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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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Book SynopsisAcknowledgements The Evidence for Celticism in Keats Romantic Celticism in Context Keats as Bard The Native Muse Faery Lands Forlorn Privileging the Celtic Bibliography IndexTrade Review'Gallant's Keats and Romantic Celticism offers the first full-length study of the subject, investigating the poet's deep affinity with the Celtic world and pursuing his allusions to faerylore in key poems that mark the various stages of his career.' - Grant F. Scott, The Wordsworth Circle 'Her major achievement, however, lies in rereadings of the Hyperion poems within the context of the early Romantic recovery of the Celtic background that was to obsess Keats's later followers, and none more so than W.B. Yeats. As such, this is a valuable resource that pays further testament to this year's interest in matters of complex influence.' - The Year's Work in English StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements The Evidence for Celticism in Keats Romantic Celticism in Context Keats as Bard The Native Muse Faery Lands Forlorn Privileging the Celtic Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis* An innovative introduction to writing poetry designed for students of creative writing and budding poets alike. * Challenges the reader's sense of what is possible in a poem. * Traces the history and highlights the potential of poetry.Trade Review"John Redmond's "How to Write a Poem" contains no false notes. He does not patronise his reader with easy examples or workshop games, but lights on his subject with elegant pragmatism and humility. His overall argument arises from a very personal yet wholly professional sense of poetry as an art form in practice, and his examples are informed by deep reading and writerly intuition. I consider the book a small masterpiece of clarity, economy and experience. It brings light to poetry as something made: something real and realised." David Morley, Warwick University "The examples throughout the book are contemporary and provocative in the most helpful sense. ... [Redmond] clearly loves poems, enough to show you in detail how they work." Poetry NewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. 1. The Question of Address. 2. Viewpoint. 3. The Question of Voices. 4. The Question of Scale. 5. Uses of Repetition. 6. Image. 7. Short Lines. 8. Long Lines. 9. Diction. 10. Uses of Syntax. 11. Tone. 12. Traditional Forms: Ode. 13. Traditional Forms: Epistle. 14. The Question of Background. 15. Conclusion: The Question of Variety. Index

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Book Synopsis* An innovative introduction to writing poetry designed for students of creative writing and budding poets alike. * Challenges the reader's sense of what is possible in a poem. * Traces the history and highlights the potential of poetry.Trade Review"John Redmond's "How to Write a Poem" contains no false notes. He does not patronise his reader with easy examples or workshop games, but lights on his subject with elegant pragmatism and humility. His overall argument arises from a very personal yet wholly professional sense of poetry as an art form in practice, and his examples are informed by deep reading and writerly intuition. I consider the book a small masterpiece of clarity, economy and experience. It brings light to poetry as something made: something real and realised." David Morley, Warwick University "The examples throughout the book are contemporary and provocative in the most helpful sense. ... [Redmond] clearly loves poems, enough to show you in detail how they work." Poetry NewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. 1. The Question of Address. 2. Viewpoint. 3. The Question of Voices. 4. The Question of Scale. 5. Uses of Repetition. 6. Image. 7. Short Lines. 8. Long Lines. 9. Diction. 10. Uses of Syntax. 11. Tone. 12. Traditional Forms: Ode. 13. Traditional Forms: Epistle. 14. The Question of Background. 15. Conclusion: The Question of Variety. Index

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Book SynopsisThe first general introduction to Ovid written in English in over 20 years, this book provides a unique and accessible introduction to the complete works of Ovid. Using a thematic approach, Volk lays out what we know about Ovid's life, presents the author's works within their poetic genres, and discusses central Ovidian themes.Trade Review“The past few years have seen several new translations of [Ovid’s] work appear and a few acute scholarly studies, too. Among the more accessible of the latter category is Katharina Volk’s introduction to Ovid…Volk, a professor of classics at Columbia and the new editor of The Transactions of the American Philological Association,is about as high a star in the American academic firmament as one might find. Her tone is devoid of the jargon and pretense by which many an Ovidian monograph is marred. After concise initial chapters on the poet’s work and life, we find sensible discussions on elegy, women, and Rome, as well as a selective survey of Ovid’s subsequent reception in Western art and literature.” (Sewanee Review, 2012) " ...the book is truly first-class. It will, I believe, become invaluable for any course in which Ovid is a central component..." (BMCR, 6 February 2012) "Katharina Volk's Ovid is a wonderfully deft and spirited introduction to the whole of the poet's oeuvre, covering a remarkable amount of ground in just under 150 pages ." (Times Literary Supplement, 16 September 2011) "That quibble aside, this is an admirable book, suitable as both an up-to-date introduction for tyros and as a refreshing overview of matters Ovidian for advanced scholars." (Acta Classica,1 December 2011) Table of ContentsList of Figures viii Preface ix Abbreviations for Ovid’s Works xi Introduction 1 1 Work 6 2 Life 20 3 Elegy 35 4 Myth 50 5 Art 65 6 Women 81 7 Rome 95 8 Reception 110 Further Reading 128 Notes 141 Ovidian Passages Cited 142 Index 145

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Book SynopsisSatire, written in the verse of heroic epic but focused on the evils of contemporary society, was ancient Rome's original contribution to world literature. Two great practitioners of this art, Persius and Juvenal, wrote under the early emperors. Inspired by their Republican predecessors, both radically reinvented the genre.Trade Review“Braund and Osgood's A Companion to Persius and Juvenalis an excellent book. Specialists, non-specialists, and students alike will find in this volume a comprehensive and spacious approach to these challenging poets.” (Phoenix, 1 May 2014) “The whole book can be recommended, but I will single out a few chapters as especially interesting. . . In general, this is a useful book and a good first port-of-call for those new to the subjects.” (Religious Studies Review, 1 December 2013) “This dense volume makes a stimulating contribution to the study of imperial Latin satire.” (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 1 October 2013) “Graced with a 40-page bibliography, this 600-page work should become indispensable to classical scholars and anyone interested in satire. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-level undergraduates and above.” (Choice, 1 July 2013)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations viii Abbreviations ix Notes on Contributors x Acknowledgments xv Introduction: Persius and Juvenal as Satiric Successors 1Josiah Osgood Part I Persius and Juvenal: Texts and Contexts 17 1 Satire in the Republic: From Lucilius to Horace 19Ralph M. Rosen 2 The Life and Times of Persius: The Neronian Literary “Renaissance” 41Martin T. Dinter 3 Juvenalis Eques: A Dissident Voice from the Lower Tier of the Roman Elite 59David Armstrong 4 Life in the Text: The Corpus of Persius’ Satires 79Catherine Keane 5 Juvenal: The Idea of the Book 97Barbara K. Gold 6 Satiric Textures: Style, Meter, and Rhetoric 113E.J. Kenney 7 Manuscripts of Juvenal and Persius 137Holt. N. Parker Part II Retrospectives: Persius and Juvenal as Successors 163 8 Venusina lucerna: Horace, Callimachus, and Imperial Satire 165Andrea Cucchiarelli 9 Self-Representation and Performativity 190Paul Roche 10 Persius, Juvenal, and Stoicism 217Shadi Bartsch 11 Persius, Juvenal, and Literary History after Horace 239Charles McNelis 12 Imperial Satire and Rhetoric 262Christopher S. van den Berg 13 Politics and Invective in Persius and Juvenal 283Matthew Roller 14 Imperial Satire as Saturnalia 312Paul Allen Miller Part III Prospectives: The Successors of Persius and Juvenal 335 15 Imperial Satire Reiterated: Late Antiquity through the Twentieth Century 337Dan Hooley 16 Persius, Juvenal, and the Transformation of Satire in Late Antiquity 363Cristiana Sogno 17 Imperial Satire in the English Renaissance 386Stuart Gillespie 18 Imperial Satire Theorized: Dryden’s Discourse of Satire 409Josiah Osgood and Susanna Braund 19 Imperial Satire and the Scholars 436Holt N. Parker and Susanna Braund 20 School Texts of Persius and Juvenal 465Amy Richlin 21 Revoicing Imperial Satire 486Gideon Nisbet 22 Persius and Juvenal in the Media Age 513Martin M. Winkler References 545 Index Locorum 587 General Index 603

