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Book SynopsisThe Once and Future Muse presents the first major study of the life and work of Dominican-born bilingual American poet and translator Rhina P. Espaillat (b. 1932). Beginning with her literary celebrity as the youngest poet ever inducted into the Poetry Society of America, it traces her relative obscurity after 1952 when she married and took on family and employment responsibilities, to her triumphant return to the poetry spotlight decades later when she reclaimed her former prestige with a series of award-winning poetry collections. The authors define Espaillat's place in American letters with attention to her formalist aesthetics, Hispanic Caribbean immigrant background, poetic community building, bilingual ethos, and domestically minded woman-of-color feminism. Addressing the temporality of her oeuvreher publishing before and after the splitting of American literature into distinct ethnic segmentsthis work also highlights the demands that the social transformations of the 1960s plaTrade ReviewThere is no way to understand the great new wave of Hispanic poetry without recognizing the singular achievement of Rhina P. Espaillat. Her understated, compressed, and classical poems upend all the Anglo clichés about Latino poetry. Her lyrics are as cool as a Chet Baker solo and just as deeply felt. Uninsistent and self-assured, Espaillat is the urbane voice of the new Latino poetry."" - Dana Gioia""This comprehensive volume makes a place for Espaillat as a major poet through a range of identities: a woman, a Latina, an immigrant, a bilingual speaker, a mother, and a wife, but most particularly as a formalist. That so many groups make a claim to her speaks to her enduring appeal."" - Kim Bridgford

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Fenollosa's critical assessment of what could evolve from a blending of the East and West is perhaps more relevant today than when it was written." -Oyster Boy Review "How can we come to a new understanding of Chinese classical literature when our inherited view of it is so powerfully shaped and conditioned by a 'strong misreading,' which is a vital part of our own poetic language? This question afflicts Haun Saussy in his extraordinary introduction to a new critical edition of The Chines Written Character as a Medium for Poetry, which presents both the edited and original versions of Fenollosa's essay." -The Threepenny Review "In this superbly edited volume, Fenollosa's seminal texts and Ezra Pound's editorial markings appear together for the first time in multiple historical incarnations. The novelty and richness of the seven essays and other fragments continue to surprise and challenge the reader, even though these were written over a hundred years ago. The book offers much more than a historical document. It sheds new light on the originality of modernist poetics in its early moment: a daring effort to assert a common humanity on the basis of Chinese poetry and art at a time when racism swayed public opinion under the Chinese Exclusion Act. An important contribution to the study of modernism, American literature, comparative poetics, and cultural translation." -- -Lydia H. Liu Columbia University "This is the book that I have been waiting for since I first read Ezra Pound's version of Ernest Fenollosa's The Chinese Character as a Medium for Poetry nearly half a century ago. In that guise, Fenollosa's seminal essay was immensely influential, but it had been commandeered by Pound's powerful mind and idiosyncratic views. Now, at last, Haun Saussy and his colleagues have not only given us Fenollosa's original essay in all of its glory and tentativeness, through an ingenious format and meticulous scholarship they have succeeded in presenting this masterpiece of modern poetics as the organic, evolving experiment in cultural interfusion it was meant to be." -- -Victor H. Mair University of Pennsylvania This book-indispensable to anyone following modern poetics-reminds us that one of the four most influential modern essays on poetry (the others are T.S. Eliot's) was the product of a scholar-translator, writing in 1903, well before there was any modern poetry in English. Fenollosa's belief that the Chinese language is profoundly suited to poetry is well known, but because of Pound's editing, we had no way of knowing what Fenollosa made of the music of poetry. Least of all could we have imagined that he thought the music of this poetry was better preserved by Japanese phonics than by living Chinese speakers. Fenollosa was an idealistic advocate of Anglo-American empire fused with pan-Asian "humanity," by which he meant roughly what is covered by the term "humanities." He saw the approach of a peaceful east/west fusion, economic, military, and cultural, and sought to guide its arrival by elucidating the art of classical Chinese poetry, without any expectation that his essay would alter the ways that Anglo-American poets shape sentences. This handsome edition is a major contribution to the history of modern poetics. Until now we have known little of the intellectual, political, and religious context of this great essay on diction and syntax. Haun Saussy, Jonathan Stalling, and Lucas Klein reveal the range and growth of Fenollosa's still appealing conviction that modern poetry has to go far beyond national borders. -- -Robert von Hallberg University of Chicago "This, the first critical edition of Ernest Fenollosa's The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry, is a milestone in literary scholarship. Haun Saussy and his colleagues have produced an indispensable book-one that shows precisely how Ezra Pound, reworking Fenollosa, "invented" the China we have come to accept as central to his poetry-and to 20th century poetry in general. Saussy's theoretical-critical Introduction is nothing short of brilliant, as are the notes and archival materials. A must-own book for Modernists!" -- -Marjorie Perloff Stanford University "Scholarly edition that combines the first full publication of Fenollosa's essay as he wrote it, along with the 1919 version of the essay as altered by Ezra Pound." -The Chronicle of Higher Education "This well-edited critical edition allows us to see for the first time just what Fenollosa's original essays looked like before being submitted to Pound's editorial excisions." -- -Richard Sieburth New York UniversityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Conventions xi Preface xiii Fenollosa Compounded: A Discrimination Haun Saussy 1 The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: An Ars Poetica Ernest Fenollosa, with a Foreword and Notes by Ezra Pound (1918, 1936) 41 Appendix: With Some Notes by a Very Ignorant Man Ezra Pound 61 The Chinese Written Language as a Medium for Poetry Ernest Fenollosa (final draft , ca. 1906, with Pound's notes, 1914-16) 75 Synopsis of Lectures on Chinese and Japanese Poetry Ernest Fenollosa (1903) 105 Chinese and Japanese Poetry. Draft of Lecture I. Vol. II. Ernest Fenollosa (1903) 126 Chinese and Japanese Traits Ernest Fenollosa (1892) 144 The Coming Fusion of East and West Ernest Fenollosa (1898) 153 Chinese Ideals Ernest Fenollosa (Nov. 15th 1900) 166 [Retrospect on the Fenollosa Papers] Ezra Pound (1958) 174 Notes 177 Works Cited 209

