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Book SynopsisSince it first appeared in 1961 this has been the standard critical edition of Ovid''s love poems. For this new edition the text has been throughly revised to take account of published scholarship and the further thoughts of the editor. Conjectures have been admitted to both text and apparatus criticus more freely than in the first edition. Punctuation has been improved, spelling has been normalized, and the long poems have been paragraphed. The apparatus criticus now incorporates the reading of the important Berlin manuscript Hamilton 471 and such of the readings formerly reported in the Appendix of minor variants (now omitted) as are of critical significance; it has also been streamlined by the omission of explanatory material more conveniently accessible in commentaries.

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Book SynopsisThe Homeric Hymns honour the Greek gods. They are called ''Homeric'' because the ancients attributed them to Homer; it is now accepted that they were composed by later poets working in the same tradition, probably during the seventh and sixth centuries BC. Four of them (Hymns 2-5) stand out by reason of their length and quality. The Hymn to Demeter tells what happened when Hades, lord of the dead, abducted Persephone, Demeter''s daughter (this storyy is connected to the Eleusinian Mysteries, which offered the Greeks the hope of a better lot in the afterlife). The Hymn to Apollo recounts Apollo''s birth and the foundation of his Delphic oracle. In the Hymn to Hermes Apollo''s cattle are stolen by a felonious infant--Hermes, god of thieves. In the Hymn to Aphrodite the goddess of love herself becomes infatuated with a mortal man, the Trojan prince Ankhises (their son is Aineias, the hero of Virgil''s Aeneid). This volume offers a faithful verse translation of all the hymns, Explanatory NTrade ReviewThis translation is very welcome, as until now there has been no widely available modern translation in English ... the translation should prove a great help to those wishing to teach the hymns to students with little or no Greek. Since they are of manageable length, and contain much that is of great interest for Greek religion and poetry, these hymns are eminently worthy of study; and Crudden's efforts should help introduce them to a wider readership. * Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review *Crudden's explanatory notes do a good job of conveying a lot of interesting points in a short space ... at its best Crudden's translation flows smoothly, and captures something of the movement of the originals. * Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review *The translation itself is highly readable ... It is the triumph of the English language and of Crudden's ingenious usage of it that he has succeeded in squeezing such a different version out of almost every line. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *

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Book SynopsisFor the first time, the full canon of poetry from Scotland is available to readers in one volume. The Poetry of Scotland presents all the major, and many less well-known Scottish poets in a broad historical perspective from the fourteenth century to the present day.Trade ReviewIt is lovely to see so much put precisely in place, calm, cool, a careful navigation from the mythic historical foundations through 1603, 1707 Victoria's Empire and the modern age, to come to the point where a national identity has been fully embodied. It is lovely to see so much put precisely in place, calm, cool, a careful navigation from the mythic historical foundations through 1603, 1707 Victoria's Empire and the modern age, to come to the point where a national identity has been fully embodied.

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Book SynopsisLay Sermons offers, playfully, a series of lay sermons on good principles and good breeding - the last thing that one would expect from the pen of Blackwood's Ettrick ShepherdTrade ReviewHogg was one of the most complex Scots of his time, as his most famous friend Scott realised when he acknowledged he was a genuine genius. It has taken Scotland a long time to wake up to the enduring importance of the author of the Justified Sinner and all the works to be included in, when complete, what will amount to the 31 volumes of the Stirling/South Carolina edition of the whole Hogg. Scotland perennially recognises only one writer, but Burns is not the whole story. Gillian Hughes has masterfully and meticulously edited the Lay Sermons. An invaluable resource not only to Hogg scholars, but to those interested in the genre ! and, more generally, to those devoted to Scottish literature of the period. It should be in the holdings of any major research library. Hogg was one of the most complex Scots of his time, as his most famous friend Scott realised when he acknowledged he was a genuine genius. It has taken Scotland a long time to wake up to the enduring importance of the author of the Justified Sinner and all the works to be included in, when complete, what will amount to the 31 volumes of the Stirling/South Carolina edition of the whole Hogg. Scotland perennially recognises only one writer, but Burns is not the whole story.