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Book SynopsisBy conservatively editing one important witness of Piers Plowman, Vaughan takes a new generation of students to an early version of this great medieval poem.Trade ReviewThroughout he is a reliable and illuminating guide. Indeed, the scope of Professor Vaughan's introduction itself will be of lasting value to all readers of the poem. -- A.S.G. Edwards Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionProloguePassus OnePassus TwoPassus ThreePassus FourPassus FivePassus SixPassus SevenPassus EightPassus NinePassus TenPassus ElevenPassus TwelveTextual NotesNotesSelected Bibliography

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Book SynopsisMeticulously edited, this volume builds on recent pioneering scholarship to restore and burnish Tighe's reputation as a major Romantic-era poet.Trade Review... Those interested in English literature will want this extremely well-annotated edition of a poet whose star is, after long neglect, on the rise. Highly recommended. Choice ... beautiful, indispensable new edition of her poetry... The Collected Poetry of Mary Tighe is a major editorial feat. As a scholar deeply committed to the recovery of women writers of the Romantic period, I am exceedingly grateful for this first-rate scholarly edition of Mary Tighe's poetry. Review 19Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNotes on the Texts and Other Editorial MattersAbbreviations Used in the NotesBrief ChronologyIntroductionPart I: Psyche; or, The Legend of Love (1805)Part II: "Verses Transcribed for H. T."Volume IVolume IIPart III: Late Poems and Fugitive VerseAppendixes1. False and Doubtful Attributions2. Nineteenth-Century Poetic Response to Mary Tighe3. Substantive Variants, Psyche, or the Legend of Love, March 1849 Signed Holograph Manuscript4. From Mary, a Series of Reflections5. Theodosia Blachford to Rev. Henry Moore: Extracts from Letters Concerning Mary Tighe6. Inventory of Known Copies of Psyche, or the Legend of Love (1805)7. Addendum to Late Poens and Fugitive Verse by Mary TigheBibliographyIndex of Titles and First Lines

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Book SynopsisZukofsky, Oppen, and Niedecker wrote with a diversity of formal strategies but a singularity of purpose: the crafting of an anticapitalist poetics. Inaugurated in 1931 by Louis Zukofsky, Objectivist poetry gave expression to the complex contours of culture and politics in America during the Great Depression. This study of Zukofsky and two others in the Objectivist constellation, George Oppen and Lorine Niedecker, elaborates the dialectic between the formal experimental features of their poetry and their progressive commitments to the radical potentials of modernity. Mixing textual analysis, archival research, and historiography, Ruth Jennison shows how Zukofsky, Oppen, and Niedecker braided their experiences as working-class Jews, political activists, and feminists into radical, canon-challenging poetic forms. Using the tools of critical geography, Jennison offers an account of the relationship between the uneven spatial landscapes of capitalism in crisis and the Objectivists' paraTrade ReviewAn illuminating, insightful, and theoretically rigorous engagement with Objectivist poetics that is sure to shape subsequent discussion.—Review of English StudiesJennison embraces a precise critical vocabulary that serves her purpose well. . . Most importantly, [she] presents an incisive and rigorous reading of Zukovsky's early work, not against his own interpretive choices but informed by them.—Journal of American CultureThe signal theoretical work of the year is Ruth Jennison's The Zukofsky Era . . . It seems unlikely that work on both [Zukofsky and Oppen] in the coming years will be able to avoid responding to Jennison's reconfiguration of the critical terrain—this is a work sure to have a wide influence.—American LiteratureJennison delivers the most satisfying and intellectually robust explanation we have yet had of Zukofsky, in particular, and Objectivism, in general. No account of modernist poetics should be able to present itself without embarrassment if it avoids Jennison's readings. Along with Moretti and Eagleton, The Zukofsky Era shows that large-scale historical accounts can deliver complex textual readings. More please.—The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural TheoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: The Uneven Poetics of Radical ParataxisChapter 1. Zukofsky: The Political Economy of Revolutionary ModernismChapter 2. G. Oppen, Materialiste: Cinematic CapitalismPart II: The Commodity's InscapeChapter 3. Zukofsky: The Voice of the FetishChapter 4. Niedecker: The Interior Voice CommodifiedPart III: The Objectivist ReflexChapter 5. Zukofsky: Counterfetishistic LiteracyAppendixNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1989. In Prosody and Purpose in the English Renaissance the eminent scholar O. B. Hardison Jr. sets out to recover the special kinds of music inherent in English Renaissance poetry. The book begins with a thorough and wide-ranging survey of the development of prosodic theory from the ancient ars metrica tradition to the sixteenth century, with special emphasis on such issues as the relation of verse form and genre, the relation of syntax to prosody, and the role of language reform in shaping Renaissance prosody. The second part of the book considers the impact of prosodic traditions on specific literary works and verse forms, among them Surrey's Aeneid, Heywood's translation of Seneca's Thyestes, Sackville and Norton's Gorboduc, and the dramatic and epic verse of Marlowe, Shakespeare, Spenser, and Milton. Throughout, Hardison examines not only how poets crafted their verse but why. He explores authorial purposes ranging from technical attempts to match sound andTrade ReviewTwo large points that emerge are the importance of 'construction' and, perhaps more surprisingly, 'the dominance of syllabic concepts of prosody.' Hardison concludes that the English verse of this period 'is best understood in terms of this tradition.' He has written a learned, interesting, and civilized book.—Studies in English LiteratureTable of ContentsPrefacePart I. ContextsChapter 1. Prosody and Purpose Chapter 2. Ars Metrica Chapter 3. Rude and Beggerly Ryming: The Romance TraditionChapter 4. A Question of Language: Italy and the Shaping of Renaissance Prosodic TheoryChapter 5. Notes of Instruction Part II. PerformancesChapter 6. A Straunge Metre Worthy To Be Embraced Chapter 7. Jasper Heywood's Fourteeners Chapter 8. Gorboduc and Dramatic Blank Verse, with a Note on ComedyChapter 9. Heroic Experiments Chapter 10. Speech and Verse in Later Elizabethan Drama Chapter 11. True Musical DelightNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1941. This book stresses the transcendental, rather than purely aesthetic, qualities of William Wordsworth's work. It argues that the unusual aspects of Wordsworth's mind are not isolated and did not seem to him fanciful or merely personal; they were, for him, so many paths, difficult to find and harder to follow, yet leading to the great central truth that is the goal of all humankind's loftier strivings.Table of ContentsTable of Sigla, Abbreviations, etc.PrefaceIntroductionChapter 1. The Matter-of-Factness of WordsworthChapter 2. PassionChapter 3. The Ministry of FearChapter 4. Solitude, Silence, LonelinessChapter 5. AnimismChapter 6. NatureChapter 7. Anti-RationalismChapter 8. The Mystic ExperienceChapter 9. ReligionChapter 10. ImaginationIndex

