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Cambridge University Press Reading Virgil
Book SynopsisThis edition of the first two books of Virgil's twelve-book masterpiece the Aeneid is designed to provide all the help that someone who has finished an introductory course in Latin will need to read Virgil accurately, intelligently and with maximum benefit and pleasure.Trade Review"The accuracy and the rigor of both the line-by-line commentary and the paraphrase/discussion, the validity of the interpretation, the rich understanding and the clear explanation of Virgil's art along with the helpfulness of grammatical and lexical tools make this volume indispensable for those students and readers who are longing to read the first two books of the Virgilian masterpiece in the original language, and for those teachers who are looking for an easy and possibly pleasant approach to introduce their students to the Aeneid." --BMCR"Not only is Jones's Reading Virgil a wonderful addition to the AP Virgil curriculum, but students as well as seasoned readers of Virgil and the epic tradition will truly appreciate all the effort and care that went into producing this exquisite volume. We can hope that Jones will soon follow up with Reading Virgil for Aeneid III-XII." ---New England Classical JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction; Glossary of literary terms; Notes for the reader; Help with the text; Grammar; Metre and verse in the Aeneid; Bibliography; Maps; Book I. Aeneas' mission: from storm to refuge: topics for extended essays on Book I; Book II. Aeneas' account of the destruction of Ilium: topics for extended essays on Book II; Some views for general discussion; Appendix: other versions of the sack of Ilium; Total learning vocabulary.
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Cambridge University Press English Metrical Psalms
Book SynopsisDuring the sixteenth century the Book of Psalms was considered to be a uniquely authoritative and universally applicable collection of religious poems. Dr Zim's 1987 book was the first full-scale study of this important genre and he has produced a major contribution to our understanding of Tudor literary culture.Table of ContentsPreface; Conventions and abbreviations; 1. An introduction: imitatio and the psalms in sixteenth-century England; 2. 'Holy Davids divine Poeme': Sir Thomas Wyatt's imitation of David's penitential psalms and Sir Thomas Smith's 'other psalme'; 3. 'Particuler prayers of particular persons, in particular greefes eyther of body or soule': occasional verses by the Earl of Surrey and others (1535–1554) 4. 'Holy songes of veritie': Thomas Sternhold and psalms 'For the recreation of all such as delight in Musicke' and 'for the confortyng of suche … in the common prayers in the church'; 5. 'A heavenly poesie … of that Lyricall kind': Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke 'singing the praises … of that God, who giveth us hands to write, and wits to conceive': Part one - Sir Philip Sidney; 6. 'A heavenly poesie … of that Lyricall kind': Part two - The Countess of Pembroke; 7. Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Lucretius
Book SynopsisThe best available guide to appreciating the literary art of this book expounding the implications of Epicurus' dictum that death does not matter. Completely revised, with a considerably enlarged Commentary and a new supplementary introduction taking account of the great amount of new scholarship of the last forty years.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Supplementary introduction; Text; Commentary.
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Cambridge University Press Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society
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Cambridge University Press The Poetical Works of John Milton
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Cambridge University Press Studies in Islamic Poetry
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Cambridge University Press Troilus and Criseyde
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Cambridge University Press Johnsons Milton
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Christopher Marlowe Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press W. H. Auden in Context
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Ted Hughes Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and the Modern Poet
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Cambridge University Press Anthology of Modern French Poetry
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Cambridge University Press The Cansos and Sirventes of the Troubadour Giraut de Borneil
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Cambridge University Press The Daring Muse
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Cambridge University Press Horace on Poetry
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Cambridge University Press Horace on Poetry
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Cambridge University Press Horace on Poetry
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Cambridge University Press Byron
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Cambridge University Press German Poetry
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Cambridge University Press Coleridge and Wordsworth
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Cambridge University Press The Craft of Criticism
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of American Literature
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Cambridge University Press Poetry in a Divided World
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Cambridge University Press Readings in Medieval Poetry
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Cambridge University Press Baudelaire Collected Essays 19531988 30 Cambridge Studies in French Series Number 30
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Cambridge University Press A Question of Syllables Essays in NineteenthCentury French Verse 14 Cambridge Studies in French Series Number 14
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Cambridge University Press Editing Piers Plowman The Evolution of the Text 28 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 28
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Cambridge University Press Perception Passion Dantes S
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Cambridge University Press Warrior Women and Popular Balladry 16501850 4 Cambridge Studies in EighteenthCentury English Literature and Thought Series Number 4
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Cambridge University Press The Muses of Resistance LaboringClass Womens Poetry in Britain 17391796
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Cambridge University Press Robert Lowell Essays on the Poetry 29 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 29
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Cambridge University Press Blake Kierkegaard and the Spectre of Dialectic
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Cambridge University Press Johannes de Hauvilla
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Cambridge University Press Johannes de Hauvilla Architrenius Cambridge Medieval Classics 3 Cambridge Medieval Classics Series Number 3
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Cambridge University Press The Evolution of Arthurian Romance The Verse Tradition from Chrtien to Froissart 35
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Cambridge University Press Wordsworth Dialogics and the Practice of Criticism 2 Literature Culture Theory Series Number 2
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Cambridge University Press The Political Aesthetic of Yeats Eliot and Pound
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Cambridge University Press Wordsworths Reading 17701799
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Cambridge University Press Essays on Pope
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry Donne to Marvell
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Cambridge University Press Poetic Rhythm
Book SynopsisThe first introduction to rhythm and meter that begins where students are as speakers of English familiar with the rhythms of popular song Poetic Rhythm moves, with straightforward terminology and frequent practical exercises, from basic questions about the rhythms of spoken English to the elaborate achievements of past and present poets.Trade Review'At long, long last here is the text that may well revolutionise our perception and analysis of poetry and shift attention from image-play and patterning to the rightful primacy of speech rhythms and metricality … Derek Attridge propounds invaluable theoretical concepts as well as applied techniques … Bliss!' Richard Taylor, Modern Language Review' … an exceptional introduction to the rhythmic aspects of poetry which manages to be a the same time insightful and perfectly readable.' BuchbesprechungenTable of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgments; On using this book; 1. The rhythms of poetry: a first approach; 2. The rhythms of spoken English; 3. Dancing language; 4. Stress verse and strong-stress verse: counting the beats; 5. Syllable-stress verse: versatility and variation; 6. Major types of syllable-stress verse; 7. Free verse: metrical and rhythmic analysis; 8. Phrasal movement; Appendix 1. Scansion; Appendix 2. Glossary; Appendix 3. Sources of examples; Appendix 4. Suggested responses to the exercises.
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Cambridge University Press Redeeming the Text Latin Poetry and the Hermeneutics of Reception Roman Literature and its Contexts
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Cambridge University Press The Regenerate Lyric Theology and Innovation in American Poetry 64 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 64
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Cambridge University Press H D and Hellenism Classic Lines 111 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 111
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound
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Cambridge University Press The Revolution in the Visual Arts and the Poetry of William Carlos Williams 76 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 76
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