Literary studies: poetry and poets Books
The University of Chicago Press Poems and Selected Letters The Other Voice in
Book SynopsisVeronica Franco was a 16th-century Venetian beauty, poet, and protofeminist. This collection presents the eroticism and eloquence that set her apart from the chaste, silent woman prescribed by Renaissance gender ideology.
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The University of Chicago Press Domestic Georgic Labors of Preservation from
Book SynopsisInspired by Virgil’s Georgics, this study conceptualizes Renaissance poetry as a domestic labor.Trade Review"As Katie Kadue points out in Domestic Georgic: Labors of Preservation from Rabelais to Milton, a wonderful book on early modern writers and the kitchen arts, Eve’s independent forays into drying and preserving the fruits of Eden yield a counterintuitive understanding of perfection itself, not as a fixed state from which one must not swerve but as a dynamic process of trial, innocent error, and gradual improvement." -- Catherine Nicholson * New York Review of Books *"Kadue's analyses of Milton’s metaphors unveil a domestic analogy that has always coexisted with the grandeur of the imagined Miltonic library of vital books and discerning readers. This is one of the many local readings in Domestic Georgic that illuminate overlooked aspects of household work in familiar sixteenth- and seventeenth-century texts. Now that I see the link between the library and the kitchen storeroom in Milton’s tract, I cannot unsee it, and I experienced this delightful sensation many times while reading this book. Kadue’s style, casual but erudite, also makes this book an unusually engaging read." * Modern Language Quarterly *In an elegantly organized and beautifully written book of five chapters plus an introduction and conclusion, Kadue ranges confidently across time, terrain, and language, moving from Rabelais (in the mid-sixteenth century) to Milton in the mid- and late seventeenth century and concluding with a discussion of two poems by women, one eighteenth century and one twenty-first century. Balancing a sharp eye for detail against a robust overarching argument, she offers both new insights into familiar authors and works and a new rubric one might use to discuss other texts and authors as well. * Genre *"Katie Kadue’s book makes an important contribution, defining domestic georgic, and how selected authors from Rabelais to Milton labor to preserve a kind of poetic housekeeping or daily literary chores." * Renaissance and Reformation *“This is a book of luminous intelligence. At once impeccably erudite and highly readable, textually focused and imaginatively wide-ranging, it opens up new ways of understanding not only the early modern texts that are central to Kadue’s argument, but any form of writing where labor is distributed, symbolically or literally, across a gender divide.” * Terence Cave, St John’s College, University of Oxford *“Where earlier feminist scholars have shown that women’s domestic labor facilitated men’s literary work, here Kadue argues that the method of men’s literary work itself drew on women’s domestic labor. Kadue shows how practices of pickling, fermenting, and preserving make up a surprising pantry of skilled literary techniques. This is work that gives us a recipe to reread the Renaissance.” * Katherine Ibbett, Trinity College, University of Oxford *“Kadue teaches her reader to pay attention to metaphors of pickling, maceration, sweeping, tinkering, mending; to quiet the din of warfare and the choir of resurrection, and listen to the burble of cookery and of the hungry body, in their daily rivalry with time. . . . Domestic Georgic will teach scholars and students alike to read in a different register, and its pages are lucid, lively, and shrewd, at once sophisticated and unpretentious.” * Jeff Dolven, Princeton University *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Private Labors of Public Men 1: Rabelais in a Pickle: Fixing Flux in Le Quart Livre 2: Spenser’s Secret Recipes: Life Support in The Faerie Queene 3: Correcting Montaigne: Agitation and Care in the Essais 4: Marvell in the Meantime: Preserving Patriarchy in Upon Appleton House 5: Milton’s Storehouses: Tempering Futures in Areopagitica, Paradise Lost, and Paradise Regain’d Conclusion: A Woman’s Work Is Never Done Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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SPCK Publishing The Living Flame of Love
Book SynopsisA poem and commentary on the soul's response to God, which is a classic of Spanish literature.
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Little, Brown Book Group Housman Country Into the Heart of England
Book SynopsisWhy is it that for many people ''England'' has always meant an unspoilt rural landscape rather than the ever-changing urban world in which most English people live? What was the ''England'' for which people fought in two world wars? What is about the English that makes them constantly hanker for a vanished past, so that nostalgia has become a national characteristic?In March 1896 a small volume of sixty-three poems was published by the small British firm of Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd in an edition of 500 copies, priced at half-a-crown each. The author was not a professional poet, but a thirty-seven-year-old professor of Latin at University College, London called Alfred Edward Housman who had been obliged to pay 30 towards the cost of publication. Although slow to sell at first, A Shropshire Lad went on to become one of the most popular books of poetry ever published and has never been out of print. As well as being a publishing phenomenon, the book has hadTrade ReviewPeter Parker's book is replete with fabulous observation * The Times *In offering this rich blend of literary criticism and cultural history, Parker proves to be the perfect guide to what he calls 'Housman Country', measured and discreetly witty . . . his fine book reminds us why so many readers still have passages of A Shropshire Lad by heart * Spectator *It is as a biographer that Parker excels -- John Carey * Sunday Times *Peter Parker's new book is much more than a biography, and having lured us into Housman's life with a magpie's eye for detail, he then sets out on a tour of Housman Country - not a geographical area but a landscape of the mind in which "literature, landscape, music and emotion" all contribute * The Economist *Parker's intricate and beautiful exploration of Housman's influence on everything from English music to the way our identity is shaped by our relationship with the weather, the land, the distant horizon, speaks with peculiar poignancy to our times * Mail on Sunday *Housman Country offers three books for the price of one: a lucid biographical portrait; a study of Housman's lasting influence on our culture; and, as an appendix, the whole of A Shropshire Lad - a volume that has never been out of print in 120 years. The poet who emerges is complex: cheery, grumpy, generous, begrudging, gentle and robust . . . as Parker shows in his fine study, the borders of Housmanland areuncontrolled and stretch as far as Russia and China -- Blake Morrison * Guardian *A fascinating cultural history * Prospect *Parker - one of the few biographers, I suspect, who has actually shorn a lamb - penetrates to the Englishness at the heart of A. E. Housman. The book is appropriate for a year which may see the end, or rebirth, of the country -- Spectator * John Sutherland *Housman Country tells us many things about England, whose future has so often been taken to lie in its past, while also raising questions as to what England can tell us about Housman -- Paul Keegan * London Review of Books *This is really three books for the price of one: a partial biography of Housman; the biography of his most famous book; and the whole of A Shropshire Lad itself, reprinted for ease of reference while you enjoy Parker's patient, clear-sighted analysis of the poems * Sunday Times *Peter Parker's beautiful Housman Country tells you everything you want to know about the life and influence of England's most satirised but inimitable poets * Evening Standard *
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Journals of Sylvia Plath
Book SynopsisThe electrifying diaries that are essential reading for anyone moved and fascinated by the life and work of one of America''s most acclaimed poets. Sylvia Plath began keeping a diary as a young child. By the time she was at Smith College, when this book begins, she had settled into a nearly daily routine with her journal, which was also a sourcebook for her writing. Plath once called her journal her “Sargasso,” her repository of imagination, “a litany of dreams, directives, and imperatives,” and in fact these pages contain the germs of most of her work. Plath’s ambitions as a writer were urgent and ultimately all-consuming, requiring of her a heat, a fantastic chaos, even a violence that burned straight through her. The intensity of this struggle is rendered in her journal with an unsparing clarity, revealing both the frequent desperation of her situation and the bravery with which she faced down her demons.
