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Cambridge University Press The New Cambridge Companion to T S Eliot
Book SynopsisDrawing on the latest developments in scholarship and criticism, The New Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot opens up fresh avenues of appreciation and inquiry to a global twenty-first century readership. Emphasizing major works and critical issues, this collection of newly commissioned essays from leading international scholars provides seven full chapters reassessing Eliot's poetry and drama; explores important contemporary critical issues that were previously untreated, such as the significance of gender and sexuality; and challenges received accounts of his at times controversial critical reception. Complete with a chronology of Eliot's life and work and an up-to-date select bibliography, this authoritative and accessible introduction to Eliot's complete oeuvre will be an essential resource for students.Trade Review'This volume replaces the 1994 Companion, since when much of Eliot's prose, letters and uncollected poems have finally been published, accompanied by (the editor claims in his preface) a 'seismic upheaval in Eliot scholarship and criticism'.' David Geall, Huntington Library Quarterly'Having benefited from current biographical and theoretical advances in scholarship, The New Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot provides an authoritative and coherent overview of Eliot's career as a poet, critic, and dramatist. The essays reassess and reinterpret Eliot's whole oeuvre from fresh angles. Concentrating on fundamental and emerging problems in Eliot studies, this latest Cambridge Companion innovatively sparks inspiration on topics that were not covered in the previous Companion, such as gender and sexuality. Thus, the collection reflects recent shifts in focus and a changing framework for the now thriving field of Eliot studies.' Chen Lin, Journal of Modern LiteratureTable of Contents1. Unravelling Eliot Jason Harding; 2. Eliot: form and allusion Michael O'Neill; 3. Prufrock and Other Observations Anne Stillman; 4. Banishing the backward devils: Eliot's quatrain poems and 'Gerontion' Rick de Villiers; 5. With automatic hand: The Waste Land Lawrence Rainey; 6. 'Let these words answer': Ash-Wednesday and the Ariel poems Sarah Kennedy; 7. Four Quartets Steve Ellis; 8. 'A precise way of thinking and feeling': Eliot and verse drama Anthony Cuda; 9. T. S. Eliot as literary critic Helen Thaventhiran; 10. T. S. Eliot's social criticism John Xiros Cooper; 11. Gender and sexuality Gail McDonald; 12. Eliot's philosophical studies: Bergson, Frazer, Bradley Jewel Spears Brooker; 13. Anglo-Catholic in religion: T. S. Eliot and Christianity Barry Spurr.
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Taylor & Francis An Introduction to Pope Routledge Revivals
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Restoration and EighteenthCentury Poetry 16601780 Routledge Revivals
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Palgrave Macmillan A Commentary on the Poems of Thomas Hardy
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Palgrave Macmillan Reading Shakespeares Poems in Early Modern
Book SynopsisThis is the first comprehensive study of early modern texts, readings, and readers of Shakespeare''s poems in print and manuscript, Reading Shakespeare''s Poems in Early Modern England makes a compelling contribution both to Shakespeare studies and the history of the book. Examining gendered readerships and the use of erotic works, reading practises and manuscript culture, textual forms and transmission, literary taste and the canonisation of Shakespeare, this book argues that historicist criticism can no longer ignore histories of reading.Trade Review'Roberts' study of the early modern reception of Shakespeare's poems challenges current assumptions about textual authority as well as aesthetic taste. In her use of manuscript miscellanies, marginalia, and often neglected printed works to reveal the diverse agencies of readers, Roberts contributes significantly to the history of the book'. - Mary Ellen Lamb 'In this gem of a study, Sasha Roberts uses the early modern history of the publication, manuscript transmission, and reading of Shakespeare's poems to demonstrate the remarkable flexibility of these works in a literary system that encouraged recipients and collectors of texts to appropriate them for their own serious or recreational uses... This study is a very important contribution to early modern literary studies'. - Professor Arthur F.Marotti, Wayne State University 'Sasha Roberts details the enormous variety and creativity of early modern readers, documenting a range of attitudes and practices including anthologising and 'commonplacing' which shed new light on our notions of interpretation and canon formation...This book is an important contribution to the reception history of the Sonnets as well as the narrative poems, arguing for the importance of local and intertextual readings over the 'grand critical narratives' favoured by modern approaches. It will change our sense of the history of literature and literacy in the seventeenth century' - Ann Thompson, King's College London 'This is an original, lively, and consequential book. Sasha Roberts has provided a richly textured account of the transmission and reception of Shakespeare's poems in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. She has uncovered and engagingly presented a remarkable record of how early readers responded to the poetry. But this is not merely an exercise, however fascinating, in reception history; it is also, and more importantly, a crucial episode in the shaping of an early modern literary culture and a significant chapter in the history of reading itself'. - David Scott Kastan, Old Dominion Foundation Professor in Humanities, Columbia University 'Sasha Roberts's book makes a valuable contribution to a little-explored field.' - H.R. Woudhuysen, Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction Ladies Reading 'Bawdy Geare': Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis , and the Early Modern Woman Reader Light Literature and Gentlemen Readers: Venus and Adonis , Textual Transmission, and the Construction of Poetic Meaning The Malleable Poetic Text: Narrative, Authorship, and the Transmission of Lucrece Textual Transmission and the Transformation of Desire: The Sonnets , A Lover's Complaint and The Passionate Pilgrim Afterword Bibliography Index
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Palgrave Macmillan John Clare Politics and Poetry
Book SynopsisJohn Clare, Politics and Poetry challenges the traditional portrait of ''poor John Clare'', the helpless victim of personal and professional circumstance. Clare''s career has been presented as a disaster of editorial heavy-handedness, condescension, a poor market, and conservative patronage. Yet Clare was not a passive victim. This study explores the sources of the ''poor Clare'' tradition, and recovers Clare''s agency, revealing a writer fully engaged in his own professional life and in the social and political questions of the day.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Clare's 'Minorness' Viewing and Reviewing 'Grammar in Learning is like Tyranny in Government' 'The Cottager's Friend' 'Medlars' The Marketplace The Natural Histories of Helpstone Clare, Cobbett and 'Captain Swing' Epilogue: Clare's Agency Notes Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Literature Geography and the Postmodern Poetics of Place
Book SynopsisUsing contemporary literary representations of place, this study focuses on works that have participated in the emergence of new conceptions of place and new place-based identities. The analyses draw on research in cultural geography, cognitive science, urban sociology, and globalization studies.Table of ContentsPhenomenological Place Place, Subjectivity, and the Humanist Tradition Samuel Beckett and the Postmodern Loss of Place The Social Production of Place Poststructuralism and the Resistance to Place Beur Fiction and the Banlieue Crisis Postcolonial Place Place After Postcolonial Studies Evolution in/of the Caribbean Landscape Narrative Landscape, Map, and Vertical Integration
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Palgrave MacMillan UK British Romanticism and Continental Influences
Book SynopsisDuring the 1790s and 1800s, cultural critics became convinced that Britain was being 'inundated' by pernicious literary translations imported from the European Continent.Trade Review'This book will make an important contribution to the new wave of Romantic studies currently broadening the worldly contexts of Romanticism away from a narrowly conceived English nativism.' - Saree Makdisi, Professor of English, University of CaliforniaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: 'Sickly and Stupid German Tragedies' 'We Know that the Enemy Is Working among Us': The Rhetoric of Romantic Europhobia 'Dethroning German Sublimity': Outrageous Stimulation in Romantic Ballad-Writing 'Il Est Devenue Classique en Angleterre': Some Versions of Romantic (Anti-)Pastoral 'Partizans of the German Theatre': The Poetics and Politics of Romantic Dramatic Translation 'The Descent of Odin': Romantic Writers among the Norsemen Notes Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Pope and Berkeley
Book SynopsisThe first study dedicated to the relationship between Alexander Pope and George Berkeley, this book undertakes a comparative reading of their work on the visual environment, economics and providence, challenging current ideas of the relationship between poetry and philosophy in early eighteenth-century Britain. It shows how Berkeley''s idea that the phenomenal world is the language of God, learnt through custom and experience, can help to explain some of Pope''s conservative sceptical arguments, and also his virtuoso poetic techniques.Trade Review' ... combines philosophy and poetical theory and history to answer the question from An Essay on Criticism about how it might be possible for the sound to echo the sense ... Jones looks at contemporary linguistic theory to contextualize the arguments and techniques of Pope's poem. He reviews the existing evidence on the friendship between and interinfluence between Pope and George Berkeley; outlines Pope's readings in linguistics, from Locke and Plato's Cratylus, to Michel de Montaigne, Thomas Hobbes, and Bayle ... Jones's study is particularly useful because too often both philosophy and poetry are treated in separate vacuums.' Professor Cynthia Wall (University of Virginia), 'Recent Studies in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century', Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, 46:3 (Summer 2006), 657-733, p. 689. 'In this fascinating study Tom Jones makes a case for recognising George Berkeley as a significant influence on Pope's thought. He challenges the common assumption that although the poet admired Berkeley as a human being he was unsympathetic to his ideas - an assumption deliberately fostered, Jones suggests, by those guardians of Pope's posthumous reputation, Bolingbroke and Warburton. The book is explicatory in its approach, placing Berkeley's idealist version of empiricism in context and summarising helpfully as it goes. ' Professor David Fairer (University of Leeds), Forum for Modern Language Studies, 42:4 (October 2006), 464-5, pp. 464-5.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Pope and Berkeley PART 1: READING ABOUT LANGUAGE Locke Cratylus Port Royal and Montaigne Hobbes, Zeno, Epicurus, Bayle PART 2: THE LANGUAGE OF VISION AND THE SISTER ARTS The 'Epistle to Mr. Jevas' The Pseudo-Lockean Picture Theory Berkeley on Vision Visual Traditions in Pope's Poetry PART 3: MONEY AND LANGUAGE Pope's Nostalgia Signs of Exchange Pope's Lost Gold Signs of Use PART 4: PROVIDENCE AS THE LANGUAGE OF GOD IN ALCIPHRON AND AN ESSAY ON MAN Analogy and Epistle I Self-love and the Providential Debate Common Sense Epilogue: Pope, Berkeley and Hume Bibliography of Materials Cited Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Blake and Modern Literature