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Book SynopsisThis collection explores torture from the array of approaches offered by the arts and humanities. It contends that these disciplines advance the discussion and eradication of torture by speaking about it in terms cognizant of the assaults on truth, memory, subjectivity, and language that the humanities theorize and that experience of torture perpetuates.Trade Review"The newspapers can tell us what causes torture, but not about what it means for our lives. This collection does just that. Beyond the apology for torture, the cries for trials, the sad litany of horrors, these authors turn to art, writing, memory and witnessing - the real means by which we can care for ourselves in the face of a disturbing past and an uncertain future. Readers travel from the Iraqi poets of Abu Ghraib to the visions of the Iranian prison of Kahrizak, from the cinematic images of the past to the playlists on your ipod, and ultimately circle back to Jean Amery's portentous reminder that after torture, we will always have to work to be at home in our world." -- -Darius Rejali Reed College "This richly variegated volume gathers together bracing and often brilliant analyses of matters one wishes were not so timely: the practices of torture and how people speak, lie, and obfuscate about them. It opens our eyes and keeps them open wide." -- -Ian Balfour York University "A rich collection of essays which should appeal to a wide audience of scholars and students from the humanities and social sciences. Due to its very accessible style it may also be of interest to the general public interested in contemporary American politics." -- -Vanessa Lemm Institute of Humanities at the Universidad Diego Portales "Given on-going attempts to legitimate and normalize torture, this rich and varied collection opens new perspectives of engagement. Its contributors disrupt smug euphemisms and bear witness to the horrifying damage torture inflicts, annihilating flesh, intimacy, trust, and memory. With readings ranging from the memoirs of Holocaust survivors to the photographs of Abu Ghraib and beyond, scholars of the law, media, literature, history, philosophy, music and the visual arts show how critical work in the arts and humanities can, and must, take part in the struggle against torture's banalization." -- -Page DuBois University of San DiegoTable of ContentsIntroduction Julie Carlson and Elisabeth Weber: For the Humanities I. America Tortures Lisa Hajjar: An Assault on Truth: A Chronology of Torture, Deception and Denial Alfred McCoy: In the Minotaur's Labyrinth: Psychological Torture, Public Forgetting, and Contested History II. Singularities of Witness Reinhold Gorling: Torture and society (translated from German by Glenn Patten) Susan Derwin: What Nazi Crimes Against Humanity Can Tell us about Torture Today Elisabeth Weber: "Torture was the essence of National Socialism". Reading Jean Amery today Sinan Antoon: What did the Corpse Want? Torture in Poetry III. Graphic Assaults, Sensory Overload John Nava: Thoughts on the making of "Signing Statement Law or An Alternate Set of Procedures" ("America tortures") and "Our Torture is Better than Their Torture" Abigail Solomon-Godeau: Torture and Representation: The Art of Detournement Stephen Eisenman: Water-boarding -- A Torture both Intimate and Sacred Hamid Dabashi: Damnatio Memoriae Viola Shafik: Rituals of Hegemonic Masculinity: Cinema, Torture and the Middle East Peter Szendy: Music and torture: the stigmata of sound and sense (translated from French by Allison Schifani and Zeke Sikelianos) Christian Gruny: The language of feeling made into a weapon. Music as an instrument of torture IV. Declassifying Writing Julie Carlson: Romantic Poet Legislators: The Ends of Torture Darieck Scott: The fine details: Torture and the Social Order Colin Dayan: Reasonable Torture, or the Sanctities (Gaza, September 2009) Richard Falk: John Yoo, the Torture Memos, and Ward Churchill: Exploring the Outer Limits of Academic Freedom

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Book SynopsisThe significance of Rainer Maria Rilke's work rests with the poet's insistence that everything needed for a better life on earth is already given to us, in the here and now. This book examines both the lesser-known and the overlooked and controversial aspects of Rilke's poetry and life.Trade Review"Ulrich Baer has given us a serious jeu d'esprit with rich results: assured entry, after so many have tried without success, into Rilke's intellectual and poetic world. Baer's primer, in both senses of the word, is a triumph of the Horatian ideal: a work full of wit and study, pleasure and instruction. It will make every reader strive to fill in the virtual letters between the letters of Baer's alphabet as doors to open into Rilke." -- -Stanley Corngold Princeton University "This book is a cornucopia with presents for the reader, one hardly knows which one to open first. It is an inspiring and rich book that draws its readers in from many surprising sides. Each essay stands on its own, offering a fresh perspective on the life and thought of one of the most celebrated German poets of the twentieth century. And yet the whole is greater than the sum of its parts: a rich portrait of Rilke that enlivens his legacy for a new generation." -- -Fritz Breithaupt Indiana University "In 'The Rilke Alphabet', which appeared in German in 2006, Baer foes where few Rilke enthusiasts have gone before, tracking echoes of Rilke's difficulties with autoeroticism into the poetry itself...Baer this makes good on his promise to 'disturb' our sense of Rilke...[equally] instead of pressing to show that Rilke was either a great poet, and basically a good person, or an artist whose work in comprised by his bigotry and political wrong-headedness, Baer provocatively, but also subtly, opens up the discussion." -Time Literary Supplement "Composed as a series of provocative and richly unfolding essays, Ulrich Baer's abecedarium occasions fresh encounters with Rilke's /uvre, not by paving an exit toward transcendent meaning, but rather, on the contrary, by marking crucial words as points of recalcitrance, which ensure that the reader never abandons an immanent, adventurous, and often surprising engagement with the texts." -- -John T. Hamilton Harvard University "Ulrich Baer's The Rilke Alphabet consists of twenty-six free standing essays, each one sending a sort of mine shaft into the densely layered strata of Rilke's poetry, prose, and letters. Each shaft hits a mother lode of rich, surprising, and at times disturbing insight not only into the poet's work and life but also into the cultural history in which they were embedded. The essays, organized by way of an idiosyncratic alphabetization of concepts, names, topics are partial in the best sense: intensely focused on particular points of access into the poet's work and life; infused with partiality, a passionate attachment to that "partial object" that is Rilke's singular voice." -- -Eric Santner University of Chicago "I know of no more sophisticated attempt to connect the life and work of Rilke for today's readers. Baer makes himself the champion of the poet's own insights, upholding them against Rilke's detractors, enthusiasts, and scholarly interpreters alike. Don't let the quirky format or the nose-thumbing fool you: this is a work of bracing purpose, which everyone who thinks they know Rilke should read. Again and again Baer frees Rilke from our ideas about him and gives him back to us afresh." -- -William Waters Boston University "Reading Baer's elegant prose is a rare pleasure. Baer's brilliant book The Rilke Alphabet captures the genius of the modern poet and Rilke's intelligence as a witness of modernity-by employing a dazzling device. Baer presents us twenty-six viewpoints on Rilke's work, twenty-six perspectives that are vital for anyone who is interested in the poet's work and in modernism as such. It reads as a real page turner." -- -Amir Eshel Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsForeword: The Whole Dictation of Existence A for Ashanti B for Buddha C for Circle D for Destiny Disrupted E is for Entrails F for Frogs G for God I for Inca J for Jew Boy K for Kafka L for Larean M for Mussolini N for Nature P for Proletarian Q for Quatsch R for Rose S for Stampa T for tower U for Un- V for Vagabond W for Worm X for Xaver Y for Y Z for Zero Works Cited 000 Index 000

