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Oxford University Press Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse Oxford Books of
Book SynopsisThe Caribbean has produced one of the most vigorous and exciting bodies of poetry in the twentieth century, and this anthology covers all its major languages. Featuring a range of poets from Derek Walcott to Jesus Cos Causse, and Olive Senior to Una Marson, this is a rich and satisfying book.Trade ReviewReview from previous edition 'a wonderful beginner's guide to the amazing riches of caribbean poetry. The editors provide an excellent, comprehensive introduction.' * Bernadine Evaristo, The Guardian *
£11.39
University of Chicago Press Radical Artifice Writing Poetry in the Age of
Book SynopsisHow the negotiation between poetic and media discourses takes place is the subject of Marjorie Perloff's groundbreaking study. Radical Artifice considers what happens when the natural speech model inherited from the great Modernist poets comes up against the natural speech of the Donahue talk show, or again, how visual poetics and verse forms are responding to the languages of billboards and sound bytes. Among the many poets whose works are discussed are John Ashbery, George Oppen, Susan Howe, Clark Coolidge, Lyn Hejinian, Leslie Scalapino, Charles Bernstein, Johanna Drucker, and Steve McCaffery. But the strongest presence in Perloff's book is John Cage, a poet better known as a composer, a philosopher, a printmaker, and one who understood, almost half a century ago, that from now on no word, musical note, painted surface, or theoretical statement could ever again escape contamination from the media landscape in which we live. It is under his sign that Radical Artifice was composed.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments 1: Avant-Garde or Endgame? 2: The Changing Face of Common Intercourse: Talk Poetry, Talk Show, and the Scene of Writing 3: Against Transparency: From the Radiant Cluster to the Word as Such 4: Signs Are Taken for Wonders: The Billboard Field as Poetic Space 5: The Return of the (Numerical) Repressed: From Free Verse to Procedural Play 6: How It Means: Making Poetic Sense in Media Society 7: cage: chance: change Notes Index
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Infrathin An Experiment in Micropoetics
Book SynopsisEsteemed literary critic Marjorie Perloff reconsiders the nature of the poetic, examining its visual, grammatical, and sound components.Trade Review“What is the difference between attending a botany seminar and immersing oneself in the forest in the company of a guide who passionately knows their flora and fauna? This is what one discovers by reading Perloff's Infrathin, an irresistible tour through the work of some of the main artisans of modernist and contemporary poetry, under the prism of an unusual mentor: Marcel Duchamp. A gift for lovers of the genre and a must-read for poets.” * André Vallias, poet and graphic designer *“INFRA, not intra, and THIN, a split second so sliced, its instant infinity so spilt. Infrathink with Duchamp and Co. to step into a whole new world of differential repetitions and serial departures across the world of modern(ist) art, especially poetry. Whether you just ‘think different’ or have already ‘done différance,’ as you continue to make your way through the alreadymadeness of modern times so remade, you, too, with Marjorie Perloff, our go-to code-breaker here, will get this: how and why reading between the cracks, not just lines, matters.” * Kyoo Lee, author of 'Reading Descartes Otherwise' *“This age of polarization needs those who build bridges—not necessarily to create unity or understanding, but to allow life-giving movement between thought and creativity. The impact of Perloff's impressive lifelong project becomes even clearer with this book: her refusal to let academic propriety constrain her and her determination to give her great intelligence free play and to follow her deepest enthusiasms. As a result, we have a book that will illuminate and give pleasure to both scholar and poet, wherever they might come from.” * Amit Chaudhuri, novelist, essayist, and musician *"If at times this book feels like the seven conference papers or essays they previously were, reworked into chapters, and if at times Perloff makes some rather personal, associative and conjectural leaps when undertaking her poetic deconstructions, it can be forgiven in the light of surprise, intelligence and originality. I haven’t enjoyed a serious and challenging critical book like this for a long time." * Tears in the Fence *"In Infrathin, the superb new book by one of America’s most engaging, irreverent, and original literary critics, Perloff returns to some of the main questions that have preoccupied her during her more than five decades of writing on 20th- and 21st-century poetry and poetics. . . . Perloff’s book is an exercise in attention to difference, to the smallest, subliminal variations that give a particular poetic passage its texture." -- Tal Goldfajn * Los Angeles Review of Books *"In Perloff's hands, reading for the infrathin means 'paying the closest possible attention to the bedrock of poetry. . . its language and rhythm' and turning a careful eye to the visual layout of words and images on pages. Infrathin is thus a romp through some very close readings of (or listenings to) a select few poems by authors familiar in Perloff's extensive oeuvre, including Stein, Pound, Eliot, Yeats, Stevens, Beckett, Ashbery, Charles Bernstein, and Rae Armentrout." * Choice *"Marjorie Perloff continues to write theoretical and critical books that are both perceptive and highly readable." * Tears in the Fence: An Independent, International Literary Magazine *"In Infrathin, Perloff shows how the Brazilian concrete poets kept faith with Pound’s sense of spatial syntax in ways which Olson, with his looser free-verse compositional method, did not. Her readings of Olson here are compelling. " * Fortnightly Review *"Perloff makes us see what was always literally before our eyes. She does so with an evident passion informed by a long saturation in the poets she analyzes... This book reminds us how rewarding that perennial practice [of close reading] can be." * Critical Inquiry *"Infrathin is Perloff at her most delightful and insightful, with startling, fresh, indeed original, readings of some of her longtime interests — Yeats, Eliot, Pound, Stein, Duchamp (who invented the term infrathin), Stevens, Beckett, Howe, Ashbery, Armantrout." * Common Knowledge *Table of ContentsList of Figures Preface A Note on Scansion and Notation Introduction: Toward an Infrathin Reading/Writing Practice 1 “A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rrose Sélavy”: Stein, Duchamp, and the “Illegible” Portrait 2 Eliot’s Auditory Imagination: A Rehearsal for Concrete Poetry 3 Reading the Verses Backward: The Invention of Pound’s Canto Page 4 Word Frequencies and Zero Zones: Wallace Stevens’s Rock, Susan Howe’s Quarry 5 “A Wave of Detours”: From John Ashbery to Charles Bernstein and Rae Armantrout 6 The Trembling of the Veil: Poeticity in Beckett’s “Text-Soundings” 7 From Beckett to Yeats: The Paragrammatic Potential of “Traditional” Verse Acknowledgments Notes Index
£22.80
The University of Chicago Press The Argument of the Action Essays on Greek
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. The First Crisis in First Philosophy2. Achilles and the Iliad3. The Aristeia of Diomedes and the Plot of the Iliad4. The Furies of Aeschylus5. Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus6. Euripides' Hippolytus7. On Greek Tragedy8. Physics and Tragedy: On Plato's Cratylus9. On Plato's Symposium10. Protagoras's Myth and Logos11. On Plato's Lysis12. On Interpreting Plato's Charmides13. Plato's Laches: A Question of Definition14. On Plato's Phaedo15. Plato's Theaetetus: On the Way of the Logos16. On Plato's Sophist17. The Plan of Plato's Statesman18. On the Timaeus19. On Wisdom and Philosophy: The First Two Chapters of Aristotle's Metaphysics A20. Strauss on PlatoSelected Works by Seth BenardeteIndex
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The University of Chicago Press Lyric Powers
Book SynopsisThe authority of poetry varies from one period to another, from one culture to another. To explain why a reader might prefer one kind of poem to another, this book analyzes - beyond the political and intellectual significance of poems - the musicality of both lyric poetry and popular song, including that of Tin Pan Alley and doo-wop.Trade Review"Robert von Hallberg is a careful, deep, and often counterintuitive thinker about poetry in general and about particular strands of modern poetry: his originality makes him impossible to place (or write off) as a partisan of a given school, and his consistent attention to the words on the page means there's scarcely a reading in Lyric Powers that doesn't say something valuable. He's a pleasure to read." - Stephen Burt, Harvard University"
£31.35
Columbia University Press An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds
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Yale University Press Into the Worlds Great Heart