Book SynopsisWilliam Blake is one of the most important influences on twentieth-century literature. This study will ask why he is a figure central to the Modernist re-definition of past art. He also appears to be an acceptable sage for postmodernists, he can be associated with an opposition to authority without imposing one version of his own mythology.Trade Review'this first full-length study of Blake's influence on twentieth-century literature is fascinating in it's range of reference.' - The Use of English '...the most consistent and comprehensive text yet on Blake's literary influence.' - Jason Whittaker, Review of English StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Blake, Between Romanticism, Modernism and Postmodernism Zoas and Moods: Myth and Aspects of the Mind in Blake and Yeats Eliot between Blake and Yeats Blake and Oppositional Identity in Yeats, Auden and Dylan Thomas Blake and Joyce Deposits and Rehearsals: Repetition and Redemption in The Anathémata of David Jones: A Comparison and Contrast with Blake Blake, Postmodernity and Postmodernism Joyce Carey: Getting It From the Horse's Mouth Two American Disciples of Blake: Robert Duncan and Allen Ginsberg Postmodern Myths and Lies: Iain Sinclair and Angela Carter Salman Rushdie, Myth and Postcolonial Romanticism Notes Bibliography Index
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Our Common Dwelling
Book SynopsisOurCommonDwelling explores why America's first literary circle turned to nature in the 1830s and '40s. The works of these great authors, interpreted in historical context, show that both environmental exploitation and conscious love of nature co-evolved as part of the historical development of American capitalism.Trade Review"In this brilliant and urgent book, Newman clears away the cobwebs to reintroduce us to our radical contemporary: Thoreau." - Mike Davis, University of California, Irvine "In a style at once meticulous and dramatic, Lance Newman situates American literary Romanticism in the context of working-class radicalism, political and social reform, and incipient environmentalism. By exhorting readers to pay attention to the material conditions that determine the creation of literature, Newman provides an elaborate cautionary demonstration for scholars - and, in particular, for ecocritics - who tend to extract art from history. This illuminating study explores, in essence, the intellectual roots of the social movements known today as environmental justice and liberation ecology." - Scott Slovic, author of Seeking Awareness in American Nature Writing "Newman invites us to rethink everything we thought we knew about Thoreau and Transcendentalism. What's at stake here is nothing less than our own future, for as Newman argues eloquently, we cannot improve our relationship with nature until we turn away from the "politics of nostalgia" and reconnect, like Thoreau and the Transcendentalists, with democratic radicalism. Urgent, powerful, thoughtful, clear-sighted: this is engaged criticism at its finest. Anyone interested in Thoreau, ecocriticism, or environmental justice will find here both provocation and hope." - Laura Walls, University of South Carolina "Lance Newman's Our Common Dwelling is an ambitious and substantial reinterpretation of 19th century New England literature that will be of wide interest both to literature-and-environment studies and to students of American literature and culture in general. This book confirms what Newman's recent essays have shown: that he is one of the most penetrating and forceful voices among the new wave of American ecocritics." - Lawrence Buell, author of The Environmental Imagination and Writing for an Endangered WorldTable of ContentsEcocriticism and Crisis Ecocriticism and Determination Materialism and Transcendentalism Class Conflict in New England Nathaniel Hawthorne's Democracy William Wordsworth in New England Utopia Revisited The Discipline of Nature William Wordsworth and Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau as Poet Orestes Brownson's Democracy William Wordsworth and Ecocriticism Radical Transcendentalism Reformers and Scholars The Moral Geography of Walden Brook Farm and Association Walden and Association The Law of Organic Regeneration Thoreau and Ecocriticism Margaret Fuller and the Condition of America Margaret Fuller's Vision Marxism and Nature The Discipline of History
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Palgrave Macmillan American Political Poetry in the 21st Century
Book SynopsisEmbodied Agency Equivocal Agency Migratory Agency Contestatory Urban AgencyTrade Review"American Political Poetry into the Twenty-First Century creates a new kind of discourse. Inclusive in its assessment of much 20th century U.S. poetry, the book reads mainstream poets alongside a number of Latina/o writers, the culture of poetry Michael Dowdy finds much more active politically. His concluding section takes on the issue of whether or not academic study can legitimate hip-hopo, clearly the most political of current poetry forms. This is a truly helpful book." - Linda Wagner-Martin, Frank Borden Hanes Professor of English & Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina-Chapel HillTable of ContentsEmbodied Agency Equivocal Agency Migratory Agency Contestatory Urban Agency
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Palgrave Macmillan Lydgate Matters
Book SynopsisThis collection re-evaluates the work of fifteenth-century poet John Lydgate in light of medieval material culture. Top scholars in the field unite here with critical newcomers to offer fresh perspectives on the function of poetry on the cusp of the modern age, and in particular on the way that poetry speaks to the heightened relevance of material goods and possessions to the formation of late medieval identity and literary taste. Advancing in provocative ways the emerging fields of fifteenth-century literary and cultural study, the volume as a whole explores the role of the aesthetic not only in late medieval society but also in our own.Trade Review'Lydgate scholars are back in town. This stylish posse takes aim at the following: medieval London's wealthy oligarchies, its eateries, the sewage systems, the laundromats, trade unions, and the multimedia outlets. The action is brisk and invigorating, the aim startlingly accurate. Each sharpshooter in this this superb collection holds his or her own.' -James Simpson, Douglas P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English, Department of English and American Literature and Language, Harvard University, USA. 'If any volume proves that Lydgate matters to current scholarship, criticism, and teaching of medieval literature, it is this one. The editors have assembled a remarkable collection of distinguished senior and promising junior scholars. Taken together, they illuminate Lydgate's place in post-Chaucerian poetry, in the material culture of late medieval England, and in the broader arc of English literary history." -Seth Lerer, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Stanford University, USA. 'This volume has an admirable conversational quality to it, a sense that many of the essays are really engaged in a collective reading of Lydgate and cross-pollinate ideas with each other and a larger discourse. A solid contribution to the ongoing interest in Lydgate's work.' -Ethan Knapp, Ohio State University, USA.Table of ContentsLydgate Matters; L. H. Cooper and A. Denny-Brown Lydgate and London's Public Culture; C. Sponsler Lydgate's Golden Cows: Appetite and Avarice in Bycorne and Chychevache; A. Denny-Brown Sovereignty and Sewage; P. Strohm Lydgate's Worse Poem; M. Nolan 'Markys…Off the Workman': Heresy, Hagiography, and the Heavens in The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man; L. H. Cooper Lydgate, Lovelich, and London Letters; M. R. Warren St. George and the 'Steyned Halle': Lydgate's Verse for the London Armourers; J. Floyd Lydgate, Location, and the Poetics of Exemption; J. M. Ganim Lydgate's Refrain: The Open When; D. Vance Smith
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Palgrave Macmillan Sexuality and the Culture of Sensibility in the British Romantic Era
Book SynopsisThis is the first study to fully trace the influence of Sensibility on British Romanticism. Sensibility continually found new forms of expression in the late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth century. Nagle explores how it coexisted and intermingled with Romanticism and revises the traditional narratives of literary periodization of this era.Trade Review"This is an ambitious study that argues for the continuance of Sensibility within Romanticism, embedded within texts by writers who ostensibly rejected its excesses in favor of more directed models of psychological development, and seeking social cohesion in other modes. A strength of the study is, thus, one of range: not many studies move with equal surefootedness from Lawrence Sterne to Tennyson, and across genres from fiction to poetry." - Peter Manning, SUNY-Stony Brook University "This book opens the door to the Romantic closet at last. Besides dealing with issues of gender and sexuality as they have rarely been addressed, Nagle exposes romanticism's deep debt to the culture of sensibility and all the complexity of deep personal response that culture implies. This remarkable study deals with the major poets, women writers of both poetry and prose, and it demonstrates the ways in which Romantic writers are in active dialogue with predecessors of Sensibility. It opens the Romantic era to so much of the politics of pleasure that were seething within it all along." - George E. Haggerty, University of California, Riverside "This elegant study, with its creative synthesis of historicism, gender studies, and queer theory and its superlative close readings, provides exciting new analyses of classic works by Austen, Wordsworth, Shelley, and others. Arguing for a politics of pleasure that can be traced to the enduring influence of Sterne, Nagle offers a bold and stimulating assessment of the persistent role of sensibility through the Romantic period and well into the Victorian era. Nagle s original juxtaposition of canonical and non-canonical works yields a study that convinces readers of overlooked connections and under-appreciated continuities. This book is bound to alter irrevocably our understanding of literary culture at the turn of the nineteenth century." - Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace, Boston CollegeTable of ContentsThe Pleasures of Proximity 'The Heart's Best Blood': Sterne and the Promiscuous Life of Sensibility From Trembling to Tranquility: Women Writers and Wordsworth's Pleasure Principle Epistemologies of the Romantic Closet: Shakespeare, Sexuality, and the Myth of Genius The Social Work of Persuasion: Austen and the New Sensorium Prometheus vs. the Man of Feeling: Frankenstein, Sensibility, and the Uncertain Future of Romanticism (An Allegory for Literary History) Sentimental Journeys: The Afterlife of Feeling in Landon and Tennyson
