Literary studies: poetry and poets Books
Princeton University Press Virgils Gaze
Book SynopsisVirgil's "Aeneid" invites its reader to identify with the Roman nation whose origins and destiny it celebrates. This work argues that the great Roman epic satisfies this identification only indirectly - if at all. It offers fresh readings of such major episodes as the fall of Troy, the pageant of heroes in the underworld, and the death of Turnus.Trade Review"Point of view or perspective, in all its forms, has been a chief concern of Virgilian criticism for decades now, and Reed's book shows that there is yet much to be discovered in these well-traveled areas of investigation, especially where narratology meets intertextuality... [T]he book both informs and provides much to contemplate."--Brian W. Breed, New England Classical Journal "Reed is an excellent interweaver of citations. He seems to have photographic recall of every metaphor ever penned in Hellenistic literature. His elucidation of the tangled ethnographies of peoples and cities of the ancient world is admirably precise. And he is correct to note the ironies that Virgil has built into his foundational epic."--Anthony Esolen, Claremont Review of Books "This book has many strengths. The close readings it extracts from the Aeneid's intertextuality with early Roman poetry, especially Naevius and tragedy, are often exciting."--Brian W. Breed, New England Classical JournalTable of ContentsPREFACE vii Introduction 1 CHAPTER ONE: Euryalus 16 CHAPTER TWO: Turnus 44 CHAPTER THREE: Dido 73 CHAPTER FOUR: Andromache 101 CHAPTER FIVE: Ancient Cities 129 CHAPTER SIX: Marcellus 148 CHAPTER SEVEN: Aeneas 173 BIBLIOGRAPHY 203 INDEX OF TEXTS CITED 211 GENERAL INDEX 223
£55.80
Princeton University Press Mute Poetry Speaking Pictures
Book SynopsisWhy do painters sometimes wish they were poets - and why do poets sometimes wish they were painters? What happens when Rembrandt spells out Hebrew in the sky or Poussin spells out Latin on a tombstone? What happens when Virgil, Ovid, or Shakespeare suspend their plots to describe a fictitious painting? This title answers these questions.Trade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013 "Barkan (Michelangelo: A Life on Paper) fruitfully illustrates that 'word and image, poetry and painting, language and visuality are the oppositions upon which artistic theory and practice have been stretched.' Barkan's splendid meditations take us from Plutarch, who believed that 'painting is mute poetry, poetry a speaking picture,' through Horace, examining to the art and poetry of early modern Europe... In his rich and detailed musings on this ongoing debate in the history of ideas, Barkan concludes, as Shakespeare does, that 'even when we insist that poetry and painting lie separately, it turns out they lie together.'"--Publishers Weekly "[E]rudite and wide-ranging."--Michael Dirda, Washington Post "This deeply learned essay by Barkan, one of the great contemporary American scholars of the Renaissance, deserves to become a standard work on the relations of word, image, and poetry and painting in pre-modern culture. Over the course of four chapters, Barkan offers lucid, often humorous expositions of the key concept of mimesis and the practice of ekphrasis as meditations on them evolved over centuries from Plato and Pliney to Albertia and Vasari."--Choice "This is an impressive, challenging, highly innovative study on a subject that we thought we knew by heart: the relationships, either pacific or antagonistic, between words and images... At first sight, Barkan's approach combines the best of historical criticism and deconstruction, which is already quite an achievement in itself, but the most admirable quality of his analyses is both the tightening and the broadening of this age-old debate. On the one hand, Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures brings together a wide range of works, authors, sources, interpretations, debates, and concepts that are most of the times separated or only partially covered in most historical overviews... The power that drives his book from the first till the last line is the desire to compare apples and oranges, and the skepticism that arises when apples and oranges are put aside in different baskets."--Jan Baetens, Leonardo on-line "Like an oil well kissed by Midas, Leonard Barkan keeps on pumping gold... Even after fifty years of scholarship and theorizing about words and pictures, this book will be indispensable to anyone who wants to understand not just the relations between the two, but the fascinating history of those relations in poetry, theory, and visual art itself."--James A. W. Heffernan, Renaissance Quarterly "Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures provides an excellent contribution to the growing body of work over recent years on the history and theory of ekphrasis. It reflects the increasing fascination among poets, critics and academics with the relationship of literary texts to the visual arts."--Peter Gillies, StrideTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction xi One: Visible and Invisible 1 Two: Apples and Oranges 27 Three: Desire and Loss 75 Four: The Theater as a Visual Art 127 Afterword 161 On Sources and Further Readings 163 Primary Sources: Works Consulted and Works Cited 169 Further Readings in Words and Images 175 Index 189