Book SynopsisAn annotated selection of the letters of the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay, from childhood through the last year of her lifeTrade Review“Into the World’s Great Heart is a fascinating, meticulously documented, behind-the-scenes look at a writer’s informal use of words in letters as Millay describes her passions, obsessions, and wide-ranging intellectual interests.”—Laurie Lisle, author of Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O’Keeffe“No one writes like Millay. Her letters bring her unique wit and intelligence vividly to life. This invaluable new edition will make you fall in love with Millay all over again.”—Melissa Girard, Loyola University Maryland“The ‘tendrils of faith’ which Millay described as the natural force driving her poetry became live wires connecting her to a wide audience of admirers. In this new, masterfully edited collection, her letters have the same gripping effect on her readers.”—Thomas E. Hill, Vassar College“What a joy to enter into the ‘great heart’ of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s correspondence! Editor Timothy F. Jackson skillfully highlights the versatile voice of this famous poet and iconic modern woman.”—Catherine Keyser, author of Playing Smart: New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture“Edna St. Vincent Millay possessed so much life and daring and wit that she leaps from the page in these letters. What a pleasure to share her company.”—Kate Bolick, author of Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own
£28.50
Yale University Press Selected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Book SynopsisThis beautifully produced first annotated edition of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s oeuvre re-presents the work of the Jazz Age’s most famous poetTrade Review“Particularly useful to student readers, but also to advanced scholars.”—James Gifford and Margaret Konkol, The Year’s Work in English Studies“Yale University Press’s edition of the Selected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay, superbly edited by Timothy Jackson, and with a brilliant introduction by Millay scholar Holly Peppe, constitutes a significant addition both to our understanding of Twentieth-Century American Poetry as well as to a fuller, more complex and balanced portrait of who the extraordinary poet Edna St. Vincent Millay was and—more importantly—is to readers searching for a more accurate picture of what made Modern Poetry modern. If she has been too often overlooked in the last half century and more, this edition will undoubtedly help restore Millay’s brilliant, witty, and tragic feminine voice to her rightful place among the company of Hart Crane, Frost, Williams, Pound, Eliot and Stevens.”—Paul Mariani, Boston College“Edna St. Vincent Millay is like Robert Frost or Philip Larkin in that her poems would survive even if every professor and professional critic ignored them (as, at times, they have). Her poems are both ancient and modern, comprised of equal parts pain and elation, ravishing music and stark reality. She can break your heart, or, perhaps more importantly, remind you of the person who once had a heart that could be broken.”—Christian Wiman, author of My Bright Abyss“Many of the poets and academics who once dismissed Edna St. Vincent Millay as minor, and stylistically old fashioned are themselves now unread, forgotten. Millay’s poem are still powerfully alive. As this first rate edition shows.”—Greg Delanty, author of Book Seventeen“Assumptions about Millay’s work are too often based on her early poems or the romantic lyrics. This exceptionally fine selection represents a wide range of Millay’s work from her entire career. Brilliantly and meticulously edited, it offers an illuminating new perspective on Millay’s achievement. Selected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay celebrates a force of nature whose artistry this elegant annotated edition brings to light.”—Phillis Levin, author of Mr. Memory & Other Poems
£16.99
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Three Contemporary Poets Thom Gunn Ted Hughes and
Book SynopsisA E DYSON has a longstanding knowledge and appreciation of the work of Gunn, Hughes and Thomas and this selection of criticism also includes original contributions by him on all three poets. As general editor of the Casebook series and former co-editor of the Critical Quarterly he is well-qualified to provide an authoritative and thought provoking introduction to their poetry. A E Dyson is an Honorary Fellow of the University of East Anglia.
£31.34
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Shakespeare in Performance New Casebooks
Book SynopsisROBERT SHAUGHNESSY is Principal Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Surrey, Roehampton.
£25.49
Taylor & Francis Ltd Travel Geography and Empire in Latin Poetry
Book SynopsisThis volume considers representations of space and movement in sources ranging from Roman comedy to late antique verse, exploring how poetry in the Roman world is fundamentally shaped by its relationship to travel within the geography of Rome's far-reaching empire.The volume surveys Roman poetics of travel and geography in sources ranging from Plautus to Augustan poetry, from the Flavians to Ausonius. The chapters offer a range of approaches to: the complex relationship between Latin poetry, Roman identity, imperialism, and travel and geospatial narratives; and the diachronic and generic evolutions of poetic descriptions of space and mobility. In addition, two chapters, including the concluding one, contextualize and respond to the volume's discussion of poetry by looking at ways in which Romans not only write and read poems about travel and geography, but also make writing and reading part of the experience of traveling, as demonstrated in their epigraphic practices. The colTrade Review"...The vol>ume overall offers an impressive combination of topics and approaches in current research and is a collection of papers that will undoubtedly take readers on an enthralling and inspir>ing literary journey." - The Classical ReviewTable of ContentsList of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Traversing Empire, Micah Young Myers and Erika Zimmermann Damer; 2 The Stage at The Fair: Trade and Human Trafficking in the Palliata, Amy Richlin; 3 Expanding Geographies and Unbounded Subjects in Catullus, Sara H. Lindheim; 4 Arcadia and the Roman Imagination, Eleanor W. Leach; 5 Women’s Travels in Latin Elegy, Alison Keith; 6 On the Road with Tibullus: Aporia or Castration as the Way of Love, Paul Allen Miller; 7 Competing Itineraries, Travel, and Urban Subjectivity in Ovid’s Ars Amatoria, Erika Zimmermann Damer; 8 Statius’ Propemptikon and the Geopoetics of Silvae 3.2, Carole E. Newlands; 9 Martial, Spain, and the Girls from Gades: Travel and Identity in Flavian Epigram, Sarah H. Blake; 10 Memory Spaces of Ausonius and Rutilius Namatianus, Grant Parker; 11 Travelers and Texts: Reading, Writing, and Communication on the Roads of the Roman West, Alexander Meyer; Index
£128.25
WW Norton & Co Byrons Poetry and Prose A Norton Critical
Book SynopsisByron's Poetry and Prose presents an extensive selection of Byron's poetry, letters, and journal entries in chronological clusters, allowing readers to see the changes that took place in his writing in the context of the places he lived and his fame, exile, and travels.Trade Review"This careful and textually-conservative edition will serve as an excellent introductory volume to Byron for students. . . . Alice Levine is to be congratulated on bringing the Norton Byron into the twenty-first century with a resounding bang." -- Byron JournalTable of Contentsclick here for contents page
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WW Norton & Co Aurora Leigh
Book SynopsisThis Norton Critical Edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s 1856 verse-novel is based on Margaret Reynolds’ variorum edition, which the British Academy awarded the 1993 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize and which is reprinted here by special arrangement with the Ohio University Press.
£20.31
Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Romantic Ecology Routledge Revivals
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The University of Michigan Press Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic
Book SynopsisBy conducting a close reading of six poems and then a broad survey of martial lyric, exile poetry, political lyric, and sympotic lyric as a whole, Jessica Romney demonstrates that sympotic lyric focuses on the same basic behaviours and values to construct social identities regardless of the content or subgenre of the poems in question.Trade ReviewLyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece offers a new take on the creation of archaic elite identities . . . The approach to the texts is innovative, the argument is persuasive, and the close readings are insightful." —Pamela Gordon, University of Kansas
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Cambridge University Press Troilus and Criseyde
Book SynopsisAn essential reader's guide specifically designed for students of English Literature studying Geoffrey Chaucer's Middle English poem set in the Trojan War. This guide covers the entire text in short sections, as well as providing brief and accessible introductions to key topics and sources in short textboxes.Trade Review'Jenni Nuttall's Troilus and Criseyde: A Reader's Guide provides an invaluable teaching and learning resource which is aimed mainly at students of Chaucer. Its analysis covers the entire text; it is detailed and helpfully divided into sections, with key information highlighted in bold. The commentaries on each passage contain observations on plot, characterization, critical debate, and narrative voice, while close attention is paid to matters of style. Succinct introductions to key themes (Fortune, Felicity, and the Religion of Love, for example) and relevant antecedents (e.g. Petrarch's Sonnet 132) are positioned within discreet text boxes, guiding the reader through some of the central themes of the text.' The Year's Work in English StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction; Book I; Book II; Book III; Book IV; Book V; Further reading; Index.