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WW Norton & Co Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties
Book SynopsisAn anthology of Rilke's strongest poetry and prose for both aficionados and new readers.Trade Review"Wild stuff." Shaun Whiteside, The Guardian
£11.39
Taylor & Francis Ltd Algernon Swinburne
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Shelley Routledge Revivals The Man and the Poet
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The University of Michigan Press From the Valley of Bronze Camels
Book SynopsisJane Miller loves poetry. In these provocative and deeply insightful essays, she unpacks the work of giants like Adrienne Rich, Paul Celan, Marina Tsevetaeya, Osip Mandelstam, and Garcia Lorca alongside painters such as Caravaggio and Paul Klee, as well as ancient Chinese music and techniques of the contemporary poem.Table of Contents May I Ask A Question? I Love You, A Sob Story (w/ music) Youthful Amours Figs & Fiddlesticks & Politics Javelina Stink. What I Dare Not Say About Poetry Tie Up Your Dinghy And Help Me Fantasia On Paul Klee In Tunisia
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Faber & Faber Further Requirements Interviews Broadcasts
Book SynopsisPhilip Larkin''s Required Writing, a selection from his miscellaneous prose from 1953-82, was highly praised and enjoyed when it appeared in 1983. Further Requirements gathers together many other interviews, broadcasts, statements and reviews. Some of them date from the period after he had chosen the contents of Required Writing; others come from obscure publications, including some early pieces. This second edition of Further Requirements includes two more essays by Larkin: ''Operation Manuscript'' and his Introduction to Earth Memories by Llewelyn Powys.
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Faber & Faber Thom Gunn Poet to Poet
Book SynopsisThom Gunn (1929-2004) was educated at Cambridge University, and had his first collection of poems, Fighting Terms, published while still an undergraduate. He moved to northern California in 1954 and taught in American universities until his death. His last collection was Boss Cupid (2000).In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets of our literature.Trade Review"'Faber has a poetry list worth bragging about. What other publisher could conjure up a series like this?' The Times"
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Faber & Faber Alexander Pope Poems Selected by John Fuller Poet
Book SynopsisA series featuring a contemporary poet selecting and introducing a poet of the past. It, by choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions expressed in prefaces, offers insights into the poets' own work as well as providing an introduction to some of the greatest poets of literature.Trade Review"'Faber has a poetry list worth bragging about. What other publisher could conjure up a series like this?' The Times"
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Faber & Faber John DonnePoems
Book SynopsisJohn Donne (1572-1631) forfeited his Parliamentary seat and was briefly imprisoned when his secret marriage to Ann More was uncovered in 1601. He spent the subsequent decade in poverty, trying to rehabilitate his reputation. He entered the Church in 1615, and become Dean of St Paul''s. His first volume of poetry was published posthumously in 1633.In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets of our literature.Trade Review"'Faber has a poetry list worth bragging about. What other publisher could conjure up a series like this?' The Times"
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Faber & Faber Philip Larkin Letters to Monica
Book SynopsisPhilip Larkin met Monica Jones at University College Leicester in autumn 1946, when they were both twenty-four; he was the newly-appointed assistant librarian and she was an English lecturer. In 1950 Larkin moved to Belfast, and thence to Hull, while Monica remained in Leicester, becoming by turns his correspondent, lover and closest confidante, in a relationship which lasted over forty years until the poet''s death in 1985.This remarkable unpublished correspondence only came to light after Monica Jones''s death in 2001, and consists of nearly two thousand letters, postcards and telegrams, which chronicle - day by day, sometimes hour by hour - every aspect of Larkin''s life and the convolutions of their relationship.
