Literary studies: poetry and poets Books

Book SynopsisThe Parable of the Prodigal Son is one of the best-known stories in the Bible. It has captured the imagination of commentators, preachers and writers. Alison M. Jack explores the reconfiguring of the character of the Prodigal Son and his family in literature in English. She considers diverse literary periods and genres in which the paradigm is particularly prevalent, such as Elizabethan literature, the work of Shakespeare, the novels of female Victorian writers, the American short story tradition, novels focused on the lives of ordained ministers, and the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop and Iain Crichton Smith. Drawing on scholarship from biblical and literary studies, this study demonstrates the remarkable potency of the parable in generating new, and at times contradictory, meanings in different contexts. Historical and literary criticism are brought into dialogue to explore this remarkably resilient and nimble character as he dances through drama, novels and poetry across the centuries.Trade ReviewThis book is a valuable contribution to the growing library of works on the literary reception of the Bible. * Anthony Swindell, Review of Biblical Literature *Table of Contents1: Reading the Prodigal Son 2: The Prodigal Son in Elizabethan Literature 3: The Prodigal Son and Shakespeare 4: Female Victorian Novelists and the Prodigal Son 5: The American Short Story and the Prodigal Son 6: Prodigal Ministers in Fiction 7: The Prodigal Son in Poetry: Elizabeth Bishop and Iain Crichton Smith 8: Conclusion Bibliography

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Trade Reviewa meticulously researched, well written and accessible study that will attract the interest of both general and specialist readers, offering to each several suggestive lines of inquiry relating to both Hopkins and the larger field of Victorian visual cultures. * Daniel Brown, Review English Studies *Probably the world's foremost Hopkins text-scholar, Catherine Phillips here shows herself an astute art critic with a good eye, a touch of wit, and a gift for clear summary. In turn, Gerard Manley Hopkins glistens even more brightly than before. * Joseph J. Feeney, S.J. *[Phillips'] interweaving of literary and visual evidence makes an important contribution to the study of Hopkins' poetry and aesthetics, as well as to our understanding of Victorian art, its dissemination and reception. * Grace Brockington, Archiv *Table of ContentsPreface ; 1. Early Influences ; 2. Hopkins's Drawings ; 3. 'Dapple': Hopkins and Architecture ; 4. Art Criticism ; 5. Gerard, Arthur, and the Illustrated Press ; 6. Hopkins, the Countryman and the New Sculpture ; 7. Theories of Vision

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Book SynopsisA 4th-century BCE mock-epic poem, probably entitled the "Hedupatheia" or "Life of Luxury", offering a gastronomic tour of the Mediterranean. This work is aimed at researchers and students in Greek poetry, social history, and cuisine of the late classical and early Hellenistic period.Trade ReviewOlson and Sens have produced a text and translation equipped with exhaustive introduction and commentary. Theirs is likely to remain the standard edition of Archestratos for many years ... the commentary is a useful tool for students of food and literature alike. * Gnomon *Scholars and teachers interested in ancient food and dining will welcome this collection of the fragments of the fourth-century BC gastronomical poem, Hedupatheia, by Archestratos, usually accessible only in references scattered throughout the eipnosophistae of Athenaeus * The Classical Outlook *

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Book SynopsisVolume II in Oxford's Complete Works of John Milton provides newly-collated and carefully edited old-spelling texts of two of Milton major poems: Paradise Regain'd and Samson Agonistes. A detailed introduction and notes examine the political, religious, print, and publishing context in which the poems appeared.Trade Reviewfamiliar themes are given fresh interest... Knopper's excellent general introduction positions the poems and the new evidence about their print in Milton's immediate context * Johanna Harris, Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsGeneral Introduction ; Text ; Textual Notes ; Textual Commentary ; Index

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Book SynopsisSince the publication of his foundational work, Visionary Film, P. Adams Sitney has been considered one of our most eloquent and insightful interlocutors on the relationship between American film and poetry. His latest study, The Cinema of Poetry, emphasizes the vibrant world of European cinema in addition to incorporating the author''s long abiding concerns on American avant-garde cinema. The work is divided into two principal parts, the first dealing with poetry and a trio of films by Dimitri Kirsanoff, Ingmar Bergman, and Andrei Tarkovsky; the second part explores selected American verse with American avant-garde films by Stan Brakhage, Ken Jacobs, and others. Both parts are linked by Pier Paolo Pasolini''s theoretical 1965 essay Il cinema di poesia where the writer/director describes the use of the literary device of free indirect discourse, which accentuates the subjective point-of view as well as the illusion of functioning as if without a camera. In other words, the camera is abTrade Reviewpassionate, deeply informed ... Sitney's style is at once erudite and accessible, and his insights into the works of these gifted artists are continually illuminating ... an elegantly crafted and carefully considered book. * W. W. Dixon, Choice *P. Adams Sitney offers a monumental, enchanting account of poetry as cinema, turning the analogy upside-down, vividly and deftly tracing nuanced concepts of narrative versus lyric film, psychoanalysis, dreams, and social realities in European filmmakers as well as in cinema of the American avant-garde. Those familiar with Sitney's earlier 'visionary' scholarship will exult in the coming together of multiple strands; those unfamiliar, will be treated to a distilled, layered overview of a significant nexus in the history of film. * Susan McCabe, author of Cinematic Modernism *The Cinema of Poetry probes the vital questions of poetic narrative and lyric filmmaking in Europe and the United States. Sitney holds film theory and biographical detail in eloquent balance and lets the films & filmmakers speak for themselves. It is as rare in film studies as in filmmaking to encounter the flame of early enthusiasms sustained and matured over decades as it is found in The Cinema of Poetry.-Robert Beavers, filmmakerThere is no other book that I know of that treats the cinema of poetry in both its European and American manifestations, and no other work that has offered the depth of insight into the European cinema of poetry that Sitney has. The Cinema of PoetryR is simply an outstanding piece of work-it is elegant, lucid, taut, and penetrating. * R. Bruce Elder, author of Harmony and Dissent: Film and Avant-garde Art Movements in the Early Twentieth Century *Table of ContentsPreface ; Introduction: An Autobiography of Enthusiasms ; I ; Pier Paolo Pasolini and "The Cinema of 'Poetry'" ; Dimitri Kirsanoff's Menilmontant ; Ingmar Bergman's Primal Scene ; Andrey Tarkovsky's Concept of Poetry ; II ; Poetry and the American Avant-garde Cinema ; The Dialectict of Experience in Joseph Cornell's Films ; Lawrence Jordan's Magical Instructions ; Stan Brakhage's Poetics ; Nathaniel Dorsky, Jerome Hiler, and the Polyvalent Film ; Gregory J. Markopoulos and the Temenos