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Sonnets and the English Woman Writer 15601621
Book SynopsisPreface List of Abbreviations Introduction: Gender, Genre and Attribution in Early Modern Women's Sonnet Sequences and Collections 'In a mirrour clere': Anne Lock's Miserere mei Deus as Admonitory Protestantism Generating Absence: The Sonnets of Mary Stuart The Politics of Prosopopoeia: The Pandora Sonnets The Politics of Withdrawal: Lady Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus and Lindamira's Complaint Conclusion Notes Bibliography IndexTrade Review'Smith shows that precedents of published women's writing can be as inhibiting as enabling, and therefore disrupts any smoothly progressive model of women's literary history.' - Times Literary Supplement 'Rosalind Smith has produced a well-organized and effective work, with much to recommend it...The strength of the work lies not only in its clearly defined remit but also in Smith's ability to range effortlessly from close textual analysis to a consideration of the wider context for these works, and to dovetail literary criticism with historical insight.' - Lucinda Becker, Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsPreface List of Abbreviations Introduction: Gender, Genre and Attribution in Early Modern Women's Sonnet Sequences and Collections 'In a mirrour clere': Anne Lock's Miserere mei Deus as Admonitory Protestantism Generating Absence: The Sonnets of Mary Stuart The Politics of Prosopopoeia: The Pandora Sonnets The Politics of Withdrawal: Lady Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus and Lindamira's Complaint Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Environment and Embodiment in Early Modern England
Book SynopsisList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction: Inhabiting the Body, Inhabiting the World; G.Sullivan & M.Floyd-Wilson Spongy Brains and Material Memories; J.Sutton Marvell's Amazing Garden; M.Thomas Crane The Souls of Animals: John Donne's Metempsychosis and Early Modern Natural History; E.D.Harvey Affective Irony: Toward an Emotional Logic of the Elizabethan Stage; S.Mullaney Inconstancy: Changeable Affections in Stuart Dramas of Contract; K.Rowe The East in British-American Writing: English Identity, John Smith's True Travels , and Severed Heads; J.Egan 'My liquid journey': The Frontispiece to Coryat's Crudities (1611); D.J.Baker Becoming the Landscape: The Ecology of the Passions in the Legend of Temperance; G.Kern Paster 'The Material Point of Poesy': Reading, Writing and Sensation in Puttenham's The Art of English Poesie K.Craik Spelling the Body; T.Pollard Humanist Habitats; Or, 'Eating Well' with Thomas More's Utopia ; J.Yates IndexTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction: Inhabiting the Body, Inhabiting the World; G.Sullivan & M.Floyd-Wilson Spongy Brains and Material Memories; J.Sutton Marvell's Amazing Garden; M.Thomas Crane The Souls of Animals: John Donne's Metempsychosis and Early Modern Natural History; E.D.Harvey Affective Irony: Toward an Emotional Logic of the Elizabethan Stage; S.Mullaney Inconstancy: Changeable Affections in Stuart Dramas of Contract; K.Rowe The East in British-American Writing: English Identity, John Smith's True Travels , and Severed Heads; J.Egan 'My liquid journey': The Frontispiece to Coryat's Crudities (1611); D.J.Baker Becoming the Landscape: The Ecology of the Passions in the Legend of Temperance; G.Kern Paster 'The Material Point of Poesy': Reading, Writing and Sensation in Puttenham's The Art of English Poesie K.Craik Spelling the Body; T.Pollard Humanist Habitats; Or, 'Eating Well' with Thomas More's Utopia ; J.Yates Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Experiencing Poetry
Book SynopsisHow do we experience poetry as readers? What is it in the text that provokes particular reactions, and how can we methodologically reveal these effects?Introducing an evidence-based approach to poetics, this book explores the psychological effects of poetic form and content, with an emphasis on how real readers respond to and experience poetry. Engaging with texts from diverse cultural and historical settings, it covers the basics of stylistic theory while at the same time outlining the specific methods required to categorize readers' cognitive, emotional and attitudinal reactions. Chapters guide you through engaging experiments, covering key concepts such as significance, averages, deviation, outliers and reliability, and bring poetry to life by drawing on YouTube performances and musical renditions of the texts. With further readings, a glossary of key terms and ancillary resources providing an overview of research methodology, this book equips you with all the linguistic and analyTrade ReviewThe chapters present a number of interesting methodological approaches that the authors themselves have implemented...As with all kinds of linguistic experience and ability, the evidence from direct and indirect assessment will show how, in the experiencing of poetry, language interfaces with other faculties of the mind. * Scientific Study of Literature *Experiencing Poetry welcomes readers into the field of empirical literary studies by connecting familiar aspects of poetry with scholarly concepts and research methods. The result is an engaging book for students or scholars who are new to the psychological study of poetry and its effects. -- Chantelle Warner, University of Arizona, USAExperiencing Poetry by Willie van Peer and Anna Chesnokova is a new volume exploring the concept of ‘psychopoetics’, ‘the study of the psychological experience of literature, and more specifically, of poetry in its various aspects and meanings’. Using stylistic approaches and empirical methods to analyse a range of poems for their prototypical features against established theoretical models, readers are presented with an insightful discussion of poems under novel chapter headings such as Poetry is Madness and Poetry is Prettiness. -- Marina Lambrou, Kingston University, UKTable of ContentsList of Figures Preface Foreword, David I. Hanauer Acknowledgments 1. Poetry is Structure 2. Poetry is Madness 3. Poetry is Prettiness 4. Poetry is Surprise 5. Poetry is Revelation 6. Poetry is Power 7. Poetry is Persistence 8. Methods to Study Psychopoetics 9. Toward a General Theory of Psychopoetics Bibliography Glossary Ancillary Resources Questionnaire Samples Dimensions of Foregrounding Effects Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Experiencing Poetry
Book SynopsisHow do we experience poetry as readers? What is it in the text that provokes particular reactions, and how can we methodologically reveal these effects?Introducing an evidence-based approach to poetics, this book explores the psychological effects of poetic form and content, with an emphasis on how real readers respond to and experience poetry. Engaging with texts from diverse cultural and historical settings, it covers the basics of stylistic theory while at the same time outlining the specific methods required to categorize readers' cognitive, emotional and attitudinal reactions. Chapters guide you through engaging experiments, covering key concepts such as significance, averages, deviation, outliers and reliability, and bring poetry to life by drawing on YouTube performances and musical renditions of the texts. With further readings, a glossary of key terms and ancillary resources providing an overview of research methodology, this book equips you with all the linguistic and analyTrade ReviewExperiencing Poetry welcomes readers into the field of empirical literary studies by connecting familiar aspects of poetry with scholarly concepts and research methods. The result is an engaging book for students or scholars who are new to the psychological study of poetry and its effects. -- Chantelle Warner, University of Arizona, USAThe chapters present a number of interesting methodological approaches that the authors themselves have implemented...As with all kinds of linguistic experience and ability, the evidence from direct and indirect assessment will show how, in the experiencing of poetry, language interfaces with other faculties of the mind. * Scientific Study of Literature *Experiencing Poetry by Willie van Peer and Anna Chesnokova is a new volume exploring the concept of ‘psychopoetics’, ‘the study of the psychological experience of literature, and more specifically, of poetry in its various aspects and meanings’. Using stylistic approaches and empirical methods to analyse a range of poems for their prototypical features against established theoretical models, readers are presented with an insightful discussion of poems under novel chapter headings such as Poetry is Madness and Poetry is Prettiness. -- Marina Lambrou, Kingston University, UKTable of ContentsList of Figures Preface Foreword, David I. Hanauer Acknowledgments 1. Poetry is Structure 2. Poetry is Madness 3. Poetry is Prettiness 4. Poetry is Surprise 5. Poetry is Revelation 6. Poetry is Power 7. Poetry is Persistence 8. Methods to Study Psychopoetics 9. Toward a General Theory of Psychopoetics Bibliography Glossary Ancillary Resources Questionnaire Samples Dimensions of Foregrounding Effects Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Poetry of Emily Dickinson
Book SynopsisTaking readers through the various stages of criticism of Emily Dickinson's poetry, this guide identifies both the essential critical texts and the key debates within them. The texts chosen for discussion represent the canonical readings which have typically shaped the area of Dickinson studies throughout the twentieth- and twenty-first century and provide a lens through which to view current critical trends. Chapters focus on style and meaning, gender and sexuality, history and race, religion and hymn culture, and performance and popular culture. In all, this guide serves as a user-friendly reference tool to the vast body of criticism on Dickinson to date by suggesting formative starting points and underlining essential critical highlights. It provides students and scholars of Dickinson with a sense of where these critical texts can be placed in relation to one another, as well as an understanding of pivotal moments within the history of reception of Dickinson from late nineteeTrade ReviewMorgan expertly guides readers through the history of Dickinson criticism and provides them with key insights that help illuminate the most pertinent issues and recurring debates that have shaped and continue to shape Dickinson’s reputation. * Dr Páraic Finnerty, Reader in English and American Literature, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1 Biographies and publication 1.1 Biographers 1.2 Dickinson as poet: Self-publication and early publication 2. Style and Meaning 2.1 Early criticism 2.2 Later revaluations 3 The female tradition, gender and sexuality 3.1 The female tradition 3.2 Writing the body 3.3 Queering Dickinson 4 History, Civil War and race 4.1 Historicizing Dickinson 4.2 The US Civil War 4.3 Dickinson, ethnicity and race 5 Religion and hymn culture 5.1 Rejecting orthodoxy 5.2 Religion and aesthetics 5.3 Dickinson and hymnody 6 Performance and reception 6.1 Performance in Dickinson’s Poetry 6.2 Dickinson and popular Culture 6.3 Digital Dickinson and international reception Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Lulu.com Poetics