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Faber & Faber The Collected Prose of T.S. Eliot Volume 3
Book SynopsisT. S. Eliot is regarded as the most important poetcritic of modern times, the twentieth century's Man of Letters' whose reputation was forged not only on the strength of his verse, but on the enduring influence of his critical writings. The Collected Prose presents those works that Eliot allowed to reach print in the order of their final revision or printing. Publishing across four volumes, the series aims to provide an authoritative and clean-text record of Eliot's approved texts and their revisions, beginning with his formative observations, written while he was at high school, and concluding in his final major opus, To Criticize the Critic, published in the months after his death.This third volume collects Eliot's prose from 19351950, when his works The Idea of a Christian Society (1939) and The Music of Poetry (1942) would engage the seminal grounds of his Four Quartets, while his Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (1948) would appear at the moment he
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Faber & Faber The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II
Book SynopsisTimes Literary Supplement Book of the YearPegasus Award for Poetry Criticism, Poetry Foundation, ChicagoRichard J. Finneran Award, Society for Textual ScholarshipBest Scholarly Edition Award, Modernist Studies AssociationThe Poems of T. S. Eliot is the authoritative edition of one of our greatest poets, scrupulously edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue. It provides, for the first time, a fully scrutinized text of Eliot''s poems, carefully restoring accidental omissions and removing textual errors that have crept in over the full century in which Eliot has been so frequently printed and reprinted. The edition also presents many poems from Eliot''s youth which were published only decades later, as well as others that saw only private circulation in his lifetime, of which dozens are collected for the first time. To accompany Eliot''s poems, Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue have provided a commentary that illuminates the creative activity that came to constitute each poem, calling upon drafts, correspondence and other original materials to provide a vivid account of the poet''s working processes, his reading, his influences and his revisions. The first volume respects Eliot''s decisions by opening with his Collected Poems 1909-1962 in the form in which he issued it, shortly before his death fifty years ago. There follow in this first volume the uncollected poems from his youth that he had chosen to publish, along with such other poems as could be considered suitable for publication. The second volume opens with the two books of poems of other kinds that he issued, Old Possum''s Book of Practical Catsand his translation of Perse''s Anabase, moving then to verses privately circulated as informal or improper or clubmanlike. Each of these sections is accompanied by its respective commentary, and then, pertaining to the entire edition, there is a comprehensive textual history recording variants both manuscript and published. The Poems of T. S. Eliot is a work of enlightening scholarship that will delight and inform all those who read Eliot for pleasure, as well as all those who read with pleasure and for study. Here are a new accuracy and an unparalleled insight into the marvels and landmarks from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Waste Land through to Four Quartets
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Faber & Faber A Vertical Art
Book Synopsis''[Armitage] blended his down-to-earth, often flippant demeanor with a brilliantly understated, original and captivating address, which never strayed into pretentiousness or self-importance'' Oxford Culture ReviewA Vertical Art gathers the expansive and spirited public lectures delivered by the Poet Laureate during his acclaimed four-year tenure as Oxford University Professor of Poetry. Querying the facile and obscure ends of the poetry spectrum, these are more than anything personal essays that enquire into the volatile and disputed definitions of poetry from the point of view of a dedicated reader, a practising writer and a lifelong champion of its power and potential.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Anglo Saxon Literature Handbook
Book SynopsisThe Anglo-Saxon Literature Handbook presents an accessible introduction to the surviving works of prose and poetry produced in Anglo-Saxon England, from AD 410-1066. Makes Anglo-Saxon literature accessible to modern readers Helps readers to overcome the linguistic, aesthetic and cultural barriers to understanding and appreciating Anglo-Saxon verse and prose Introduces readers to the language, politics, and religion of the Anglo-Saxon literary world Presents original readings of such works as Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, The Wanderer, The Seafarer, and The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Trade Review"(An) accessible, invaluable book. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-and upper-division undergraduates." (Choice, 1 January 2014)Table of ContentsPreface xi Acknowledgments xv Note on the Text xvii List of Abbreviations xix Part 1 Anglo-Saxon England: Backgrounds and Beginnings 1 Political History 3 Ecclesiastical History 11 Intellectual History 15 Linguistic History 20 Literary History 24 Traditions: Oral and Literate 27 A Note on Dating Anglo-Saxon Texts 30 Part 2 Anglo-Saxon Prose 33 The Writings of King Alfred the Great 35 Alfred’s Translation of Pope Gregory the Great’s Pastoral Care 36 Alfred’s Translation of Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy 42 Alfred’s Translation of St Augustine’s Soliloquies 47 Alfred’s Translations of the Prose Psalms of the Paris Psalter 51 Alfred’s Preface to Wærferth’s Translation of Pope Gregory’s Dialogues 54 The Vercelli Homilies 56 The Blickling Homilies 62 The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 67 The Old English Orosius 72 Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People 78 Apollonius of Tyre 87 The Old English Martyrology 92 The Life of St Guthlac 96 The Wonders of the East, The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle, and The Life of St Christopher 99 Bald’s Leechbook and Leechbook III 105 The Writings of Wulfstan, Archbishop of York 109 The Writings of Ælfric of Eynsham 116 Catholic Homilies 122 Lives of Saints 126 Colloquy on the Occupations 127 Ælfric as Author 130 Part 3 Anglo-Saxon Poetry 135 The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Tradition 137 Cædmon’s Hymn 147 Bede’s Death Song 152 The Junius Manuscript 154 Genesis 155 Genesis A 156 Genesis B 157 Exodus 162 Daniel 167 Christ and Satan 170 The Poems of the Vercelli Book 176 Andreas 177 Fates of the Apostles 185 Soul and Body I (and II) 188 Homiletic Fragment I 192 The Dream of the Rood 192 Elene 197 The Exeter Book 202 The Advent Lyrics (Christ I) 203 The Ascension (Christ II) 206 Christ in Judgement (Christ III) 209 Life of St Guthlac 212 Guthlac A 213 Guthlac B 215 Azarias 219 The Phoenix 221 Juliana 225 The Wanderer 229 The Gifts of Men 233 Precepts 234 The Seafarer 235 Vainglory 237 Widsið 240 The Fortunes of Men 242 Maxims (I) 244 The Order of the World 246 The Rhyming Poem 247 The Panther, The Whale, The Partridge (The Old English Physiologus) 249 Soul and Body II (and I) 252 Deor 253 Wulf and Eadwacer 255 The Exeter Book Riddles 257 The Wife’s Lament 260 Judgement Day I 262 Resignation (A and B) 265 The Descent into Hell 267 Almsgiving 268 Pharaoh 269 The Lord’s Prayer I 270 Homiletic Fragment II 270 The Husband’s Message 271 The Ruin 273 The Poems of Cotton Vitellius A.xv 276 Beowulf 277 Judith 294 Poems from Various Manuscripts 300 The Metres of Boethius 300 The Metrical Psalms of the Paris Psalter 305 Solomon and Saturn I and II 307 The Menologium 311 The Rune Poem 313 The Poems of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 315 The Battle of Brunanburh 317 The Battle of Maldon 319 The Fight at Finnsburh 323 Waldere 326 Durham 329 Part 4 Critical Approaches 333 The Alterity of Anglo-Saxon Literature 335 Source Studies 339 Manuscript Studies 342 Grammatical and Syntactic Studies 343 Theoretical Perspectives 345 Part 5 Themes 361 Anglo-Saxon Thematics 363 Heroism 365 The End of the World 368 The Transitory Nature of Life 370 Fate 372 Wisdom 374 Otherness 376 Oral-Traditional Themes 378 Bibliography 381 Index 401 Index of Manuscripts 411