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Book SynopsisJohn Stuart Blackie was one of the most impressive and influential figures of nineteenth-century Scotland, as well as one of the most striking and flamboyant. As an intellectual he translated Goethe''s Faust and brought first-hand knowledge of German philosophy to Scotland as a means of keeping the Enlightenment tradition alive. As first Professor of Humanity at Aberdeen from 1839 to 1852 and then as Professor of Greek at Edinburgh until 1882, he played a, perhaps the, central role in modernising the Scottish university curriculum, removing the dead hand of theological orthodoxy, raising standards (and the entry age), introducing tutorial teaching and establishing new chairs (including the Edinburgh chair of Celtic). His role in the reform of secondary school teaching was equally central.But Blackie was also a great ''public man'', corresponding with great and famous throughout Great Britain and Europe, from Goethe and Carlyle to Ruskin and Gladstone, and filling the pages of newspapers and journals with writings on the major issues of the day. For the last thirty years of his life he became closely involved in issues of Scottish nationalism and home rule, and as champion of the crofters is largely responsible for their contemporary survival and unique status.Despite the existence of a rich archive of his papers and letters, there has been only one book devoted to his life: The Life of Professor John Stuart Blackie, the most distinguished Scotsman of the day, edited by J. G. Duncan and published in 1895.Trade ReviewThis is an extremely well researched and written biography of one of the most important and, till now, most neglected figures in nineteenth-century Scottish life. -- Pol O Dochartaigh Modern Language Review Wallace's detailed biographical account is illuminating... In an age of bloated biographies, this book is a model of lucid concision. -- Mick Morris, Open University Creative Studies Annual The interest of Blackie's lisfe does not lie in his works, to which few will nw turn, but in the milieux in which he moved, and these are evoked by Wallace in this entertaining book with great skill and sensitivity and with indefatigable scholarship. -- R. D. Anderson History: The Journal of the Historical Association Wallace has undertaken a commendable task in revealing Blackie, the man, and placing him in the academic, social, political, national and international context through which he lived. -- Iain Hutchison History Scotland Stuart Wallace's new biogrpahy has much to commend it: lucidly written, it marshals data and offers shrewd comment on social contexts, Scotland's universities, British and European identities and the role Blackie played in reforming priorities in Scottish educational and political self-determination... Blackie was legendary in his time. This book is a valuable reminder of why, and of the unfinished victories he spent his life struggling for. Every library should have a copy. -- Alan Riach, University of Glasgow Scottish Studies Newsletter This is an extremely well researched and written biography of one of the most important and, till now, most neglected figures in nineteenth-century Scottish life. Wallace's detailed biographical account is illuminating... In an age of bloated biographies, this book is a model of lucid concision. The interest of Blackie's lisfe does not lie in his works, to which few will nw turn, but in the milieux in which he moved, and these are evoked by Wallace in this entertaining book with great skill and sensitivity and with indefatigable scholarship. Wallace has undertaken a commendable task in revealing Blackie, the man, and placing him in the academic, social, political, national and international context through which he lived. Stuart Wallace's new biogrpahy has much to commend it: lucidly written, it marshals data and offers shrewd comment on social contexts, Scotland's universities, British and European identities and the role Blackie played in reforming priorities in Scottish educational and political self-determination... Blackie was legendary in his time. This book is a valuable reminder of why, and of the unfinished victories he spent his life struggling for. Every library should have a copy.