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Palgrave Macmillan Poetry and Pedagogy
Book SynopsisWhy Teach Contemporary Poetries?; J.Retallack & J.Spahr Experimental Poetics and/as Pedagogy; A.Golding FFFFFalling with Poetry: the Centrifugal Classroom; L.Keller Reading for Affect in the Lyric; C.Altieri )Writing Writing(; J.Monroe New World Studies and the Limits of National Literatures; R.Greene What Hawai'i's 'Local' Poetry Has Taught Me About Pedagogy; M.Young Post-literary Poetry, Counter-performance, and Micro-poetries; M.Damon The Difficult Poem; C.Bernstein Deformance and Interpretation; L.Samuel & J.McGann Nourbese Philip's 'Discourse on the Logic of Language'; M.McMorris The Didactic; L.Shaw Stages of Encounter with a Difficult Text; L.Hejinian 'My Susan Howe', or, 'Howe to Teach'; G.M.Jenkins Language as Visible Vapor; J.Keller Teaching Kimiko Hahn's The Unbearable Heart ; J.Chang 'Gumshoe Poetry'; J.Osman A Case for Poetry in the Foreign Language Classroom; H.Maxim Sex Dolls, Mice, and Mother's Suitcase; D.Owens Creative Wreading: A Primer; C.Bernstein Understanding AltTable of ContentsWhy Teach Contemporary Poetries?; J.Retallack & J.Spahr Experimental Poetics and/as Pedagogy; A.Golding FFFFFalling with Poetry: the Centrifugal Classroom; L.Keller Reading for Affect in the Lyric; C.Altieri )Writing Writing(; J.Monroe New World Studies and the Limits of National Literatures; R.Greene What Hawai'i's 'Local' Poetry Has Taught Me About Pedagogy; M.Young Post-literary Poetry, Counter-performance, and Micro-poetries; M.Damon The Difficult Poem; C.Bernstein Deformance and Interpretation; L.Samuel & J.McGann Nourbese Philip's 'Discourse on the Logic of Language'; M.McMorris The Didactic; L.Shaw Stages of Encounter with a Difficult Text; L.Hejinian 'My Susan Howe', or, 'Howe to Teach'; G.M.Jenkins Language as Visible Vapor; J.Keller Teaching Kimiko Hahn's The Unbearable Heart ; J.Chang 'Gumshoe Poetry'; J.Osman A Case for Poetry in the Foreign Language Classroom; H.Maxim Sex Dolls, Mice, and Mother's Suitcase; D.Owens Creative Wreading: A Primer; C.Bernstein Understanding Alternative Poetries; H.Mullen He Has More Than One Ear; D.Glancy Notes Towards Exploding 'Exploding Text: Poetry Workshop'; B.Holman Some Places to Find new Poetries and Pedagogies Notes on Contributors
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Pearson Education Lyrical Ballads York Notes Advanced everything
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Edinburgh University Press Joe Brainards Art
Book SynopsisThis collection offers the first place for the importance of Brainard's poetry, collaborations and art to be recognised for their contribution and influence, all in one place.
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Edinburgh University Press Conversations with New York School Poets
Book SynopsisIn these exclusive interviews, New York School poets reveal what the New York School meant to them and how its legacy continues today.
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Edinburgh University Press Late Modernism and the Poetics of Place
Book SynopsisThe first book-length literary-geographical study of late modernist poetry.
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Edinburgh University Press Poetics and the Gift
Book SynopsisDiagnoses the Western poetic tradition's determinative association of poetry with giving.Trade Review"An ingenious reading of Derrida against himself frames a highly original exploration of responses to the notion of poetry as gift, from the Homeric Hymns to Flarf, showing its foundational status for the Western tradition and the possibility of distinguishing a realm of art and imagination from the prose of material existence." -Jonathan Culler, author of Theory of the Lyric
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Edinburgh University Press The TeaTable Miscellany
Book SynopsisThe first ever edition of the Tea-Table Miscellany, the seminal collection in defining eighteenth-century Scottish songTrade Review"The new volume of The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Allan Ramsay is a magnificent addition and a triumph for the editorial team. For readers familiar with Ramsay's work, but frustrated by the absence of a proper scholarly edition, this volume will more than satisfy. For those coming to Ramsay for the first time, it will introduce them to the man, his life and work, his deft editing practices, the rich musical scene in eighteenth-century Edinburgh and the significance of tea tables. The expert annotation illuminates his textual and musical choices, decisions and sources. Three hundred years after its first appearance, The Tea-Table Miscellany has been recovered and rehabilitated for the twenty-first century." -Fiona Stafford, University of Oxford
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Stanford University Press The Connected Condition: Romanticism and the
Book SynopsisThe Romantic poet's intense yearning to share thoughts and feelings often finds expression in a style that thwarts a connection with readers. Yohei Igarashi addresses this paradox by reimagining Romantic poetry as a response to the beginnings of the information age. Data collection, rampant connectivity, and efficient communication became powerful social norms during this period. The Connected Condition argues that poets responded to these developments by probing the underlying fantasy: the perfect transfer of thoughts, feelings, and information, along with media that might make such communication possible. This book radically reframes major poets and canonical poems. Igarashi considers Samuel Taylor Coleridge as a stenographer, William Wordsworth as a bureaucrat, Percy Shelley amid social networks, and John Keats in relation to telegraphy, revealing a shared attraction and skepticism toward the dream of communication. Bringing to bear a singular combination of media studies, the history of communication, sociology, rhetoric, and literary history, The Connected Condition proposes new accounts of literary difficulty and Romanticism. Above all, this book shows that the Romantic poets have much to teach us about living with the connected condition and the fortunes of literature in it.Trade Review"The Connected Condition is a brilliant, nuanced, and elegantly written work on media as concept and practice in the Romantic period. Writing about the 'dream of communication,' Yohei Igarashi restages through intriguing research and deft theoretical argument what earlier generations of Romanticists hallowed as imagination."—Alan Liu, University of California, Santa Barbara"This elegantly framed book cuts to the core of what the literary is, where it came from in English letters, and what it's for today. Yohei Igarashi's Romantic authors are pioneers seized by the quintessentially modern problem of communication—its imperative, norms, and all but certain failures."—Lisa Gitelman, New York University"The connections forged in the pages of The Connected Condition are revelatory, not least because they are pursued with tact, wit, and serious learning. As a critic, Yohei Igarashi combines the gifts and the practices of several generations of scholars, and he makes us think about the long-term gestation of our most recent preoccupations with communication, information, and efficiency. Never has the power of the norm appeared more exciting."—Kevis Goodman, University of California, Berkeley"A transformative contribution to the vital subfield of Romantic media studies....What emerges as a result of Igarashi's innovative methodology is no less than an entirely original vision of Romantic poetics as a unique kind of communicative order."—Andrew Burkett, Romantic Circles"Igarashi's timely new book ... takes a fresh look at the conflicted relationship between poetic distinction and the 'fantasy of perfectible contact' by considering it in conjunction with the emergence of a modern communications order...The Connected Condition forwards a way of doing media studies-informed poetry criticism... Igarashi's chapters convincingly demonstrate that norms of efficiency influence Romantic formal practices, often in surprising ways."—Alexis Chema, Genre"Igarashi presents a persuasive vision of the Romantic period as a proto-networked era and these Romantic poets as thinkers and writers who engaged with the conventions and fantasies of communication in their period."—Susan Shelangoskie, Nineteenth-Century Contexts"The impact of 'reimagin[ing] Romantic poeticity as shaped by the modern world of communication' is, I believe, even larger than Igarashi would hope. The interpretations offered at the level of detail throughout this book, as to how theories of communication enter into specific passages of poetry, transform 'Romanticism' as we know it. But The Connected Condition does much more as well . . . examining the effects of living in a communicative regime, using its technologies on a daily, habitual basis, and the effects of 'internalizing the logic associated with efficient communications media and technologies' so that even the activity of protesting against that logic must take heed of its forms."—Laura Mandell, The Wordsworth Circle"The scope of sociological concerns that Igarashi brings to the fore means that... this book will be of interest.... As Igarashi points out at the end of his Shelley chapter and in his conclusion, Romantic ambivalence about media, as it is instantiated in poetry, offers a way to cope with the alienation of their—and our—communication regime."—Thora Brylowe, Keats-Shelley Journal"An erudite and agile consideration of medium thinking in Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Igarashi's book also contains a meditation on the reflexive poetics of communication in Keats's Hyperion, an award-winning study in its earlier, article form."—Orrin N. C. Wang, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Dream of Communication 1. Scribble-Scrabble Genius: Coleridge, Transcription, and the Shorthand Effect 2. Wordsworth and Bureaucratic Form 3. Shelley amid the Age of Separations; or, a Poetry of Ambiversion for Networked Life 4. Keats's Ways: The Dark Passages of Mediation and Giving Up Hyperion Conclusion: Communication and Literary Competence, Anew
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Manchester University Press Polysituatedness
Book SynopsisJohn Kinsella is one of the pre-eminent poets writing today; Polysituatedness provides a sequel to his critical work Disclosed Poetics. If offers an approach to creating poems and literary texts constituted by multiple places, considering the relationships that occur between place, individual and the natural environment. -- .