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Book SynopsisThose Who from Afar Look Like Flies is an anthology of poems and essays that aims to provide an organic profile of the evolution of Italian poetry after World War II. Beginning with the birth of Officina and Il Verri, and culminating with the crisis of the mid-seventies, this tome features works by such poets as Pasolini, Pagliarani, Rosselli, Sanguineti and Zanzotto, as well as such forerunners as Villa and Cacciatore. Each section of this anthology, organized chronologically, is preceded by an introductory note and documents every stylistic or substantial change in the poetics of a group or individual. For each poet, critic, and translator a short biography and bibliography is also provided.Table of ContentsMarjorie Perloff, Foreword Luigi Ballerini & Beppe Cavatorta, A Consummation Devoutly to Be Wished I. Windmills of Realism: a Querelle II. Research Poetry in the Late Fifties and Early Sixties III. Flashback IV. Midfielders: Consolidated Research Poetry V.The Late Sixties and Early Seventies: the Legacy of the New VI. Flashforward Appendix Credits and Acknowledgements

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Book SynopsisBrowning's lyrics are favourite choices for anthologies but are rarely examined closely. This is the first full-length study of the lyrics, and includes detailed analyses of such well-known poems as Love Among the Ruins, Two in the Campagna, A Serenade at the Villa, A Toccata of Galuppi's, By the Fireside, and James Lee's Wife. Eleanor Cook explores Browning's use of repeated images and themes in the lyrics, examines these patterns in other poems and in his letters, and analyses their growth and change in all his work. She demonstrates how the lyrics may be linked with Browning's other work and shows something of his essential artistic unity. His imaginary is found to be more consistent and complex than is usually assumed.Students of Browning will find this work stimulating and instructive, while lovers of Browning will read it with pure pleasure. The reader will return to many of the poems with a rcihe

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Book SynopsisThe Civil War is a poem which Abraham Cowley (1618-67) did not complete, for political and historical reasons, and of which only the first volume was published; the other two volumes have been considered irrecoverably lost since Cowley's death. Professor Pritchard recently found two copies of the complete poem in a collection of family papers at the Hertfordshire County Record Office and here presents a corrected edition of the first and previously published book, and the text of the hitherto unpublished books two and three.The poem is a major addition to the body of Cowley's poetry; it has close and sometimes surprising connections with much of his other work. It is not only the most extended and important of his political poems but a significant addition to the genre of the political poem. It is also unique as the attempt by a poet of stature to give epic treatment to the events of the English Civil War.Professor Pritchard provides a discussion

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Book SynopsisA World of Love and Mystery is a collection of poetry divided into three parts written by the poet Walden Scott Cram.

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Book SynopsisBy illustrating how early modern English writers created their works in the context of a longstanding cultural inheritance from antiquity, Elizabeth Jane Bellamy offers a new approach to the history of early modern cartography and its influences on literature.Trade Review'This volume is an ingenious and persuasive tour de force of interdisciplinary research. Highly recommended.' -- A.R. Vogeler Choice Magazine; vol 51:05:14 'Dire Straits is to be welcomed as an important counter-balance to influential histories of the rise of English patriotism and its figuration through geographic discourse... A book which has much to offer to geographers, historians and students of literature alike.' -- Robert Mayhew Journal of Historical Geography vol 30:01:2014

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Book SynopsisEugenio Montale, the Fascist Storm, and the Jewish Sunflower uncovers one of the great hidden sagas of modern literature. During Italy’s fascist period, Eugenio Montale – winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature and one of the greatest modern poets in any language – fell in love with Irma Brandeis, a glamorous and beautiful Dante scholar and an American Jew. While their romance would fall apart, it would have literary repercussions that extended throughout the poet’s career: Montale’s works abound with secret codes that speak to a lost lover and muse.This study is the first to completely unlock the cryptic thematic link that connects many of Montale’s most important poems, which, taken together, form the most significant hidden poetic cycle of modernism. David Michael Hertz explores the intersecting poetic myth and background biography, with precision made possible through recently published archival materials. Bringing the reaTrade Review'Hertz succeeds admirably in revealing the rich and complex tapestry hidden behind the Clizia Cycle.' -- Rossella Riccobono Modern Language Review vol 111:02:2016Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduzione: The Clizia Myth and the Secret Cycle 2. Murder, Manifestoes, and the Poems of the Cinque Terre 3. Love in Fascist Florence 4. The Woman of The Occasions 5. Hitler and Mussolini at the Opera 6. The Storm and the Sun Goddess 7. The Poet and the Modern Beatrice Spread Their Myth around the World 8. Clizia Becomes a Woman Again Coda: Montale, Brandeis, the "I" and the "You" The Italian Notes Works Cited and Additional Bibliography Index of Poems and Translations from the Cycle General Index

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Book SynopsisThe Metaphor of Celebrity is an exploration of the significance of literary celebrity in Canadian poetry.Trade Review'The Metaphor of Celebrity is an engrossing read because of the balance that the text strikes...That I am left for wanting more of the text is, from my point of view, an excellent challenge to the writer.' -- Kit Dobson English Studies in Canada, vol 40:2-3: 2015 'A book that can and will act as a critical touchstone as celebrity continues to evolve and involve itself in the "literariness" and visibility texts.' -- Owen Percy Canadian Literature 223 / winter 2014Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Metaphor of Celebrity 2. The Era of Celebrity in Canadian Poetry 3. Becoming "Too Public" in the Poetry of Irving Layton 4. Fighting Words: Layton on Radio and Television 5. Recognition, Anonymity, and Leonard Cohen's Stranger Music 6. "I like that line because it's got my name in it": Masochistic Stardom in Cohen's Poetry 7. Celebrity, Sexuality, and the Uncanny in Michael Ondaatje's The Collected Works of Billy the Kid 8. "A Razor in the Body": Ondaatje's Rat Jelly and Secular Love 9. The Magician and His Public in the Poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen 10. Passing and Celebrity in MacEwen's The T.E. Lawrence Poems Conclusion: Public, Nation, Now Acknowledgments Appendix: Four Tables (fig. 1-4) Works Cited Notes