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Book SynopsisKabir was a great iconoclastic-mystic poet of fifteenth-century North India; his poems were composed orally, written down by others in manuscripts and books, and transmitted through song. Scholars and translators usually attend to written collections, but these present only a partial picture of the Kabir who has remained vibrantly alive through the centuries mostly in oral forms. Entering the worlds of singers and listeners in rural Madhya Pradesh, Bodies of Song combines ethnographic and textual study in exploring how oral transmission and performance shape the content and interpretation of vernacular poetry in North India. The book investigates textual scholars'' study of oral-performative traditions in a milieu where texts move simultaneously via oral, written, audio/video-recorded, and electronic pathways.As texts and performances are always socially embedded, Linda Hess brings readers into the lives of those who sing, hear, celebrate, revere, and dispute about Kabir. Bodies of SonTrade ReviewRecommended. * J. Bussanich, CHOICE *Hess decodes (for the uninitiated) the experience, confidence, and wisdom of ordinary men and women of India. She shows us how people have been living out their inner and outer lives and how they have been enriching further the traditional "bodies of song" through performance. By this decoding, Hess has made a lasting contribution to our understanding of some of the most poignant aspects of Indian religiosity. * Purushottam Agrawal, ITM University, The Journal of Religion *Table of ContentsTransliteration ; Acknowledgements ; Preface ; 1. "You Must Meet Prahladji!" ; 2. Oral Tradition in the Twenty-first Century: Observing Texts ; 3. "True Words of Kabir": Adventures in Authenticity ; 4. In the Jeweler's Bazaar: Malwa's Kabir ; 5. Oral Tradition in the Twenty-first Century: Exploring Theory ; 6. A Scorching Fire, A Cool Pool ; 7. Fighting over Kabir's Dead Body ; 8. Political/Spiritual Kabir ; References ; Index

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive new edition, including introduction, text with apparatus criticus, and commentary, of the Latin text of the first book of Lucan's De Bello Civili, an important and influential epic poem written in the 60s AD, which recounts the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey in the years 49-45 BC.Trade Reviewthis edition is likely to be a very valuable resource to the student and scholar of Lucan (and of post-Augustan epic) for many years to come. * Adam Marshall, Trinity College Dublin *this is a very impressive and useful commentary on a very important book of Roman epic poetry, one that was sorely needed. I have little doubt that it will become the standard commentary on BC I and that it will hold that distinction for quite some time. * Tim Stover, Journal of Roman Studies *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION ; M. ANNAEI LVCANI BELLO CIVILI LIBER PRIMUS ; COMMENTARY

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Book SynopsisThroughout their marriage, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes engaged in a complex and continually evolving poetic dialogue about writing, love, and grief. Although scholars have commented extensively on the biographical details of Plath''s and Hughes''s marriage, few have undertaken a systematic intertextual analysis of the poets'' work. The Grief of Influence reappraises this extraordinary literary partnership, and shows that the aesthetic and ideological similarities that provided a foundation for Plath''s and Hughes''s creative marriage - such as their mutual fascination with D. H. Lawrence and motifs of violence and war - intensified their artistic rivalry. Through close readings of both poets'' work and analysis of new archival sources, Clark reveals for the first time how extensively Plath borrowed from Hughes and Hughes borrowed from Plath. She also explores the transatlantic dynamics of Plath''s and Hughes''s ''colonial'' marriage within the context of the 1950s Anglo-American poetryTrade ReviewHeather Clark has given the story a new twist ... chapters on Hughes and the late Plath are excellently done. They document vividly and with scholarly authority how creatively involved the couple were with each other. * John Xiros Cooper, Notes and Queries *The range of Clark's comparative approach is impressive... Clark writes with admirable clarity and perspicacity, and offers a study that is both broad and deep; it is testament to the poise, grace, and generosity of this book that it might work as an introduction to Plath and Hughes's work for an undergraduate or a careful refinement of an ongoing debate. * William May, English *Clark's lucid and meticulous project traces the poets' careers through a series of shared concerns ... before exploring the way they continually 'remade' each other throughout the careers, and posthumously. ... The range of Clark's comparative approach is impressive here ... Clark writes with admirable clarity and perspicacity, and offers a study that is both broad and deep; it is a testament to the poise, grace, and generosity of this book that it might work as an introduction to Plath and Hughes's work for an undergraduate or a careful refinement of an ongoing debate. * William May, English *a significant book ... Clark not only clarifies the troubled relationship between Hughes and Plath, but also advances our ideas about how to understand literary influence, especially among artistic couples ... appreciated by students of Hughes and Plath, who will gain myriad new insights about the two. * Diederik Oostdijk, English Studies *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION ; 1. Affinities and Assimilations ; 2. Secret Anxieties ; 3. The Other Two ; 4. Colonial Contexts ; 5. The Early Dialogue ; 6. Disarming the Enemy ; 7. Tracking the Thought-Fox ; 8. Hughes's Plath ; 9. Crow and Counter-revision ; 10. The Old Factory Demolished: Wodwo to Moortown ; 11. Fixed Stars: Birthday Letters ; BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Book SynopsisThe Indo-Europeans, speakers of the prehistoric parent language from which most European and some Asiatic languages are descended, most probably lived on the Eurasian steppes some five or six thousand years ago. Martin West investigates their traditional mythologies, religions, and poetries, and points to elements of common heritage. In The East Face of Helicon (1997), West showed the extent to which Homeric and other early Greek poetry was influenced by Near Eastern traditions, mainly non-Indo-European. His new book presents a foil to that work by identifying elements of more ancient, Indo-European heritage in the Greek material. Topics covered include the status of poets and poetry in Indo-European societies; metre, style, and diction; gods and other supernatural beings, from Father Sky and Mother Earth to the Sun-god and his beautiful daughter, the Thunder-god and other elemental deities, and earthly orders such as Nymphs and Elves; the forms of hymns, prayers, and incantations; conTrade Review...the ideal guide in a complex field of learning. * International Review of Biblical Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Poet and Poesy ; 2. Phrase and Figure ; 3. Gods and Goddesses ; 4. Sky and Earth ; 5. Sun and Daughter ; 6. Storm and Stream ; 7. Nymphs and Gnomes ; 8. Hymns and Spells ; 9. Cosmos and Canon ; 10. Mortality and Fame ; 11. King and Hero ; 12. Arms and the Man ; Elegy on an Indo-European Hero