£999.99
Princeton University Press Felicia Hemans Selected Poems Letters Reception
Book SynopsisA best-selling poet in England and America, Felicia Hemans was regarded as leading female poet in her day, celebrated as the epitome of national 'feminine' values. This title features a collection of her writings. It includes her letters, which reflect her views of her contemporaries, her work, her negotiations with publishers, and her celebrity.Trade Review"This excellent documentary edition should serve to revive interest in one of the most popular literary figures of the early 19th century."--Virginia Quarterly Review "It is one of the great triumphs of Susan Wolfson's fine new edition that she enables us to see so clearly and with such an unencumbered view the work of one of the greatest of British Romantic poets. This edition sets--and then meets--high standards for textual editing, for circumspect biography, and for intellectual aesthetic, and cultural sensitivity."--Stephen Behrendt, Criticism "This latest offering from Susan Wolfson will undoubtedly become a common reference-point and focus for further consideration of Hemans."--Myra Cottingham, Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION: Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, 1793-1835 xiii TEXTS, FORMATS, EDITORIAL PRINCIPLES, ABBREVIATIONS xxxi CHRONOLOGY xxxiii WORKS 1 From The Domestic Affections and Other Poems (1812) 3 The Statue of the Dying Gladiator 3 The Domestic Affections 4 Epitaph on Mr. W---, a Celebrated Mineralogist (ca. 1814-16) 16 The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy: A Poem (1816) 18 Modern Greece, A Poem (1817) 34 Tales, and Historic Scenes, in Verse (1819) 70 The Widow of Crescentius 70 The Abencerrage 90 The Last Banquet of Antony and Cleopatra 135 Alaric in Italy 139 The Wife of Asdrubal 145 Heliodorus in the Temple 148 Night-Scene in Genoa 151 The Troubadour, and Richard Coeur de Lion 157 The Death of Conradin 163 Patriotic Effusions of the Italian Poets (1821) 171 From The Siege of Valencia; A Dramatic Poem ... With Other Poems (1823) 173 Elysium 173 The Siege of Valencia: A Dramatic Poem 176 Appendix 1: MS Songs 254 Appendix 2: MS, Scene 6 255 Songs of the Cid 256 England's Dead 265 From The Forest Sanctuary; anal Other Poems (1825) 268 The Forest Sanctuary 268 Lays of Many Lands 322 The Suliote Mother 322 Miscellaneous Pieces 324 The Treasures of the Deep 324 Bring Flowers 326 From New Monthly Magazine, 1826 327 The Sound of the Sea 327 From Records of Woman: With Other Poems (1828) 329 Records of Woman 330 Arabella Stuart 331 The Bride of the Greek Isle 340 The Switzer's Wife 347 Properzia Rossi 351 Gertrude, or Fidelity till Death 356 Imelda 358 Edith, a Tale of the Woods 362 The Indian City 368 The Peasant Girl of the Rhone 374 Indian Woman's Death-Song 377 Joan of Arc, in Rheims 380 Pauline 383 Juana 387 The American Forest-Girl 389 Costanza 391 Madeline, a Domestic Tale 395 The Queen of Prussia's Tomb 398 The Memorial Pillar 401 The Grave of a Poetess 403 Miscellaneous Pieces 405 The Homes of England 405 The Sicilian Captive 407 The Lady of the Castle 410 Tasso and his Sister 412 To Wordsworth 415 The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England 416 The Palm-Tree 418 The Illuminated City 419 The Spells of Home 421 The Graves of a Household 422 The Image in Lava 423 A Parting Song 425 From The Forest Sanctuary: With Other Poem; (1829) 426 Miscellaneous Pieces 426 The Traveller at the Source of the Nile 426 Casabianca 428 Our Daily Paths 430 The Lost Pleiad 432 The Dying Improvisatore 433 From the Annuals (1826-30) 435 Forget Me Not 436 Evening Prayer at a Girls' School 436 The Cliffs of Dover 438 Night-Blowing Flowers 439 The Keepsake 440 The Broken Chain 440 The Amulet 441 Woman and Fame 441 The Literary Souvenir 443 The Mirror in the Deserted Hall 443 From Songs of the Affections, with Other Poems, (1830) 444 Songs 444 A Spirit's Return 444 The Two Homes 452 The Land of Dreams 453 Woman