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Harvard University Press The Sound of Modern Polish Poetry
Book SynopsisThe Sound of Modern Polish Poetry unearths recordings from Polish poets such as Czesław Miłosz, Wisława Szymborska, and Zbigniew Herbert. Analyzing their singular performance styles, Aleksandra Kremer argues that twentieth-century Polish artists developed new aesthetics of reading and novel concepts of the poetic self.Trade ReviewKremer shows…public poetry readings, especially in times of upheaval, were lofty, almost religious events…It is precisely through those authorial renditions, however, that we can glimpse the intricate relationships between the poet, the poem and the audience. Kremer investigates this rarely researched area using the recordings of several prominent Polish poets born in the first decades of the twentieth century. Her method is an odd but effective combination of machine-assisted, quantitative analysis of the poets’ pitch, stress and intonation with impressionistic digressions about their art, life and sociopolitical involvements…Kremer captures the moment when poetry ceases to be fixed on a page and enters time, with all its ephemerality and contingency. -- Jaroslaw Anders * Times Literary Supplement *Brilliant…The Sound of Modern Polish Poetry is an impressive work of scholarship…Given the dearth of scholarship on Polish literature in English, this is a wonderful addition to knowledge, and one that will delight any reader interested in Polish poetry, culture and history. -- E. M. Stańczyk * Slavonic and East European Review *An impeccably researched, well-argued, and original work of scholarship. It is also an erudite and highly readable history of twentieth-century Polish literature and the individuals who shaped it…The book’s unique approach will doubtless appeal to many readers and open new avenues of research on the intersection between literature, performance, and technology. -- Łukasz Wodzyński * Russian Review *Excellent…Her analyses of the selected recordings create surprising constellations and shed light on the development of Polish poetry, as well as on the historical and cultural changes that affected the writers’ self-awareness and the reception of their recordings. Kremer’s book can therefore serve as a manual on the cultural and intellectual history of postwar Poland. -- Łukasz Tischner * Slavic Review *An exemplary study of poets’ sound recordings, public and private, in postwar Poland. Aleksandra Kremer reads poetic performance styles through history, aesthetics, national culture, ideology, and translation, often using machine-assisted prosodic analysis. Her close listenings reveal the many ways in which poets’ voicings exceed their texts. -- Charles Bernstein, author of Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed WordErudite, lively, and brilliant, this book examines Polish culture through an original point of entry: poetry performance. Exploring the audio practices of canonical modern poets within the context of history, Kremer achieves a true breakthrough in literary and performance studies. -- Irena Grudzińska-Gross, author of Czesław Miłosz and Joseph Brodsky: Fellowship of PoetsListening closely to an audio archive of postwar Polish poets including Miłosz, Herbert, Różewicz, and Szymborska, Aleksandra Kremer shows how each one navigated the cultural and political pressure to embody the Polish people and country. These writers strove to recapture the singularity of everyday speech, wresting their voices from the state and the dramatic stage actors who often performed poetry. The paradox at the center of this rich account is how the strategic downsizing enabled by tape recording ultimately expanded Polish poets’ range of address. -- Lytle Shaw, author of Narrowcast: Poetry and Audio ResearchAleksandra Kremer makes a compelling case for modern Polish culture as a ‘laboratory of poetry performance’ in this original, masterfully researched study. It is a must-read not just for specialists, but for anyone interested in postwar Polish writing or indeed, in new ways of combining the humanities with technology while doing full justice to both. -- Clare Cavanagh, author of Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West
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Harvard University Press Fragmentary Republican Latin Volume VI
Book SynopsisLivius Andronicus, Naevius, and Caecilius were highly influential pioneers in the creation and development of Latin poetry, especially tragedy, comedy, historical drama, and epic, not only in the adaptation of Greek models but also in the inclusion of Roman allusions, subjects, and themes.
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Vintage Publishing Bishop E Prose
Book SynopsisAlthough Elizabeth Bishop is perhaps better known as a masterful poet, she was a dazzling and compelling prose writer too, as this centenary edition of her prose demonstrates. From her witty, unforgettable portraits of Marianne Moore and the Sitwells to her engaging childhood recollections of Canada and Massachusetts, her writing reflects a lifelong fascination with memory and travel, and her unique eye and ear for people and places.This new volume - edited by the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Lloyd Schwartz - includes virtually all her published shorter prose pieces and a number of prose works not published until after her death. Included here are her stories, crucial memoirs, literary and travel essays, book reviews, and - for the first time - the original draft of Brazil, the Life World Library volume she repudiated in its published version, as well as extensive selections from the correspondence between Bishop and the poet Anne Stevenson. Here is a rich and revealing selection, and the indispensible companion to the poems.Trade ReviewThe virtues of the prose are the virtues of the poems: observation, wit, decorum, a sinuous intelligence adn above all what Randall Jarrell called her 'moral attractiveness' -- Michael HoffmanUnhurried, methodical, human, she pronounces a true but merciful verdict on our precarious existence -- Craig Raine[Bishop] was also a fine writer of prose...So hats off to the publishers for gathering all her writings in two separate volumes...her cosmopolitan life is reflected in the breadth of her writings, all suffused with curiosity and quiet intelligence * Sunday Telegraph *Taken together [with the Poems: The Centenary Edition], these two volumes make a handsome tribute to a writer who is gradually, quietly being recognized...as one of America's greatest * London Review of Books *
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British Library Publishing Poems in Progress
Book SynopsisDiverse themes including love, inequality, and the natural world bring together some of the most culturally significant and emotionally affecting poems in the British Library’s collections and beyond. Practicing poets also reveal their own drafts, with new reflections on writing.
£24.00
Gill Pocket Book of WB Yeats
Book SynopsisWilliam Butler Yeats ranks among the greatest literary talents of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Though best-known as the author of poems as timeless and delicately crafted as The Lake Isle of Innisfree and for his unrequited love of Maud Gonne, he exerted a remarkable influence in many other aspects of Irish life: a brother to the artist Jack B. Yeats, he was also a leading light of the Irish Literary Revival, founder of the Abbey Theatre and two-term senator. This volume forms a compact introduction to his life and the events shaped his work.
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James Clarke & Co Ltd Salute the Everlasting Day
Book SynopsisIn Salute the Everlasting Day Chrysostom Koutloumousianos transcends time, location and culture to bring two great minds together. Preeminent hymnographer of the Greek-speaking East, Romanos the Melodist, and the most enthralling poet and preacher of early modern England, John Donne, meet in passionate dialogue. The poets'' similarities and divergences are explored, their poetic and theological brilliance is demonstrated in a comparative context, and unfolded is the connection between the eschatological Kingdom and the transfiguration of the human being in this present life.Using direct quotations from their literary corpus, as well as tailoring to the needs of a living dialogue, and elaborating on their teachings, Koutloumousianos presents the first comparative study of Romanos the Melodist and John Donne in all its sensitivity and beauty, capturing their shared vision for contemporary society.