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Book SynopsisThe Wordsworth volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series is the most comprehensive selection currently available of the poetry and prose of one of the finest poets in the English language. The familiar poems from Wordsworth''s ''Great Decade'' are all included, but they are complemented by a more than usually generous selection of the best poems from his later years. The extracts from the Guide to the Lakes will be a revelation to many readers, as will the political prose of the Convention of Cintra. All of the material is presented in chronological sequence, so that the reader can see how Wordsworth''s changing concerns were expressed in prose as well as poetry. Work which Wordsworth published is separated from that which he did not reveal, which will enable the reader to trace through successive published volumes the development of Wordsworth''s public poetic self, while also being able to follow the growth of the body of poetry which, for whatever reason, Wordsworth did not cTrade ReviewIn all ways, the edition is a credit both to Oxford University Press and to this fine scholar to whom Wordsworthians owe much. * Paul F. Betz, Notes and Queries *Rereading Wordsworth is particularly rewarding and fitting since he is himself the great revisitor and rewriter. This generous selection of his work offers the perfect occasion to do so. * Paul Batchelor, The Guardian *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ; Introduction ; Chronology ; A Note on the Selection and Its Ordering ; FROM LYRICAL BALLADS (1798) ; FROM LYRICAL BALLADS (1800) ; OTHER POEMS 1798-1800 ; FROM POEMS, IN TWO VOLUMES (1807) ; OTHER POEMS 1800-1808 ; THE PRELUDE (1805) ; FROM THE CONVENTIONS OF CINTRA (1809) ; FROM ESSAYS UPON EPITAPHS (1810) ; FROM THE EXCURSION (1814) ; FROM POEMS (1815) ; FROM A LETTER TO A FRIEND OF ROBERT BURNS (1816) ; FROM THE RIVER DUDDON (1820) ; FROM TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY OF THE LAKES (1820) ; OTHER POEMS 1815-1846 ; Appendix: Wordsworth before Lyrical Ballads ; Notes ; Further Reading ; Index of Titles and First Lines

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Book SynopsisCallimachus was arguably the most important poet of the Hellenistic age, for two reasons: his engagement with previous theorists of poetry and his wide-ranging poetic experimentation. Of his poetic oeuvre, which exceeded what we now have of Theocritus, Aratus, Posidippus, and Apollonius combined, only his six hymns and around fifty of his epigrams have survived intact. His enormously influential Aetia, the collection of Iambi, the Hecale, and all of his prose output have been reduced to a handful of citations in later Greek lexica and handbooks or papyrus fragments. In recent years excellent commentaries and synthetic studies of the Aetia, the Iambi, and the Hecale have appeared or are about to appear. But there is no modern study in English of the collection of hymns. And while there are excellent commentaries in English on three of the hymns (Apollo, Athena, Demeter), the commentaries on Zeus and on Delos are limited in scope, and there is no commentary at all on the Artemis hymn. SyTrade Review[Stephens] has now given us a welcome ... entry into a relatively unfamiliar part of the Parnassian grove occupied by Callimachus. * Colin Leach, Classics for All *this volume provides a needed and accessible edition of the collection. Stephens's scholarship and sensitivity to Callimachus's poetry suffuse every page. Invaluable for those interested in Hellenistic poetry; important for students of mythology, history of religion, and Greek literature ... Highly recommended * P. E. Ojennus, CHOICE *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ; Maps ; Introduction ; 1. Hymn to Zeus ; 2. Hymn to Apollo ; 3. Hymn to Artemis ; 4. Hymn to Delos ; 5. Hymn to Athena or The Bath of Pallas ; 6. Hymn to Demeter ; Works Cited ; Index Locorum ; General Index

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Table of Contents1. Why This Guide? ; 2. The Basics of the French Line ; 3. Common French Meters ; 4. Stanzas ; 5. Sonnets, rondels, and other fixed forms ; 6. Rhyme ; 7. Free verse ; Appendix 1: Commentaries on four poems ; Adieux de l'hotesse arabe ; Le colibri ; En sourdine ; Montparnasse ; Appendix 2: Pomes and songs discussed in the guide ; Appendix 3: A brief history of French versification ; Glossary of technical terms ; Notes ; Suggestions for further reading ; Index

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Book SynopsisRobert Crawford is a poet, biographer, critic and literary historian who has published eight full collections of poetry and many prose books, including two major biographies of T.S. Eliot: Young Eliot and Eliot After The Waste Land. Emeritus Wardlaw Professor of Poetry at the University of St Andrews, he is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and a Foreign Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.Trade ReviewExcellent... Full of voices, friendships and conflicts, Crawford's book is rich and dense as Christmas cake... [An] outstanding biography. -- Sean O'Brien * Daily Telegraph, *5-star review* *Astonishing... This book is properly complex, both in terms of the art and the life. -- Stuart Kelly * Scotsman *Crawford's work is impeccable... [A] magisterial account... the tender, elegiac final notes of this book are...striking. -- Erica Wagner * New Statesman *Excellent... Nothing is simple within this hefty, detailed narrative and Crawford remains impeccably fair... [an] absorbing biography. -- Bel Mooney * Daily Mail, *Book of the Week* *A thorough, solid sequel to Crawford's much-praised Young Eliot... This biography...is going to play a large part in any future assessment of Eliot. -- Philip Hensher * Spectator *