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Manchester University Press A Companion to Pastoral Poetry of the English
Book SynopsisThis volume is an essential supplement to Pastoral poetry of the English Renaissance: An anthology (2016). The full-length Introduction examines English Renaissance pastoral against the history of the mode from antiquity to the present, with its multifarious themes and social affinities. The study covers many genres – eclogue, lyric, georgic, country-house poem, ballad, romantic epic, prose romance – and major practitioners – Theocritus, Virgil, Sidney, Spenser, Drayton and Milton. It also charts the circulation of pastoral texts, with implications for all early modern poetry. All poems in the Anthology were edited from the original texts; the Companion documents the sources and variant readings in unprecedented detail for a cross-section of early modern poetry. Includes notes on the poets and analytical indices. The Companion is indispensable not only to users of the Anthology but to all students and advanced scholars of Renaissance poetry.Trade Review‘Professor Chaudhuri has now produced the largest anthology of pastoral poetry yet published, a major collection in every sense, which illustrates the broad historical development outlined in his concise introduction, but with an unexpected diversity. It comprises 277 items, ranging from an anonymous 1588 translation of Theocritus to poems from Charles Cotton published posthumously in 1689… In sum, this wonderfully wide-ranging collection ought to be in every library of English literature. Congratulations are due to the editor and publisher, who have also published Chaudhuri's complementary A Companion to Pastoral Poetry of the English Renaissance (2018). The appearance of both volumes will make lovers of pastoral, present and future, deeply indebted to Sukanta Chaudhuri.’Maria Delgado, Times Higher Education‘In sum, this wonderfully wide-ranging collection ought to be in every library of English literature. Congratulations are due to the editor and publisher, who have also published Chaudhuri’s complementary A Companion to Pastoral Poetry of the English Renaissance (2018). The appearance of both volumes will make lovers of pastoral, present and future, deeply indebted to Sukanta Chaudhuri.’Brian Vickers, School of Advanced Study, University of London, The Review of English Studies‘…this wonderfully wide-ranging collection ought to be in every library of English literature. Congratulations are due to the editor and publisher, who have also published Chaudhuri’s complementary A Companion to Pastoral Poetry of the English Renaissance (2018). The appearance of both volumes will make lovers of pastoral, present and future, deeply indebted to Sukanta Chaudhuri.’Brian Vickers, University of London, The Review of English Studies, Vol. 70, Issue 295, June 2019 -- .Table of ContentsIntroductionI: PastoralII: TextTextual notes Notes on authors Analytical indices (A) Genres (B) Themes (C) Pastoral and other fictional names (D) Mythological names and allusions (E) Biblical names and allusions (F) Historical and other personal names and allusions (G) Place-names (geographical and mythological)Index
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Manchester University Press Contemporary Chaucer Across the Centuries
Book SynopsisThis unique and exciting collection, inspired by the scholarship of literary critic Stephanie Trigg, offers cutting-edge responses to the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer for the current critical moment. The chapters are linked by the organic and naturally occurring affinities that emerge from Trigg's ongoing legacy; containing diverse methodological approaches and themes, they engage with Chaucer through ecocriticism, medieval literary and historical criticism, and medievalism. The contributors, trailblazing international specialists in their respective fields, honour Trigg's distinctive and energetic mode of enquiry (the symptomatic long history) and intellectual contribution to the humanities. At the same time, their approaches exemplify shifting trends in Chaucer scholarship. Like Chaucer's pilgrims, these scholars speak to and alongside each other, but their essays are also attentive to 'hearing Chaucer speak' then, now and in the future.Trade Review'This collection will interest all readers of Chaucer. It is a fitting tribute, in the range andquality of its scholarship, to Stephanie Trigg, author of the great Congenial Souls (2001)… This book is a celebration of a great scholar, put together with care, containing scholarship of permanent value.'Renaissance Quarterly -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction – Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry and Melissa Raine1 Identifying, and identifying with, Chaucer – Paul Strohm2 First encounter: ‘snail horn perception’ in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde – Elizabeth Robertson3 Sir Thopas’s mourning maidens – Helen Cooper4 Chaucerian rhyme-breaking – Ruth Evans5 ‘Have ye nat seyn somtyme a pale face?’ – Stephanie Downes6 Heavy atmosphere – Jeffrey Jerome Cohen7 Hunting and fortune in the Book of the Duchess and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – Frank Grady8 The implausible plausibility of the Prologue to the Tale of Beryn – Thomas A. Prendergast9 Caxton in the middle of English – David Matthews10 ‘Hail graybeard bard’: Chaucer in the nineteenth-century popular consciousness – Stephen Knight11 Chaucer as Catholic child in nineteenth-century English reception – Andrew Lynch12 Flesh and stone: William Morris’s News from Nowhere and Chaucer’s dream visions – John M. Ganim13 ‘In remembrance of his persone’: transhistorical empathy and the Chaucerian face – Louise D’Arcens14 Textual face: cognition as recognition – James SimpsonIndex
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Manchester University Press The Correspondence of John Dryden
Book SynopsisThe correspondence of John Dryden is the definitive edition of the letters of the most important playwright and poet of the late seventeenth century. He defined an age and his newly transcribed disparate correspondence is placed in the context of contemporaneous and current debates about literature, politics and religion. It is also the most important account of the relationship between an author and his bookseller of the time.The illustrated correspondence contains a full biographical, textual introduction and calendar of letters. It is transcribed diplomatically and structured chronologically, with contextualising sections about particular correspondences.The readership will be undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students and academics with an interest in seventeenth century literature, politics, religion and culture.The editor won the MLA Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters.Trade Review'It is astounding to learn that only sixty-two letters, now collected with wonderfully thorough notes by Stephen Bernard and John McTague, survive from such a prolific and public hand. But the molehill is a mountain. Anyone remotely interested in this era will want to know … England’s greatest living poet … Dryden did for English literature what Augustus did for Rome, “He found it brick, and left it marble.' The New Criterion'Perhaps the most unheralded literary event of recent months was an item titled The Correspondence of John Dryden, published by Manchester University Press and edited by two worthies unlikely to be household names, although they’ve done a masterly job. … Stephen Bernard and John McTague have made sure not to slight in any way what they deem relevant textual commentary … It’s not pedantry, just good scholarship. The Hudson Review''The new generous edition of The Correspondence of John Dryden, edited by Stephen Bernard with John McTague, is full of gifts. Many of the letters themselves are gifts of news and writing, and news of writing, and as many others cover or record the grateful receipt of other objects passing between correspondents. ‘I always thought my Verses to my Cousin Driden were the best of the whole’, Dryden wrote … in his last surviving letter, ‘& to my comfort the Town thinks them so; & He, which pleases me most, is of the same Judgment as appears by a noble present he has sent me, which surprised me, because I did not in the least expect it’ … That sometimes surprising generosity extends happily into the ample editorial apparatus supplied to the seventy-eight letters making up the edition …Headnotes, sometimes to individual letters and on other occasions to groups of letters … helpfully locate them in their contexts; and end notes to each letter annotate them in a detail that often extends to the inclusion of whole texts to which only passing reference is made in the letter ... A gift, too, is the scrupulous and accurate attention that has been dedicated to the text of the letters, which where possible are freshly transcribed from manuscript witnesses.'The Library: Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 'The editors of this volume have made superb transcriptions of an extremely difficult text. They provide a general introduction to the book and to each of the letters, with valuable explanatory notes and portraits of the correspondents … contain[ing] 63 letters from Dryden, including 16 to his publisher Jacob Tonson, 17 to his young cousin Elizabeth Steward, and 15 letters to him … striking phrases and witty retorts leap out of the dull sentences … His biographer Sir Walter Scott dismissed them as “singularly uninteresting.” But the editors defend them—and justify their book … the letters “represent Dryden in his many facets: wit, man of letters, bon vivant, patron, client, a politically and religiously conscientious family man.' The Article -- .Table of ContentsNotes on the textList of abbreviationsCalendar of lettersJohn Dryden (1631–1700): an introductionThe correspondenceBibliographyIndex
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Manchester University Press Sidney’S Arcadia and the Conflicts of Virtue
Book SynopsisWood reads Philip Sidney’s New Arcadia in the light of the ethos known as Philippism after the followers of Philip Melanchthon the Protestant theologian. He employs a critical paradigm previously used to discuss Sidney’s Defence of Poesy and narrows the gap that critics have found between Sidney’s theory and literary practice. This book is a valuable resource for scholars and researchers in the fields of literary and religious studies.Various strands of philosophical, political and theological thought are accommodated within the New Arcadia, which conforms to the kind of literature praised by Melanchthon for its examples of virtue. Employing the same philosophy, Sidney, in his letter to Queen Elizabeth and in his fiction, arrogates to himself the role of court counsellor. Robert Devereux also draws, Wood argues, on the optimistic and conciliatory philosophy signified by Sidney’s New Arcadia.Trade Review'... a welcome resource for Elizabethanists.'CHOICE(Reprinted with permission from Choice Reviews. All rights reserved. Copyright by the American Library Association.)'Throughout its densely argued pages, Richard Wood greatly expands the concept of stoicism as it is presented in Sidney’s New Arcadia.'Journal of British Studies -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1) Sir Philip Sidney, Humility and Revising the Arcadia.2) 'Philip has the word and the substance': a Philippist Reading of Sidney's revised Arcadia.3) 'If an excellent man should err': Sir Philip Sidney and Stoical Virtue.4) 'Think nature me a man of arms did make'?: Conflicted Conflicts in Astrophil and Stella and the revised Arcadia.5) 'The representing of so strange a power in love': Sir Philip Sidney’s Legacy of Anti-factionalism.6) 'Cleverly playing the stoic': the Earl of Essex, Sir Philip Sidney and Surviving Elizabeth's court.