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Book SynopsisEddic, Skaldic, and Beyond shines light on traditional divisions of Old NorseIcelandic poetry and awakens the reader to work that blurs these boundaries. Many of the texts and topics taken up in these enlightening essays have been difficult to categorize and have consequently been overlooked or undervalued. The boundaries between genres (Eddic and Skaldic), periods (Viking Age, medieval, early modern), or cultures (Icelandic, Scandinavian, English, Continental) may not have been as sharp in the eyes and ears of contemporary authors and audiences as they are in our own. When questions of classification are allowed to fade into the background, at least temporarily, the poetry can be appreciated on its own terms. Some of the essays in this collection present new material, while others challenge long-held assumptions. They reflect the idea that poetry with medieval characteristics continued to be produced in Iceland well past the fifteenth century, and even beyond the Protestant ReformatioTrade Review"A wide-ranging and thoughtful collection of essays which challenges our conceptions of medieval Icelandic poetry, its categorizations and its links with European literature. From early translations to late ballad reflexes of traditional material, Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond offers fresh new readings of poems, probes into the complex nature of Icelandic poetics and unpacks the contexts and connections of literary production over a five-hundred year period. Laying down a crucial foundation for the future study of Icelandic poetry, this book inspires scholars and students to take up the unfamiliar and to rethink the familiar." -- -Carolyne Larrington St John's College "This volume, which brings together studies by eleven scholars, represents a major contribution to the study of Old Norse-Icelandic poetry, not least by following its subject well beyond the end of the middle ages proper. Any other approach, as editor Martin Chase argues in his introduction, fails to appreciate the continuity to Old Norse-Icelandic literary history over a far longer period of time, a continuity due in part to the persistence of manuscript culture in Iceland long after the introduction of print. The essays thus address topics ranging from some of the earliest poetic works extant, such as Merlinusspa, to some of latest, such as ballads and rimur (metrical romances). While many of these topics will be familiar to students of Old Norse-Icelandic - Snorri Sturluson and his Edda, for example - others, such as editor Martin Chase's own excellent contribution on Icelandic devotional poetry of the 15th and 16th century, have hitherto received little or no scholarly attention." -- -M. J. Driscoll Arnamagnaean Institute, University of Copenhagen "This wide-ranging and innovative volume offers a welcome reminder that the study of Old Norse-Icelandic poetry has much to contribute to the field of medieval studies as a whole." -SpeculumTable of ContentsIntroduction Gunnlaugr Leifsson's Uses in Merlinusspa of Twelfth-Century English Sources Additional to the De Gestis Britonum of Geoffrey of Monmouth Russell Poole The Genesis of Strengleikar: Scribes, Translators, and Place of Origin Ingvil Brugger Budal Einarr Skulason, Snorri Sturluson, and the Post-Pagan Mythological Kenning Christopher Abram Skaldskaparmal as a Tool for Composition of "Early" Skaldic Poetry Mikael Males Hattatal Stanza 12 and the Divine Legitimation of Kings Kevin J. Wanner Creating Tradition: the Use of Skaldic Verse in Old Norse Historiography Rolf Stavnem Rattus Rattus as a Beast of Battle? Stanza 12 of Ragnars Saga Rory McTurk Wit and Wisdom: the World View of the Old Norse-Icelandic Riddles and Their Relationship to Eddic Poetry Hannah Burrows Devotional Poetry at the End of the Middle Ages in Iceland Martin Chase Love and Death in the Icelandic Ballad Paul Acker Steinunn Finnsdottir and Snaekongs Rimur Shaun F. D. Hughes Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Resisting Allegory, the leading Spenser critic of our time sums up a lifelong commitment to the theory and practice of textual interpretation. Central to this volume is an attention to the deployment of gender in conjunction with the Berger's notion of narrative complicity, all built on close attention to the text.Table of ContentsEditor’s Introduction | vii Introduction: On Texts and Countertexts | 1 Book One: The Legend of Holinesse 1. Displacing Autophobia in The Faerie Queene, Book 1: Ethics, Gender, and Oppositional Reading in the Spenserian Text | 17 Book Two: The Legend of Temperaunce 2. Narrative as Rhetoric in The Faerie Queene | 103 3. Wring Out the Old: Squeezing the Text, 1951–2001 | 143 Book Three: The Legend of Chastity 4. Resisting Translation: Britomart in Book 3 of Spenser’s Faerie Queene | 173 5. Actaeon at the Hinder Gate: The Stag Party in Spenser’s Gardens of Adonis | 211 Acknowledgments | 245 Notes | 247 Index | 289

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Book SynopsisAn extensively annotated edition of Ezra Pound’s Chinese translations in Cathay (1915) and Lustra (1916), complete with manuscript sources and the Chinese originals and Pound’s article “Chinese Poetry. Filled out by essays by Haun Saussy, Christopher Bush, and Timothy Billings, this edition resituates Cathay as a project of poetry in circulation and a work of World Literature.

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Book SynopsisA study of Yosano Akiko (1878-1942), famous post-classical woman poet of Japan. It follows Yosano from childhood to her twenties, as she freed herself from alienation and frustration and, to use her own words, ""danced out into the light"" of poetry and self-liberation.

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Book SynopsisThis is a lyrical evocation of Hawaii by a Native poet whose ancestral land has been scarred by tourism, the American military and urbanization. Grounded in the ancient grandeur and beauty of Hawaii, this collection is a love song for a beloved homeland under assault.

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Book SynopsisFew outside Japan are familiar with haiku's precursor, haikai (comic linked verse). Fewer still are aware of the role of Chinese Daoist classics in turning haikai into a literary art. This book examines the haikai poets' adaptation of Daoist classics, particularly the Zhuangzi, in the 17th century and the transformation of haikai into high poetry.

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Book SynopsisA collection of new poems by activist, leader, poet, and editor Janice Mirikitani. After being named San Francisco's second Poet Laureate in 2000, this fifth book of poems from Mirikitani was written in response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

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The Poetry Demon by Jason Protass | 9780824889104 | BookCurl

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Book SynopsisThis analysis of Walcott's ""Omeros"", argues that the poem is an innovative extension of the epic tradition. The book examines Walcott's writing career and traces his development of devices, themes, techniques and a narrative style essential to epic poetry.

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Book SynopsisA study of Luis de Gongora's Soledades, the pastoral poems which have sparked controversy ever since they were first circulated at court in 1612-1614. It shows that the Soledades are in essence a court masque, an elaborate theatrical genre that combines a variety of cultural forms.