£23.99
Cambridge University Press Ovid Metamorphoses Book XIII 13 Cambridge Greek
Book SynopsisBook XIII of Ovid's Metamorphoses presents a wide variety of brilliant episodes, from the rhetorically charged contest between Ulysses and Ajax over the arms of Achilles, to the tragic tale of Hecuba and her gruesome revenge, to the amusing story of Polyphemus' unrequited love for Galatea and its bloody conclusion. This edition discusses in detail Ovid's treatment of his sources and sets out the ways in which he has adapted earlier literature as material for his novel work. Guidance is offered on points of language and style, and the Introduction treats in general terms the themes of metamorphosis and the structure of the poem as a whole.Trade Review'This is a volume of which both Hopkinson and Cambridge can be proud.' The Classical Review'Metamorphoses Book XIII, one of the most 'Greek' books of the Ovidian poem, has received a commentary by a distinguished Hellenist, a commentary which turns out to be one of the best Latin examples in the Cambridge 'green-and-yellow' series … a fresh, exciting and perceptive reading of this important book. It will be a precious tool for all Ovidian scholars.' Journal of Roman Studies'This edition of, and commentry on, Book XIII of Ovid's Metamorphoses ...strikes me as particularly satisfactory and commendable... There are very few things I miss here...' ArctosTable of ContentsIntroduction: 1. Metamorphosis; 2. Structure and themes; 3. Lines 1-398: the Judgment of Arms; 4. Lines 408-571: Hecuba; 5. Lines 576-622: Memnon; 6. Lines 632-704: Anius and his daughters; 7. Lines 13.730-14.222: Acis, Galatea and Polyphemus; Scylla, Glaucus and Circe; The text and apparatus criticus; P. Ovidi Nasonis Metamorphoseon Liber Tertivs Decimvs; Commentary.
£29.99
Cambridge University Press The Making of Chaucers English A Study of Words 39 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 39
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Keats Cambridge
Book SynopsisIn The Cambridge Companion to Keats, leading scholars discuss Keats's work in several fascinating contexts: literary history and key predecessors; Keats's life in London's intellectual, aesthetic and literary culture; the relation of his poetry to the visual arts; the critical traditions and theoretical contexts within which Keats's life and achievements have been assessed. These specially commissioned essays examine Keats's specific poetic endeavours, his striking way with language, and his lively letters as well as his engagement with contemporary cultures and literary traditions, his place in criticism, from his day to ours, including the challenge he poses to gender criticism. The contributions are sophisticated but accessible, challenging but lucid, and are complemented by an introduction to Keats's life, a chronology, a descriptive list of contemporary people and periodicals, a source-reference for famous phrases and ideas articulated in Keats's letters, a glossary of literary teTrade Review"the volume provides a reasonably wide-ranging view of current issues in studying Keats and British Romanticism...belongs in all libraries where Keats is studied studies beyond the introductory level." CHOICE Nov 2001Table of ContentsNotes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Texts and abbreviations; Glossary; A biographical note; Chronology; People and publications; Where did Keats say that?; 1. The politics of Keats's early poetry John Kandl; 2. Endymion's beautiful dreamers Karen Swan; 3. Keats and the 'Cockney school' Duncan Wu; 4. Lamia, Isabella and The Eve of St. Agnes Jeffrey N. Cox; 5. Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion and Keats's epic ambitions Vincent Newey; 6. Keats and the ode Paul D. Sheats; 7. Late lyrics Susan J. Wolfson; 8. Keats's letters John Barnard; 9. Keats and language Garrett Stewart; 10. Keats's sources, Keats's allusions Christopher Ricks; 11. Keats and 'ekphrasis' Theresa M. Kelley; 12. Keats and English poetry Greg Kucich; 13. Byron reads Keats William C. Keach; 14. Keats and the complexities of gender Anne K. Mellor; 15. Keats and Romantic science Alan Richardson; 16. The 'story' of Keats Jack Stillinger; 17. Bibliography and further reading Susan J. Wolfson; Index.
£24.69
Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Ovid Cambridge
Book SynopsisOvid was one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity, and arguably the single most influential ancient poet for post-classical literature and culture. In this Cambridge Companion, chapters by leading authorities from Europe and North America discuss the backgrounds and contexts for Ovid, the individual works, and his influence on later literature and art. Coverage of essential information is combined with exciting critical approaches. This Companion is designed both as an accessible handbook for the general reader who wishes to learn about Ovid, and as a series of stimulating essays for students of Latin poetry and of the classical tradition.Trade Review'The duties of an informative companion attending readers of Ovid are admirably fulfilled in H's volume by the essays that discuss broader themes …' Journal of Roman Studies'… [the] Companion succeeds admirably by surveying the entire range of Ovid criticism at the level of theme, genre, narratology, key aspects of cultural studies, and reception … The result is a collection that both beginners and old hands will find informative and stimulating, and I can recommend it with enthusiasm to readers of both kinds.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review'The Cambridge Companion to Ovid succeeds from the point of view both of editorial design and of the quality of the individual contributions. The result is a collection that both beginners and old hands will find informative and stimulating, and I can recommend it with enthusiasm to readers of both kinds.' BMCRTable of ContentsList of illustrations; List of contributors; Preface; Introduction Philip Hardie; Part I. Contexts and History: 1. Ovid and ancient literary history Richard Tarrant; 2. Ovid and early imperial literature Philip Hardie; 3. Ovid and empire Thomas Habinek; 4. Ovid and the professional discourses of scholarship, religion, rhetoric Alessandro Schiesaro; Part II. Themes and Works: 5. Ovid and genre: evolutions of an elegist Stephen Harrison; 6. Gender and sexuality Alison Sharrock; 7. Myth in Ovid Fritz Graf; 8. Landscape with figures: aesthetics of place in the Metamorphoses and its tradition Stephen Hinds; 9. Ovid and the discourses of love: the amatory works Alison Sharrock; 10. Metamorphosis in the Metamorphoses Andrew Feldherr; 11. Narrative technique and narratology in the Metamorphoses Alessandro Barchiesi; 12. Mandati memores: political and poetic authority in the Fasti Carole Newlands; 13. Epistolarity: the Heroides Duncan F. Kennedy; 14. Ovid's exile poetry: Tristia, Epistulae ex Ponto and Ibis Gareth Williams; Part III. Reception: 15. Ovid in English translation Raphael Lyne; 16. Ovid in the Middle Ages: authority and poetry Jeremy Dimmick; 17. Love and exile after Ovid Raphael Lyne; 18. Re-embodying Ovid: Renaissance afterlives Colin Burrow; 19. Recent receptions of Ovid Duncan F. Kennedy; 20. Ovid and art Christopher Allen; Dateline; Works cited; Index.
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Penguin Putnam Inc Metamorphoses
Book SynopsisA bold, transformative new translation of Ovid''s classicOvid''s epic poem has, with its timeless stories, inspired and influenced generations of writers and artists, from Shakespeare and Chaucer to Picasso and Ted Hughes. The events it describes - the flight of Icarus, the music of Orpheus, Perseus'' rescue of Andromeda, the fall of Troy - speak toward the essence of human experience: of power, of fate and, most fundamentally, of transformation.Stephanie McCarter''s new rendering, the first female translation in over sixty years, places its emphasis on the sexual violence at the heart of the poem - nearly fifty of the epic''s tales involve the rape or attempted rape of women. While past translations have often obscured or mitigated this fact, expressing Ovid''s language in consensual terms, McCarter considers it explicitly, and so offers a powerful new exploration of this essential work.Trade Review“The true brilliance, that is, the true reading, the accessibility, of McCarter’s tapestry lies in her use of poetic form.(…) Throughout, McCarter produces gorgeous basso continuo undertones juxtaposed against sharp and high-pitched rhymes. Such formal elements of the translation ultimately represent McCarter’s interpretation of Metamorphoses and the art of translation itself—that humble human craft that has the capacity to stand against and despite the will of gods, power, and time. McCarter has produced her own masterpiece that ‘Jove’s wrath cannot / destroy, nor flame, nor steel, nor gnawing time.’ ‘My name,’ she writes, ‘can’t be erased.’” —Anna Deeny Morales, 2023 American Poets Prize citation for The Academy of American Poets“The best translation of a work of ancient literature that I read this year was Stephanie McCarter's marvellous new translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, in fresh, readable, vivid iambic pentameter. McCarter captures Ovid's wit and cleverness, making us laugh at the escapades of abusive, lust-crazed, arrogant gods and hapless, also lust-crazed and arrogant mortals. But she also brilliantly evokes Ovid's more serious sides, including his attentiveness to power and the magical vivacity of the natural world. Her wonderful handling of the metrical poetic form is a fitting match for Ovid's artful, fluent Latin verse.”—Emily Wilson, The New Statesman“McCarter confronts the tricky issues associated with both the poet and his epic not only in her forthright introduction but in the translation itself, where, like an art restorer removing decades of browned varnish from an Old Master, she strips away a number of inaccuracies and embellishments that have accreted in translations over the decades and centuries, obscuring the sense of certain passages, particularly those portraying women and sexual violence… McCarter’s translation reproduces Ovid’s speed and clarity. Even better, she is alert to many of the sparkling verbal effects for which the poet was famous in his own time… If you didn’t know she was writing about the concerns of someone who died twenty centuries ago, you’d think her subject was still alive.”—Daniel Mendelsohn, The New Yorker“McCarter adroitly captures Ovid’s glittering darkness. There is horror here but there is also so much wonder and delight, all conveyed in nimble, fresh language.” —Kamila Shamsie, author of Home Fire“The Metamorphoses has it all: sex, death, love, violence, gods, mortals, monsters, nymphs, all the great forces, human and natural. With this vital new translation, Stephanie McCarter has not only updated Ovid's epic of transformation for the modern ear and era --- she's done something far more powerful. She's paid rigorous attention to the language of the original and brought to us its ferocity, its sensuality, its beauty, its wit, showing us how we are changed, by time, by violence, by love, by stories, and especially by power. Here is Ovid, in McCarter's masterful hands, refreshed, renewed, and pulsing with life.” —Nina MacLaughlin, author of Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung“Stephanie McCarter’s gorgeous verse translation of the Metamorphoses is ground-breaking not just in its refreshingly accessible approach to Ovid’s syntax and formal devices but for how she reframes the controversial subjects that have made Ovid, and Ovidian scholarship, so fraught for contemporary readers. McCarter’s translation understands that the Metamorphoses is a complex study of power and desire, and the dehumanizing ways that power asserts itself through and on a variety of bodies. McCarter’s deft, musical, and forthright translation returns much needed nuance to Ovid’s tropes of violence and change, demonstrating to a new generation of readers how our identities are always in flux, while reminding us all of the Metamorphoses’ enduring relevance.” —Paisley Rekdal, author of Nightingale"A graceful and fluid and deeply meaningful translation. Compared to the other translations of the Metamorphoses on which I’ve relied in the past, it’s as though this is of an entirely different book. The reader follows the lines with genuine emotion. And so do worlds open up—" —Alexander Nemerov, Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities, Stanford University "Stephanie McCarter’s translation offers an attractive alternative to the finest versions to appear in recent decades, while the abundance of her introductory and explanatory material gives her work a clear advantage over those predecessors. As a vehicle for serious engagement with Ovid’s poem in English, McCarter has no rival." – Richard Tarrant, Harvard University, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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Faber & Faber New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender
Book SynopsisReordering the thematic principle of the 1985 Collected Poems, this edition returns to a book-by-book chronology and allows the reader to experience, for the first time, the full development and range of his career.