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New Directions Publishing Corporation The Birthmark
Book SynopsisSusan Howe's classic groundbreaking exploration of early American literature.Trade Review"Monomania has its rewards—an incantatory power that shines through." -- Kirkus Reviews"Invaluable—a reconnaissance mission in language and history." -- John Palattella - The Boston Review"An astonishing work re-presenting the American past, its history, literature, texts, and critics. At once gnomic and lucid, grave and scintillating—passionate [with] fierce originality." -- Rachel Blau DuPlessis"The Birth-mark flashes out the figure of the Poet who stands behind Howe's poems—a figure who is, I have come to believe, at the heart of her achievement—and it gives a spirited lesson in how important essays are." -- Eric Murphy Selinger - Parnassus"Howe is among the most articulate and inventive writers we have, and cements her eminent position in a lineage of pedagogical poets of the United States. She instructs by intuitive connections between disparate strands. Her books continue to reveal possibilities in the most out-of-the-way texts. This library cormorant and her daring trespasses remain as shocking and singular as ever." -- Jonathan Creasy - The Los Angeles Review of Books"The fabled violence of American patrimony is here tracked and qualified by brilliantly perceptive readings. Susan Howe, herself 'a library-cormorant' in Coleridge's phrase, brings to her task the powers of a major poet and the adamant measure of the 'Other' she, as all women, have been forced to be. This remarkable book is vivid testimony of that voice we can no longer silence." -- Robert Creeley"We workday scholars must not be intimidated by this scholar-poet's fierce critical exactitudes. Howe's is a critical model for our schooling, a procedure and an ethos well worth study, opposition, imitation, revision. 'I am heading toward certain discoveries.' Not knowledge, or what Howe so brilliantly explores under the name 'Sovereignty,' but exploration." -- Jorome McGann
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University Press of Kentucky The Browning Critics
Book SynopsisThe poetry of Robert Browning has been the subject of extensive literary criticism since his death in 1889. Two well-known Browning scholars here present the best of Browning criticism, bringing together from many sources representative evaluations of the poet and his poetry.
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The University of Alabama Press American Poetry as Transactional Art Modern
Book SynopsisExplores a salient quality of much avant-garde American poetry that has so far lacked sustained treatment: namely, its role as a transactional art. Specifically Fredman describes this role as the ways it consistently engages in conversation, talk, correspondence, going beyond the scope of its own subjects and forms.Trade ReviewIn American Poetry as Transactional Art Stephen Fredman studies contemporary poetry as a dialogic art, composed in conversations and, often, contentions. He challenges the view of poem as an isolated monad, created in a single author’s imagination, and places it in its generative relationship to other arts, historical events, and internecine aesthetic debates. Although many of these essays have appeared elsewhere, they are now linked by Fredman’s biographical account of his transactional relationships with many of the poets under discussion. Informed by a subtle deployment of pragmatic theory in Dewey and James, this important book takes poetry off the page and into the world."—Michael Davidson, author of Invalid Modernism: Disability and the Missing Body of the Aesthetic"These the companions’—Stephen Fredman follows Ezra Pound in thinking of his key writers as intimate presences, real and imagined, and of their art as a vital source of creative alliances, conversations and exchanges. This is poetry as an outward looking, ‘transactional art’ that invites in its turn a companionable kind of reading that is as intellectually exciting as it is deeply felt."—Peter Nicholls, author of George Oppen and the Fate of Modernism"For more than thirty years Stephen Fredman has brought new concepts, contexts, and combinations of writers to the study of modern and contemporary American poetry, and this new book is likely to be his most compelling—and provocative. Fredman’s argument is that poems are not just formal or cultural artifacts but experiences of engagement—intellectual, historical, political, mystical—that carry readers into new regions of experience and new occasions of self-understanding. Indeed, poetry should be read more as performance art with immediate and unpredictable consequences than as linguistic constructions to be analyzed from an aesthetic distance. The same may also be said of Fredman’s book, which will take its readers into any number of unexpected places."—Gerald Bruns, author of Interruptions: The Fragmentary Aesthetic in Modern LiteratureTable of Contents List of Figures Preface Introduction Poetry & Spirit: Against Orthodoxy Chapter 1. Why Mysticism in Twentieth-Century American Poetry? Chapter 2. Jerome Rothenberg's Technicians of the Sacred: Transactions between the Indigenous and the Avant-Garde Chapter 3. Judaism as Loss and the Buddhist Element in Michael Heller's Eschaton Poetry & Its Time: Revising Literary History Chapter 4. 'And All Now Is War': George Oppen, Charles Olson, and Literary Generations Chapter 5. 'The Lordly and Isolate Satyrs': Charles Olson's Contemporaries Chapter 6. Laurie Anderson in the Reagan Era Poetry & the Arts: Multimedia Exchange Chapter 7. Robert Creeley, Marisol, and Presences as Transaction Network Chapter 8. The Language Art of David Antin's Talk Poems Chapter 9. Audio File Audiophile: Listening for Ambient Poetry Poetry & Prose: Intimate Opposition Chapter 10. Translation and Not-Understanding Chapter 11. Paul Auster's Solitude in the Room of the Book Chapter 12. Lyn Hejinian Becomes a Person on Paper Epilogue: Teaching American Poetry Notes Bibliography Index
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Canongate Books Three Scottish Poets
Book SynopsisMACCAIG * MORGAN * LOCHHEADThis book contains a selection of the finest work from three of Scotland''s best-known and best-loved poets: Norman MacCaig, Edwin Morgan and Liz Lochhead. They have fascinated and charmed thousands of readers and listeners across Europe and America with the energy, humour and compassion of their vision.MacCaig''s memorable celebrations of the physical world and the tragic-comic note of many of his short lyrics contrast strikingly with Morgan''s poems on the modern world and city life. Liz Lochhead writes with an alert and sensitive eye on personal relationships and women''s experience of them. The book provides an invaluable introduction to modern Scottish poetry and to the poets who are arguably its greatest practitioners.
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Persephone Books Ltd Julian Grenfell His Life and the Times of His
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Carcanet Press Ltd Collected Poems 18861944 Memento 2
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Chronos Publishing A Perfect Little Gift
Book SynopsisA selection of poetry and prose from 50 years of writing. A unique, observational view of life in a quirky and sometimes whimsical manner. Here Tony gives us a brief glimpse into his mind and the humour that shapes his life as he shares his deepest thoughts, loves and fears.Looking at life, death and love in his own special way, Tony has captured his own personal journey and those who have inspired him to write in this summary of half a century.
