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Cambridge University Press Poetry as an Occupation and an Art in Britain 17601830 Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Series Number 3
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Cambridge University Press Literary Transmission and Authority Dryden and Other Writers 17 Cambridge Studies in EighteenthCentury English Literature and Thought Series Number 17
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Cambridge University Press Robert Frost and a Poetics of Appetite
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Cambridge University Press Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Reinvention of Love Poetry Politics and Culture from Sidney to Milton
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Cambridge University Press Myth and Poetry in Lucretius
Book SynopsisThis book attempts to provide a more positive assessment of Lucretius' aims and methodology by considering the poet's attitude to myth, and the role which it plays in the De Rerum Natura, against the background of earlier and contemporary views.Trade Review"What makes her [Gale] discussion exciting, at least for this reader, is the sense that this complex of ideas remains vital after two millennia; it is far more robust and viable than notions of aestheticism, art for art's sake, or the autonomous text." Classical Views"Gale offers a rigorous reading and well-worked out theory of the use of the divine images in a work that is repudiating divinity. Her exploration and meticulous examination of the structural elements of his poem offers a theory of meaning much more sophisticated than usually attributed to the poet and that shows how Lucretius anticipated much of modern science and philosophy." The Reader's Review"Gale readily acknowledges the debts of this many-sided study to previous scholarship, but her lively, useful, and illuminating book has more than repaid its debt by establishing a coherent relationship between Lucretian epistemology and poetics, which does not simply extenuate but vindicates the honey on the cup." Phoenix"This is an important book on a topic of continuing discussion. It offers some creative ways of treating Lucretius' combination of myth and poetry as what he surely meant it to be: a realization of the true meaning of his Master's thought." Bryn Mawr Classical Review"This is, quite simply, a superb book, the merits of which I haven't the space to expound properly, nor is it possible to engage the author in the many particulars which one should very much like to argue. Gale has provided a deep and intelligent study of what must be conceded to be matters of crucial concern in understanding Lucretius....she is thorough, judicious and fair to those scholars with whom she takes issue....she writes pleasingly well: it is a genuine pleasure to see literature and philosophy discussed with such clarity. This book very much belongs on the same shelf as Diskin Clay's Lucretius and Epicurus and Philip Hardie's Cosmos and Imperium." W. Jeffery Tatum, Classical WorldTable of ContentsPreface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The philosophical background: Greek myth and mythology; 2. The cultural background: myth and belief in late Republican Rome; 3. The literary background: the De Rerum Natura as epic; 4. Lucretius' theory of myth; 5. Latent myth in the De Rerum Natura; 6. The proem and the plague; Conclusion: myth as a poetic and philosophical tool; Bibliography; General Index; Index of passages cited.
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Cambridge University Press Banished Voices
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Cambridge University Press A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey
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Cambridge University Press A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey
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Cambridge University Press Wordsworth and the Geologists 16 Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Series Number 16
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Cambridge University Press Wordsworths Reading 18001815
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Cambridge University Press Reading John Keats
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Cambridge University Press Apollo Augustus and the Poets
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Cambridge University Press John Skelton and the Politics of the 1520s
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Cambridge University Press Poetry Realized in Nature
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Cambridge University Press Ovid Epistulae ex Ponto Book I Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Horace Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press Milton Paradise Lost
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to John Donne
Book SynopsisAn invaluable guide for both student and teacher, this collection of specially written essays offers the most up-to-date scholarship and introduces students to the current thinking and debates about John Donne - the pre-eminent 'metaphysical' poet, and one of the greatest lyric poets of all time.Trade Review'… important … the first comprehensive guide to Donne's work …' The Times Literary Supplement' … important…. the first comprehensive guide to Donne's works …' Contemporary Review'… libraries serving the humanities should have this book on their shelves as it is sure to be consulted by students and teachers - and general readers - who are eager to find out more about one of the most rewarding of our poets.' Reference Reviews'The volume is refreshing in its inclusion of a sociolinguistic exploration of the works, as well as an electrifying final piece by A. S. Byatt … This companion more than deserves to be on our libraries' shelves, enjoying pride of place next to its older siblings on Jonson, Marlowe, Shakespeare and Spenser'. English StudiesTable of ContentsChronology; 1. Donne's life: a sketch Jonathan F. S. Post; 2. The text of Donne's writings Ted-Larry Pebworth; 3. The social context and nature of Donne's writing: occasional verse and letters Arthur F. Marotti; 4. Literary contexts: predecessors and contemporaries Andrew Hadfield; 5. Donne's religious world Alison Shell and Arnold Hunt; 6. Donne's political world Tom Cain; 7. Reading and rereading Donne's poetry Judith Herz; 8. Satirical writing: Donne in shadows Annabel Patterson; 9. Erotic poetry Achsah Guibbory; 10. Devotional writing Helen Wilcox; 11. Donne as preacher Peter McCullough; 12. Donne's language: the conditions of communication Lynne Magnusson; 13. Gender matters: the women in Donne's poems Ilona Bell; 14. Facing death Ramie Targoff; 15. Donne's afterlife Dayton Haskin; 16. Feeling thought: Donne and the embodied mind A. S. Byatt; 17. Select bibliography L. E. Semler.