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Book SynopsisA.C. BRADLEY was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford, UK, until his death in 1935.ROBERT SHAUGHNESSY is Professor of Theatre at the University of Kent, UK. His books include Representing Shakespeare: England History and the RSC (1994) and The Shakespeare Effect: A History of Twentieth-Century Performance (2002); he has edited Shakespeare on Film (1998) and Shakespeare in Performance (2000). He is currently writing the volume on William Shakespeare for the Routledge Critical Guide series and editing the Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an exciting new approach to T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets as it shows why it should be read both closely and in relation to Eliot's other works, notably the poems The Waste Land, 'The Hollow Men,' and Ash-Wednesday.Trade Review"Reading T.S. Eliot is original - part creative, part scholarly - and, perhaps most importantly, human." - Tod Marshall, Professor of English, Gonzaga University, USATable of ContentsThe Critic as Medium Incarnation and the Art of Difficulty "Necessarye Coniunction": Eliot's Intra-textual Words What Manner of Thing? On Pattern, Design, and Form Learning to Read the World Rhyming, or Two Wor(l)ds Much Like Each Other The Rose, the Fire, and Love, or God Devised the Torment, Preventing Us Everywhere "The hint half guessed, the gift half understood" and Purgation or Purification Not Coterminous but One

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Book SynopsisNICHOLAS MARSH was formerly teacher of English at Francis Holland School in Regent's Park, London, UK. He is the author of How to Begin Studying English Literature, now in its third edition, and several other titles in the Analysing Texts series, of which he is the General Editor.Trade Review'Lucid and perceptive, Marsh's new edition of his valuable study brilliantly restores to readers and students alike the depth and brightness of Blake's genius.' - John Blades, formerly atUniversity of Leeds, UK.Table of ContentsGeneral Editor's Preface A Note on Editions and Technical Terms PART I: ANALYSING WILLIAM BLAKE'S POETRY Introduction Innocence and Experience Nature in the Songs, and Towards the Prophetic Books Society and its Ills Sexuality, the Selfhood and Self-Annihilation PART II: THE CONTEXT AND THE CRITICS Blake's Life and Works A Sample of Critical Views Further Reading Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers the first complete English translation of the poems by the late-medieval German (Tyrolean) Oswald von Wolkenstein (1376/1377-1445). German scholarship and musicologists have long recognized the extraordinary strength and power of Oswald s Middle High German songs, both in terms of his poetic imagery and his musical performance.Trade Review"Classen's translations of Oswald von Wolkenstein's poems offer a critically grounded yet highly readable introduction to the poet's impressive body of work, which ranges from the devoutly spiritual to the bawdily profane. In so doing, the translations offer general readers an excellent insight into the broad thematic spectrum of medieval lyric poetry, and into the character of a knight whom many consider to be the greatest German-language lyric poet of the later Middle Ages." - Siegfried Christoph, Professor of German, Modern Languages Department, University of Wisconsin-Parkside "In the last forty years or so medieval German scholarship has experienced a profound paradigm shift, re-discovering some of the most important voices in fifteenth-century literature, such as Hugo von Montfort, Michel Beheim, the Monk of Salzburg, Hans Rosenplüt, and, above all, Oswald von Wolkenstein. Classen, an esteemed medievalist with an impeccable reputation, here offers the first complete translation of Oswald s songs into English. He has worked on this poet for more than two decades and can be regarded as one of the foremost experts on Oswald s work. This translation is a significant contribution that will greatly further teaching and scholarship of late-medieval German literature in the English speaking world." - William C. McDonald, Professor, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures University of Virginia "This new translation finally makes Oswald von Wolkenstein accessible to those not in command of Middle High German but nevertheless drawn to the most intriguing German author of the late Middle Ages. The widely traveled Tyrolian provides courtly love with a new twist, and the broad spectrum of his poetry will attract anyone interested in his surprising commentary on political events. Classen s translation is not only thorough and intelligent, but it also reveals a deep understanding of the language and writings of this unique author." - Rasma Lazda, Associate Professor of German, University of AlabamaTable of ContentsIntroduction A Brief Biography of Oswald von Wolkenstein About this Translation A Partial Reproduction of Oswald von Wolkenstein's Songs based on his Two Major Manuscrips, A and B Translation: The Poems of Oswald von Wolkenstein