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Pearson Education Persuasion York Notes Advanced everything you
Book Synopsis'York Notes Advanced' offer an accessible approach to English Literature. This series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced introduce students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts.Table of Contents Part 1: Introduction Part 2: The Text Part 3: Critical Approaches Part 4: Critical History Part 5: Background Further Reading Literacy Terms
£7.99
Harvard University Press Dickinson
Book SynopsisThe unrivaled doyenne of close reading offers an interpretive introduction to Emily Dickinson's brilliant, enigmatic verse. In commentaries accompanying 150 selected poems, Helen Vendler explores Dickinson's major thematic preoccupations while highlighting the poet's startling imagination and the ingenuity of her linguistic invention.Trade ReviewThe best close reader of poems to be found on the literary pages. -- Seamus HeaneyThere is just no way of summarizing a critic as subtle and meticulous as [Vendler]. -- Marilyn ButlerEmily Dickinson is certainly never going to be an easy poet to understand, but her dense, poignant lyrics are now a lot more accessible to ordinary readers thanks to Vendler's unravelings. If you're going to read Dickinson, this "selected poems and commentary" is the place to start. -- Michael Dirda * Washington Post *Emily Dickinson is the sorcerer's stone. Her poetry contains, no, is, the most essential, passionate use of English and the most essential, passionate connection between the English language and nature (our nature, birds and bees nature, God's nature)...Dickinson's spare use of words are just the tip of her iceberg; the waters below contain so many secrets that it truly helps to have a guide to the meter, the myth, the thread of dreams. [And] if you're going to hire a guide, you may as well have the best, and Vendler is the best. -- Susan Salter Reynolds * Los Angeles Times *This book takes 150 of [Emily Dickinson's] poems and devotes a two- or three-page chapter to each. If you have a favorite poem, you look it up and Vendler will walk you through it as if you've never read it before. It's like reading the poem in italics. -- Billy Collins * New York Post *Both casual readers and scholars of Dickinson alike will want to purchase it. -- Stacy Russo * Library Journal *If it's been a while since you last sat down with Dickinson, now is a great time: Helen Vendler's new book, Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries, is both an anthology (it contains 150 of Dickinson's nearly 1,800 poems) and an interpretive introduction, with a short essay following and explaining each poem. Vendler is almost certainly the best poetry critic in America, and she's hit upon a great way of writing about poetry. Reading each poem, followed by Vendler's commentary, it feels like you're in your own private poetry class. -- Josh Rothman * Boston Globe *[A] superb and invigorating new selection of 150 poems and probing commentaries...The poet that Vendler finds in these poems is an ambitious and sometimes magisterial artist of extraordinary range and verbal control. Vendler's comprehensive reassessment of Dickinson's achievement seems to me the most challenging new reading of Dickinson since the poet Adrienne Rich's remarkable essay "Vesuvius at Home" (1975)...What Vendler, perhaps the most skilled and accomplished close reader of lyric poetry of her generation, adds to this picture is a renewed attention to Dickinson's deliberate and consummate artistry, along with a fresh way to read cryptic poems that may seem, superficially, to have little to do with the "maelstrom" of human emotions. -- Christopher Benfey * New York Review of Books *The reigning doyenne of American poetry criticism is a close reader par excellence. [Vendler] loves her favorite poets unstintingly. She seems to think and feel in their language--to think and feel through their work, as through a membrane. Her Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries plays exactly to her strengths, as did her 1997 edition of Shakespeare's sonnets...What I like best about Vendler's Dickinson is its can-do attitude. Yes, it assures the reader, the poem says what you think it says: trust your own eyes, experience, and heart...She doesn't try to quash the mystery of the poems; she notes their ambiguities but by and large leaves those to do their work--and leaves us closer to a canonical poet whom we are still only coming to know. -- Lorin Stein * Harper's *Dickinson continues to entertain and enlighten me. Vendler manages to clarify and illuminate Dickinson's poetry without oversimplifying the work of a complex mind. Her succinct but astute readings of Emily Dickinson's poetry are little kernels of insight into a wickedly keen poetic mind. -- Hillary Kelly * New Republic *This year Helen Vendler published her own selection of Dickinson's verse along with astute commentary. After reading Dickinson's fifty or seventy-five best poems you realize that few poets have written this many poems of this much merit. Dickinson's manuscripts show that she left behind multiple variations on words and phrases, sometimes as many as a dozen, without favoring a particular one. Vendler points out moments when Dickinson wrote one word, only to bracket it and replace it with another. Not since Vendler's meticulous commentary on Shakespeare's sonnets has a finer book of close-readings been published. -- Jeannie Vanasco * Lapham's Quarterly *What Vendler did for Shakespeare's sonnets, she has done again for Dickinson's poems, demonstrating her refined skill and rare gift for loving attentiveness. When our age of hurry and perspiration threatens close reading, Vendler helps us slow down--way down until meter, word choice, punctuation, metaphors, tone, and allusion matter. She deftly reveals that form is as much a carrier of meaning as content. -- Christopher Benson * First Things *These commentaries on a selection of Dickinson's poems are best summed up in one word: brilliant. Skeptics who might be inclined to question whether anyone has anything new to say about Dickinson's oeuvre nearly 125 years after her death will find that the answer to that question is a resounding yes. Vendler manages to offer original, insightful observations about Dickinson's humor, her pain, her metaphysical abstractions, and her syntactical inversions. -- D. D. Knight * Choice *Vendler's commentaries are enlightening and enjoyable revelations of Dickinson's often elusive meanings; she is also a master of the technical and devotes consistent attention to the poet's metrical skills and innovations. -- Maurice Earls * Dublin Review of Books *This new book is as meticulous as Vendler's commentary on Shakespeare's Sonnets (1997). As well as their mysterious inner lives, these are poets who share an ability to compress the maximum force into the fewest words. In Dickinson's case, her manuscripts show that she left behind multiple variations on words and phrases, sometimes as many as a dozen, without any indication of favoring one over the others. She claimed that her closest companion was her lexicon. -- Jeannie Vanasco * Times Literary Supplement *Helen Vendler provides clear commentary, uncluttered by fashionable and hyphenated literary theory, on 150 poems by one of the most enigmatic American poets. -- Elizabeth Hoover * Pittsburgh Post-Gazette *
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Harvard University Press MiLou
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Harvard University Press The Art of Shakespeares Sonnets
Book SynopsisIn detailed commentaries on Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets, Vendler reveals previously unperceived imaginative and stylistic features of the poems, pointing out not only new levels of import in particular lines, but also the ways in which the four parts of each sonnet work together to enact emotion and create dynamic effect.Trade ReviewThis book is a great achievement, the work of an author with an almost devout passion for good poems, a passion that the academy has not succeeded in killing. -- Frank Kermode * New Republic *Helen Vendler discloses, with great patience and ingenuity, how similarly adequate to the perceived splendor and urgency of the sonnets are their rhetorical conventions, devices that "work" as multifariously for lyric poetry as the stage contrivances of the Elizabethan (and Jacobean) theater did for the plays...Vendler is confident that "the sonnets will remain intelligible, moving and beautiful to contemporary and future readers." They will, if such readers also read Vendler's book. For hers is the most intricately inquiring and ingeniously responding study of these poems yet to be undertaken...Hers will prove to be the most valuable critical performance in recent American literature on classic texts...The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets is an authentic act of contemporary criticism as well as a reading of the most cherished lyric poetry in the English language. It constitutes a ground of poetic apprehension that cannot be gainsaid, and it offers the opportunity to enjoy the art of poetry where we all agree it must be found, as one enjoys most what one understands best. -- Richard Howard * New York Times Book Review *Reading the sonnets knowing that Ms. Vendler is about to have her say serves to sharpen your awareness of the poetry considerably. In fact, with her reading over your shoulder, so to speak, you see deeper into the poetry than ever before. Each essay forces you to reread the sonnet under discussion and come a little closer to understanding this guy Shakespeare in the poem. -- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt * New York Times *Helen Vendler...has produced here what is probably the least irrelevant and most critically illuminating of all extended commentaries on the Sonnets. -- John Bayley * New York Review of Books *A few pages of this marvelous study convince us that "no poet ever found more linguistic forms to replicate human responses than Shakespeare in the Sonnets." * The Guardian *This eagerly awaited work has been nine years coming, an understandable period considering the magnitude of Helen Vendler's project...In