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Cambridge University Press Lucretius and the Transformation of Greek Wisdom
Book SynopsisThis book studies the structure and origins of De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), the great first-century BC poem by Lucretius.Trade Review'[this] may be recommended unreservedly as a major contribution to the understanding of Lucretius' poetics, [and] must become required reading for all students of Lucretius … [It is] one of the most stimulating works on Lucretius for many years.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review'This is a very rich book, a milestone in Lucretian scholarship and without any doubt a major point of reference for future Lucretian studies.' Phronesis'Lucretius and the Transformation of Greek Wisdom recommends itself for its overall wealth of detail, as well as for its engaging reconstruction of the relationship between the poems of Lucretius and that of Empedocles … ' The Times Literary Supplement'… fascinating … S gives us a lot of excellent insights into many aspects of the poem … will continue to provoke healthy critical debate and is already required reading in university courses on Lucretius. It is not afraid to raise big questions about Lucretius … scrupulous accuracy and apparently effortless readability … his opinions, and the light his arguments shed on the detail of the poem and its background, cannot be ignored by any serious student - or teacher- of this poem.' The Journal of Classics TeachingTable of Contents1. The Empedoclean opening; 2. Two languages, two worlds; 3. Lucretius the fundamentalist; 4. Epicurus, On Nature; 5. Lucretius' plan and its execution; 6. The imprint of Theophrastus; 7. The transformation of Book I; Epilogue.
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Cambridge University Press Mania and Literary Style
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Cambridge University Press Milton Unbound
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Cambridge University Press Derek Walcott 10 Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature Series Number 10
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Cambridge University Press H. D. and the Victorian Fin de Siecle
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Cambridge University Press Theocritus and the Archaeology of Greek Poetry
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Cambridge University Press Historiography and Ideology in Stuart Drama
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy
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Cambridge University Press Partisans and Poets
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy
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Cambridge University Press Lucretius and the Transformation of Greek Wisdom
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Cambridge University Press Lyric and Labour in the Romantic Tradition 30 Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Series Number 30
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Cambridge University Press Horace and the Rhetoric of Authority
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Cambridge University Press Alliteration and Sound Change in Early English 101 Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Series Number 101
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Cambridge University Press Chicano Poetics Heterotexts and Hybridities 109 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 109
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Cambridge University Press The Troubadours
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Cambridge University Press The Troubadours
Book SynopsisThis book offers a general introduction to the dazzling world of the troubadours. Its sixteen newly-commissioned essays discuss the development of troubadour song, the main trends in troubadour scholarship, and the reception of troubadour poetry. Appendices offer an invaluable guide to troubadours, technical vocabulary, research tools and surviving manuscripts.Trade Review"All readers of troubadour poetry can profit from this well-devised, stimulating book." SpeculumTable of ContentsPreface: How to use this book; Introduction Simon Gaunt and Sarah Kay; 1. Courtly culture in medieval Occitania Ruth Harvey; 2. Fin' amor and the development of the courtly canso Linda Paterson; 3. Moral and satirical poetry Catherine Léglu; 4. Early troubadours: Guilhem IX to Bernart de Ventadorn Stephen G. Nichols; 5. The classical period: Raimbaut d'Aurenga to Arnaut Daniel Gérard Gouiran; 6. Later troubadours Michael Routledge; 7. The trobairitz Tilde Sankovitch; 8. Italian and Catalan troubadours Miriam Cabré; 9. Music and versification Margaret Switten; 10. Rhetoric and hermeneutics Sarah Spence; 11. Intertextuality and dialogism in the troubadours Maria Luisa Meneghetti; 12. The troubadours at play: irony, parody and burlesque Don Monson; 13. Desire and subjectivity Sarah Kay; 14. Orality and writing: the text of the troubadour poem Simon Gaunt; 15 The Chansonniers as books William Burgwinkle; 16. Troubadour lyric and Old French narrative Sylvia Huot; Appendices; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Chicano Poetics Heterotexts and Hybridities Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
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Cambridge University Press Allusion and Intertext Dynamics Of Appropriation In Roman Poetry Roman Literature and its Contexts
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Cambridge University Press Jonson Shakespeare and Early Modern Virgil
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Cambridge University Press Miltons Warring Angels
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Cambridge University Press Aratus
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Cambridge University Press An Introduction to West Indian Poetry
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Cambridge University Press Walt Whitmans Native Representations 80 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 80
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Cambridge University Press An Introduction to West Indian Poetry
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Cambridge University Press The Triumph of Augustan Poetics English Literary Culture from Butler to Johnson 36 Cambridge Studies in EighteenthCentury English Literature and Thought Series Number 36
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Cambridge University Press Beowulf and Old Germanic Metre 23 Cambridge Studies in AngloSaxon England Series Number 23
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Cambridge University Press Poetry and Music in SeventeenthCentury England
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Cambridge University Press The Classical Plot and the Invention of Western Narrative
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