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Book SynopsisA dominant figure in American poetry for more than thirty-five years Louise Gluck has been the recipient of virtually every major poetry award and was named US poet laureate for 2003-2004. In this full-length study of her work, Daniel Morris explores how this prolific poet utilizes masks of characters from history, the Bible, and even fairy tales.Trade Review“This original, welcome, and exciting approach to Glück’s work will be of lasting importance and merit to all future study of this poet.” —Jonathan N. Barron, coeditor of Jewish American Poetry: Poems, Commentary, and Reflections

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Book SynopsisExplores the deep friendship and the critical and creative thinking between Bernadette Mayer and Clark Coolidge. This collection of letters provides insight into the poetic scenes that followed World War II while showcasing the artistic practices of Mayer and Coolidge themselves.Trade ReviewAll This Thinking reveals one of the most significant literary friendships of postwar America. The blend of intimacy, fun, and poetic reflection makes this volume not just a deeply enjoyable read but one that will also provoke new understandings of poetry as lived experience."--Ann Vickery, author of Leaving Lines of Gender: A Feminist Genealogy of Language Writing"This collection offers a revealing look behind the books of two of the most innovative and influential poets of their generation. Meticulously edited and generously presented by Stephanie Anderson and Kristen Tapson, the material here illuminates the epistolary and diaristic forms that Mayer and Coolidge were also exploring in their poetry."--Craig Dworkin, author of Radium of the Word: A Poetics of Materiality

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Book SynopsisA bilingual anthology, Fierce Voice / Voz feroz features Argentine and Uruguayan women poets published after their countries’ return to democracy in the eighties. These twenty-six poets introduced innovative, invigorating styles and provided an essential addition to the development of Latin American poetry.

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Book SynopsisThe purpose of this edition is to demonstrate the quality and interest of book VI: the intellectual curiosity of the analyst of earthquakes, volcanoes and marvellous phenomena, the rhetorical and philosophical powers of a thinker who wants to make his interpretation of Epicureanism both cogent and vivid, the deep humane compassion of the ...Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; Parallel Latin Text and English Translation; Bibliography and abbreviations; Glossary; Index

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Book SynopsisThe purpose of this edition is to demonstrate the quality and interest of book VI: the intellectual curiosity of the analyst of earthquakes, volcanoes and marvellous phenomena, the rhetorical and philosophical powers of a thinker who wants to make his interpretation of Epicureanism both cogent and vivid, the deep humane compassion of the ...Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; Parallel Latin Text and English Translation; Bibliography and abbreviations; Glossary; Index

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Book SynopsisThough in later antiquity the social comedies of Menander ranked second in popularity only to Homer, his plays were for centuries thought to be irretrievably lost. Only in this century have instances begun to re-emerge from the sands of Egypt, and it was not until 1958 that a complete play, Dyskolos or The Bad-Tempered Man, came to light.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Parallel Greek text and English translation; Commentary; Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisLucretius' poem, for which Epicurean philosophy provided the inspiration, attempts to explain the nature of the universe and its processes with the object of freeing mankind from religious fears.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Parallel Latin Text and English Translation; Commentary; Select Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume completes Godwin’s edition of all the surviving poetry of Catullus, aiming to bring the literary history of this poet to new readers. It describes and discusses recent scholarship on the poems, seeing them in their context as fully as possible. Latin text with facing-page English translation, introduction and detailed commentary.Trade Review‘Catullus would have been delighted with Godwin’s edition of his shorter poems [...] It is attractively produced [...] This is a work of tremendous scholarship [...] His introduction is particularly good [...] for all teachers of classics and for university students this is an edition much to be recommended, as it adds many new ideas to the body of scholarship on Catullus.’ The Classical Review‘Godwin’s Catullus is an admirable example of the series at its best: the commentary is clear, helpful and undogmatic [...] the introduction helpfully sets Catullus’ poetry in its historical and literary context.’ Greece and Rome‘This is an extremely useful edition of Catullus which would be helpful to teachers and sixth form students. [...] The commentary on the text is very helpful both to student and teacher and includes a summary of the main points contained within each poem as well as more detailed comments on style.’ JACTTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: Catullus' Life and Times Poetry and Performance Neoteric Poetry Interpretative Strategies The Metres The Transmission of the Text Sigla Text and Translation Commentary

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Book Synopsis'What reason has an educated man for going to the theatre, except to see Menander'?Thus the judgement of Aristophanes of Byzantium, and in later antiquity the social comedies of Menander ranked second in popularity only to the epics of Homer.Table of ContentsPreface The Shield: Introduction The Shield (Aspis) Commentary The Arbitration Introduction The Arbiration (Epitrepontes) Bibliography

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Book SynopsisFor a work written more than two thousand years ago, in a society in many ways quite alien to our own, Lucretius' De Rerum Natura contains much of striking, even startling, contemporary relevance.Trade Review...a significant addition to the Lucretius bibliography... merits high praise as a splendid achievement by a distinguished Lucretian [...] offers exactly what students need to appreciate one of the longest and finest achievements of Latin epic.'Table of ContentsList of illustrations Preface Abbreviations Introduction I. Lucretius and the Late Republic II. Epicurus and his Philosophy III. The Didactic Epic IV. De Rerum Natura V Cosmology and Human Prehistory V. Language and Style VI. The Transmission of the text Note on references to the Presocratic Philosophers De Rerum Natura V Commentary Bibliography

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Book SynopsisFor a work written more than two thousand years ago, in a society in many ways quite alien to our own, Lucretius' De Rerum Natura contains much of striking, even startling, contemporary relevance.Trade Review...a significant addition to the Lucretius bibliography... merits high praise as a splendid achievement by a distinguished Lucretian [...] offers exactly what students need to appreciate one of the longest and finest achievements of Latin epic.'Table of ContentsList of illustrations Preface Abbreviations Introduction I. Lucretius and the Late Republic II. Epicurus and his Philosophy III. The Didactic Epic IV. De Rerum Natura V Cosmology and Human Prehistory V. Language and Style VI. The Transmission of the text Note on references to the Presocratic Philosophers De Rerum Natura V Commentary Bibliography

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Book SynopsisAt the Burning Abyss is Franz Fuhmann's magnum opus a gripping and profoundly personal encounter with the great expressionist poet Georg Trakl. It is a taking stock of two troubled lives, a turbulent century, and the liberating power of poetry. Picking up where his last book, The Jew Car, left off, Fuhmann probes his own susceptibility to ideology's seductions Nazism, then socialism and examines their antidote, the goad of Trakl's enigmatic verses. He confronts Trakl's unlivable life, as his poetry transcends the panaceas of black-and-white ideology, ultimately bringing a painful, necessary understanding of the whole human being: in victories and triumphs as in distress and defeat, in temptation and obsession, in splendor and in ordure. In 1982, the German edition of At the Burning Abyss won the West German Scholl Siblings Prize, celebrating its courage to resist inhumanity. At a time of political extremism and polarization, has lost none of its urgency.

