black history in Go Down, Moses; 5. A seeing and unseeing in the eye: Canadian literature and the sense of place; Part II. Culture and the Uses of memory: Allusion: 6. Questions of allusion; 7. The language of scripture in Wordsworth's Prelude; 8. The senses of Eliot's salvages; 9. Wallace Stevens and the King James bible; 10. Birds in paradise: revisions of a topos in Milton, Keats, Whitman, Stevens, and Ammons; Part III. Poetry at Play: 11. Melos versus logos, or, why doesn't God sing? Some thoughts on Milton's wisdom; 12. The poetics of modern punning; Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, and others; 13. Riddles, charms, and fictions in Wallace Stevens; 14. The function of riddles at the present time; 15. The flying griphos: in pursuit of enigma from Aristophanes to Tournesol, with stops in Carroll, Ariosto, and Dante; Part IV. Practice: 16. Ghost rhymes and how they work; 17. Methought as dream formula in Shakespeare; Milton, Wordsworth, Keats, and others; 18. Reading a poem: on John Hollander's 'owl' 19. Teaching poetry: accurate songs, or thinking-in-poetry; Appendix; Notes; Indices; Acknowledgments.
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