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Book SynopsisThe work of a highly significant figure in the renaissance of Gaelic poetry in the twentieth century is gathered together for the first time in one authoritative volume.Trade ReviewMichel Byrne did a braw an skeelie service tae the repuit o ane o Scotlan's foremaist makars o the twintiet yearhunnert wi his tentie editin! Nou, houbeit, we hae aa the bardrie o George Campbell Hay, wi owersetting o the Gaelic (an o the ither leids forbye), lang screids pang-fu o wittins anent his life an his makar's airt, commentators on ilka sang an ballant, listins o the place-names an (an eikin tae the first edeition) fowk-names at kythes in his screivins, an aa in a single (aabeit wechtie) buik at aabody can affuird tae hae. Aabody wi a hert-luve for Scotland an its leids bude tae hae't an aa, for there nae dout o Hay's staunin as a giant amang the giants o the Scottish Renaissance. A thing of beauty that will last for ever, an exuberant celebration of nature and of human life -- Ronald Black An immense achievement! long years' labour distilled and presented unobtrusively -- a model of scholarship lightly worn. -- Thomas Owen Clancy The editor seeks, through great erudition and sensitivity, to reveal Hay as a man of his times. -- Meg Bateman [Hay] is matchless as a poet of fishing and the sea. -- James Robertson Michel Byrne did a braw an skeelie service tae the repuit o ane o Scotlan's foremaist makars o the twintiet yearhunnert wi his tentie editin! Nou, houbeit, we hae aa the bardrie o George Campbell Hay, wi owersetting o the Gaelic (an o the ither leids forbye), lang screids pang-fu o wittins anent his life an his makar's airt, commentators on ilka sang an ballant, listins o the place-names an (an eikin tae the first edeition) fowk-names at kythes in his screivins, an aa in a single (aabeit wechtie) buik at aabody can affuird tae hae. Aabody wi a hert-luve for Scotland an its leids bude tae hae't an aa, for there nae dout o Hay's staunin as a giant amang the giants o the Scottish Renaissance. A thing of beauty that will last for ever, an exuberant celebration of nature and of human life An immense achievement! long years' labour distilled and presented unobtrusively -- a model of scholarship lightly worn. The editor seeks, through great erudition and sensitivity, to reveal Hay as a man of his times. [Hay] is matchless as a poet of fishing and the sea.

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Book SynopsisThis guide examines the production and reception of poetry by a range of women writers - predominantly although not exclusively writing in English - from Sappho through Anne Bradstreet and Emily Bronte to Sylvia Plath, Eavan Boland and Susan Howe.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; Chronology; Preface; Introduction:; A Feminist Framework; Critical Perspectives; Anthologies; Readers and Writers; Androgyny; Chapter 1: Self-Reflexivity; Poetic Daring; Poetic Inspiration; Poetic Relationships; Poetic Form; A Theory of Self-Reflexivity; Chapter 2: Performance; Self Exposure; Theatrics; Role-Play; Slam Poetry; Chapter 3: Private Voices; Separate Spheres; The Lyric; Poetic Convention; Privacy in History; 'I could not find a privacy': Emily Dickinson; Chapter 4: Embodied Language; Objects / Subjects; Writing the Body; Desire: Christina Rossetti; Creativity and Femininity; Chapter 5: Public Speech; Authority; The Romantic Movement; Oppression; War; Speech; Chapter 6: Poetry and Place; Borders; Borderland Britain; Specificities of Place: Elizabeth Bishop; Chapter 7: Experimentation and Form; Mythology and Fairytale; Modernist Experimentation: Marianne Moore; Contemporary Avant-Garde Poetics; Conclusion; Student Resources:; Critical Contexts; Studying Poetry; Close Reading; Writing about Poetry; Web Resources; Glossary; Guide to Further Reading; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis guide examines the production and reception of poetry by a range of women writers - predominantly although not exclusively writing in English - from Sappho through Anne Bradstreet and Emily Bronte to Sylvia Plath, Eavan Boland and Susan Howe.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; Chronology; Preface; Introduction:; A Feminist Framework; Critical Perspectives; Anthologies; Readers and Writers; Androgyny; Chapter 1: Self-Reflexivity; Poetic Daring; Poetic Inspiration; Poetic Relationships; Poetic Form; A Theory of Self-Reflexivity; Chapter 2: Performance; Self Exposure; Theatrics; Role-Play; Slam Poetry; Chapter 3: Private Voices; Separate Spheres; The Lyric; Poetic Convention; Privacy in History; 'I could not find a privacy': Emily Dickinson; Chapter 4: Embodied Language; Objects / Subjects; Writing the Body; Desire: Christina Rossetti; Creativity and Femininity; Chapter 5: Public Speech; Authority; The Romantic Movement; Oppression; War; Speech; Chapter 6: Poetry and Place; Borders; Borderland Britain; Specificities of Place: Elizabeth Bishop; Chapter 7: Experimentation and Form; Mythology and Fairytale; Modernist Experimentation: Marianne Moore; Contemporary Avant-Garde Poetics; Conclusion; Student Resources:; Critical Contexts; Studying Poetry; Close Reading; Writing about Poetry; Web Resources; Glossary; Guide to Further Reading; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe first study devoted to Sylvia Plath's fiction covering The Bell Jar and all of her published and unpublished short stories drawing extensively on archival material.