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Book SynopsisWeyward Macbeth, a volume of entirely new essays, provides innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to the various ways Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' has been adapted and appropriated within the context of American racial constructions.Trade Review“This collection … explore raced and non-traditional Macbeth on its own terms and through an extraordinary diversity of perspectives.” (Rebecca Dark, Early Modern Studies Journal, Vol. 5, October 26, 2018)“Weyward Macbeth offers a fascinating account of the use and misuse of Shakespeare’s tragedy by a culture trying to confront its own guilt and ghosts.” (Maria Browning, chapter16.org, October 27, 2017)“Weyward Macbeth is an exceptionally rich and suggestive collection of essays, the kind of book that you know you’ll return to time and again to mull over the nuggets that its wide and wise contributors have unearthed.” (Willy Maley, Journal of the Northern Renaissance, February 26, 2013)“The book presents work that is interdisciplinary and will appeal to a variety of scholars. … Weyward Macbeth is a far-reaching anthology, well worth a read for scholars of Shakespeare, cinema, literature, and music. As a theatre text, it is particularly useful. … Weyward Macbeth emphasizes how strongly theatre reflects and informs America’s political history; the book enhances both American theatre and Shakespearean scholarship.” (Victoria P. Lantz, Theatre Survey, Vol. 53 (2), September, 2012)“The book is certainly a worthwhile contribution: even essays that read as isolated reflections disengaged from the dialogue promoted by the book prove to be highly interesting; when connections are made, they are often unexpected and illuminating. … the collection also amply demonstrates that we can learn much about both history and the play when we attend to the many wayward ways in which race and the play have intersected in history.” (Yu Jin Ko, Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 63 (2), 2012)“This is a substantial collection, consisting of twenty-six articles and an Appendix. … Together, they are essential to anyone seeking to understand the importance of Macbeth to the history of race relations in America, especially black–white relations. … This collection provides ample evidence of this truth, and underscores how important it is for us to recognize Shakespeare’s ambivalent legacy at work in America’s race relations today.” (Jennifer Clement, Parergon, Vol. 29 (2), 2012)“The collection as a whole offers a conglomeration of various topics that open up a new approach to Macbeth. … The diversity of perspectives here is rich and provocative and will no doubt encourage further studies of Macbeth and race. Of equal interest to Shakespeareans, Americanists, cultural historians, teachers, and theater professionals, the collection as a whole is notable for its thorough and strikingly original readings of a largely overlooked topic.” (Sonya Freeman Loftis, Borrowers and Lenders, Vol. 7 (2), October, 2012)“Rarely is a collection of essays so focused and yet so broad, so comprehensive, and yet so intellectually open-ended. Any one of the essays on its own would be a respectable contribution to the study of race and Shakespeare, but it is in their collective resonance with and across each other, their symphonic ambition, that the volume’s significance lays.” (Shane Vogel, African American Review, Vol. 44 (1-2), 2011) “Weyward Macbeth is a collection of essays providing a fascinating, interdisciplinary record … . The collection as a whole makes for rich and varied reading. … The book is thus particularly relevant to Shakespeare studies, performance and pedagogy in southern Africa. It provides us with a fascinating archive to work with and against. … It contains much of interest for literary and performance scholars, for actors and directors, for English teachers, for students … and for readers interested in the signs of race.” (Denise Newfield, Shakespeare in Southern Africa, Vol. 23, 2011)“Weyward Macbeth admirably covers the long and complex history of the play within American racial discourse by using an interdisciplinary approach to elucidate much that has been neglected or unconnected. … Weyward Macbeth goes beyond filling that void by establishing the standard for further research into any aspect of Macbeth’s intimate relationship with racial discourse in America.” (M. Tyler Sasser, South Atlantic Review, Vol. 76 (3), 2011)“The collection brings forth new and sometimes forgotten stories about how directors, rhetoricians, and performers use Macbeth both to interrogate and confirm racial disparity in the United States. … the range of media and time periods covered is quite commendable, as is the inclusion of both scholars' and practitioners' perspectives. Because the essays are shorter, this collection could supplement course material or provide an excellent primer for scholars interested in how race has informed American appropriations of Macbeth.” (Allison Kellar Lenhardt, The Upstart Crow, Vol. 30, 2011)“The book will be useful to a variety of readers, including scholars of Shakespeare and of American performance and theatre history. Essays pertaining to the contemporary practice of multilingual or intercultural Shakespearean performance will also be of interest to practitioners. … Weyward Macbeth provides ample resources for future scholarship. … Weyward Macbeth productively charts intersections between the play’s own representations of race and the racial discourses that have informed its performance history, and alerts us to the ‘weyward’ within the play’s contemporary productions.” (Nicole Boyar, Theatre Journal, Vol. 63 (4), December, 2011)“This extraordinary collection of essays is essential for every student and teacher of Shakespeare. It is exceptional reading with astonishing new information for anyone wishing to keep remarkably abreast of what is happening in American culture.” (Glenda E. Gill, This Rough Magic, thisroughmagic.org, Vol. 1 (1), January, 2010)"Timely . . . as with the best works of historical scholarship, Newstok and Thompson's collection merges detailed historiography with immediate relevancy, making this a valuable book indeed." - Dan Venning, Theatre History Studies "There is something for everyone in this worthy volume." - Kevin Wetmore, Jr., CHOICE "Remarkable." - Jonathan Gil Harris, Studies in English Literature "Weyward Macbeth is an excellent companion piece for theatre educators looking to enrich classroom instruction or to further students' understanding of fully realized productions. Newstok and Thompson's diverse collection of provocative and enlightening articles serves as a valued addition to Shakespearean scholarship and as a complement to the study of Macbeth." - John Robert Moss, Theatre Topics "A welcome addition to the scholarship on theatrical history and practice . . . most of the contributors do show the considerable charge that thinking differently, or highlighting and remembering race, can bring to the play . . . most of the authors at some point refer parenthetically to one or more of their fellow contributors, offering a sense of cogency, a wider arc of discussion, than many such collections manage." - Eric Mallin, College Literature "In this remarkable and ground breaking book, the editors have put together essays that examine the text and spirit of Macbeth from different and, sometimes, startling perspectives." - Clement Ndulute, The Griot: The Journal of African American Studies "This rich and provocative collection of essays is a compilation of historical, theoretical and interdisciplinary viewpoints on ways in which performances of Macbeth have engaged issues of race . . . Weyward Macbeth leaves a reader strangely unsettled as, of course, does Macbeth. I closed the volume with a new sense of Macbeth's importance to issues of race in the United States, more acutely aware of the ferment and potential of engaging with this intersectional study, and yet also conscious of the still fragmented state of this aptly named 'weyward' pursuit . . . Many diverse perspectives are at work in this volume, and not always towards the same ends. But in the last analysis, that diversity seems utterly appropriate: the move here is not to establish a new orthodoxy but to break down received ideas about race and Shakespeare . . . Newstok and Thompson's volume corroborates that vision of multiple Shakespeares and multiple Shakespeareans, both within 'the confines of the script' and beyond it." - Nicholas Jones, Shakespeare Bulletin "This collection undoubtedly demonstrates the intractable diversity of American readings of Macbeth over time . . . Weyward Macbeth goes a long way in making the effort to tell that difficult history." - Robert Ormsby, Modern Drama "Weyward Macbeth deserves reading - and re-reading - because, contrary to popular belief, Orson Welles's famous 'Voodoo' Macbeth (1936) was far from unique in re-casting Shakespeare in a non-traditional setting. With over 100 cross-racial productions recorded here, you are bound to ask: why have so many Americans been repeatedly drawn to this particular play in the context of racial discourses? Read this penetrating study to find out - it's an intellectual delight." - James V. Hatch, Professor Emeritus, The Graduate Theatre Program at the City University of New York and co-author of A History of African American Theatre "Weyward Macbeth is an interesting and deeply thought-provoking book, which is well set out, and ideal to dip into when a fresh perspective is required about Macbeth." - Jane Wright, seriouslyshakespeare.comTable of ContentsPART I: BEGINNINGS What is a 'Weyward' Macbeth?;Ayanna Thompson Weird Brothers: What Thomas Middleton's The Witch Can Tell Us about Race, Sex, and Gender in Macbeth; Celia R. Daileader PART II: EARLY AMERICAN INTERSECTIONS 'Blood will have blood': Violence, Slavery, and Macbeth in the Antebellum American Imagination; Heather S. Nathans The Exorcism of Macbeth: Frederick Douglass's Appropriation of Shakespeare; John C. Briggs Ira Aldridge as Macbeth; Bernth Lindfors Minstrel Show Macbeth; Joyce Green MacDonald Reading Macbeth in Texts by and about African Americans, 1903 1944: Race and the Problematics of Allusive Identification; Nick Moschovakis PART III: FEDERAL THEATRE PROJECT(S) Before Welles: A 1935 Boston Production; Lisa N. Simmons Black Cast Conjures White Genius: Unraveling the Mystique of Orson Welles's 'Voodoo' Macbeth; Marguerite Rippy After Welles: Re-do Voodoo Macbeths; Scott L. Newstok The Vo-Du Macbeth!: Travels and Travails of a Choreo-Drama Inspired by the FTP Production; Lenwood Sloan PART IV: FURTHER STAGES A Black Actor's Guide to the Scottish Play, Or, Why Macbeth Matters; Harry J. Lennix Asian American Theatre Re-imagined: Shogun Macbeth in New York; Alexander C. Y. Huang The Tlingit Play: Macbeth and Native Americanism; Anita Maynard-Losh A Post-Apocalyptic Macbeth: Teatro LA TEA's Macbeth 2029; José A. Esquea Multi-cultural, Multi-lingual Macbeth; William C. Carroll PART V: MUSIC Reflections on Verdi, Macbeth, and Non-Traditional Casting in Opera; Wallace McClain Cheatham Ellington's Dark Lady; Douglas Lanier Hip-Hop Macbeths, 'Digitized Blackness,' and the Millennial Minstrel: Illegal Culture Sharing in the Virtual Classroom; Todd Landon Barnes PART VI: SCREEN Riddling Whiteness, Riddling Certainty: Roman Polanski's Macbeth; Francesca Royster Semper Die: Marines Incarnadine in Nina Menkes's The Bloody Child: An Interior of Violence; Courtney Lehmann Shades of Shakespeare: Colorblind Casting and Interracial Couples in Macbeth in Manhattan, Grey's Anatomy, and Prison Macbeth; Amy Scott-Douglass PART VII: SHAKESPEAREAN (A)VERSIONS Three Weyward Sisters: African-American Female Poets Conjure with Macbeth; Charita Gainey-O'Toole and Elizabeth Alexander 'Black up again': Combating Macbeth in Contemporary African-American Plays; Philip C. Kolin Black Characters in Search of an Author: Black Plays on Black Performers of Shakespeare; Peter Erickson Epilogue: ObaMacbeth: National Transition as National Traumission; Richard Burt Appendix: Selected Productions of Macbeth Featuring Non-Traditional Casting; Brent Butgereit and Scott L. Newstok