her valuable introduction, Vendler declares that the sonnets represent "the largest tract of unexamined Shakespearean lines left open to scrutiny." Readers like me, who thought they were relatively familiar with these poems, will discover just how unfamiliar their various sequences turn out to be…It is consistent with Vendler's total immersion in the sonnets that she has learned them all by heart, as an enabling means of support for the 'evidential' criticism--in which "instant and sufficient linguistic evidence" is produced to back up every critical remark--she so unfailingly and brilliantly practices. -- William H. Pritchard * Boston Sunday Globe *Helen Vendler's long study of the art of Shakespeare's Sonnets is that purely aesthetic study of poetic language in action...Reading it is like being offered a huge plate of oysters, or doing a Spot-the-Ball competition, or playing obsessively with a Rubik's Cube that always comes out right after the effort of following a tight technical argument...It is Vendler's supreme critical virtue that she can write from inside a poem, as if she is in the workshop witnessing its making...Again and again, I want to haul out examples of this supreme critical imagination at work, but it should be apparent that criticism of the Sonnets, and by extension, critical accounts of poetry, will never be the same again. This is an epic, innovatory study which ought to mark a new beginning for criticism. -- Tom Paulin * London Review of Books *From time to time, a work of criticism appears that promises to inaugurate a new phase of the art...Roland Barthes, Paul de Man, Stephen Greenblatt: each heralded, in different ways, a paradigm shift in critical practice. And now Helen Vendler...makes a bold attempt to change criticism again. Her ambitious chef d'oeuvre, the fruit of decades of memorizing and meditating on Shakespeare's Sonnets, significantly takes the form of a critical commentary...She has chosen her topic strategically. The Sonnets is the supreme lyric masterpiece in English, yet, although often edited, it has been neglected critically, as if too challenging and demanding, too dangerous for direct response. Yet Vendler's originality goes further. For she has decided to return criticism to the study of art; to the sort of response that leads to appreciative evaluation rather than manipulation...The rapid adumbration of Shakespeare's variety is as brilliant as anything Vendler has written. But in commenting on each individual sonnet in turn, she surpasses herself, again and again making fresh observations on poems we thought familiar. In almost any other critic this would be a tour de force. But in her it is simply honest empiricism, free from any agenda but that of being receptive. -- Alastair Fowler * Times Literary Supplement *The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets by Helen Vendler is a superb close reading of the sonnets one by one. It is also an invaluable master class on how to read a poem, how to attend to the patterns of sound within a poem, how to explore the way in which sense and sound combine in the sonnets. -- Colm Tóibín * Times Literary Supplement *[The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets is] a heady journey into the sounds, structures, and strategies of the sonnets, led by a guide as perceptive and rigorously instructive as one could wish for...Anyone glancing at just a few of the essays will benefit from Vendler's microscopic examinations. To read the book from start to finish, however, is to receive a thorough education in how to look at a poem. One feels that when Shakespeare wrote the line, 'A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,' he hoped one day for a reader who would see in this image what Vendler sees: 'the emotionally labile contents of any sonnet as they preserve their mobility within the transparent walls of prescribed length, meter, and rhyme.' This outstanding work of criticism has made those walls and what lies behind them very clear. -- Robert Atwan * Boston Review *[Featured in "The Globe 100" for 1998]Vendler stresses Shakespeare's hyperconsciousness as a writer, a quality she seems to share. She approaches her detailed study with the utter scrupulousness of a true scholar, explicating the poems as poems. Her strict emphasis on poetics and her thoroughness separate her study from its predecessors. -- Philippa Sheppard * Toronto Globe and Mail *Though intricate and technical, Vendler's analysis of the sonnets is never boring...Her meticulous structures of analysis are a gift: They quietly allow one's own interpretive faculty to rise. By clearing up all the mechanical obstacles to understanding, your own apprehension of the poem emerges whole, and you've only to recognize it...Vendler's myriad attentions to the minute patterning of words and sounds yield...mysterious glories. She diligently, even stringently, employs her technical surveys, and what emerges from beneath their grid is surprising, substantial, evanescent. -- Mona Simpson * Los Angeles Times *Vendler has lived with these works all her life, and spent much of the past nine years working on this hefty book. The result is more than a reliable guide, it is a portable critical encyclopedia...In short, this is just the book for anybody wishing to spend a little quality time with our greatest poet. * Washington Post *Vendler's careful and sympathetic examination of the poems' organizing principles (such as the 'strategies of unfolding' that Shakespeare uses to shift a sonnet's emotional terrain, sometimes repeatedly, as the poem proceeds) yields surprising insights...Vendler proposes that her book serve as a supplement to annotated texts such as the Penguin and the Yale editions, but she is probably selling herself short. Her volume is fuller than the Penguin, and more inviting than Stephen Booth's impressive but rather forbidding Yale edition. A reader who has never tried the sonnets in their entirety, or at least looked at them in college, would have no trouble with this engaging and enlightening edition. -- Gregory Feeley * Philadelphia Inquirer *[The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets] adds enormously to our understanding and prods us to continue to make our own discoveries…[It] grafts new feathers onto the wings of our understanding, lifting us closer to Heaven's gate, and it once more confirms Vendler's status as one of the smartest critics around. -- Jay Ragoff * Books in Review *[Best of 1998 issue]If you are a writer who still uses English words (rather than chockablock bricks of jargon), this is the book for you. Professor Vendler takes Shakespeare's sonnets one by one and word by word. She talks about what poems do and how they do it--their architecture, narrative, music, and language--so, along with the aperçus and sharp insights, there are nifty charts and graphs. There is also a CD of Vendler reading the sonnets aloud [available with the hardcover edition only], lest we forget that words are noise as well as ink -- Dave Hickey * Artforum *Vendler has created an exhaustive and wonderful work on Shakespeare's sonnets...This study will become a standard work and is essential for all academic libraries. -- Teresa Berry * Library Journal *Close readings that train a brilliant spotlight on Shakespeare's poetic performance...A celebrated and prolific critic, reviewer, and lecturer on poetry, Vendler offers an illuminating companion for Bardolators of all levels and stripes...Vendler analyzes each sonnet in turn (they appear in both original and modernized formats), explicating in an accessible manner the structures that organize them...An immensely enriching account of Shakespeare's complex verse: readings whose perspicuity and accuracy will form a solid basis for many more. * Kirkus Reviews *With admirable self-reliance and hardly a glance at the main stream of historical and gender-studies criticism, the famed Harvard professor reads the poems pragmatically, as 'verbal contraptions,' explaining how and why they work the way they do. The result is not just a few brilliant perceptions about, say, Shakespeare's use of clichés or chiasmus (although those are here), but the best teachers' edition on the market. Vendler's preface, and the essays that accompany each sonnet...will make a nearly perfect introduction for college students--or for anyone else who wants to learn how to read the poems for their skill and originality. * Publishers Weekly *There is so much more to these sonnets than meets the eye, Vendler's insights into their poetics are more than useful: they are indispensable. -- Tom Mayo * Dallas Morning News *[A] magisterial work...[and] an invaluable contribution to the serious study of Shakespeare's sonnets by a preeminent critic of lyric poetry, widely viewed as the best close reader of poetry writing today. -- Michael Shinagel * Harvard Review *Table of Contents* Conventions of Reference * Introduction * The Sonnets * Appendix 1: Key Words * Appendix 2: Defective Key Words * Words Consulted * Index of First Lines
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Princeton University Press The Figure of Dante
Book SynopsisJerome Mazzaro examines Dante's Vita Nuova as an artistic correlative to what Dante conceived as an image of himself. Specifically, he explores the structure of the work in relation to medieval views of memory, self, music, form, and interpretation, and against the facts of Dante's life and culture as we have come to know them. Originally publisheTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*Preface, pg. ix*CHAPTER ONE: The Vita Nuova and the "New" Poet, pg. 1*CHAPTER TWO: The Vita Nuova and the Literature of Self, pg. 27*CHAPTER THREE: The Architecture of the Vita Nuova, pg. 51*CHAPTER FOUR: The Prose of the Vita Nuova, pg. 71*CHAPTER FIVE: The "Dante" of the Vita Nuova, pg. 95*CHAPTER SIX: The Vita Nuova and Subsequent Poetic Autobiography, pg. 117*Bibliography, pg. 139*Index, pg. 147
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Liverpool University Press English Translators of Homer From George Chapman to Christopher Logue
Book SynopsisThis book traces the great tradition of English translations of Homer, focusing in particular on the contributions of Chapman, Pope, E.V. Rieu and Christopher Logue.