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Cambridge University Press Radical Tenderness
Book SynopsisRadical Tenderness argues for the importance of poetry in negotiating political and social catastrophes, through a focus on the unusual intimacies of committed writing. It reflects the perspectives provided by intimate poetries on the shared political emergencies of poverty, war, ecological catastrophe, racism, and illness.
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Cambridge University Press Greek Memories
Book SynopsisGreek Memories aims to identify and examine the central concepts underlying the theories and practices of memory in the Greek world, from the archaic period to Late Antiquity, across all the main literary genres, and to trace some fundamental changes in these theories and practices.Table of ContentsIntroduction Luca Castagnoli and Paola Ceccarelli; Part I. Archaic and Early Classical Configurations of Memory: 1. Women and memory: the Iliad and the Kosovo cycle Lilah Grace Canevaro; 2. Speaking in the wax tablets of memory Peter Agócs; Part II. Memory and Forgetting in the Classical Period: 3. Economies of memory in Greek tragedy Paola Ceccarelli; 4. Aristophanes and his Muses, or memory in a comic key Silvia Milanezi; 5. Memory, the orators and the public in fourth-century BC Athens Mirko Canevaro; 6. The place and nature of memory in Greek historiography Catherine Darbo-Peschanski; 7. Lyric oblivion: when Sappho taught Socrates how to forget Andrea Capra; 8. Socratic forgetfulness and Platonic irony Ynon Wygoda; 9. Memory and recollection in Plato's Philebus: use and definitions R. A. H. King; 10. Is memory of the past? Aristotle and the objects of memory Luca Castagnoli; Part III. Hellenistic Configurations of Memory: 11. Hellenistic Cultural Memory: Helen and Menelaus between heroic fiction, ritual practice and poetic praise of the royal power (Theocritus 18) Claude Calame; 12. Physics, memory, ethics: the Epicurean road to happiness Emidio Spinelli; Part IV. The Imperial Period: Continuity and Change: 13. Claudius Aelianus: memory, mnemonics, and literature in the age of Caracalla Steven D. Smith; 14. Plotinus on memory, recollection and discursive thought Riccardo Chiaradonna; 15. Plotinus: remembering and forgetting Stephen R. L. Clark; Part V. Envoi: 16. Greek philosophers on how to memorise – and learn Maria Michela Sassi.
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Cambridge University Press Songs of Ourselves Volume 2
Book SynopsisDiscover fully updated volumes of global poetry and short stories for use as set texts. Parts of Songs of Ourselves Volume 2 are set for study in Cambridge IGCSE, O Level and Cambridge International AS & A Level Literature in English syllabuses. Following on from the popular Songs of Ourselves 1, the anthology includes work from over 100 poets, combining famous names ? such as William Blake, Emily Dickinson and Les Murray ? with lesser-known voices. This helps students to create fresh and interesting contrasts as they explore themes that range from nature to war.
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Cambridge University Press Ennius Annals
Book SynopsisAdvances the study of Ennius' Annals, a foundational but now fragmentary work of Latin literature, by exploring the cross-fertilization of recent critical approaches to Latin poetry and historiography and by reflecting on the tools and methods conducive to future literary and historical research on the poem.Table of ContentsPart I. Innovation: 1. Hybrid Ennius: cultural and poetic multiplicity in the Annals Patrick Glauthier; 2. History, philosophy, and the annals Virginia Fabrizi; 3. The gods in Ennius Joseph Farrell; Part II. Authority: 4. Allegory and authority in Latin verse-historiography Thomas Biggs; 5. Reading Ennius' Annals and Cato's Origins at Rome Jackie Elliott; 6. Looking for auctoritas in Ennius' Annals Cynthia Damon; 7. Ennius' Annals as source and model for historical speech Lydia Spielberg; Part III. Influence: 8. Ennius and the fata librorum Sander M. Goldberg; 9. How Ennian was Latin epic between the Annals and Lucretius? Jason S. Nethercut; 10. Livy's Ennius Ayelet Haimson Lushkov; 11. Ennius' Annals and Tacitus' Annals A. J. Woodman; Part IV. Interpretation: 12. Ennius and Lucilius: good companion | bad companion Brian W. Breed; 13. Ennius' Annals as historical evidence in ancient and modern commentaries Jessica H. Clark; 14. Commenting on the Annals: Steuart, Skutsch, and Ennius Christina Shuttleworth Kraus.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Ovid
Book SynopsisThis volume features more than 30 newly commissioned essays by noted scholars writing on various aspects of Ovid's work, such as production, genre, and style.Trade Review“The result is something quite extraordinary, a coherent and engaging treatment of the full corpus of Ovid’s writing in just under 130 pages . . . V. has produced an eminently readable, highly engaging introduction to Ovid, one that speaks to exactly the audience she had envisaged, in a voice both accessible and smart.” (The Classical Review, 1 October 2012) “Aimed at the general reading public and at newcomers to Ovid, her book is also a delight for experienced Ovidian scholars, providing an engaging, attractive, and thoughtful overview of the poet and his works that shows why his oeuvre remains intellectually valuable as well as an enjoyable read. Fluent and accessible, the volume covers a great deal of ground with lightness of foot. Volk takes a thematic approach that cuts across individual works in productive ways, but the simple titles of the chapters – ‘Work’, ‘Life’, ‘Elegy’, ‘Myth’, ‘Art’, ‘Women’, ‘Rome’, ‘Reception’ – do not adequately convey a sense of the treasures that lie within their pages.” (Greece & Rome, 1 October 2012) Table of ContentsList of Figures viii Notes on Contributors ix Preface xiv List of Abbreviations xv Chronological Table xvii Part I Contexts 1 1. A Poet’s Life 3 Peter E. Knox 2. Poetry in Augustan Rome 8 Mario Citroni 3. Rhetoric and Ovid’s Poetry 26 Elaine Fantham 4. Ovid and Religion 45 Julia Dyson Hejduk Part II Texts 59 5. The Amores: Ovid Making Love 61 Joan Booth 6. The Heroides: Female Elegy? 