on the Field of Battle 455 Supplement: To the Memory of Lord Charles Murray 457 The Deserted House 458 Miscellaneous Poems 460 Corinne at the Capitol 460 The Diver 462 Late Poems (1831-34) 46,5 The Last Song of Sappho 465 To My Own Portrait 467 The Lyre and Flower 469 From Records of the Autumn of 1834 470 Design and Performance 470 From Blackwood's Edinburgb Magazine 1835 471 Sabbath Sonnet 471 LETTERS 473 To her aunt, 19 December 1808 475 To Matthew Nicholson, 17 July 1811 476 Felicity Browne to Matthew Nicholson, 7 February 1812 477 To Matthew Nicholson, 12 March 1812 479 To William Stanley Roscoe, 22 October 1813 479 To John Murray, 26 February 1817 480 To John Murray, November 1817 481 To James Simpson, 22 October 1819 482 To B. P Wagner, November 1819 484 To Harriett Browne, October 1820 484 To William Jerdan, 11 June 1821 485 To ?, 1822 486 To Fanny Luxmoore, mid-July 1822 487 To William Jacob, 1 May 1823 488 To William Jerdan, 8 May 1823 489 To Miss?, 15 May 1823 490 To William Jerdan, 19 May 1823 491 To Maria Jane Jewsbury, mid-1826 491 To an old friend, January 1827 493 To William Blackwood, 13 June 1827 494 To William Blackwood, 3 November 1827 495 To William Blackwood, 14 February 1828 495 To Rev. Samuel Butler, 19 February 1828 496 To William Blackwood, 1 March 1828 497 To Mary Russell Mitford, 23 March 1828 498 To William Henry Atherton, 9 May 1828 499 To William Blackwood, 29 July 1828 500 To Mary Russell Mitford, 10 November 1828 501 To a friend, early 1829 502 To William Blackwood, ca. January 1830 502 To ?, 22 June 1830 503 To John Lodge, 24 June 1830 504 To Rose Lawrence, ca. 24 June 1830 505 To ?H. F Chorley, 24 June 1830 505 To a male friend from Coniston, 25 June 1830 506 TO "Mr.----," 2 July 1830 507 To Thomas Cadell, 5 July ? 1830 508 To ?Harriett Hughes, early July 1830 508 To ?H. F Chorley's sister, mid July 1830 509 TO John Lodge, 20 July 1830 510 To Rose Lawrence, late July 1830 511 To a new friend in Dublin, Fall 1830 511 To a new friend in Dublin, early 1831 512 To ?, after 12 February 1831 513 To John Lodge, July 1831 513 To Clara Graves, July 1831 514 To William Blackwood, 18 September 1831 515 William Blackwood to FH, 26 September 1831 515 To ?Harriett Hughes, May 1832 516 To ?H. F Chorley, August 1832 516 To Rev. Samuel Butler, 7 November 1833 517 To Wordsworth, before April 1834 517 To?, 28 June 1834 518 To a friend, ?28 June 1834 518 To a friend, early July 1834 519 To Archdeacon Samuel Butler, 26 July 1834 519 To Robert Peel, 10 February 1835 520 To Rose Lawrence, 13 February 1835 521 RECEPTION 523 Lifetime 525 Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1808-11 526 British Critic, 1816 529 Monthly Review, 1819 529 Edinburgh Monthly Review, 1820 530 British Review, 1820 532 Hannah More, 1820 532 Quarterly Review, 1820 533 Byron to John Murray, 1816-20 535 British Critic, 1823 537 British Review, 1823 540 Monthly Review, 1823 541 Joanna Baillie, 1824-27 542 Walter Scott, 1823-29 545 William Blackwood to Hemans, 1828-30 546 Noctes Ambrosianae, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1828 548 Francis Jeffrey, Edinburgh Review, 1829 549 The Wordsworths, 1830-37 556 Maria Jane Jewsbury, The Three Histories, 1830 560 "Felicia Hemans," Atbenaum, 1831 562 Andrews Norton to Hemans, 26 June 1831 569 Grants to Hemans, 1835 569 Death 571 L.E.L., Stanzas on the Death of Mrs. Hemans 571 Elizabeth Barrett, StanzasAddressed tO Miss Landon 574 Joanna Baillie to Andrews Norton 576 William Wordsworth, Extempore Effusion 576 Nineteenth-Century Retrospects 580 L.E.L., "On the Character of Mrs. Hemans's Writings," New Monthly, 1835 580 Felicia Hemans, 1838 582 Henry F Chorley, "Personal Recollections," Athenrum, 1835 584 Memorials of Mrs. Hemans, 1836 586 Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1842 590 George Gilfillan, "Mrs. Hemans," Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, 1847 591 Jane Williams, The Literary Women of England, 1861 599 William Michael Rossetti, "Prefatory Notice," 1878 603 BIBLIOGRAPHY 611 INDEX OF TITLES 621 GENERAL INDEX 623
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Princeton University Press Being Numerous