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Liverpool University Press Robert Browning
Book SynopsisIn this book, John Woolford specifies the precise meaning and scope of 'the grotesque' by placing Browning in a major aesthetic tradition running from the Romantic Sublime through to modern concepts and theorisations of the grotesque, such as the Bakhtinian.
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Edinburgh University Press The Sculptural Body in Victorian Literature
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Ebury Publishing Allen Ginsberg Beat Poet
Book SynopsisAllen Ginsberg occupies a significant and enduring position in American literature. Following Ginsberg''s death in 1997, Barry Miles has drawn on both his long friendship with the poet and on Ginsberg''s journals and correspondence to produce an immensely readable account of one of the twentieth century''s most extraordinary poets.Trade ReviewThis is a scholarly work and also much fun. * Guardian *Will surely be consulted as an Ur-text for decades to come. Read it at the end, along with Ginsberg's fifteen best books, and you'll know why he matters. -- Michael Horowitz * Sunday Times *Skilfully evokes the poet's childhood, authoritatively expresses his opinions on sundry matters of later life and work, gives him his due as lifeforce of youthful rebellion and in the 1960s counter. Read it; you'll enjoy yourself. -- Paul Berman * New York Times *Concentrating on the simultaneity of the public and private in Ginsberg's life, Miles gives us a richer insight into his poetic value - and a better read - than many a tight-lipped critical filleting. -- Saul Frampton * Time Out *
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Humour in Iran
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHumor in Iran provides a remarkably rich medley of Persian prose and poetry, spanning eleven hundred years, in equally delectable translations into English, offering a rare view into how Iranian poets and writers have dealt with subjects as varied as human foibles, tyranny, politics, religion, forbidden desire, and social taboos. * Nasrin Rahimieh, Professor, University of California, USA *Humour in Iran is the record of a quest, a journey through over a millennium of Persian literature, focusing on the lighter side of Persian culture. It is a compendium of all varieties of satire including “hajv” (lampoon) and “hazl” (ribaldry), with ample examples provided in Persian with English translations. * M. R. Ghanoonparvar, Professor, The University of Texas at Austin, USA *Homa Katouzian, with his diverse scholarly interests and acumen, is the ideal candidate to expand upon the existing body of research on Persian Humour. This undertaking involves meticulous exploration of classical and contemporary texts that span over a millennium looking for wit and witty wisdom. Humour in Iran: Eleven-hundred Years of Satire and Humour in Persian Literature, with its rich tapestry of narratives, serves as an enlightening, captivating, and all-encompassing narrative that interests both general readers and experts in the field. * Kamran Talattof, Professor, The University of Arizona, USA *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments and note on transliteration Preface Introduction 1. The First Three Centuries 2. Rumi, Sa‘di, Hafiz 3. Obeyd Zakani 4. From the Classics to the Neoclassics 5. The Neoclassical Period: Bazgasht-e Adabi 6. Iraj and Bahar 7. Dehkhoda and Eshqi 8. Aref, Seyyed Ashraf, Parvin E‘tesam, etc. 9. Satirical Fiction 10. The satirical Press
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Running Press Kids The Raven
Book SynopsisEdgar Allan Poe's 'The Raven' comes to life for young readers in this enchantingly illustrated picture book of the classic spooky poem. Once upon a midnight dreary . . . So begins the story of a man and his unusual encounter with a raven on a dark winter's night in Edgar Allan Poe's infamous 'The Raven.' The man's struggle with his deep sadness at the loss of the love his life is heightened with the arrival of the raven, who sits watching him, and only uttering a single word: nevermore. As the night grows darker, the man tries to escape the shadows of his grief before it is too late. Poe's beloved and mysterious poem is brought to life for young readers and adult fans alike by Chloe Bristol's rich, moody illustrations. The Raven is the perfect book to snuggle in and read as a family during the Halloween season or on any blustery, cold day.