78 Laurel Fulkerson 7. The Ars Amatoria 90 Roy K. Gibson 8. Remedia Amoris 104 Barbara Weiden Boyd 9. Fasti: The Poet, The Prince, and the Plebs 120 Geraldine Herbert-Brown 10. The Metamorphoses: A Poet’s Poem 140 E. J. Kenney 11. The Metamorphoses: Politics and Narrative 154 Gareth D. Williams 12. Tristia 170 Jo-Marie Claassen 13. Ibis 184 Martin Helzle 14. Epistulae ex Ponto 194 Luigi Galasso 15. Lost and Spurious Works 207 Peter E. Knox Part III Intertexts 217 16. Ovid and Hellenistic Poetry 219 Jane L. Lightfoot 17. Ovid and Callimachus: Rewriting the Master 236 Benjamin Acosta-Hughes 18. Ovid’s Catullus and the Neoteric Moment in Roman Poetry 252 David Wray 19. Propertius and Ovid 265 S. J. Heyworth 20. Tibullus and Ovid 279 Robert Maltby 21. Ovid’s Reception of Virgil 294 Richard F. Thomas Part IV Critical and Scholarly Approaches 309 22. Editing Ovid: Immortal Works and Material Texts 311 Mark Possanza 23. Commenting on Ovid 327 Peter E. Knox 24. Ovidian Intertextuality 341 Sergio Casali 25. Sexuality and Gender 355 Alison Keith 26. Ovid’s Generic Transformations 370 Joseph Farrell 27. Theorizing Ovid 381 Efrossini Spentzou Part V Literary Receptions 395 28. Ovidian Strategies in Early Imperial Literature 397 Charles McNelis 29. The Medieval Ovid 411 John M. Fyler 30. Ovid in Renaissance English Literature 423 Heather James 31. Ovid and Shakespeare 442 Gordon Braden 32. Ovid in the Twentieth Century 455 Theodore Ziolkowski 33. Translating Ovid 469 Christopher Martin Bibliography 485 Index 516
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Palgrave Macmillan Violence Trauma and Virtus in Shakespeares Roman
Book SynopsisEmploying psychoanalysis, trauma theory, and materialist perspectives, this book examines Shakespeare's appropriations of Ovid's poetry in his Roman poems and plays. It argues that Shakespeare uses Ovid to explore violence, trauma, and virtus - the traumatic effects of aggression, sadomasochism, and the shifting notions of selfhood and masculinity.Trade Review“Starks-Estes book is very accessible for both undergraduate and graduate-level teaching; her writing style is lively and engaging and her argument on Shakespeare’s use of Ovid as a means for representing trauma is nuanced, yet straightforward. … Violence, Trauma, and Virtus in Shakespeare’s Roman Poems and Plays: Transforming Ovid offers the first study of Shakespeare that focuses exclusively on trauma theory and therefore provides an important contribution to early modern scholarship.” (Nicola M. Imbrascio, This Rough Magic, thisroughmagic.org, December, 2015)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction PART I: LOVE'S WOUND: VIOLENCE, TRAUMA, AND OVIDIAN TRANSFORMATION IN SHAKESPEARE'S ROMAN POEMS AND PLAYS 1. The Origin of Love: Ovidian Lovesickness and Trauma in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis 2. Shakespeare's Perverse Astraea, Martyr'd Philomel, and Lamenting Hecuba: Ovid, Sadomasochism, and Trauma in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus 3. Dido and Aeneas 'Metamorphis'd': Ovid, Marlowe, and the Masochistic Scenario in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra PART II: TRANSFORMING BODIES: TRAUMA, VIRTUS, AND THE LIMITS OF NEO-STOICISM IN SHAKESPEARE'S ROMAN POEMS AND PLAYS 4. 'A wretched image bound': Neo-Stoicism, Trauma, and the Dangers of the Bounded Self in Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece 5. Bleeding Martyrs: The Body of the Tyrant/Saint, the Limits of 'Constancy,' and the Extremity of the Passions in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar 6. 'One whole wound': Virtus, Vulnerability, and the Emblazoned Male Body in Shakespeare's Coriolanus Coda: Philomela's Song: Transformations of Ovid, Trauma, and Masochism in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Cymbeline Bibliography Index?
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Palgrave Macmillan Narratives of the Islamic Conquest from Medieval
Book SynopsisExploring medieval literary representations of the Islamic conquest of Spain in 711, Hazbun discusses chronicles, epic and clerical poetry, and early historical novels. While material on the conquest of Spain is substantial, it is understudied and this book works to fill that gap.Trade ReviewSelected by Choice magazine as an "Outstanding Academic Title" for 2016“Hazbun’s writing style is fluid and eloquent, her observations engaging and persuasive, not only broaching the literary and historical significance of the texts in question but also exploring some of the key theoretical principles that underpin questions of cultural identity, power, and legacy alongside their expression in medieval narrative.” (Şizen Yiacoup, Modern Language Review, Vol. 113 (04), October, 2018)“The study is likewise about the underlying sources, perceptions, rhetoric, and, one might add, philosophy of history. … This is a fascinating and remarkably nuanced analysis. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” (E. H. Friedman, Choice, Vol. 53 (9), May, 2016)Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Dominion and Dynasty in the Estoria de Espana 2. Founding Fictions, Creating Castile: Islam in the Cronica de veinte reyes 3. The Cleric and the Frontier in the mester de clerecia 4. Crossing and Double Crossing: Islamic Conquerors in the Cronica sarracina Conclusion: The Meaning of Conquest Works Cited
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Browning Studies Routledge Revivals Being Select Papers by Members of the Browning Society
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) A Comprehensive Guide to Shakespeares Sonnets
Book SynopsisRoland Weidle is Professor of English Literature at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. He was Vice-President of the Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft from 2011 to 2023. His publications include two monographs on Shakespeare and the textbook Early Modern English Literature: An Introduction (2013) (German).