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Book SynopsisWhile presenting the Nobel Prize in Literature to J. M. G. Le Cl zio in 2008, the Nobel Committee called him the author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization. In Mydriasis, the author proves himself to be precisely that as he takes us on a phantasmagoric journey into parallel worlds and whirling visions. Dwelling on darkness, light, and human vision, Le Cl zio's richly poetic prose composes a mesmerizing song and a dizzying exploration of the universe--a universe not unlike the abysses explored by the highly idiosyncratic Belgian poet Henri Michaux. Michaux is, in fact, at the heart of To the Icebergs. Fascinated by his writing, Le Cl zio includes Michaux's 'poem of the poem', 'Iniji', thereby allowing the poet's voice to emerge by itself. What follows is much more than a simple analysis of the poem; rather, it is an act of complete insight and understanding, a personal appropriation and elevation

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Collected Poems comes to us as the first volume in translation to fully present this worthy poet to an English-speaking audience. While largely forgotten on the international scene today, in Switzerland Brambach remains an important literary figure much admired for his often melancholic, always insightful little poems that present the bucolic landscapes of his adopted country in disquieting light. Concise they may be, but they leave room on the page for the mind to linger in contemplation.” * Rain Taxi *Table of ContentsTranslator’s NoteToss a Coin LifeLumberjack BarThe Greenhouse, My AbodeMarch in BaselSnowIn Those TimesDay’s LabourPoetryThe AxeSchoolyardAt the HoardingPaulBy the RiverIt Was Loneliness that Forced MeIn the AfternoonToss a CoinLetter to Hans BenderDreamt PoemOld People’s HomeLight in AugustBistroSung LandscapeConfidenceHikeThere Will BeRichterswil IRichterswil IIBrief NoteLe LavandouMoon Late MorningFriendsMerriment in the GardenAchim RaabeThe Wind BreakSummer SundayThe TreeDog DaysEvil TricksReport from the GardenOne Day among ManyBrooding SummerIndentity CardDay in JulyEncounterGraniteSant EremoUnder Apple TreesTirednessPortrait of a Young ManThe Erratic RockIn July and AugustEmbassyWords for W.Belated IcarusNo One Will ComeSaltDeath of a CentaurEndangered LandscapeSingle MenOrganic FaultIroningThe StrangerThe End of SomethingVisit in M.Setting SailSouthern TownThe Gingko LeafPoem for FrankYou beside MeComing HomeA Leaf in Memory of SeptemberHard Times for DrinkersBack ThenIn the VineyardGoodbye to the EiffelShotsPromenadeBeyond RijekaBlack ForestAthletics for HaresHealthLucky CharmsDepartureLate in the EveningColdTracesDark DayFlight TimeStraw Flowers at FarewellPigeons When Sleep Is All I Long forHotel RoomCaution Should Be Called forEverydayAlso in April‘The year still young…’‘No sweet green glade…’‘As it has been raining…’‘My ancestors never left…’‘So many wonders in this world…’‘Dust is still an alien word…’‘The ribbon blue as Mörike saw it…’‘The maypoles standing tall…’‘Not strange at all…’‘The birds are shouting…’‘The evening’s still far away…’‘Your strength Ulea…’‘A stiff old-fashioned straw hat…’‘High noon, Sunday afternoon…’‘Me with my prose…’‘Perpetual begetting…’‘Summer evenings…’‘Not wanting to be part…’‘Concrete can be so ugly…’‘Surely the summer…’‘To live in a sunflower…’‘Fly a kite…’‘To write a poem…’‘Month of wine…’‘Westwind with its unspeakable force…’‘Taking a bite…’‘The rows of vines…’‘The cottage gardens…’‘Last day of October…’‘Free time…’‘Must a summer poem…’‘Sitting by the window…’‘A postcard from the Caribbean…’‘Ice grey, a wolf word…’‘My four and sixtieth winter…’‘Rust-red Reynard…’‘Picked up a handful of snow…’‘Ten degrees below zero…’‘Foehn wind in February…’‘Never put to paper…’Notes

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Book SynopsisSeven original essays on the theory, practice and future of editing Old English verse.Questions of the theory, practice and future of editing Old English verse have become increasingly pressing in the light of new research and technology, and this volume of seven original substantial essays explores a number of important editorial issues. The collection investigates the implications of current concerns in textual editing relating to the presentation of Old English verse, among them materialist criticism and approaches to the culture of thebook in the early middle ages; revisionist readings of the canons and heritage of nineteenth-century philology; and the electronic future of editing Old English. Particular topics addressed include the ethics of editing and its responsibility to both poet and reader; the neglected verses of the Paris Psalter; the editorial problems presented by the mixed form of Ælfric's rhythmical prose; and the difficulties of the printed page. The final essay in the volume explores the capabilities of the electronic hypertext to reinvent the whole process of editing and editions. KATHERINE O'BRIEN O'KEEFFE is Professor of English and Fellow of the Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame; Dr SARAH LARRATT KEEFER teaches in the Department of English at Trent University. Contributors: EDWARD B. IRVING, JR, SARAH LARRATT KEEFER, A.N. DOANE, D.G. SCRAGG, M.J. TOSWELL, PAUL E. SZARMACH, PATRICK W. CONNERTable of Contents`Respect for the Book: A Reconsideration of `Form', `Content' and `Context' in Two Vernacular Poems'. - Sarah Larratt Keefer Introduction - A.N. Doane `Towards a New Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records'. - Donald G Scragg `How Pedantry Meets Intertextuality: Editing the Old English Metrical Psalter'. - M J Toswell `Abbot Ælfric's Rhythmical Prose and the Computer Age'. - Paul E Szarmach `Beyond the ASPR: Electronic Editions of Old English Poetry'. - Patrick W Conner Introduction - Editing Old English Verse: The Ideal - Edward B. Irving Jr