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Book SynopsisIn celebration of its tercentenary, this collection brings together ten eminent scholars with new perspectives on the poem.Trade Review'The editor's preface provides a valuable account of the poem's somewhat complicated publication history, which is also treated thoughtfully and with illuminating effect by contributors.' -- Jenny Davidson Studies in English Literature vol 56:03:2016 'Donald W. Nichol's edition of collected essays on Alexander Pope's brilliant satire, The Rape of the Lock, is a timely and intelligent celebration of a literary masterpiece... This collection brings new and original interpretations to a classic work of eighteenth-century literature.' -- Ileana Baird SHARP News August 21, 2016Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: The Rape of the Lock After 300 Years (J. Paul Hunter) 1. Courtliness, Courtship, and Court Cards: Fractals as a Compositional Device in The Rape of the Lock (Pat Rogers) 2. Gallantry and The Rape of the Lock Reconsidered (Louise Curran) 3. Making the Perfect Woman: Female Automata from Pandora to Belinda (Glynis Ridley) 4. "Charms strike the Sight, but Merit wins the Soul": Female Spirituality and The Rape of the Lock (Katherine M. Quinsey) 5. Catholic Society and Commercial Idolatry in The Rape of the Lock (Nicholas Hudson) 6. "Hairs less in sight": Pope, Biology, and Culture (Raymond Stephanson) 7. Death and the Object: The Abuse of Things in The Rape of the Lock (Barbara M. Benedict) 8. It Narratives, Thing Theory, and "trivial Things": Sophie Gee's The Scandal of the Season and The Rape of the Lock (Kate Scarth) 9. Of Words and Things: Image, Page, Text, and The Rape of the Lock (Allison Muri) 10. From "Trivial Things" to "trivial things": Pope, Lintot, and The Rape of the Lock (Donald W. Nichol)

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Book SynopsisThis edition of E.J. Pratt's letters is the final volume in the Collected Works series. The letters take us into his workshop, illuminating the research behind his distinctive documentary long poems and the social nature of his creative production.Trade Review"Elizabeth Popham and David G. Pitt provide an invaluable resource to scholars of Canadian modernist poetry with E.J. Pratt: Letters, the last instalment of the Collected Works series… the collection that the editors present is vast – and wholly indispensable for scholars in the field and those with an interest in Pratt’s poetry … Popham and Pitt’s detailed effort is undeniable, serving any interest reader beyond expectation … This resource is one for the shelves of any researcher in the field, and will no doubt be cited regularly. " -- David Johnstone * Canadian Literature Reviews, 234 Autumn 2017 *Table of ContentsIntroduction Editorial procedures Acknowledgments Biographical chronology Letters I Peregrinations: 1903-25 II A Taste of National Acclaim: 1925-32 III Prospect and Promotion: 1932-39 IV Historical Fact and Epic Construction: 1939-44 V Steering between Extremes: 1944-48 VI Knockings at the Door: 1948-53 VII Accepting the Years: 1953-55 VIII As Good as Any Old Horse My Age: 1955-64 Appendix : Some Letters by Viola Pratt Abbreviations Textual notes Index

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Book SynopsisA new era in Canadian poetry began in 1880 with the publication of Charles G.D. Roberts’ Orion and Other Poems. He was just twenty years old. Roberts was soon acknowledged as leader of the so-called Confederation Poets—Bliss Carman, Duncan Campbell Scott, and Archibald Lampman. During his long lifetime he wrote hundreds of poems as well as novels, histories, short stories, translations, and essays; he also originated the realistic animal story popularized by Ernest Thompson Seton. He awed literary critics with the versatility of his writing and shocked staid Canadians with the escapades of an unconventional private life. Married at twenty in his native New Brunswick, Roberts soon after began a series of romantic entanglements. While his wife, May, raised the children in Fredericton, he swanned around New York, Havana, and the capitals of Europe. He experienced the Bohemian life of Washington Square around the turn of the century and lived in Montparnasse

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Book SynopsisThe aim of the author, who has long been interested in the history of ideas, has been to give some illustrations of the ways in which at various periods English poetry has reflected current views of the human mind, with special reference to such topics as its place in the cosmos, its relations with the body, the connections between sense, passions, and reason, the problem of soul and its possible survival after death. The subject matter is important, for many of the more self-conscious writers have been profoundly affected by their assumptions about the senses and passions, the reason and the imagination.The author traces four main historical phases in each of which different aspects and potentialities of the mind have been stressed. Chapter I discusses the microcosmic conception of man inherited from the Middle Ages and traces its influence in some allegorical and didactic verse, lyric and epic. Chapter II considers the development of Shakespeare’s attitude to the mind

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Book SynopsisIn the last fifty or so years there has been a gradual shift of attention in scholarship on the Nibelungenlied from reconstruction of the texts, and tracings of the poem’s multiple and complex antecedents, to interpretation. In spite of this trend, there is still a pressing need for a critical analysis of the Nibelungenlied as a whole that draws together its various literary qualities and examines in detail the epic’s unity, depth, and meaning. Professor Bekker’s study provides this kind of analysis. It takes a fresh approach, viewing the poem as a work of literary merit worthy to be read for its own sake. It traces the new designs which the poet brings to the Nibelungen tradition and provides detailed examinations of the main aspects of technique and structure in the epic. The approach is based on close consultation of the text, with little digression, in an attempt to guide the reader to an understanding and appreciation of the poem as the autho