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Book SynopsisBased on the authors' extensive teaching experience, this volume provides a lively route map through the main aspects of poetry such as sound effects, rhythm and metre, the typographic display of poems on the page and the language of poetry using practical examples throughout.

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Book SynopsisIn the years since his death from alcohol poisoning, San Francisco Renaissance poet Jack Spicer (1925-1965) has gradually come to be recognized as one of most intriguing, demanding, and rewarding of the so-called ''New American Poetry'' poets who were first published in Donald Allen''s historic anthology of that name.This is the first full-length critical monograph on his work, placing it in the context not only of the San Francisco Renaissance and contemporary movements with which Spicer dialogued and often disagreed - such as the Beats, the Black Mountain poets, and the ''New York School'' - but also of the major modernists from whom his innovative poetics derived, differed, and developed.Informed by much archival material only recently made available, The Poetry of Jack Spicer, examines Spicer''s post-Poundian translation projects; his crucial theories of the ''serial poem'' and inspiration as ''dictation''; his contrarian take on queer poetics; his insistently uncanny regionalism; and his elaboration of an epistolary poetics of interpellation and address.

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Book SynopsisA well-written and carefully-researched narrative, it increases our knowledge of Scott''s life and work as perceived by his contemporaries, as well as enabling us to read Hogg''s Anecdotes in their original context.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Macrone at Abbotsford and Innerleithen in 1832; Chapter 2. 1771-1797; Chapter 3. 1797-1815; Chapter 4. The Novelist; Chapter 5. Scott at Abbotsford; Chapter 6. Miscellaneous Traits and Anecdotes; Chapter 7. 1831-2; Chapter 8. Eulogy.

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Book SynopsisThis new study argues that Coleridge was so influential in America because he provided a framework for American intellectuals to address one of the great questions of European Romanticism: what is the relationship between the Romantic triad of nature, spirit and humanity?

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Book SynopsisFocusses on a major revaluation of experimental poetry's social function in the US. The author explores the direct and practical relationships avant garde poets have had with power politics, social organization and cultural movements. It provides detailed readings of major poets.

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Book SynopsisReading a century of American poetry through the prism of short form, this book analyses the centrality of an aesthetic of brevity to American modernist verse.