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Cornell University Press Voicing American Poetry
Book SynopsisThe most interesting tensions and ambitions of twentieth-century American poetry intersect in one resonant word: voice. The term "poetic voice" emphasizes poetry's reliance on sound, which is prominent in ethnic American writings, new formalism, and...Trade ReviewThis is a fine study which demonstrates the innovative ways poets have tested the limits of poetry and the relationship between poet and audience.... As a teacher, reader, and writer of poetry who is watching the poetry community fragment and stagnate in unproductive ways, I find Wheeler's study an important contribution to the conversation that I hope will provide a framework by which we may incorporate these many differing methods of performing poetic voice. -- Heidi Czerwiec * North Dakota Quarterly *
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Ohio State University Press Scripting the Nation
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The University of Alabama Press After the Whale Melville in the Wake of MobyDick
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Duke University Press Chinese Poetry 2nd ed. Revised
Book SynopsisCovering the genres of Chinese poetry, this volume provides an introduction to the Chinese poetry. The sections of the volume are introduced by a short essay on the mode or genre of poem and is followed by a comprehensive bibliography. It is aimed at students of Chinese poetry.Trade Review“For three decades now, Wai-lim Yip has been a linking figure between American modernism (in-the-line-of-Pound) and Chinese traditions and practices form which that modernism has long drawn. His two classic American works—in the lovely way that classic, as a word and concept, can still resonate in Chinese context—are his Pound’s Cathay and Chinese Poetry.”—Jerome Rothenberg, from the introduction to Between Landscapes: Poems by Wai-lim Yip“Yip, himself a poet, captures the rhythm of Chinese nature poetry in his characteristically punctuated and contracted imagery. The inclusion of the word-for-word annotations is a feature that distinguishes the book from most anthologies of Chinese poetry in translation.”—Jing Wang, author of The Story of Stone
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Fordham University Press A Common Strangeness
Book SynopsisExamines poetic responses to the transition from the late Cold War period to the post-Cold War era of globalization, focusing on the work of Bei Dao and Yang Lian from China, Arkadii Dragomoshchenko and Dmitrii Prigov from Russia, and Charles Bernstein and Lyn Hejinian from the United States.Trade Review"This is an engaging and bold study, which combines skillful close reading with theoretical astuteness." -- Alexander K. Harrington, Durham University -The Russian Review "There is no doubt that A Common Strangeness, with its focal point in the aesthetic concept and device of estrangement, is a valuable contribution to recent scholarship that aims at finding new ways to look at the intricate network of relations of poetry to the world." -- -Cosima Bruno The China Quarterly "In this ambitious and rich work, Jacob Edmond explores the relationship between recent poetry and globalism. Rejecting both the traditional East/West binary and the local/global opposition which he sees as its replacement, Edmond maps out the middle ground- an area of contact and exchange in which seemingly disparate poets pursued a common poetics of strangeness in the post- Cold War years." -Slavic and East European Journal "The words transnational and globalization appear frequently within scholarship on contemporary poetry, but so far there have been few sustained attempts to narrate recent developments across more than two language-groups or geographical regions ... At least one person can now be said to fill the bill... Edmond shows himself to be thoroughly grounded in the relevant literary traditions, and whether a given poem is written in English, Russian, or Mandarin, he proves able to supply the kind of intensive, patient, erudite textual analysis that one associates with the Yale school back in its heyday." -- -Brian Reed Contemporary Literature "The strength of Edmond's study is the close readings of each poet, which are subtle and insightful across the broad range of national traditions he examines." --Joseph Acquisto in The Modern Language Review "In this superb study Jacob Edmond adeptly and convincingly unites the theory and practice of disparate writers seeking varying cultural philosophies of commonness and strangeness under the broad, all-encompassing umbrella of politics, literary theory, culture, art, and philosophy. His edifying investigation invites further avenues of inquiry." -Journal of Cold War Studies, MIT Press (Project Muse) "This book examines the changes in poetic discourses that have followed from the end of the Cold War and the rise of a global literature, and it engages with impressive competence in the fields of Chinese, American, and post-Soviet literary cultures... An understated, versatile, and clear exponent of poetic analysis and cultural commentary" --Andrew Kahn in the Slavic Review "This book is a remarkable accomplishment. It resists the fashionable solution to the problem it sets itself-it does not seek to dismantle the genre of the poem in deference to the authority of contexts." -Brian Glaser in symploke "Edmond's book offers a rich and thought-provoking study and stimulates comparatist research... the book offers an interesting juxtaposition of 'estranged' poets of various backgrounds and calls the reader's attention to important politically and culturally controversial trends in societies such as China, Russia, and the U.S. It opens up new research vistas by drawing scholarly attention to issues that have become increasingly important in the contemporary world where old oppositions are no longer operative" --Marina Grishakova and Mart Laanemets in Recherche litteraire / LiteraryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Yang Lian and the Flaneur in Exile 2. Arkadii Dragomoshchenko and Poetic Correspondences 3. Lyn Hejinian and Russian Estrangement 4. Bei Dao and World Literature 5. Dmitri Prigov and Cross-Cultural Conceptualism 6. Charles Bernstein and Broken English Conclusion Notes Works Cited
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) German Poetry from 1750 to 1900 Goethe Holderlin
Book SynopsisThis anthology of German verse in English translation covers a period that includes perhaps two-thirds of the superlative poets of the German language. Here are 147 poems representing 27 poets from Matthias Claudius to Friedrich Nietzsche. The selection is representative, including both the universally known (Goethe, Schiller, Holderlin) and the less familiar (Brentano, Droste-Hulshoff, Holty, Hebbel, Storm). Among the translations are classics by Coleridge, Longfellow, and the Irish poet James Mangan.Table of ContentsForeword: Michael Hamburger Introduction: Robert M. Browning MATTHIAS CLAUDIAS (1740-1814) Der Säemann säet den Samen/The sower is sowing his seed (K. Negus) Abendlied/Evening Song (A. Gode) Die Sternseherin Lise/The Stargazing Maiden (S.Z. Buehne) Kriegslied/A Song of War (A. Bloch) Christiane (J.W. Thomas) Der Tod und das Mädchen/Death and the Girl (J.W. Thomas) Der Tod/Death (R.M. Browning) GOTTFRIED AUGUST BÜRGER (1747-1794) Lenore/Leonore (J.C. Mangan) LUDWIG CHRISTOPH HEINRICH HÖLTY (1748-1776) Auftrag/Mandate (G.C. Schoolfield) Die Schale der Vergessenheit/The Cup of Oblivion (G.C. Schoolfield) An den Abendstern/To the Evening Star (J.W. Thomas) JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE (1749-1832) Mailied/May Song (J.F. Nims) Willkommen und Abschied/The Meeting, The Departure (J.F. Nims) Im Herbst 1775/Autumn, 1775 (R.M. Browning) Prometheus (M. Hamburger) Mahomets Gesang/A Song to Mahomet (C. Middleton) Auf dem See/On the Lake (J.S. Dwight) An den Mond/To the Moon (J.F. Nims) Grenzen der Menschheit/Human Limits (M. Hamburger) Wandrers Nachtlied/Ein Gleiches/Wanderer's Night-Songs (H.W. Longfellow) Mignon (Kennst du das Land)/Mignon (You know that land) (J.F. Nims) Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt/Who Yearning Knows (S. Spender) Alles geben die Götter/The Gods Give Everything (S. Spender) Anakreons Grab/Anacreon's Grave (M. Hamburger) Natur und Kunst/Sonnet (M. Hamburger) Gefunden/In a Glade (R. Garnett) Wiederfinden/Reunion (C. Middleton) Proemion (E.A. Bowring) Urworte, Orphisch/Primeval Words, Orphic (M. Knight and J. Fabry) Selige Sehnsucht/Blessed Longing (M. Hamburger) Dauer im Wechsel/Permanence in Change (J.F. Nims) FRIEDRICH SCHILLER (1759-1803) Dithyrambe/The Visit of the Gods (S.T. Coleridge) Des Mädchens Klage/The Maiden's Plaint (J.C. Mangan) Der Ring des Polykrates/Polycrates and His Ring (J.C. Mangan) Das Glück/The Gifts of Fortune (A. Gode) Nänie/Nenia (A. Gode) JOHANN GAUDENZ VON SALIS-SEEWIS (1762-1834)Lied, zu singen bei einer Wasserfahrt/Song to be Sung During a Trip on the Water(G.C. Schoolfield)FRIEDRICH HÖLDERLIN (1770-1843)Hyperions Schicksalslied/Hyperion's Song of Fate(C. Middleton)Abendphantasie/Evening Fantasy(K. Negus)Menschenbeifall/Public Approval(K. Negus)An die jungen Dichter/To Young Poets(K. Negus)An die Parzen/To the Fates(M. Hamburger)Diotima (Du schweigst und duldest/Diotima (You suffer and keep silent)(M. Hamburger)Geh unter, schöne Sonne.../Go down, fair sun...