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Book SynopsisMagnificent Errors is a collection of poems that shows how mental health challenges can elicit beauty, resiliency, and hope.In 2005, Sheryl Luna burst onto the poetry scene with Pity the Drowned Horses, which quickly became a classic of border and Southwest literature with its major point of reference in and around El Paso, Texas. Now with the poems in Magnificent Errors, Luna's third collection and winner of the Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry, Luna turns her gaze toward people living on the marginswhether it be cultural, socioeconomic, psychological, or personaland celebrates their ability to recover and thrive. Luna reveals that individuals who suffer and experience injustice are often lovely and awe inspiring. Her poems reflect on immigrants in a detention camp, a meth addict, a homeless individual, and someone on food stamps. She explores the voices of people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or PTSD, poets, visual artists, and peoplTrade Review“With Magnificent Errors, Luna has broken the regional boundaries of the American Southwest and become one of America’s finest poets.” —Dagoberto Gilb, author of Before the End, After the Beginning“In Magnificent Errors, Sheryl Luna shows us once again why she is one of America’s premier poets. Her gutsy, gorgeous language, her hard-won vision of grit and grace—all bid us enter the universe of a poetic saint whose earthy wisdom is unparalleled.” —Joy Roulier Sawyer, author of Lifeguards and Tongues of Men and Angels"Sheryl Luna's voice is unforgettable because she has a visionary touch where her experiences become our own. As readers, we are blessed to find ourselves in her poems. We have been waiting. As a poet, she shows us, in powerful poem after poem, what it takes for the poet to reveal her place in a difficult world. The result is a book that opens when the poet says so and rests, gently, in the reader's hands." —Ray Gonzalez, author of Feel Puma"Since her 2005 debut Pity the Drowned Horses, Luna has excelled at the elegant lyric, yet what stands out here are the interior landscapes that bridge a visionary attention to nature and raw reflections on mental illness, abuse, trauma, and healing. . . . Luna’s book beautifully expands upon the many intersections between Chicana ecopoetics and disability poetics, while claiming its own lyric territories." —The Latinx Project"Like her acclaimed first book 'Pity the Drowned Horses' and second book 'Seven,' Luna's newest work reminds readers, no matter a person's socio-economic or mental status, all of humanity is linked. Every poem in this collection is a standout. Each piece succinctly captures the discontent of the country's working poor." —Latino Book ReviewTable of ContentsI 1. Lowering Your Standards for Food Stamps 2. The Vocation 3. The Thief 4. Change 5. Tornillo’s Tent Prison for Migrant Children 6. Salt Shaker 7. Meditation on Hunger 8. Breathing the Border’s Fire 9. The Poet 10. Autumn’s Art 11. Forehead 12. Regeneration 13. What I’d Say if I had Fifteen Minutes of Fame II 14. Shock and Awe 15. Neighbors Smoke on an Apartment Porch Owned by a Mental Health Agency 16. Secret Missionary for the Virgin Mary Off His Meds 17. The Sailing Bicycle 18. Shock Treatment 19. Lit 20. Lamentation to Praise 21. The Language of Drowning 22. The Star Song 23. To Rest 24. The Leaves 25. Manic with Depression 26. Eccentric 27. A Homeless Poet Friend Rages at the World’s Lesser People 28. The Party 29. Adopting Step-Father 30. Alone 31. Voice 32. Figures 33. Anxiety and Diagnosis 34. The Artist Addressing Violence 35. The Singer 36. She Wishes She Never Had 37. I.Q. Over 160? 38. The Prayer III 39. Night 40. Rubbernecking 41. Listening to Sky 42. Risk 43. The Laugh 44. We Believe in Kindness Because It’s Hard to Die 45. Casualties 46. The Witness 47. The Hummingbird 48. Clouds and Sapling 49. Prayer for this Clay Earth 50. Mud 51. Finding Water 52. The Transgression