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Manchester University Press The Heat of Beowulf
Book SynopsisThe heat of Beowulf develops a new approach to the aesthetics of Beowulf by engaging with the work of twentieth-century poets Robin Blaser and Jack Spicer, whose avant-garde poetics were informed by a serious encounter with the poem in the seminar of medievalist Arthur G. Brodeur. By considering Blaser’s and Spicer’s poetics as they were shaped by their encounter with Beowulf, the book is able to open up questions about the non-representational poetics of the poem, rebooting a mid-century approach to aesthetics on a new critical trajectory. The book considers the poem’s aesthetics through relationship translation theory, as well as early medieval discourses of sensory-affective experience and twentieth-century phenomenology. The heat of Beowulf reexamines the scholarship on Old English poetics from the mid-twentieth century as it intersected with post-war avant-garde poetics, and how understanding these critical histories can reshape how we read Beowulf now.Table of ContentsIntroduction: translative comparative poetics 1 The aesthetics of Beowulf in the middle of the twentieth century 2 ‘Heat’, early medieval aesthetics, and multisensory complexion in Beowulf 3 The heat of earmsceapen style: translatability and compound diction 4 ‘Real cliffs’: variation and lexical kinetics 5 Narrating heat in a hot world Afterword Appendix: catalog of ‘fire’ and ‘heat’ words in Beowulf Index
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Manchester University Press The Early Spenser, 1554–80: 'Minde on Honour
Book SynopsisBrink’s provocative biography shows that Spenser was not the would-be court poet whom Karl Marx’s described as ‘Elizabeth’s arse-kissing poet’. In this readable and informative account, Spenser is depicted as the protégé of a circle of London clergymen, who expected him to take holy orders. Brink shows that the young Spenser was known to Alexander Nowell, author of Nowell’s Catechism and Dean of St. Paul’s. Significantly revising the received biography, Brink argues that that it was Harvey alone who orchestrated Familiar Letters (1580). He used this correspondence to further his career and invented the portrait of Spenser as his admiring disciple. Contextualising Spenser’s life by comparisons with Shakespeare and Sir Walter Ralegh, Brink shows that Spenser shared with Sir Philip Sidney an allegiance to the early modern chivalric code. His departure for Ireland was a high point, not an exile.Trade Review'In what is arguably the most important contribution to Spenser studies since Andrew Hadfield’s landmark biography, Jean Brink has rendered a superb service to the field, filling in blanks in the poet’s life and opening up fresh lines of inquiry for future scholars. Brink’s account of the 1560s and 1570s is exemplary in its scholarly scrupulousness. A sustained analysis of Spenser’s schooldays and undergraduate experiences, a meticulous reading of The Shepheardes Calender and a firm putting of Gabriel Harvey in his proper, if less witty and familiar place are just some of the highlights of this splendid monograph. It is a work that is sure to be of lasting impact. Brink is less interested in Spenser’s access to Ireland prior to 1580 than some of her readers will be, but she opens a gateway into the poet’s early encounter with that country that her counterparts have yet to fully explore ... We speak nowadays of ‘research monographs’ when we really mean simply book-length arguments. The Early Spenser really is a research monograph. It reads like a volume that was pieced together over decades rather than years and for that reason it is certain to be a work of enduring criticism.'Willy Maley, The Spenser Review'She [Brink] has a special talent for the capsule biography, and she exploits it to considerable advantage.'Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Lineage and the ‘Nowell Account Book’2 Spenser’s education and Merchant Taylors’ School3 Pembroke College (1569–74) 4 ‘Southerne shepheardes boye’ (1574–79)5 Gabriel Harvey and Immerito (1569–78)6 ‘Minde on honour fixed’: Spenser, Sidney, and the early modern chivalric code7 Aprill and November8 Puzzling identities: From E.K. to Roffy’s ‘boye’ to Rosalind9 Familiar Letters (1580)10 Ireland and the preferment of Edmund Spenser (1580)Conclusion
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Manchester University Press A Sonnet to Science: Scientists and Their Poetry
Book SynopsisA sonnet to science presents an account of six ground-breaking scientists who also wrote poetry, and the effect that this had on their lives and research. How was the universal computer inspired by Lord Byron? Why was the link between malaria and mosquitos first captured in the form of a poem? Whom did Humphry Davy consider to be an ‘illiterate pirate’? Written by leading science communicator and scientific poet Dr Sam Illingworth, A sonnet to science presents an aspirational account of how these two disciplines can work together, and in so doing aims to convince both current and future generations of scientists and poets that these worlds are not mutually exclusive, but rather complementary in nature.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 The romantic scientist: Humphry Davy (1778–1829)2 The metaphysical poet: Ada Lovelace (1815–52)3 The lyrical visionary: James Clerk Maxwell (1831–79)4 The medical metrist: Ronald Ross (1857–1932)5 The reluctant poet: Miroslav Holub (1923–98)6 The poetic pioneer: Rebecca Elson (1960–99)EpilogueIndex
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Manchester University Press The Early Modern English Sonnet: Ever in Motion
Book SynopsisThis volume questions and qualifies commonly accepted assumptions about the early modern English sonnet: that it was a strictly codified form, most often organised in sequences, which only emerged at the very end of the sixteenth century and declined as fast as it had bloomed, and that minor poets merely participated in the sonnet fashion by replicating established conventions. Drawing from book history and relying on close reading and textual criticism, this collection offers a more nuanced account of the history of the sonnet. It discusses how sonnets were written, published and received in England as compared to mainland Europe, and explores the works of major (Shakespeare, Sidney, Spenser) and minor (Barnes, Harvey) poets alike. Reflecting on current editorial practices, it also provides the first modern edition of an early seventeenth-century Elizabethan miscellany including sonnets presumably by Sidney and Spenser.Trade Review'This remarkable volume is a fine addition to the current body of scholarship on the sonnet form. Scholars of English lyric would benefit from a look at this volume, as would those who have especial interest in the structure and material production of early modern verse miscellanies.'The Spenser Review -- .Table of ContentsIntroductionLaetitia Sansonetti, Rémi Vuillemin, Enrica ZaninShaping the sonnet, from Italy and France to England1 English Petrarchism: From commentary on poetry to poetry as commentaryWilliam J. Kennedy2 Early modern theories of the sonnet: Accounts of the quatorzain in Italy, France and England in the second half of the sixteenth centuryCarlo Alberto Girotto, Jean-Charles Monferran, Rémi VuilleminPerforming the English sonnet3 Sonnet-mongers on the early modern English stageGuillaume Coatalen4 In and out: Shakespeare's shifting sonnets. From Love's Labour's Lost to The Passionate PilgrimSophie ChiariPlacing the sonnet: Sonnets isolated or sequenced5 'Small parcelles': Unsequenced sonnets in the sixteenth centuryChris Stamatakis6 ' ... and sweetly nectarize this bitter gall': Gabriel Harvey's sonnet therapyElisabeth Chaghafi7 Barnabe Barnes's sonnet sequences: Moral conversion and prodigal authorshipRémi VuilleminEditing the sonnet8 The Muses Garland (1603): Fragment of a printed verse miscellanyHugh Gazzard9 Sonnet sequence as sound continuum: How we read Shakes-speares SonnetsAndrew Eastman
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Quercus Publishing The Chosen: who pays the price of a writer's
Book Synopsis'A delicate novel, finely judged and full of insight' Hilary MantelSHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA GOLD CROWN AWARD 2023One Wednesday morning in November 1912 the ageing Thomas Hardy, entombed by paper and books and increasingly estranged from his wife Emma, finds her dying in her bedroom. Between his speaking to her and taking her in his arms, she has gone.The day before, he and Emma had exchanged bitter words - leading Hardy to wonder whether all husbands and wives end up as enemies to each other. His family and Florence Dugdale, the much younger woman with whom he has been in a relationship, assume that he will be happy and relieved to be set free. But he is left shattered by the loss.Hardy's bewilderment only increases when, sorting through Emma's effects, he comes across a set of diaries that she had secretly kept about their life together, ominously titled 'What I Think of My Husband'. He discovers what Emma had truly felt - that he had been cold, remote and incapable of ordinary human affection, and had kept her childless, a virtual prisoner for forty years. Why did they ever marry?He is consumed by something worse than grief: a chaos in which all his certainties have been obliterated. He has to re-evaluate himself, and reimagine his unhappy wife as she was when they first met.Hardy's pained reflections on the choices he has made, and must now make, form a unique combination of love story and ghost story, by turns tender, surprising, comic and true. The Chosen - the extraordinary new novel by Elizabeth Lowry - hauntingly searches the unknowable spaces between man and wife; memory and regret; life and art.Trade ReviewDoes art enhance life, or negate it? The painful question runs through Lowry's portrait of Thomas Hardy, and produces a sombre, delicate novel, finely judged and full of insight -- Hilary MantelIn The Chosen, Lowry conjures the torments of a writer's life wonderfully. It is full of understanding, shrewd and often lyrical - a thing of beauty and sadness. -- Alison Light, author of Mrs Woolf & the ServantsElizabeth Lowry writes like a dream; finely attuned to the hopes, desires and secret hauntings of her characters, she brings them to life like no other writer I know. Every new book from Lowry is a rare treat, best devoured slowly. -- Marina Benjamin'[A] novel which is both a