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsTable of Abbreviations and Sigla Acknowledgments Introduction The Lyrics of the Henry VIII Manuscript Benedictus [Isaac] (Incipit) (3v–4r) Fortune esperee [Busnois] (Incipit) (4v–5r) Alles regretz uuidez dema presence [van Ghizeghem / Jean II of Bourbon] (Incipit) (5v–6r) En frolyk weson [Barbireau] (Incipit) (6v–7r) Pastyme with good companye, Henry VIII (14v–15r) Adew mes amours et mon desyre, Cornish (15v–17r) Adew madam et ma mastress, Henry VIII (17v–18r) HElas madam cel que ie metant, Henry VIII (18v–19r) Alas what shall I do for love, Henry VIII (20v–21r) Hey nowe nowe, Kempe (Incipit) (21v) Alone I leffe alone, Cooper (22r) O my hart and o my hart, Henry VIII (22v–23r) Adew adew my hartis lust, Cornish (23v–24r) Aboffe all thynge, Farthing (24v) Downbery down, Daggere (25r) Hey now now, Farthing (25v) In may that lusty sesoun, Farthing (26r) Whoso that wyll hym selff applye, Rysby (27v–28r) The tyme of youthe is to be spent, Henry VIII (28v–29r) The thowghtes within my brest, Farthing (29v–30r) My loue sche morneth for me, Cornish (30v–31r) A the syghes that cum fro my hart, Cornish (32v–33r) With sorowfull syghs and greuos payne, Farthing (33v–34r) Iff I had wytt for to endyght [Unattributed] (34v–35r) Alac alac what shall I do, Henry VIII (35v) Hey nony nony nony nony no [Unattributed] (Incipit) (36r) Grene growith the holy, Henry VIII (37v–38r) Whoso that wyll all feattes optayne, Henry VIII (38v–39r) Blow thi hornne hunter, Cornish (39v–40r) De tous bien plane [van Ghizegehem] (Incipit) (40v–41r) Iay pryse amours [Unattributed] (Incipit) (41v–42r) Adew corage adew, Cornish (42v) Trolly lolly loly lo, Cornish (43v–44r) I love trewly withowt feynyng, Farthing (44v–45r) Yow and I and amyas, Cornish (45v–46r) Ough warder mount [Unattributed] (Incipit) (46v–47r) La season [Compère / Agricola] (Incipit) (47v–48r) If love now reynyd as it hath bene, Henry VIII (48v–49r) Gentyl prince de renom, Henry VIII (Incipit) (49v–50r) Sy fortune mace bien purchase [Unattributed] (50v–51r) Wherto shuld I expresse, Henry VIII (51v–52r) A robyn gentyl robyn, Cornish [Wyatt] (53v–54r) Whilles lyue or breth is in my brest, Cornish (54v–55r) Thow that men do call it dotage, Henry VIII (55v–56r) Departure is my chef payne, Henry VIII (60v) It is to me a ryght gret Ioy, Henry VIII (Incipit) (61r) I haue bene a foster, Cooper (65v–66r) Fare well my Ioy and my swete hart, Cooper (66v–68r) Withowt dyscord, Henry VIII (68v–69r) I am a joly foster [Unattributed] (69v–71r) Though sum saith that yough rulyth me [Henry VIII] (71v–73r) MAdame damours [Unattributed] (73v–74r) Adew adew le company [Unattributed] (74v–75r) Deme the best of euery dowt, Lloyd (79v) Hey troly loly loly [Unattributed] (80r) Taunder Naken, Henry VIII (Incipit) (82v–84r) Whoso that wyll for grace sew, Henry VIII (84v–85r) En vray Amoure, Henry VIII (86v–87r) Let not vs that yongmen be [Unattributed] (87v–88r) Dulcis amica [Prioris] (Incipit) (88v–89r) Lusti yough shuld vs ensue, Henry VIII (94v–97r) Now [Unattributed] (98r) Belle sur tautes [Agricola] (Incipit) (99v–100r) ENglond be glad pluk vp thy lusty hart [Unattributed] (100v–102r) Pray we to god that all may gyde [Unattributed] (103r) ffors solemant, [de Févin, after Ockeghem] (Incipit) (104v–105r) And I war a maydyn [Unattributed] (106v–107r) Why shall not I [Unattributed] (107v–108r) What remedy what remedy [Unattributed] (108v–110r) Wher be ye [Unattributed] (110v–112r) QUid petis o fily, Pygott (112v–116r) My thought oppressed my mynd in trouble [Unattributed] (116v–120r) Svmwhat musyng [Fayrfax / Woodville] (120v–122r) I loue vnloued suche is myn aduenture [Unattributed] (122v–124r) Hey troly loly lo [Unattributed] (124v–128r) Commentary and Textual Notes Bibliography and Works Cited Index of First Lines

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Book SynopsisThe first complete, versified English-language translation of the epistles of Renaissance poet Clément Marot. Clément Marot (14961544), a royal poet in Renaissance France who ushered in new verse forms and renewed existing ones, stands as one of the most important literary voices of the first half of the sixteenth century. Clément Marot's Epistles represents a first attempt to offer a sustained English-language translation and critical edition of what is widely considered his most personal, historically relevant, and crowning verse form. Aiming for integrality and poetic precision, the volume translates and sets to verse all seventy-four of Marot's epistles, employing the same meter and rhyme scheme used by the poet in the original compositions. Likewise focused on capturing Marot's poetic voice, thus maintaining idiomatic and literary integrity, the resulting translation is an attempt to relate the playfulness and pathos of Marot's verse, rendering it accessible to an anglophone public. Beyond the more traditional verse epistles included in the primary base text, Marot's authorized complete works from 1538, the volume also offers translations of the introductory prose epistles penned by Marot for his Adolescence clémentine of 1532 and the 1538 edition (Lyon, Dolet), as well as the coq-à-l'âne and other versified satirical epistles, the artificial epistle retelling of a popular medieval romance, and more. A robust critical apparatus includes ample footnotes, an extensive introduction, illustrations, a bibliography, a chronological table, and a concordance with the principal modern French-language editions of Marot's epistles. The book should appeal to English-speaking historians and literary scholars alike, as well as to poetry lovers, who will appreciate a new acquaintance with this distinctive voice from poetry's past. Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsAbbreviationsNotes on the TranslationIntroductionClément Marot’s EpistlesIntroductory Epistle to the Adolescence clémentineIntroductory Epistle to Marot’s Œuvres of 1538EPISTLESBibliographyChronologyConcordanceIndex

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Book SynopsisA description of a domestic world face-to-face with the dry contours and harsh economics of a small sawmill community in the southern Cape, this book traces those not always visible connections that tie us to each other and to the earth.Trade Review'These poems evade nothing. They enter the personal so fully that the personal is transcended.' Robert Berold, Sunday Independent

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Book SynopsisVersification is written by one of Australia's most distinguished poets. The book discusses poetic meter, and may be the only source you need.

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Book SynopsisInvestigates the life and work of Beat poet Lew Welch in a chronological fashion, structured around Welch’s own notion of how three main aspects of his life - The Man, The Mountain, and The City - were interdependent and how they informed the others in terms of creating his ‘life’.

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Book SynopsisThis Turkish verse romance written in 1783 is a religious interpretation of the Islamic love tale. It is widely recognised as the greatest work of Ottoman literature.

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Book SynopsisThis Turkish verse romance written in 1783 is a religious interpretation of the Islamic love tale. It is widely recognised as the greatest work of Ottoman literature.