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Pearson Education Limited York Notes Companions Modernist Literature
Book SynopsisThe period 1890 to 1950 is remarkable for radical innovation and literary development. This volume looks back to the origins of Modernism and the traditions that shaped it, examining texts from France, America, England and Ireland to provide a stimulating and original take on this unique movement in literary history. Combining textual analysis with key critical approaches, the book considers central texts such as Eliot's The Waste Land, Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Lawrence's Women in Love alongside wider debates on Literature and War, Modernism, Music and the Visual Arts and Modernism and its Critics. Trade Review"Via a combination of critical approaches and textual analysis, Day explores a fertile period for literary development." - Reviewed in Times Higher EducationTable of ContentsPart One: Introduction Part Two: A Cultural Overview Part Three: Texts, Writers and Contexts Modernist poetry – French Origins, English Settings: Baudelaire, Mallarmé and the Georgians o Extended commentary: Imagism Modernist poetry – America, Ireland and England: Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Yeats and Eliot o Extended commentary: T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922) · The Modernist novel and tradition: Flaubert, Mann, Kafka and Joyce Extended commentary: Joyce, The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) · The Modernist novel II: Saki, Woolf and Lawrence Extended commentary: Lawrence, Women in Love (1920) The Modernist play I – Ibsen, Strindberg, Pirandello and Beckett Extended commentary: Beckett,Endgame (1957) The Modernist play II – Conrad, Brecht and Artaud o Extended commentary: Brecht, Baal (1923) Part Four: Critical theories and Debates Literature and War Modernist Print Culture Modernism, Music the Visual Arts Modernism and its Critics Part Five: Resources Timeline Further reading Index
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Pearson Education York Notes Companions Romantic Literature
Book SynopsisDr John Gilroy (BA Newcastle: MPhil Warwick: Cert.Ed. Leeds) lectures part-time in the English Department of Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. He is a lecturer for the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education and is a course director for its international and residential programmes. His most recent publications are contributions on Wordsworth, Coleridge and Keats for The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature (Steven R. Serafin & Valerie Grosvenor-Myer eds, Continuum, 2003), Gerard Manley Hopkins: Selected Poems, 2007 (www.Humanities-Ebooks.co.uk) and Philip Larkin: Selected Poems, 2009 (www.Humanities-Ebooks.co.uk). He is interested in all aspects of British Romanticism and is currently researching material on the significance of early aeronautics in the Romantic period.Trade Review"The writing is easy to read and comprehend yet manages to cram in sufficient detail... It covers topic areas very well in terms of different types of Romantic literature." - Kimberley Simpson, English Student, Warwick UniversityTable of ContentsPart One: Introduction Part Two: A Cultural Overview Part Three: Texts, Writers and Contexts Writing in Revolution: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine and William Wordsworth Extended commentary: Wordsworth, The Prelude (1850), Book IX, lines 436– 504 Revolution, Reaction and the Natural World: Wordsworth and Coleridge, John Clare and William Blake Extended commentary: Blake, ‘The Tyger’ from Songs of Experience (1793) Dramatic writing: Horace Walpole, Robert Southey and Lord Byron Extended commentary: Walpole, The Mysterious Mother (1768), V.i.312–420 Romantic Verse Narratives: John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge Extended commentary: ‘The Rime of the Ancyent Mariner’ (1817), lines 1–40 and 610–17 Romantic Fiction: James Hogg, Thomas Love Peacock and Jane Austen Extended commentary: Austen, Persuasion (1816), Chapter 23 Romantic Travel Writing: William Beckford, Lord Byron and Mary Wollstonecraft Extended commentary: Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796), Letters 16 and 17 Part Four: Critical Theories and Debates Imagination, Truth and Reason Faith, Myth and Doubt Heroes and Ant-Heroes Forms of Ruin Part Five: References and resources Timeline Further reading Index
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Pan Macmillan Smith
Book SynopsisMichael Donaghy was born to Irish parents, and grew up amongst the Irish community in the Bronx, New York. He studied at Fordham, and began a PhD at the University of Chicago. Becoming dismayed with academia (of his experiences at the time, he wrote 'gradually I became aware that professing English because I loved poems was like practising vivisection because I loved dogs'), he dropped out of the PhD program to pursue a career in writing and in traditional Irish music. In Chicago he met his future partner, Maddy Paxman, and joined her in London in the mid-1980s. Here he spent the rest of his life, writing, teaching and playing music. In September 2004, Donaghy died of a brain haemorrhage. He was fifty years old. At the time of his death he had long been in the front rank of British poets, a hugely popular performer (who would always recite entirely form memory), and an influential teacher. Donaghy published only three volumes of poetry in his lifetime: Shibboleth (1988), Erra
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John Murray Press Poems from the Edge of Extinction
Book SynopsisGold Medal Winner for Poetry and Special Honours Award for Best of Anthology at the 2020 Nautilus Book Awards. One language is falling silent every two weeks. Half of the 7,000 languages spoken in the world today will be lost by the end of this century. With the loss of these languages, we also lose the unique poetic traditions of their speakers and writers.Poems from the Edge of Extinction gathers together 50 poems in languages from around the world that have been identified as endangered; it is a celebration of our linguistic diversity and a reminder of our commonalities and the fundamental role verbal art plays in human life around the world. With poems by influential, award-winning poets such as US poet laureate Joy Harjo, Hawad, Valzhyna Mort, and Jackie Kay, this anthology offers a unique insight into both languages and poetry, taking the reader on an emotional, life-affirming journey into the culture of these beautiful languages.EaTrade ReviewThrilling - and moving too. The cumulative effect is a celebration of the brotherhood of peoples. Grandparents, home, grief, fear, pride, anger - all this and more is yet another reminder that 'this place', the world, is indeed 'beautiful' and it's only the passionate sharing of thoughts and feelings that can keep it that way. * Daily Mail *Share[s] folklore, songs and a richness of world views with a vivacity that heightens their collective call to protect the planet's linguistic, and cultural, ecosystem * Financial Times *
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Edinburgh University Press Seamus Heaney
Book SynopsisThis study will enable readers to gain clearer understanding of the life and major works of Seamus Heaney. It considers literary influences on Heaney, ranging from English poets such as Wordsworth, Hughes, and Auden to Irish poets such as Kavanagh and Yeats to world poets such as Virgil and Dante.
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Edinburgh University Press From Rumi to the Whirling Dervishes
Book SynopsisWalter Feldman traces the historical development of Mevlevi music and the spiritual legacy of Rumi. He brings to light the remarkable musical and mystical aesthetics of the Mevlevi ayin the instrumental and vocal accompaniment to the sublime ceremony of the 'Whirling' Dervishes.
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Edinburgh University Press Poetry in the Mind
Book SynopsisPoetry in the Mind is the first book-length cognitive analysis focused entirely on 21st century poetic texts and their conceptual effects. Addressing central poetic notions or features of poetic style from an innovative cognitive perspective, the book sheds new light on established ideas about poetic creativity and language.
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Orion Publishing Co Dylan Thomas The Collected Letters Volume 1
Book SynopsisThe first volume of the definitive collection of Dylan Thomas's letters.Trade ReviewDylan Thomas's life and letters read like a cry of despair, interspersed with rare moments of happiness in Wales . . . A moving book. The pain is too real, the tragedy too pitiful to leave any reader untouched - Sunday TimesHis letters are as funny, and nearly as witty, as Oscar Wilde's, and sometimes almost as wise as Keats's - Sunday Telegraph
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