fascinating analysis of Hardy and a powerful and exquisite work of art in its own right . . . her writing is utterly without mercy while also being underpinned by deep compassion . . . Lowry's view of marriage and, more particularly, the creative life is almost unbearably bleak, but her novel is glorious - the best that I have read in several years. -- Alice Jolly * Literary Review *Hardy's doomed first marriage is the subject of this beautifully rendered and poignant novel . . . The prose is exquisite . . . Above all, like many of the best novelists, Lowry understands the intricacies of the human heart. * The Times *In this exquisite imagining of the days after Emma's unexpected death, The Chosen excavates Hardy's emotions . . . Felled by the bitterness in her diaries . . .Hardy experiences 'a savage sense of liberty' and overwhelming feelings of loss, beautifully described in Lowry's bellclear, silvery prose. * Daily Mail *This novel is exquisitely written and powerfully perceptive, yet never loses sight of its biographical nature. * Country Life *Deserves to be read by anyone interested in Thomas Hardy or in good literature. * Sherborne Times *It's a remarkable, mesmeric piece of writing . . . an authentic cri de coeur from a deeply reserved man. There are utterly remarkable passages in The Chosen where something shifts, time seems to alter and language starts to glow. It's rare and quite extraordinary. It feels as though two levels of language like two currents of different salinity are flowing across each other - the sensation is one of looking through the 3rd person narration into Hardy's innermost lived experience, and through or behind those the further layer of the poems themselves, still fluid, in formation in the mind. -- Andrew Greig, author of Rose NicolsonA stylistic tour de force . . . Miss this work of art -- and cautionary tale against long-term gaslighting -- at your peril. * Strong Words *The Chosen combines psychological depth with prose of mesmerising beauty. The result is an exquisite double portrait of a marriage and a writer, and the elusively complex relationship between the two. This is a novel of tremendous range, from the elegiac to the humorous to the sublime. Vladimir Nabokov described the best of fiction as "a game of intricate enchantment and deception". In this heartbreaking, life-affirming exploration of the perversity of the human heart and the paradox of creativity, Elizabeth Lowry shows herself the mistress of both. * Financial Times *With remarkable steadiness and fine judgment, Elizabeth Lowry goes right into the midst of this legendary literary maelstrom and opens a space for fiction . . . Slowly and feelingly, the novel pores over questions about the costs of art, refusing to shout out answers, letting many perspectives tell upon each other . . . Where Poems of 1912-13 intensify around single visions, utterly concentrated, The Chosen works by looking around at everything going on in the house. Max Gate is vividly realised in all its tree-shadowed gloominess, gobbling coal and effort, too large yet grimly confining. -- GuardianA lyrical meditation on love and literary inspiration. Lowry's richly evocative novel plunges the reader into Hardy's day-to-day life at Max Gate, the Dorset house he built for himself, as he rakes over the ashes of his strained marriage and channels his grief into the extraordinary outpouring of creativity that was the "Poems of 1912-13". * Financial Times (Best Summer Books 2022) *A wise and beautifully written book * The Times *Lowry's theme is the underside of artistic devotion - the monstrousness of the writing life for those closest, or trying to be. In the year in which we lost Hilary Mantel, it's a real joy to have discovered in Elizabeth Lowry another meticulous, restrained and humane chronicler of lives past. I'll be looking out for more of her work. * The Lonely Crowd (Book of the Year) *An extraordinary feat of imagination, perception and empathy * Irish Times *
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Purdue University Press Cities in Ruins: The Politics of Modern Poetics
Book SynopsisThe attacks in New York on September 11, 2001, and in Madrid on March 11, 2004, provoked diverse political reactions, but the imminence of the ruins triggered a collective historical awakening. In Cities in Ruins, Cecilia Enjuto Rangel argues that the portrayal in poetry of the modern city as a disintegrated, ruined space is part of a critique of the visions of progress and the historical process of modernization that developed during the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. Enjuto Rangel's study investigates the virtually unexplored map of modern ruins in modern poetry. She interprets modern poetry on ruins as a critique of both capitalist definitions of progress and the devastating effects of modern warfare. Furthermore, she argues that the representation of ruins provokes a historical awakening that empowers the text, and the reader, with political and historical agency.
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The New York Review of Books, Inc My Century
Book SynopsisIn My Century the great Polish poet Aleksander Wat provides a spellbinding account of life in Eastern Europe in the midst of the terrible twentieth century. Based on interviews with Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz, My Century describes the artistic, sexual, and political experimentation --in which Wat was a major participant-- that followed the end of World War I: an explosion of talent and ideas which, he argues, in some ways helped to open the door to the destruction that the Nazis and Bolsheviks soon visited upon the world. But Wat''s book is at heart a story of spiritual struggle and conversion. He tells of his separation during World War II from his wife and young son, of his confinement in the Soviet prison system, of the night when the sound of far-off laughter brought on a vision of 'the devil in history.' 'It was then,' Wat writes, 'that I began to be a believer.'
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Workman Publishing Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life: The Plants and
Book Synopsis“A visual treat as well as a literary one…for gardeners and garden lovers, connoisseurs of botanical illustration, and those who seek a deeper understanding of the life and work of Emily Dickinson.” —The Wall Street Journal Emily Dickinson was a keen observer of the natural world, but less well known is the fact that she was also an avid gardener—sending fresh bouquets to friends, including pressed flowers in her letters, and studying botany at Amherst Academy and Mount Holyoke. At her family home, she tended both a small glass conservatory and a flower garden. In Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life, award-winning author Marta McDowell explores Dickinson’s deep passion for plants and how it inspired and informed her writing. Tracing a year in the garden, the book reveals details few know about Dickinson and adds to our collective understanding of who she was as a person. By weaving together Dickinson’s poems, excerpts from letters, contemporary and historical photography, and botanical art, McDowell offers an enchanting new perspective on one of America’s most celebrated but enigmatic literary figures.
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Kent State University Press Hemingway in Comics
Book SynopsisErnest Hemingway casts a long shadow in literature--reaching beyond his status as a giant of 20th-century fiction and a Nobel Prize winner--extending even into comic books. Appearing variously with Superman, Mickey Mouse, Captain Marvel, and Cerebus, he has even battled fascists alongside Wolverine in Spain and teamed up with Shade to battle adversaries in the Area of Madness.Robert K. Elder's research into Hemingway's comic presence demonstrates the truly international reach of Hemingway as a pop culture icon. In more than 120 appearances across multiple languages, Hemingway is often portrayed as the hypermasculine legend: bearded, boozed up, and ready to throw a punch. But just as often, comic book writers see past the bravado to the sensitive artist looking for validation. Hemingway's role in these comics ranges from the divine to the ridiculous, as his image is recorded, distorted, lampooned, and whittled down to its essential parts.As Elder notes, comic book creators and Hemingway share a natural kinship. The comic book page demands an economy of words, much like Hemingway's less-is-more "iceberg theory," only in graphic form. In addition, he turned out to be the perfect avatar for comic book artists wanting to tell history-rich stories, as he experienced beautiful places during the most chaotic times: Paris in the 1920s, Spain during the Spanish Civil War, Cuba on the brink of revolution, France during World War I and during World War II just after the Allies landed in Normandy.Hemingway in Comics provides a unique lens for considering one of our most influential authors. Not only for the dedicated Hemingway fan, this book will appeal to all those with an appreciation for comics, pop culture, and the absurd.Trade Review"Robert K. Elder identifies more than 120 Hemingway appearances in comics from around the world, and with 270 colorful illustrations, Hemingway in Comics reveals a great many of those sightings. Indeed, we see how Hemingway inspires comic writers and artists to create new stories of immense entertainment." — Foreword Reviews"Elder is an amiable guide to comic strips, books, and graphic novel series that use Hemingway as a springboard into satire, joke-telling, brooding existential meditations, and wonky literary archaeology. Overall verdict: Ka-Pow." — Booklist
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Bucknell University Press Poetic Salvage: Reading Mina Loy