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Book SynopsisOut of this collection of twenty-two interviews spanning two decades rises the distinctive voice of “the princess of black poetry”. Nikki Giovanni entered the literary world at the height of the Black Arts Movement and quickly achieved not simple fame but stardom, a phenomenon almost unprecedented for a poet.

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Book SynopsisOne of the hallmarks of FIELD magazine has always been its attention to what poets have to say about poetry; many of these essays have become classics. This revised and expanded collection provides a rich and stimulating view on the state of contemporary poetry through the eyes of the poets themselves.Table of ContentsPreface • THE PROCESS OF WRITING • A Way of Writing — William Stafford • Work and Inspiration: Inviting the Muse — Denise Levertov • Poetic Process? — Margaret Atwood • Goatfoot, Milktongue, Twinbird: The Psychic Origins of Poetic Form — Donald Hall • Reflections on the Origins of Poetic Form — Robert Bly • Portrait of the Writer as a Fat Man: Some Subjective Ideas or Notions on the Care & Feeding of Prose Poems — Russell Edson • Poetry and Science: The Science of Poetry/The Poetry of Science — Miroslav Holub • Gorky Street: Syntax and Context — Dennis Schmitz • The Two-Tone Line, Blues Ideology, and the Scrap Quilt — Sandra McPherson • THE POETIC LINE: A SYMPOSIUM • The Working Line — Sandra McPherson • A Response to “The Working Line” — James Wright • Further Reflections on Line and the Poetic Voice — John Haines • The Line — Donald Hall • Some Thoughts about Lines — Shirley Kaufman • A Note on Prose, Verse and the Line — William Matthews • Some Thoughts about the Line — Charles Simic • THE IMAGE: A SYMPOSIUM • Image and “Images” — Charles Simic • Notes on the Image: Body and Soul — Donald Hall • Recognizing the Image as a Form of Intelligence — Robert Bly • Image and Language — Russell Edson • Noun/Object/Image — Marvin Bell • POETRY AND VALUES • Some Remarks on “Literature and Reality” — Günter Eich • Meanings of Poetry — Jean Follain • Poetry, Community & Climax — Gary Snyder • Some Notes on the Gazer Within — Larry Levis • The Bite of the Muskrat: Judging Contemporary Poetry — David Young • Not Your Flat Tire, My Flat Tire: Transcending the Self in Contemporary Poetry — Alberta Turner • Stone Soup: Contemporary Poetry and the Obsessive Image — David Walker • Language: The Poet as Master and Servant — David Young • Second Honeymoon: Some Thoughts on Translation — David Young • Here and There: The Use of Place in Contemporary Poetry — Shirley Kaufman • Eden and My Generation — Larry Levis • A Taxable Matter — C. D. Wright • PORTRAITS AND SELF-PORTRAITS • Urgent Masks: An Introduction to John Ashbery’s Poetry — David Shapiro • Poetry, Personality and Death — Galway Kinnell • Poetry, Personality and Wholeness: A Response to Galway Kinnell — Adrienne Rich • Charles Wright at Oberlin — Charles Wright • Secrets: Beginning to Write Them Out — Sandra McPherson • Lessons in Form — Laura Jensen • Body and Soul: Three Poets on Their Maladies • Charles Simic: My Insomnia and I • Shirley Kaufman:Backache, Poemache, and Botz • Lee Upton: The Closest Work • Notes on Contributors • Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisTraces the print transmission and literary reception of the Iliad and the Odyssey from the fifteenth through the twentieth century. This title is suitable for students and teachers of classics, classical reception, comparative literature, and book history.

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Book SynopsisA Companion to Thomas Hardy brings together new essays on all aspects of Thomas Hardy s work by thirty of the world s most distinguished Hardy scholars.Trade Review“Perhaps Hardy the poet needs a separate Companion. If it matched this one in the quality of writing and usefulness to the student, it would be a treasure.” (Victorian Studies, 1 October 2012)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii List of Abbreviations xiv Introduction 1 Keith Wilson Part I The Life 5 1 Hardy as Biographical Subject 7 Michael Millgate Part II The Intellectual Context 19 2 Hardy and Philosophy 21 Phillip Mallett 3 Hardy and Darwin: An Enchanting Hardy? 36 George Levine 4 Hardy and the Place of Culture 54 Angelique Richardson 5 “The Hard Case of the Would-be-Religious”: Hardy and the Church from Early Life to Later Years 71 Pamela Dalziel 6 Thomas Hardy’s Notebooks 86 William Greenslade 7 “Genres are not to be mixed. . . . I will not mix them”: Discourse, Ideology, and Generic Hybridity in Hardy’s Fiction 102 Richard Nemesvari 8 Hardy and his Critics: Gender in the Interstices 117 Margaret R. Higonnet Part III The Socio-Cultural Context 131 9 “His Country”: Hardy in the Rural 133 Ralph Pite 10 Thomas Hardy of London 146 Keith Wilson 11 “A Thickness of Wall”: Hardy and Class 162 Roger Ebbatson 12 Reading Hardy through Dress: The Case of Far From the Madding Crowd 178 Simon Gatrell 13 Hardy and Romantic Love 194 Michael Irwin 14 Hardy and the Visual Arts 210 J. B. Bullen 15 Hardy and Music: Uncanny Sounds 223 Claire Seymour Part IV The Works 239 16 The Darkening Pastoral: Under the Greenwood Tree and Far From the Madding Crowd 241 Stephen Regan 17 “Wild Regions of Obscurity”: Narrative in The Return of the Native 254 Penny Boumelha 18 Hardy’s “Novels of Ingenuity” Desperate Remedies, The Hand of Ethelberta, and A Laodicean: Rare Hands at Contrivances 267 Mary Rimmer 19 Hardy’s “Romances and Fantasies” A Pair of Blue Eyes, The Trumpet-Major, Two on a Tower, and The Well-Beloved: Experiments in Metafiction 281 Jane Thomas 20 The Haunted Structures of The Mayor of Casterbridge 299 Julian Wolfreys 21 Dethroning the High Priest of Nature in The Woodlanders 313 Andrew Radford 22 Melodrama, Vision, and Modernity: Tess of the d’Urbervilles 328 Tim Dolin 23 Jude the Obscure and English National Identity: The Religious Striations of Wessex 345 Dennis Taylor 24 “. . . into the hands of pure-minded English girls”: Hardy’s Short Stories and the Late Victorian Literary Marketplace 364 Peter Widdowson 25 Sequence and Series in Hardy’s Poetry 378 Tim Armstrong 26 Hardy’s Poems: The Scholarly Situation 395 William W. Morgan 27 That’s Show Business: Spectacle, Narration, and Laughter in The Dynasts 413 G. Glen Wickens Part V Hardy the Modern 431 28 Modernist Hardy: Hand-Writing in The Mayor of Casterbridge 433 J. Hillis Miller 29 Inhibiting the Voice: Thomas Hardy and Modern Poetics 450 Charles Lock 30 Hardy’s Heirs: D. H. Lawrence and John Cowper Powys 465 Terry R. Wright Index 479