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Book SynopsisA Companion to Poetic Genre brings together over 40 contributions from leading academics to provide critical overviews of poetic genres and their modern adaptations.Trade Review“If there is some conceptual wobble in the nature of this undertaking, this Companion is nevertheless a useful, informative and—yes—companionable volume on which its editor may be congratulated.” (English Studies, 1 October 2014) Table of Contents Notes on Contributors ix Preface xix Acknowledgments xxiv Part I 1 “To Get the News from Poems”: Poetry as Genre 3 Jahan Ramazani 2 What Was New Formalism? 17 David Caplan 3 Meter 34 Peter L. Groves 4 The Stanza: Echo Chambers 53 Debra Fried 5 Trying to Praise the Mutilated World: The Contemporary American Ode 64 Ann Keniston 6 English Elegies 77 Neil Roberts 7 The Self-Elegy: Narcissistic Nostalgia or Proleptic Postmortem? 93 Eve C. Sorum 8 Free Verse and Formal: The English Ghazal 104 Lisa Sewell 9 On “the Beat Inevitable”: The Ballad 117 Romana Huk 10 Oddity or Tour de Force? The Sestina 139 Nicole Ollier 11 The Rondeau: Still Doing the Rounds 157 Maria Johnston 12 Weaving Close Turns and Counter Turns: The Villanelle 171 Karen Jackson Ford 13 Looping the Loop: Terza Rima 188 George Szirtes 14 Ottava Rima: Quietly Facetious upon Everything 206 Michael Hinds 15 “Named Airs”: American Sonnets (Stevens to Bidart) 220 Meg Tyler 16 African American Sonnets: Voicing Justice and Personal Dignity 234 Jeff Westover 17 The Liberties of Blank Verse 250 Patrick Jackson 18 Arcs of Movement: The Heroic Couplet 263 David Wheatley 19 In a Sea of Indeterminacy: Fourteen Ways of Looking at Haiku 277 Peter Harris 20 On the Pantoum, and the Pantunite Element in Poetry 293 Geoff Ward 21 “Gists and Piths”: The Free-Verse Revolution in Contemporary American Poetry 306 Marie-Christine Lemardeley 22 The Emergent Prose Poem 318 Andy Brown 23 Concrete/Visual Poetry 330 Fiona McMahon 24 Poems that Count: Procedural Poetry 348 Hélène Aji 25 Modes of Found Poetry 361 Lacy Rumsey Part II 26 “Horny Morning Mood”: The Aubade and Alba 379 Kit Fryatt 27 Nox Consilium and the Dark Night of the Soul: The Nocturne 390 Erik Martiny 28 Heaney, Virgil, and Contemporary Katabasis 404 Rachel Falconer 29 The Aisling 420 Bernard O’Donoghue 30 The Printed Voice 435 Yann Tholoniat 31 Rewriting the People’s Newspaper: Trinidadian Calypso after 1956 446 John Thieme 32 Tragicomic Mode in Modern American Poetry: “Awful but Cheerful” 459 Bonnie Costello 33 Parnassus in Pillory: Satirical Verse 478 Todd Nathan Thompson 34 Poetry and Its Occasions: “Undoing the Folded Lie” 490 Stephen Wilson 35 On Verse Letters 505 Philip Coleman 36 “Containing History”: Epic Poetry and Revisions of the Genre 521 Alex Runchman 37 T.S. Eliot and the Short Long Poem 532 Jennifer Clarvoe 38 Making War Poetry Contemporary 543 Rainer Emig 39 Bestiary USA: The Modern American Bestiary Poem 555 Jo Gill 40 “From Arcadia to Bunyah”: Mutation and Diversity in the Pastoral Mode 568 Karina Williamson 41 Another Green World: Contemporary Garden Poetry 584 Mark Scroggins 42 Scenic, or Topographical, Poetry 598 Stephen Burt 43 Ekphrastic Poetry: In and Out of the Museum 614 Jonathan Ellis Index 627

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Book SynopsisMariana Scott, poet and translator of Hofmannsthal, Meyrink, Celan, and others, translates the eighth-century Old Saxon Heliand into its original meter in this work originally published in 1966. This anonymous masterpiece presents the life of Christ and affords an excellent insight into medieval life.

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Book Synopsis2019 was a year of protest. Across five continents, millions of people mobilized to march for political and economic justice. International Poetry Review, Volume 43, 2020, honours these protestors' bravery by featuring the work of Latin American and Latinx poets.

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Book SynopsisThis book, a study of birds as they are presented by four great English poets, inquires into the extent and sources of their knowledge of birds and analyzes the methods by which they adapted that knowledge for poetic purposes.Table of Contents Preface I. The Background II. Chaucer III. Spenser IV. Milton V. Drayton VI. Conclusion Index to Birds Named by Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, and Drayton

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Book SynopsisHow girls of color from eight global communities strategize on questions of identity, social issues, and political policy through spoken word poetry.Table of Contents Preface Introduction: Putting a Mic in the Margins Chapter 1. Quantum Justice Leaps and Poetic Echoes Chapter 2. “Understand This, and Be Happy in Life”: Contradicting Conditions, Complicating Community Chapter 3. “Always Giving Something Up”: Decision Making and Subjectivity Chapter 4. What Girls Want: Dreams and Desires Chapter 5. “My Shining Makes You Glow”: Motherhood and Girls from the Future Chapter 6. Too Close for Comfort: Motherhood and Girls Revising the Past Chapter 7. Girls Making a Way Afterword Acknowledgments References

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Book SynopsisHow girls of color from eight global communities strategize on questions of identity, social issues, and political policy through spoken word poetry.Table of Contents Preface Introduction: Putting a Mic in the Margins Chapter 1. Quantum Justice Leaps and Poetic Echoes Chapter 2. “Understand This, and Be Happy in Life”: Contradicting Conditions, Complicating Community Chapter 3. “Always Giving Something Up”: Decision Making and Subjectivity Chapter 4. What Girls Want: Dreams and Desires Chapter 5. “My Shining Makes You Glow”: Motherhood and Girls from the Future Chapter 6. Too Close for Comfort: Motherhood and Girls Revising the Past Chapter 7. Girls Making a Way Afterword Acknowledgments References

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Book SynopsisPoetry has leapt out of its world and into the worldPoetry is everywhere. From Amanda Gorman performing The Hill We Climb before the nation at Joe Biden's Presidential inauguration, to poems regularly going viral on Instagram and Twitter, more Americans are reading and interacting with poetry than ever before. Avidly Reads Poetry is an ode to poetry and the worlds that come into play around the different ways it is written and shared. Mixing literary and cultural criticism with the author's personal and often intimate relationship with poetry, Avidly Reads Poetry breathes life into poems of every genrefrom alphabet poems and Shakespeare's sonnets to Claudia Rankine's Citizen and Rupi Kaur's Instapoetryand asks: How do poems come to us? How do they make us feel and think and act when they do? Who and what is poetry for? Who does poetry include and exclude, and what can we learn from it?Each section links a reason why we might read poetry with a type of poem to help us think about how Trade Review"A smart guide ... Ardam is thoughtful in her examination of how poetry infiltrates pop culture, and her love of the genre shines. Readers looking to start a poetry habit will appreciate this earnest consideration." * Publishers Weekly *"What can poems do? How might they capture our desires, comfort us, connect us, or help us carve out space for ourselves in the world? When do they make us wince, and how do they make us weep? When does poetry let us off the hook, and when and how can poetry hold us accountable for systemic and historical injustices? With unflinching honesty, capacious expertise, humor, and heart, Ardam invites us in to her brilliant and multifaceted modes of thinking about poetry. Pedagogical in its essence and political to its core, Avidly Reads Poetry invites well-versed poetry lovers and Intro to Poetry students alike to ask how they see themselves in poetry, and what they find there." * Rachel Feder, author of Birth Chart *