Book SynopsisMina Loy—poet, artist, exile, and luminary—was a prominent and admired figure in the art and literary circles of Paris, Florence, and New York in the early years of the twentieth century. But over time, she gradually receded from public consciousness and her poetry went out of print. As part of the movement to introduce the work of this cryptic poet to modern audiences, Poetic Salvage: Reading Mina Loy provides new and detailed explications of Loy’s most redolent poems. This book helps readers gain a better understanding of the body of Loy’s work as a whole by offering compelling close readings that uncover the source materials that inspired Loy’s poetry, including modern artwork, Baedeker travel guides, and even long-forgotten cultural venues. Helpfully keyed to the contents of Loy’s Lost Lunar Baedeker, edited by Roger Conover, this book is an essential aid for new readers and scholars alike. Mina Loy forged a legacy worthy of serious consideration—through a practice best understood as salvage work, of reclaiming what has been so long obscured. Poetic Salvage: Reading Mina Loy dives deep to bring hidden treasures to the surface.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Mina Loy: Her Life and Lifework An Aesthetic Invitation Part I: FUTURISM X FEMINISM: THE CIRCLE SQUARED (POEMS 1914–1920) Chapter 1: Women in Space and Time Part II: SONGS TO JOANNES (1917) Chapter 2: Pig Cupid and Psyche Part III: CORPSES AND GENIUSES (POEMS 1919–1930) Chapter 3: Portrait of the Poet as a Young Artist Chapter 4: Loy’s Coterie Chapter 5: Exilic Travels Part IV: COMPENSATIONS OF POVERTY Chapter 6: Urban Bricoleur Epilogopoeia: The Lost Lunar Baedeker Found Appendices Bibliography About the Author
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White Falcon Publishing Ketki's Compilation Of Bliss - A Way to See the
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Haymarket Books Walt Whitman and His Caribbean Interlocutors:
Book SynopsisWalt Whitman and His Caribbean Interlocutors: José Martí, C.L.R. James, and Pedro Mir explores the writings of Whitman (1819-1892) and of three Caribbean authors who engaged with them. These three interlocutors—the Cuban poet, essayist and revolutionary José Martí (1853-1895); the Trinidadian activist, historian and cultural critic C.L.R. James (1901-1989); and the Dominican poet Pedro Mir (1913-2000—all saw in the famous American poet and pacifist a key lens through which to understand North American capitalism and is imperial projections. Whitman and his Caribbean interlocutors are discussed against the backdrop of capitalist modernity's contradictions, as exemplified by the United States between the 1840s and the 1940s. Bernabe deftly uses Marx's exploration of the liberating and oppressive dimensions of capitalist expansion to frame his discussion of each individual author and of Martí's, James's, and Mir's responses to Whitman.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Marx and the 'Transformation of History into World History' 2 'Within Me Latitude Widens, Longitude Lengthens': Whitman and the World Created by Capital 3 'In Paths Untrodden': Whitman, Nature, Democracy and the 'Average Man of To-day' 4 The 'Emptiness' of the Present: Marx, the 'Bourgeois Viewpoint' and Its 'Romantic Antithesis' 5 'This All-Devouring Modern Word': Whitman's Critique of Business 6 From Brooklyn Ferry to Brooklyn Bridge: José Martí and the 'Modern Multiple Life' 7 'The Final Culmination of This Vast and Varied Republic': Whitman's Failed Transcendence of the Present 8 Whitman: Inconsistent Democrat, Yet More Than a Democrat 9 A 'Damaged and Alien Civilization': Martí's Search for an Alternative Modernity 10 C.L.R. James's Notes on American Civilization, or the Song of the C.I.O. 11 'Now Has Come the Hour of the Countersong': Pedro Mir and Walt Whitman References Index
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Academic Studies Press Centuries Encircle Me with Fire: Selected Poems
Book SynopsisOsip Mandelstam (1891-1938) is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's most influential poets. This collection, compiled, translated, and edited by poet and scholar Ian Probstein, provides Anglophone audiences with a powerful selection of Mandelstam's most beloved and haunting poems. Both scholars and general readers will gain a deeper understanding of his poetics, as Probstein situates each poem in its historical and literary context. The English translations presented here are so deeply immersed in the Russian sources and language through the ear of a Russian-born Probstein who has spent most of his adult life in the US, that they provide reader's with a Mandelstam unseen any translations that precede it. Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsA Note on the TextOsip Mandelstam: “Centuries encircle me with fire”On Translating MandelstamОсип Мандельштам (1891–1938)Osip Mandelstam (1891–1938)Из книги «Камень» (стихотворения 1908–1915)From Stone (poems of 1908–1915)Дано мне тело—что мне делать с ним . . .I am given a body—what should I . . .Я ненавижу свет . . .I hate the light . . .Паденье—неизменный спутник страха . . .The fall is a constant companion of fear . . .Айя-СофияHagia Sophia. . . На луне не растет . . .. . . Not a single blade . . .ПосохThe WandУничтожает пламень . . .The fire destroys . . .Из книги «Tristia» (стихотворения 1916–1922)From Tristia (poems of 1916–1922)ДекабристA DecembristКогда в тёплой ночи замирает . . .When a feverish forum of Moscow . . .Прославим, братья, сумерки свободы . . .Hail, brothers, let us praise our freedom’s twilight . . .TristiaTristiaНа каменных отрогах Пиэрии . . .On steep stony ridges of Pieria . . .Сёстры тяжесть и нежность, одинаковы ваши приметы . . .Sisters, heaviness and tenderness, your traits are akin . . .Вернись в смесительное лоно . . .Go back to the incestuous womb . . .Веницейской жизни, мрачной и бесплодной . . .The meaning of fruitless and gloomy . . .За то, что я руки твои не сумел удержать . . .Because I could not hold your hands in mine . . .Из книги «Стихотворения» (1928 г., стихотворения 1921–1925 гг.)From Poems (1928, poems of 1921–1925)С розовой пеной усталости у мягких губ . . .With the pink foam of fatigue around soft lips . . .ВекThe AgeНашедший подковуThe Horseshoe FinderГрифельная одаThe Slate OdeЯзык булыжника мне голубя понятней . . .Clearer than pigeon’s talk to me is stone’s tongue . . .А небо будущим беременно . . .And the Sky is Pregnant with the Future . . .1 января 1924January 1, 1924Нет, никогда, ничей я не был современник . . .No, I’ve never been anyone’s contemporary . . .Я буду метаться по табору улицы тёмной . . .I’ll rush along a gypsy camp of a dark street . . .Из Новых cтихотворений 1930–1934 гг.From New Poems of 1930–1934Армения1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12Armenia1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12На полицейской бумаге верже. . .On the police laid paper the night. . .Не говори никому . . .Don’t tell it anyone—forget . . .Колючая речь Араратской долины . . .A prickly speech of the Ararat Valley . . .Как люб мне натугой живущий . . .How dear to me are those people . . .Дикая кошка—армянская речь . . .A wild cat—the Armenian speech . . .Я скажу тебе с последней . . .I will tell you this, my lady . . .За гремучую доблесть грядущих веков . . .For the thunderous courage of ages to come . . .Нет, не спрятаться мне от великой муры . . .No, I won’t be able to hide from a great mess . . .НеправдаUntruthПолночь в Москве. Роскошно буддийское лето . . .Midnight in Moscow. A Buddhist summer is lavish . . .Отрывки из уничтоженных стихов1 | 2 | 3 | 4Excerpts from Destroyed Poems1 | 2 | 3 | 4Еще далеко мне до патриарха . . .I am far from being as old as patriarch . . .Сегодня можно снять декалькомани . . .Today we can take decals . . .ЛамаркLamarckИмпрессионизмImpressionismБатюшковBatiushkovДайте Тютчеву стрекóзу . . .Give Tiutchev a dragonfly . . .АриостAriostoНе искушай чужих наречий, но постарайся их забыть . . .Do not tempt foreign tongues—attempt forgetting them, alas . . .Квартира тиха как бумага . . .An apartment is quiet as paper . . .Давай же с тобой, как на плахе . . .Let’s start preparing for the scaffold . . .Мы живём, под собою не чуя страны . . .We live without feeling our country’s pulse . . .Восьмистишия1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11Octaves1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11Стихи памяти Андрея БелогоTo the Memory of Andrei BelyУтро 10 января 19341 | 2 | 3The Morning of January 10, 19341 | 2 | 310 января 1934 [вариант 2]January 10, 1934 [version 2]Из Воронежских тетрадей (стихотворения 1935–1937)From the Voronezh Notebooks (poems of 1935–1937)Из Первой тетрадиFrom the First NotebookПусти меня, отдай меня, Воронеж . . .Let go, Voronezh, raven-town . . .Я должен жить, хотя я дважды умер . . .I have to live though I died twice . . .Лишив меня морей, разбега и разлета . . .Having deprived me of seas, flight, and space . . .День стоял о пяти головах. Сплошные пять суток . . .The day was five-headed: five unbreakable days . . .Еще мы жизнью пóлны в высшей мере . . .We are still sentenced to life . . .Римских ночей полновесные слитки . . .Solid gold bars of the Roman nights . . .За Паганини длиннопалым . . .They run like a gypsy throng . . .Исполню дымчатый обряд . . .I’ll fulfill a dim rite . . .Из Второй тетрадиFrom the Second NotebookНе у меня, не у тебя—у них . . .Not I, not you—but they . . .Улыбнись, ягненок гневный с Рафаэлева холста . . .Smile, angry lamb from Rafael’s canvas, don’t rage . . .Дрожжи мира дорогие . . .World’s golden yeast, our dear . . .Еще не умер ты, еще ты не один . . .You haven’t died yet. You are not alone . . .Что делать нам с убитостью равнин . . .What should we do with murdered plains . . .Вооруженный зреньем узких ос . . .Armed with the vision of narrow wasps . . .Из Третьей тетрадиFrom the Third NotebookСтихи о неизвестном солдатеVerses on the Unknown SoldierСквозь эфир десятично-означенный . . .Through the ether of ten-digit zeroes . . .Для того ль должен череп развиться . . .Should the skull develop its brow . . .Для того ль заготовлена тара . . .Is the packaging of charm stored . . .Я молю, как жалости и милости . . .I beg like compassion and grace . . .Я скажу это начерно, шёпотом . . .I will say it in draft and in whisper . . .Может быть, это точка безумия . . .It might be the point of insanity . . .Не сравнивай: живущий несравним . . .A living man’s unique: do not compare . . .Чтоб, приятель и ветра и капель . . .To help a friend of rain and wind . . .Гончарами велик остров синий . . .A blue island, green Crete is extolled . . .Длинной жажды должник виноватый . . .A guilty debtor of a long-time thirst . . .О, как же я хочу . . .Oh, how I madly crave . . .Нереиды мои, нереиды! . .My nereids, oh, my nereids! . . .Флейты греческой тэта и йота . . .Greek flute’s theta and iota . . .На меня нацелилась груша да черемуха . . .I’m under fire of a bird cherry tree and a pear tree . . .[Стихи к H<аталии> Е. Штемпель]1 | 2[Poems for N Е. Shtempel]1 | 2AbbreviationsBibliographyPublications of Works by Osip E. MandelstamTranslations into EnglishTranslations of Osip Mandelstam’s Poems into Other LanguagesCriticism
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