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Book SynopsisAn absorbing survey of poetry written in one of the most revolutionary eras in the history of British literature This comprehensive survey of British Romantic poetry explores the work of six poets whose names are most closely associated with the Romantic eraWordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Keats, Byron, and Shelleyas well as works by other significant but less widely studied poets such as Leigh Hunt, Charlotte Smith, Felicia Hemans, and Letitia Elizabeth Landon. Along with its exceptional coverage, the volume is alert to relevant contexts, and opens up ways of understanding Romantic poetry. The Romantic Poetry Handbook encompasses the entire breadth of the Romantic Movement, beginning with Anna Laetitia Barbauld and running through to Thomas Lovell Beddoes and John Clare. In its central section Readings' it explores tensions, change, and continuity within the Romantic Movement, and examines a wide range of individual poems and poets through sensitive, attentive and accessible analyses.Trade Review“It is a beautifully written and well-organized textbook, which will be of great value to undergraduates in English departments around the world…O’Neill and Callaghan are to be commended for the deft way they combine close reading and scholarship in these delightful essays” -- The Year’s Work in English Studies, Volume 98 (2019)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements viii Part 1 Introduction 1 Part 2 Timeline of the Late Eighteenth Century and Romantic Period 21 Part 3 Biographies 47 Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825) 49 Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849) 51 William Blake (1757–1827) 54 Robert Burns (1759–1796) 57 Lord George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) 59 John Clare (1793–1864) 61 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) 63 Felicia Hemans (1793–1835) 66 (James Henry) Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) 69 John Keats (1795–1821) 72 Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) 74 Thomas Moore (1779–1852) 77 Mary Robinson (1758–1800) 80 Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) 82 Charlotte Smith (1749–1806) 85 Robert Southey (1774–1843) 87 William Wordsworth (1770–1850) 90 Ann Yearsley (1753–1806) 93 Part 4 Readings 95 First-Generation Romantic Poets 95 Anna Laetitia Barbauld, ‘Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq., on the Rejection of the Bill for ­Abolishing the Slave Trade’; ‘The Rights of Woman’; Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, A Poem 97 Charlotte Smith, Elegiac Sonnets 101 Charlotte Smith, Beachy Head 107 Ann Yearsley, ‘Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-trade’; ‘Bristol Elegy’ 110 William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience 115 William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell ; The Book of Urizen ; ‘The Mental Traveller’ 124 Mary Robinson, Sappho and Phaon 132 Robert Burns, Lyrics 137 William Wordsworth and S. T. Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads 144 William Wordsworth, ‘Resolution and Independence’; ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality’; ‘Elegiac Stanzas, Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont’; ‘Surprized by Joy’ 152 William Wordsworth, The Prelude 163 William Wordsworth, The Excursion 174 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Conversation Poems: ‘The Eolian Harp’, ‘This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison’, ‘Frost at ­Midnight’, and ‘Dejection: An Ode’ 179 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ; Kubla Khan; ‘The Pains of Sleep’; Christabel 187 Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer and The Curse of Kehama 196 Second-Generation Romantic Poets 203 Thomas Moore, Irish Melodies 205 Leigh Hunt, The Story of Rimini 211 Lord Byron, Lara ; ‘When We Two Parted’; ‘Stanzas to Augusta’; Manfred 215 Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage 223 Lord Byron, Don Juan, Cantos 1–4 232 Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab ; Alastor; Laon and Cythna [The Revolt of Islam] 242 Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘Hymn to Intellectual Beauty’; ‘Mont Blanc’; ‘Ozymandias’; ‘Ode to the West Wind’; the late poems to Jane Williams 251 Percy Bysshe Shelley, ­Prometheus Unbound; Adonais; The Triumph of Life 260 John Keats, Endymion ; ‘Sleep and Poetry’; The Sonnets 268 John Keats, Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion 277 John Keats, The 1820 Volume 284 Third-Generation Romantic Poets 295 John Clare: Lyrics 297 Felicia Hemans, Records of Woman: With Other Poems 304 Letitia Elizabeth Landon, ‘Love’s Last Lesson’; ‘Lines of Life’; ‘Lines Written under a Picture of a Girl Burning a Love-Letter’; ‘Sappho’s Song’; ‘A Child Screening a Dove from a Hawk. By Stewardson’ 311 Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Death’s Jest-Book and Lyrics 318 Part 5 Further Reading 325 General Critical Reading 327 Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825) 328 Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849) 328 William Blake (1757–1827) 329 Robert Burns (1759–1796) 329 Lord George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) 329 John Clare (1793–1864) 330 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) 330 Felicia Hemans (1793–1835) 331 (James Henry) Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) 331 John Keats (1795–1821) 331 Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) 331 Thomas Moore (1779–1852) 332 Mary Robinson (1758–1800) 332 Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) 332 Charlotte Smith (1749–1806) 333 Robert Southey (1774–1843) 333 William Wordsworth (1770–1850) 333 Ann Yearsley (1753–1806) 334 Index 335

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Book SynopsisBuilding on the strength of Keith Walker s acclaimed The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1984), leading scholar Nicholas Fisher presents a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the work of one the greatest Restoration wits.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations viii Note on This Edition ix Acknowledgments x Chronology xii Introduction xvii Further Reading xxviii Abbreviations xxxii Poems Juvenilia 1 Love Poems 5 Translations 56 Prologues and Epilogues 61 Satires and Lampoons 68 Poems to Mulgrave and Scroope 111 Epigrams, Impromptus, Jeux d’esprit, etc. 131 Poems Less Securely Attributed to Rochester 138 Lucina’s Rape or the Tragedy of Vallentinian 161 Index of Proper Names 253 Index of Titles and First Lines 257

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Book SynopsisThe Renaissance Extended Mind explores the parallels and contrasts between current philosophical notions of the mind as extended across brain, body and world, and analogous notions in literary, philosophical, and scientific texts circulating between the fifteenth century and early-seventeenth century.Trade ReviewTable of Contents1. The Extended Mind 2. Extending Literary Theory and the Psychoanalytic Tradition 3. Renaissance Subjects: Ensouled and Embodied4. Renaissance Language and Memory Forms 5. Renaissance Intrasubjectivity and Intersubjectivity6. Shakespeare: Natural-Born Mirrors 7. Shakespeare: Perspectives and Words of Glass Epilogue

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