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Book SynopsisPoetry has leapt out of its world and into the worldPoetry is everywhere. From Amanda Gorman performing The Hill We Climb before the nation at Joe Biden's Presidential inauguration, to poems regularly going viral on Instagram and Twitter, more Americans are reading and interacting with poetry than ever before. Avidly Reads Poetry is an ode to poetry and the worlds that come into play around the different ways it is written and shared.Mixing literary and cultural criticism with the author's personal and often intimate relationship with poetry, Avidly Reads Poetry breathes life into poems of every genrefrom alphabet poems and Shakespeare's sonnets to Claudia Rankine's Citizen and Rupi Kaur's Instapoetryand asks: How do poems come to us? How do they make us feel and think and act when they do? Who and what is poetry for? Who does poetry include and exclude, and what can we learn from it?Each section links a reason why we mightTrade Review"A smart guide ... Ardam is thoughtful in her examination of how poetry infiltrates pop culture, and her love of the genre shines. Readers looking to start a poetry habit will appreciate this earnest consideration." * Publishers Weekly *"What can poems do? How might they capture our desires, comfort us, connect us, or help us carve out space for ourselves in the world? When do they make us wince, and how do they make us weep? When does poetry let us off the hook, and when and how can poetry hold us accountable for systemic and historical injustices? With unflinching honesty, capacious expertise, humor, and heart, Ardam invites us in to her brilliant and multifaceted modes of thinking about poetry. Pedagogical in its essence and political to its core, Avidly Reads Poetry invites well-versed poetry lovers and Intro to Poetry students alike to ask how they see themselves in poetry, and what they find there." * Rachel Feder, author of Birth Chart *

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Book SynopsisSatirical verse on society and its hypocrisiesA master of satire known for his ribald humor, self-deprecation, and invective verse (hija?), the poet ?medan al-Shwe?ir was an acerbic critic of his society and its morals. Living in the Najd region of the Arabian Peninsula, ?medan wrote in an idiom widely referred to as Naba?i, here a mix of Najdi vernacular and archaic vocabulary and images dating to the origins of Arabic poetry. In Arabian Satire, ?medan is mostly concerned with worldly matters and addresses these in different guises: as the patriarch at the helm of the family boat and its unruly crew; as a picaresque anti-hero who revels in taking potshots at the established order, its hypocrisy, and its failings; as a peasant who labors over his palm trees, often to no avail and with no guarantee of success; and as a poet recording in verse how he thinks things ought to be.The poems in Arabian Satire reveal a plucky, headstrong, yet intenselyTrade ReviewColorful contrasts abound. . . . Quite entertaining. * The Complete Review *[Ḥmēdān's] gift for the memorable turn of phrase has ensured that his poetry has never been forgotten… A handsomely produced volume of 'melodic verses that swell and roll / like roaring waves on a pitch-black sea.' * IASA Bulletin *

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Book SynopsisThe dramatic story of Phillis Wheatley, a free, black poet who resisted the pressures of arranged marriage, truly embodying the ideals of the American RevolutionThere is an uncomfortable paradox at the heart of the American Revolution: many of the men leading the war for independence were slave owners, contradicting the ideal of freedom that they claimed to represent. Meanwhile, abolitionist sentiments of the time contained contradictions as well. Abolitionists encouraged freed Christianized slaves to return to Africa. In this way, they hoped to send more missionaries to Africa in order to Christianize the continent and, at the same time, to send free blacks away from America. This tension is revealed through the dramatic story of Phillis Wheatley, an African-American poet who refused to marry a man she had never met and return with him to Africa as a missionary. She was enslaved in Africa as a child and transported to Boston, where she was sold to an evangelical family. Agreeing to thTrade Review"In this meticulous study, Barker-Benfield reanimates an essential transatlantic context for Wheatley’s life and work." -- Choice"In Barker-Benfields imaginative and skillful telling, the full intellectual and historical stature of Phillis Wheatley is revealed for all to see. This acute and cleverly-crafted study confirms Wheatleys trans-Atlantic importance. Here is an African voice, fired by personal anger and deep religious sentiment, speaking the truth of slavery to the educated world of late 18th century. This is a study of major importance for anyone interested in the history of Anglo-American sensibility, the emergence of anti-slavery sentiment and the remarkable networks of Africans scattered throughout the slave diaspora." -- James Walvin,University of York"Phillis Wheatley Chooses Freedom is a new high-water mark in Wheatley scholarship." * Early American Literature *

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Book SynopsisThe Saints in Old Norse and Early Modern Icelandic Poetry is a complimentary volume to The Legends of the Saints in Old NorseIcelandic Prose (UTP 2013). This volume focuses on Icelandic devotional poetry created during the early modern period.Trade ReviewThe Saints in Old Norse and Early Modern Icelandic Poetry is the first handbook of its kind and therefore extremely welcome, useful, and inspiring. Students and scholars are going to discover unedited material waiting to be researched and published. Hopefully, we shall see more editions, various studies on poetry and saints and, not least, on the manuscript and literary culture in early modern Iceland. -- Marianne Kalinke * Journal of English and Germanic Philology, vol 117:01:2018 *"Although some of the poems are not great literature, all are of interest to the scholar. The number of manuscripts indicates their popularity, and it should not be forgotten that poems of this kind were also orally transmitted. They express the ideology and emotions of their poets and their audiences." -- Ásdís Egilsdóttir, University of Iceland * Speculum *Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations and Symbols Bibliography I. Catalogues and Bibliographies II. Collections and Anthologies III. General Works IV. Individual Saints Index of Manuscripts

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Book SynopsisThe single largest category of Beowulf representation and adaptation, outside of direct translation of the poem, is children’s literature. Over the past century and a half, more than 150 new versions of Beowulf directed to child and teen audiences have appeared, in English and in many other languages. In this collection of original essays, Bruce Gilchrist and Britt Mize examine the history and processes of remaking Beowulf for young readers. Inventive in their manipulations of story, tone, and genre, these adaptations require their authors to make countless decisions about what to include, exclude, emphasize, de-emphasize, and adjust. This volume considers the many forms of children’s literature, focusing primarily on picture books, illustrated storybooks, and youth novels, but taking account also of curricular aids, illustrated full translations of the poem, and songs. Contributors address issues of gender, historical context, war and violeTable of ContentsIntroduction: Beowulf in and near Children’s Literature Britt Mize 1. “A Little Shared Homer for England and the North”: The First Beowulf for Young Readers Mark Bradshaw Busbee 2. The Adaptational Character of the Earliest Beowulf for English Children: E.L. Hervey’s “The Fight with the Ogre” Renée Ward 3. Visualizing Femininity in Children’s and Illustrated Versions of Beowulf Bruce Gilchrist 4. Tolkien, Beowulf, and Faërie: Adaptations for Readers Aged “Six to Sixty” Amber Dunai 5. Treatments of Beowulf as a Source in Mid-Twentieth-Century Children’s Literature Carl Edlund Anderson 6. What We See in the Grendel Cave: Focalization in Beowulf for Children Janet Schrunk Ericksen 7. Beowulf, Bèi’àowǔfǔ, and the Social Hero Britt Mize 8. The Monsters and the Animals: Theriocentric Beowulfs Robert Stanton 9. Children’s Beowulfs for the New Tolkien Generation Yvette Kisor 10. The Practice of Adapting Beowulf for Younger Readers: A Conversation with Rebecca Barnhouse and James Rumford Britt Mize 11. Children’s Versions of Beowulf: A Bibliography Bruce Gilchrist