(E. Henderson) Der Abschied. Zweite Fassung/The Farewell. Second Version (C. Middleton) Andenken/Remembrance (C. Middleton) Lebensalter/The Ages of Life (M. Hamburger) Hälfte des Lebens/Half of Life (W. Trask and A. Gode) FRIEDRICH VON HARDENBERG ("NOVALIS") (1772-1801)Hymnen an die Nacht/Hymns to Night (R.M. Browning) LUDWIG TIECK (1773-1853) Liebe/Love (H. Salinger) CLEMENS BRENTANO (1778-1842) Der Spinnerin Lied/The Spinstress' Song (A. Gode) Abendständchen/Serenade (H. Salinger) Wenn ich ein Bettelmann wär/If I were a beggarman (D.B. Dickens) Am Berge hoch in Lüften/Adieu, Heart's Love, Adieu! (R. Garnett) Heil'ge Nacht, heil'ge Nacht/Holy night, holy night! (D.B. Dickens) Nachklänge Beethovenscher Musik/Echoes of Beethoven's Music (G.C. Schoolfield) JOSEPH FREIHERR VON EICHENDORFF (1778-1857) Wünschelrute/Divining Rod (A. Turner) Das zerbrochene Ringlein/The Broken Ring (G.H. Chase) Der Abend/Evening (E. Morgan) Nachts/Nocturne (H. Salinger) Mondnacht/Night of Moon (G.H. Chase) Sehnsucht/Longing (G.H. Chase) Der alte Garten/The Old Garden (W. Heider) Die Nachtblume/Night (I.S. MacInnes) Waldgespräch/Conversation in the Forest (G. Gillhoff) Auf meines Kindes Tod/On the Death of my Child (E. Dvoretzky) Memento mori! (R.M. Browning) Todeslust/Death Wish (R.M. Browning) JUSTINUS KERNER (1786-1862) Der schwere Traum/Oppressive Dream (J. Fitzell) LUDWIG UHLAND (1787-1862) Frühlingsglaube/Spring Faith (J.W. Thomas) Das Schloß am Meer/The Castle by the Sea (H.W. Longfellow) Der gute Kamerad/The Good Comrade (M. Münsterberg and C.T. Brooks) Der Wirtin Töchterlein/The Hostess' Daughter (M. Münsterberg) FRIEDRICH RÜCKERT (1788-1866) Barbarossa (J.W. Thomas) WILHELM MÜLLER (1794-1827) Der Lindenbaum/The Linden Tree (J. Fitzell) Wanderschaft/The Journeyman's Song (F. Owen) AUGUST GRAF VON PLATEN-HALLERMÜNDE (1797-1848) Tristan (H. Salinger) Wie rafft'ich mich auf/Remorse (H.W. Longfellow) Venedig liegt nur noch im Land der Träume/Venice, mere shadow of her elder day (C.T. Brooks) Der Pilgrim vor St. Just/The Pilgrim at St. Yuste (E. Morgan) ANNETTE VON DROSTE-HÜLSHOFF (1797-1848) Der Weiher/The Pond (H. Salinger) Die Mergelgrube/The Marl-pit (J.B. Dallett) Im Grase/In the Grass (U. Prideaux) HEINRICH HEINE (1797-1856) Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam/A Spruce is standing lonely (M. Knight) Wenn ich an deinem Hause/When I go past your window (H. Draper) Ich wollte, meine Lieder/I wish that all my love-songs (L. Untermeyer) Mir träumte wieder der alte Traum/I dreamt the old, old dream anew (H. Salinger) Die Lotusblume ängstigt/The lotus flower is drooping (H. Draper) Aus alten Märchen winkt es/From olden tales it flings out (H. Draper) Der Asra/The Asra (L. Untermeyer) Helena (E. Lazarus) Gedächtnisfeier/Memorial Day (M. Knight)
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Liverpool University Press Lucretius De Rerum Natura IV
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface; Bibliography & Abbreviations; Introduction; Parallel Latin Text and English Translation; Commentary
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Oldcastle Books Ltd Southern Cross Crime
Book SynopsisAustralian and New Zealand crime and thriller writing - collectively referred to as Southern Cross Crime - is booming globally, with antipodean authors regularly featuring on awards and bestseller lists, such as Eleanor Catton's Booker Prize winning The Luminaries and Jane Harper's big commercial hit, The Dry, winner...Trade ReviewGroundbreaking and eye-opening -- Mark Sanderson * Times *Southern Cross Crime is informative, knowledgeable, wide ranging. If you have any ideas about writing a crime novel you need to read it, if you enjoy reading crime novels, you need to read it, if you simply love reading, you need to read it. This is not a dry as dust tome - the writer's encyclopaedic knowledge is carried lightly... a box of the finest literary chocolates -- Renée Taylor * Renée's Wednesday Busk *A valuable and illuminative resource for crime fiction fans everywhere * Book'd Out *
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Association for Scottish Literary Studies The Poetry of Norman MacCaig
Book SynopsisNorman MacCaig''s poetry is clear and lucid and filled with the shifting light of Edinburgh and Assynt. MacCaig stands in the first rank of twentieth-century poets: Seamus Heaney said of him, He means poetry to me. Roderick Watson''s SCOTNOTE study guide will enhance any student''s enjoyment of MacCaig''s poetry, as well as providing a deeper understanding of the poet''s craft.
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Cambridge University Press Birdsong Speech and Poetry
Book SynopsisIn the long nineteenth century, scientists discovered striking similarities between how birds learn to sing and how children learn to speak. Tracing the ''science of birdsong'' as it developed from the ''ingenious'' experiments of Daines Barrington to the evolutionary arguments of Charles Darwin, Francesca Mackenney reveals a legacy of thought which informs, and consequently affords fresh insights into, a canonical group of poems about birdsong in the Romantic and Victorian periods. With a particular focus on the writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the Wordsworth siblings, John Clare and Thomas Hardy, her book explores how poets responded to an analogy which challenged definitions of language and therefore of what it means to be human. Drawing together responses to birdsong in science, music and poetry, her distinctive interdisciplinary approach challenges many of the long-standing cultural assumptions which have shaped (and continue to shape) how we respond to other creatures in the Anthropocene.
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Cambridge University Press Markers of Allusion in Archaic Greek Poetry
Book SynopsisChallenging established narratives of literary history, this book investigates how the earliest known Greek poets (seventh to fifth centuries BCE) signposted their debts to their predecessors and prior traditions placing markers in their works for audiences to recognise (much like the ''Easter eggs'' of modern cinema). Within antiquity, such signposting is usually considered the preserve of later literary cultures, closely linked with the development of libraries, literacy and writing. But Thomas Nelson shows that these devices were already deeply ingrained in oral archaic Greek poetry, deconstructing the artificial boundary between a supposedly ''primal'' archaic literature and a supposedly ''sophisticated'' book culture of Hellenistic Alexandria and Rome. In three interlocking case studies, he highlights how poets from Homer to Pindar employed the language of hearsay, memory and time to index their allusive relationships, as they variously embraced, reworked and challenged their inhTable of ContentsI. Introduction; II. The Pre-Alexandrian footnote; III. Poetic Memory; IV. Time for allusion; V. Epilogue.
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Cambridge University Press A History of Poetry in Italy
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Cambridge University Press Claudian and the Roman Epic Tradition
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Cambridge University Press Texts and Violence in the Roman World
Book SynopsisExamines the often graphic depictions of violence which are characteristic of many genres of Latin literature, from Plautine comedy to the Christian martyrdom narratives of Late Antiquity. It will be of interest to scholars and students of Greek and Roman literature and culture, and of cultural studies more broadly.Table of ContentsIntroduction – reading Roman violence Monica R. Gale and J. H. D. Scourfield; 1. Comic violence and the citizen body David Konstan and Shilpa Raval; 2. Contemplating violence: Lucretius' 'De rerum natura' Monica R. Gale; 3. Discipline and punish – Horatian satire and the formation of the self Paul Allen Miller; 4. Make war not love: militia amoris and domestic violence in Roman elegy Donncha O'Rourke; 5. Violence and resistance in Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' Carole E. Newlands; 6. Tales of the unexpurgated (Cert PG) – Seneca's Audionasties (Controversiae 2.5, 10.4) John Henderson; 7. Dismemberment and the critics – Seneca's 'Phaedra' Duncan F. Kennedy; 8. Violence and alienation in Lucan's 'Pharsalia' – the case of Caesar Efrossini Spentzou; 9. Tacitus and the language of violence Bruce J. Gibson; 10. Cruel narrative: Apuleius' 'Golden Ass' William Fitzgerald; 11. Violence and the Christian heroine – two narratives of desire J. H. D. Scourfield.
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Cambridge University Press Romanticism and Theatrical Experience
Book SynopsisBringing together studies in theater history, print culture, and literature, this book offers a new consideration of Romantic-period writing in Britain. Recovering a wide range of theatrical criticism from newspapers and periodicals, some of it overlooked since its original publication in Regency London, Jonathan Mulrooney explores new contexts for the work of the actor Edmund Kean, essayist William Hazlitt, and poet John Keats. Kean''s ongoing presence as a figure in the theatrical news presented readers with a provocative re-imagining of personal subjectivity and a reworking of the British theatrical tradition. Hazlitt and Keats, in turn, imagined the essayist and the poet along similar theatrical lines, reframing Romantic prose and poetics. Taken together, these case studies illustrate not only theater''s significance to early nineteenth-century Londoners, but also the importance of theater''s textual legacies for our own re-assessment of ''Romanticism'' as a historical and culturalTrade Review'The value of (this book) is in its meticulous historicism, and its careful attention to the rarely acknowledged role of theatre and theatrical affairs in the lives of its authors.' Chris Townsend, Times Literary Supplement'Mulrooney makes a valuable contribution to Romantic-period studies through his sustained attention to the ways in which public and private experiences were transformed by both print and performance … This is a beautifully written and important book.' Susan Valladares, The Review of English Studies'This truly important book - generous in its acknowledgment of other scholars and energizing in its vivid, sharp, entertaining style - expands our sense of Romantic era theater and print culture, advances our sense of Cockneyism in the period, and offers fresh, powerful accounts of Haz-litt and Keats.' Jeffrey N. Cox, The Wordsworth CircleTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. The Making of British Theater Audiences: 1. Theater and the daily news; 2. Britain's theatrical press 1800–1830; Part II. Theater and Late Romanticism: 3. Edmund Kean's controversy; 4. Hazlitt's romantic occasionalism; 5. Keats, Kean, and the poetics of interruption; Bibliography; Index.
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