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Book SynopsisEmily Dickinson's fascicles, the forty booklets comprising more than 800 of her poems that she gathered and bound together with string, had long been cast into disarray until R. W. Franklin restored them to their original state, then made them available to readers in his 1981 Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson. Many Dickinson readers believe their ordering to be random, while others have proposed that one or more of the fascicles appear to center upon some organizing principle. In this important critical study, Dorothy Huff Oberhaus demonstrates for the first time the structural principles underlying Emily Dickinson's assembling of the fascicles. Oberhaus argues that Dickinson's fortieth fascicle is a three-part meditation and the triumphant conclusion of a long lyric cycle, the account of a spiritual and poetic pilgrimage that begins with the first fascicle's first poem. The author in turn finds that the other thirty-eight fascicles are meditative gatherings of interwoven poems cenTrade Review“What Oberhaus has achieved will force a rereading not only of the fascicles but of the entire canon of Emily Dickinson’s poetry. . . . Seldom has a scholar come to such a project so well equipped theologically and with such wide and precise knowledge of the Bible. Oberhaus’s reading of the poems is sensitive and sure. She did not come to the task with preconceived notions. What she found was there all the time, waiting for the right reader. And what she found is central.”—Richard B. Sewall “Oberhaus’s purpose is to reveal Emily Dickinson’s intended and achieved structure in these forty sequential booklets and to demonstrate that the final fascicle is the account of an Ignatian meditation, a detailed narrative of individual mystical Christian conversion and experience. . . . This is a major, iconoclastic work; it can be expected to provoke lively reactions from leading Dickinson scholars, all of whom have denied that Dickinson ever attempted or achieved a structured interrelationship among her lyrics and that she ever professed sustained religious conviction.”—Jack L. Capps “In Emily Dickinson’s Fascicles: Method & Meaning, Dorothy Oberhaus pays Dickinson an even higher compliment—she shows the scriptural power of the poems in the fortieth fascicle. According to Arthur Henry King, the greatest works of literature are those that came closest to approximating the power of language and truth in the scriptures. Oberhaus helps us experience power in the language and truth of this great American poet.”—Cynthia L Hallen Literature and Belief

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Book SynopsisThis text examines Sophocles' Oedipus' Tyrannus in the context of 5th-century Athens. In attempting to discover what the play meant to Sophocles' contemporaries, the book casts fresh light on its timeless and universal nature. This edition has a new preface and suggested reading list.