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents the first translation in English of the complete poetry of Giacomo da Lentini, the first major lyric poet of the Italian vernacular. He was the leading exponent of the Sicilian School (c.1220-1270) as well as the inventor of the sonnet. Featuring illustrations and new English translations of some forty lyrics, Richard Lansing revives the work of a pioneer of Italian literature, a poet who helped pave the way for later writers such as Dante and Petrarch. Giacomo da Lentini is hailed as the earliest poet to import the Occitan tradition of love poetry into the Italian vernacular. This edition of Giacomo fills a gap in the canon of translations of Italian literature in English and serves as a vital reference source for students as well as scholars and teachers interested in the literature of the romance languages.Trade Review"This volume deserves to be commended as an elegant, comprehensive, and well- contextualized edition of Giacomo’s poetry. Thanks to Lansing and Kumar’s efforts here, a much broader readership will now be able to evaluate the innovative poetry of Giacomo on its own terms and in light of its own specific cultural and intellectual context." -- Tristan Kay, University of Bristol * Speculum *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Bibliography Lyrics Canzoni and Discordo 1. Madonna, dir vo voglio (My lady, I wish to tell you) 2. Meravigliosa-mente (Extraordinarily) 3. Guiderdone aspetto avere (I hope for recompense) 4. Amor non vole ch’io clami (Love will not let me seek) 5. Dal core mi vene (From my heart comes) 6. La ’namoranza disïosa (The love full of desire) 7. Ben m’è venuto prima cordoglienza (Indeed I felt deep grief at once, my fair) 8. Donna, eo languisco (My Love, I suffer and don’t know what hope) 9. Troppo son dimorato (Too long have I resided) 10. Non so se ’n gioia mi sia (I do not know if thoughts of love) 11. Uno disïo d’amore sovente (So frequently an amorous desire) 12. Amando lungiamente (In loving for so long) 13. Madonna mia, a voi mando (My lady fair, I send to you) 14. S’io doglio no è meraviglia (It’s no surprise I grieve) 15. Amore, paura m’incalcia (O Love, fear presses me) 16. Poi no mi val merzé né ben servire (Since neither mercy nor performing deeds) 17. Dolce coninzamento (I sing a sweet preamble) Tenzone with the Abbot of Tivoli 18a. Ai deo d’amore (O god of Love, I pray you see) 18b. Feruto sono isvarïatamente (I have been wounded differently) 18c. Qual om riprende altrui (One who rebukes another frequently) 18d. Cotale gioco rnai non fue veduto (A game like this has not been seen) 18e. Con vostro onore facciovi uno ’nvito (I honor you and send you this appeal) Tenzone with Jacopo Mostacci and Pier della Vigna 19a. Solicitando un poco meo savere (To stimulate my intellect) 19b. Però ch’Amore non si pò vedere (Because Love is not visible) 19c. Amore è uno disio che ven da core (Love’s a desire that issues from the heart) Sonnets 20. Lo giglio quand’è colto tost’è passo (The lily fades as soon as it is picked) 21. Sì come il sol che manda la sua spera (Just like the sun that sends its rays) 22. Or come pote sì gran donna entrare (How can so great a lady pass) 23. Molti amadori la lor malatia (Many lovers bear their malady) 24. Donna, vostri sembianti mi mostraro (My lady, your expressions raised in me) 25. Ogn’omo ch’ama de’ amar so ’nore (A lover must protect his name) 26. A l’aire claro ò vista ploggia dare (On clear days I have seen it rain) 27. Io m’aggio posto in core a Dio (I’ve set my heart on serving God) 28. Lo viso mi fa andare alegramente (Her face creates my happiness) 29. Eo viso e son diviso da lo viso (I see, but only from afar, her face) 30. Sì alta amanza à pres’a lo me’ core (A love so noble seized my heart) 31. Per sofrenza si vince gran vetoria (Through patience victories are won) 32. Certo me par che far dea bon signore (It seems quite clear a noble lord should base) 33. Sì como ’l parpaglion ch’a tal natura (Just as the butterfly in nature’s grasp) 34. Chi non avesse mai veduto foco (If one had never seen a flame of fire) 35. Diamante, né smiraldo, né zafino (No diamond, sapphire, emerald) 36. Madonna à ’n se vertute con valore (The virtue of my lady is) 37. Angelica figura e comprobata (Angelic figure manifest) 38. Quand’om à un bon amico leiale (When someone has a good and loyal friend) Lyrics of dubious attribution D.1. Membrando l’amoroso dipartire (Remembering my loving fond farewell) D.2. Lo badalisco a lo specchio lucente (Before a shiny mirror the basilisk) D.3. Guardando basalisco velenoso (Looking at the deadly basilisk) Notes Illustrations Index of First Lines