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Book SynopsisGhareeb Iskander is an Iraqi poet and translator living in London. He has published numerous collections of poems including Gilgamesh's Snake and Other Poems which won Arkansas University's Arabic Translation Award for 2015 (published by Syracuse University Press in 2016). He translated Derek Walcott's poems into Arabic. He received his PhD from SOAS, University of London, UK.Trade Review'This book is less a work of literary criticism than a dialogue between poets. Iskandar, himself a poet, is at his best when he is tracing the grain of multiple translations, phrase by phrase, illuminating subtle differences, between the aesthetic possibilities of English and Arabic, and between the visions of individual poets.' -- Michael Beard, Emeritus Professor of English, University of North Dakota, USAGhareeb Iskander’s English Poetry and Modern Arabic Verse is an erudite and insightful journey into the creative process, a methodic study of how translations of mainly Eliot and Whitman by major Arab poets guided their hands and led them to inaugurate a new poetics in Modern Arabic poetry. A valuable reference work for students of translation theory and Arabic poetry. -- Adnan Fuad Haydar, Professor of Arabic Literature, University of Arkansas, USATable of ContentsTable of contents Introduction 1. Modern Arabic Poetry and English Poetry 2. The Arabic Waste Lands 3. Translating Whitman’s Song of Myself into Arabic 4. Al-Sayyab’s Translational Contribution Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisAtef Alshaer is Senior Lecturer in Arabic Language and Culture at the University of Westminster, UK. He is the author of Poetry and Politics in the Modern Arab World (2016), and co-author of The Hizbullah Phenomenon: Politics and Communication (2014).Table of ContentsIntroduction: Love and Poetry in the Middle East: From Antiquity to the Present, by Atef Alshaer (University of Westminster, UK) 1. Akkadian Love Poetry: From the Lewd to the Learned, Mark Weeden (SOAS, University of London, UK) 2. “Be My Baby” in Babylonia: An Akkadian Poem of Adolescent Longing, Andrew George (formerly University of Heidelberg, Germany) 3. The Poetry of love in Ancient Egypt, Robert Anderson (Late, City University, UK) 4. The Love of Jacob and Rachel in Modern Hebrew Poetry, Tamar S. Drukker (SOAS, University of London, UK) 5. An Arab and Islamic View of Love: The Poetry of the ‘Udhris, Atef Alshaer (University of Westminster, UK) 6. A Comparison Between the Ideas of Love Found in Al-Ghazali’s ‘The Alchemy of Happiness’ and the first volume of Rumi’s ‘Mathnawi’, Huma Baig (UK BioBank) 7. Unveiling Desire: Love in Modern Turkish Poetry, Laurent Mingon (University of Oxford, UK) 8. Kurdish Love poetry, Mariwan Kanie (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) 9. Modern Persian Poetry, Seyedeh Paniz Musawi Natanzi (Peace of Mind Afghanistan) 10. Poetics and politics of love in Modern Arabic Poetry: The Case of Nizar Qabani and Mahmoud Darwish, Atef Alshaer

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Book SynopsisA collection of twenty Burns songs, scribed in calligraphy and decorated with watercolours of the flowers and grasses which inspired him. The songs include "Ae Fond Kiss" "Afton Water" and "Auld Lang Syne". The author's careful research and dedicated craftsmanship have produced a book no true lover of Burns can resist.Trade ReviewLoving calligraphy and watercolour sketches are used to illustrate the greatest Burns songs. The book has a pastoral, handwrought labour of love feel to it. THE SCOTSMAN In watercolour and calligraphy, this presentation of 'Twenty Most Favourite Songs of Burns' is delicate and sensitive, the realisation of a dream conceived in youth...' SCOTTISH BOOK COLLECTOR

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Book SynopsisPoetry is the quintessence of Arab culture. In this book one of the foremost Arab poets reinterprets a rich and ancient heritage. He examines the oral tradition of the pre-Islamic poetry of Arabia and the relationship between Arabic poetry and the Qur''an, and between poetry and thought. He also assesses the challenges of modernism and the impact of western culture on the Arab poetic tradition. Stimulating in their originality, eloquent in their treatment of a wide range of poetry and criticism, these reflections open up fresh perspectives on one of the world''s greatest - and least explored - literatures.Trade Review'As important a cultural manifesto as any written today.' Edward Said, Independent on Sunday 'The Arab world's greatest living poet has cultivated a garden of language.' New York Times 'Adonis is a writer like Neruda or Marquez.' Geoff Dyer, The Independent ' ... Introduces the reader to a new way of interpreting all poetry, and to many marvellous words that do not have an English equivalent.' Arts Letter

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