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Book SynopsisAcknowledgements Abbreviations Between the Lines: Re-reading Stevie Smith and Literary Modernism 'The Times are the Times of the Black Split Heart': Stevie Smith's Life and Work in Context The Trilogy's Take-Off in the Thirties: A Close-Cultural Reading of Novel on Yellow Paper Framing the War: The Second Two Novels of the Trilogy Between Waving and Drowning: Stevie Smith's Poems and Stories Works Cited IndexTrade Review'...[a] dazzlingly intelligent reading of Stevie Smith's work.' - Will May, The Oxonian ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Between the Lines: Re-reading Stevie Smith and Literary Modernism 'The Times are the Times of the Black Split Heart': Stevie Smith's Life and Work in Context The Trilogy's Take-Off in the Thirties: A Close-Cultural Reading of Novel on Yellow Paper Framing the War: The Second Two Novels of the Trilogy Between Waving and Drowning: Stevie Smith's Poems and Stories Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisDespite new historical study of her contexts, Christina Rossetti continues to haunt the reader as a displaced subjectivity emptied of history.Trade Review'The Afterlife of Christina Rossetti is a stunning piece of work, which merges biography, literary criticism and feminist theory in an innovative and exciting conjunction...Alison Chapman, in this theoretically informed and sophisticated study, examines Rossetti in the light of what is now acknowledged as a complex and often uneasy relationship between literature and history...Chapman is a brilliant scholar and a perceptive and original critic. Her study goes to the heart of the problems that confront all readers of nineteenth-century literature.' - Judy Simons, Professor of English and Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, De Montfort University Chapman's study of Christina Rossetti, based in Kristevan models of reading women's texts and their authors as subjects-in-process, presents the most exciting and original approach to Rossetti - and by extension to other nineteenth-century women writers - that has emerged in the last two decades. It is wonderfully lucid, a critical and theoretical tour de force. It's critique of the new historicism is compelling.' - Antony H. Harrison, North Carolina State University '...exposes reductive readings of Goblin Market, describes biographical constructions of the trope Christina Rossetti, and gives a careful account of Dante Gabriel's revisions of his sister's work before publication.' - Matthew Reynolds, Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations List of Plates Introduction: The Haunting of Christina Rossetti 'A Bizarre Medium': The Return of the Dead and New Historicism Speaking with the Dead: Recovering Lost Voices Christina Rossetti in Effect: Reading Biographies Defining the Feminine Subject: Fraternal Revisions I Spectres and Spectators: Fraternal Revisions II Father's Place, Mother's Space: Italy and the Paradisal The Afterlife of Poetry: 'Goblin Market' Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction: Harold Monro 1897-1932 Inheritance Cambridge 1989-1902 Ireland 1902-1906 The Samurai 1906-1908 Pilgrimage to Freedom 1908-1909 The Mountain and the Tower 1909-1911 The Poetry Review 1912 The Poetry House Alida 1913-1914 War 1914-1916 Casualty 1916-1919 A New Start 1919-1920 Drink and Failure Racing You to Death 1921-1925 Great Russell Street 1926-1928 No Way Out 1929-1932 Legacies Appendices Sources and Notes Bibliography IndexTrade Review'The book is a 'who's who' of everyone who wandered through the corridors of Georgian, Imagist and Modern poetry...You know this is a well-written biography because you turn the pages in haste, wanting to know what happened next, and you care about the main protagonists. The book is full of details that you won't have read elsewhere. Monro has been almost forgotten, except by those who take a special interest in this brief period of 20th century letters. Dominic's book should make it less likely that future generations will forget Monro's role in promoting poetry.' - Friends of Dymoch Poets Newsletter '...absorbing...a gripping account of a man at war with himself...meticulously researched...combines clarity, compassion and an engaging dry humour.' - Sunday Times '...beautifully written...just the right amount of sympathy and insight...Hibberd's ability to establish Monro as a seminal figure...is impressive.' - Choice (USA) '...fascinating.' - Scotland on SundayTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction: Harold Monro 1897-1932 Inheritance Cambridge 1989-1902 Ireland 1902-1906 The Samurai 1906-1908 Pilgrimage to Freedom 1908-1909 The Mountain and the Tower 1909-1911 The Poetry Review 1912 The Poetry House Alida 1913-1914 War 1914-1916 Casualty 1916-1919 A New Start 1919-1920 Drink and Failure Racing You to Death 1921-1925 Great Russell Street 1926-1928 No Way Out 1929-1932 Legacies Appendices Sources and Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFrancis Turner Palgrave's The Golden Treasury is the best-known anthology of English Poetry ever published. Its aim back in 1861 was to teach 'those indifferent to the Poets to love them, and those who love them to love them more.' No anthology has enjoyed a longer life or wider influence.Trade Review'The theme of National Poetry Day...is fresh voices, but there's an opportunity to celebrate some old ones, too. Palgrave, Macmillan's newly renamed academic list, is reissuing a facsimile edition of the book from which the list takes its name, Palgrave's Golden Treasury. First published in 1861 at the suggestion of Tennyson, then Poet Laureate, the anthology had sold 650,000 copies by 1939. The reissue has a foreword by the present Laureate, Andrew Motion.' - The Literator, The Independent 'I'm not sure that any book has ever truly changed my life in the sense of dramatically altering its course, but I can think of one that determined it, and that's Palgrave's Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language. It was my mother's book and she read to me from it, as I imagine, in the dark. It was from Palgrave that I learned that literature had a sound, that language mattered more than story, that rhythm haunted the imagination, and that love and grief and loneliness interested me more than any other subject.' - Howard Jacobson, The GuardianTable of ContentsFrontispiece Foreword; A. Motion , Poet Laureate Dedication Preface Book I Book II Book III Book IV Notes Index of Writers Index of First Lines

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Book SynopsisStephen Matterson is Professor of English and Head of the School of English at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Darryl Jones is Senior Lecturer in English at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.Trade ReviewIts great virtue lies in the amount of questions it raises. [The authors'] enthusiasm, engagement and occasional knowingly facetious asides should appeal to, and enlighten, bright [students]. They will also find the glossary of technical and theoretical terms very useful. * The Times Educational Supplement (Website) *

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Book SynopsisThe Poet Laureate''s clear and entertaining account of how poetry works.Poetry is a vocal, which is to say a bodily, art, Robert Pinsky declares in The Sounds of Poetry. The medium of poetry is the human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx and the mouth. In this sense, poetry is as physical or bodily an art as dancing.As Poet Laureate, Pinsky is one of America''s best spokesmen for poetry. In this fascinating book, he explains how poets use the technology of poetry--its sounds--to create works of art that are performed in us when we read them aloud. He devotes brief, informative chapters to accent and duration, syntax and line, like and unlike sounds, blank and free verse. He cites examples from the work of fifty different poets--from Shakespeare, Donne, and Herbert to W. C. Williams, Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, C. K. Williams, Louise Glück, and Frank Bidart.This ideal introductory volume belongs i

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Book SynopsisDavid Young''s version of Petrarch will refresh our images of the West''s crucial lyric poet. We are given a Petrarch in our own vernacular, with echoes of Wyatt, Shakespeare, and many who come after. --Harold BloomIneffable sweetness, bold, uncanny sweetnessthat came to my eyes from her lovely face; from that day on I''d willingly have closed them, never to gaze again at lesser beauties.--from Sonnet 116Petrarch was born in Tuscany and grew up in the south of France. He lived his life in the service of the church, traveled widely, and during his lifetime was a revered, model man of letters. Petrarch''s greatest gift to posterity was his Rime in vita e morta di Madonna Laura, the cycle of poems popularly known as his songbook. By turns full of wit, languor, and fawning, endlessly inventive, in a tightly composed yet ornate form they record their speaker''s unrequited obsession with the woman named Laura. In t

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Book SynopsisAmerica’s most provocative intellectual brings her blazing powers of analysis to the most famous poems of the Western tradition—and unearths some previously obscure verses worthy of a place in our canon. Combining close reading with a panoramic breadth of learning, Camille Paglia sharpens our understanding of poems we thought we knew, from Shakespeare to Dickinson to Plath, and makes a case for including in the canon works by Paul Blackburn, Wanda Coleman, Chuck Wachtel, Rochelle Kraut—and even Joni Mitchell. Daring, riveting, and beautifully written, Break, Blow, Burn is a modern classic that excites even seasoned poetry lovers—and continues to create generations of new ones. 

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