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Book SynopsisPushkin's Monument and Allusion is the first aesthetic analysis of Russia's most famous monument to its greatest poet, Alexander Pushkin.Trade Review"Pushkin’s Monument and Allusion is a valuable cultural history rooted in extensive research animated by creative thinking. A boon to the specialist, it promises to benefit students, and to engage the general reader." -- Olga Peters Hasty, Princeton University * Russian Review *"Dement’s monograph showcases a range of scholarly competencies, weaving traditional textual scholarship with approaches to theology, visual art, and urban design -- Melvin Thomas, Princeton University * Slavic and East European Journal *"Dement provides a fascinating guide to the history and cultural resonances of the Pushkin monument from its planning stages in the nineteenth century to the present day. It is well-worth reading." -- Gary Rosenshield, University of Wisconsin * Slavic Review *Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Dimensions of the Pushkin Monument 1. Pushkin’s Poem: Monument and Allusion (1811–1836) 2. Opekushin’s Pushkin Monument: Statue and Performance (1836–1880) 3. Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita: Crisis of the Future Poet (1880–1937) 4. Toporov’s Petersburg Text: Rejecting the Statue (1937–2003) 5. Tolstaia’s Slynx: Disfiguring the Monument (1986–2000) Conclusion: Allusion and the Naive Reader Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA Poetry of Things examines the works of four poets whose use of visual and material culture contributed to the remarkable artistic and literary production during the reign of Philip III (15981621). Francisco de Quevedo, Luis de Góngora, Juan de Arguijo, and Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza cast cultural objects ranging from books and tombstones to urban ruins, sculptures, and portraits as participants in lively interactions with their readers and viewers across time and space. Mary E. Barnard argues that in their dialogic performance, these objects serve as sites of inquiry for exploring contemporary political, social, and religious issues, such as the preservation of humanist learning in an age of print, the collapse of empires and the rebirth of the city, and the visual culture of the Counter-Reformation. Her inspired readings explain how the performance of cultural objects, whether they remain in situ or are displayed in a library, museum, or convent, is the Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Preface 1. Objects as Mediators 2. Material Rome 3. Producing Pastoral Spaces 4. Staging Myth 5. A Mystic and Her Objects Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisEugenio Montale, the Fascist Storm, and the Jewish Sunflower uncovers one of the great hidden sagas of modern literature. During Italy’s fascist period, Eugenio Montale – winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature and one of the greatest modern poets in any language – fell in love with Irma Brandeis, a glamorous and beautiful Dante scholar and an American Jew. While their romance would fall apart, it would have literary repercussions that extended throughout the poet’s career: Montale’s works abound with secret codes that speak to a lost lover and muse.This study is the first to completely unlock the cryptic thematic link that connects many of Montale’s most important poems, which, taken together, form the most significant hidden poetic cycle of modernism. David Michael Hertz explores the intersecting poetic myth and background biography, with precision made possible through recently published archival materials. Bringing the reaTrade Review'Hertz succeeds admirably in revealing the rich and complex tapestry hidden behind the Clizia Cycle.' -- Rossella Riccobono Modern Language Review vol 111:02:2016Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduzione: The Clizia Myth and the Secret Cycle 2. Murder, Manifestoes, and the Poems of the Cinque Terre 3. Love in Fascist Florence 4. The Woman of The Occasions 5. Hitler and Mussolini at the Opera 6. The Storm and the Sun Goddess 7. The Poet and the Modern Beatrice Spread Their Myth around the World 8. Clizia Becomes a Woman Again Coda: Montale, Brandeis, the "I" and the "You" The Italian Notes Works Cited and Additional Bibliography Index of Poems and Translations from the Cycle General Index

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Book SynopsisBased on Elaine Fantham's 2004 Robson lectures, Latin Poets and Italian Gods reconstructs the response of Roman poets in the late republic and Augustan age to the rural cults of central Italy. Study of Roman gods is often limited to the grand equivalents of the Olympian Greek deities such as Jupiter, Mars, and Juno. However, real-life Italians gave a lot of their affection and loyalty to humbler gods with no Greek equivalent: local nymphs who supplied healing waters, the great Tiber river and other lesser rivers, the lusty garden god Priapus, and more.Latin Poets and Italian Gods surveys the representation of these old country gods in poets from Plautus to Statius. Fantham offers historical and epigraphic evidence of worship offered to these colourful lesser spirits and reveals the emotional importance of local Italian deities to the sophisticated poets of the Augustan age.

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Book SynopsisThe argument of this study is that the Arcadia, like the High Renaissance painting analysed by Heinrich Wolfflin, is characterized by what may be called 'multiple unity.' The complexity of its organization, whether examined rhetorically in terms of language and thought or tonally through its sequence of events, or narratively through the relation of episode to main plot, is an expression of Sidney's need to control and arrange experience for aesthetic and moral purposes without giving up his perception of its chaos or unmanageability. The nature of Sidney's complex vision, in spite of the apparently pastoral title of Arcadia, is not pastoral but epic. Like much important Renaissance writing, the work is a paedeia, an education of princes, in which the narrative seeks what Sidney considered the paramount object of learning: 'the knowledge of a man's self, in the ethnic and politic consideration.' Professor Lindheim finds that the key to the greater stylistic and narrative complexity

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Book SynopsisGeorge Campman (1559-1634) is one of the most important literary figures of the English Renaissance. A powerful personality, melancholy and witty, his style by turns obscure and elegant, he attempted almost every genre of poetry practised in his day: mythological narrative, philosophical poem, panegyric, elegy, comedy, tragedy, masque, and translation from the classics. This book is the first full-length critical study in English of all his works, poems, plays, and translations, considered in detail in relation to their genres, and in terms of Chapman's intellectual and aesthetic development. The major non-dramatic poems, the tragedies (which have often been the subject of critical comment) and "Chapman's Homer" receive the largest share of attention, but the comedies, in which Chapman was a stylish innovator, and the minor translations are also discussed at length, and an attempt is made to place Chapman among his great contemporaries.In tracing the relationship betwe

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Book SynopsisParadise Lost, possibly the 'most read, most criticized, and most exalted' poem in the English language, has been published more often perhaps in the three hundred years of its existence than any other work of English literature. In the eighteenth century alone, when the English nation went Milton mad, more than a hundred editions were made available to the English reading public. This study traces the transmission history of the poem from its first appearance in 1667, through the eighteenth century with its emphasis on conjectural criticism, to the present century when it was subjected to unwarranted 'restoration.' For the editor of Paradise Lost, who must seek the know 'everything there is to know' about the authoritative texts, that history is a complex one; it includes a first edition with internal variants in five distinct issues, a revised second edition redevised into twelve books, with more than a thousand variants between the two, and subsequent edi

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Book SynopsisSince the rediscovery of the Nibelungenlied in the mid-eighteenth century, this medieval German poem has exercised a remarkable fascination, but very little work has been devoted to interpretation according to the methods of modern criticism. Until very recently Nibelungenlied scholarship has concentrated on establishing the texts and on tracing the sources of the poems. Relatively few articles and books examine and analyse the work itself. In the study, emphasis is on the literary value of the Nibelungenlied rather than on philological questions surrounding it: it offers a close, detailed examination of the text itself. The commentary form used by the authors enables them to pursue individual observations and interpretations: their readings are often novel, frequently challenge more conservative approaches, and stimulate the reader to take his own stand. An extensive introduction accompanies the line-by-line commentary and includes a summary of the plot, discussions of in

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Book Synopsis‘Poetry,’ wrote Tennyson ‘is like shot-silk with many glancing colours.’ Taking this statement as a key to Tennyson’s art and meaning, Kenneth McKay explores in detail the maturing poems from Tennyson’s earliest efforts as a boy under his father’s eye at Somersby, through ‘Timbuctoo’ and ‘The Lover’s Tale,’ through the great poems published between 1830 and 1847, to their culmination in ‘In Memoriam,’ that complex, various, and subtle expression of Tennyson’s achieved maturity. Rooted in close analyses of individual poems, Many Glancing Colours becomes a study of the development and character of Tennyson’s liberal artistic imagination.Though closely aligned with Coleridge’s idea of ‘multeity in unity,’ Tennyson’s sense of poetry as shot-silk is different, MacKay suggests, chiefly by its resistance to and subversion of a faith in

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