Book SynopsisOffers a fresh way to understand the divisions that organize twentieth-century poetry. The author argues that the most important conflict is not between styles or aesthetic politics, but between poets who seek to preserve or produce the incommensurable particularity of experience by making powerful objects.Trade Review"A blazingly astute assessment of postmodern poetics, Oren Izenberg's Being Numerous examines the role contemporary poetry plays in representing being and what constitutes value of being."--Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Brooklyn Rail "[Izenberg] makes an intriguing case for focusing on the ontological dimension of poetic practice in general; readers might move beyond seeing the poem as a self-contained artifact and instead see it as a function of the poet's desire to define the person."--Choice "Izenberg's conclusive meditation on known and unknown readers, then, seems to open and invite the readings that this book will generate, as it powerfully, scrupulously recalls us to the responsibilities inherent in any literary response."--Siobhan Phillips, Contemporary LiteratureTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii INTRODUCTION: Poems, Poetry, Personhood 1 CHAPTER ONE: White Thin Bone: Yeatsian Personhood 40 CHAPTER TWO: Oppen's Silence, Crusoe's Silence, and the Silence of Other Minds 78 CHAPTER THREE: The Justice of My Feelings for Frank O'Hara 107 CHAPTER FOUR: Language Poetry and Collective Life 138 CHAPTER FIVE: We Are Reading 164 Notes 189 Index 225
£31.50
Princeton University Press On Empson
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A brilliant introduction to one of the most original and beguiling intellects of the 20th century."--Michael Dirda, Washington Post "An elegant and concise study of the great British literary critic William Empson (1906-1984)... If we come away with one thing from On Empson, it is the reminder, in the age of STEM courses, of just how much poetry matters--matters not on ethical or political grounds but simply for its own sake, for its exposure of the possibilities of the language that we use every waking moment of every day without taking into account its astonishing possibilities for knowledge, power, and, especially, pleasure."--Marjorie Perloff, Weekly Standard "Part of the dexterity of Wood's own critical idiom lies in using the resources of the colloquial register to say just enough, leaving us to complete and digest the thought. His stylish brevity avoids the dogmatising implicit in all attempts to turn an observation into a theory ... Wood even manages to make Milton's God (1961), Empson's grumpiest, most obsessive book, seem attractive ... An appropriately subtle yet spirited introduction to the seductive power of a particular form of literary criticism."--Stefan Collini, The GuardianTable of Contents1 Empson's Intentions 1 2 The Strangeness of the World 26 3 Large Dreams 55 4 The Other Case 82 5 All in Flight 113 6 Sibylline Leaves 143 7 The Smoke of Hell 171 Acknowledgments 201 Abbreviations 203 Bibliography 207
£19.00
Princeton University Press The First Book
Book Synopsis"We have many poets of the First Book," the poet and critic Louis Simpson remarked in 1957, describing a sense that the debut poetry collection not only launched the contemporary poetic career but also had come to define it. Surveying American poetry over the past hundred years, The First Book explores the emergence of the poetic debut as a uniqueTrade Review"A fascinating story of poetic debuts. With nuanced understanding as well as clear-eyed realism, Jesse Zuba traces the self-fashioning that goes into the making of careers, allowing poets to strike a delicate balance between institutional demands and personal aspirations."—Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University"The First Book combines social theory, cultural and publishing history, and close attention to individual poems to argue that notions of the poet's career, or the poet's profession, have shaped poems, books, and poetic oeuvres in the American twentieth century in ways that prior critics have not seen. Zuba's claims are true, new, and important."—Stephen Burt, Harvard University"Exploring the professionalization of poetic culture over the last hundred years, The First Book represents a confluence of often mutually exclusive kinds of excellence: Zuba is at once an adept close reader of poems, a scrupulous literary historian, a curator of cultures popular and unpopular, and synthesizer of sophisticated critical thinking. Even more rarely, Zuba writes with a quietly stylistic panache that makes The First Book an uncommon pleasure to read."—James Longenbach, University of RochesterTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Abbreviations xiii Introduction: The History of the Poetic Career 1 1 Apprentices to Chance Event: First Books of the 1920s 21 2 "Poets of the First Book, Writers of Promise": Beginning in the Era of the First-Book Prize 68 3 "Everything Has a Schedule": John Ashbery's Some Trees 104 4 From Firstborn to Vita Nova: Louise Gluck's Born-Again Professionalism 128 Conclusion: Making Introductions 154 Notes 169 Bibliography 191 Index 203
£40.50
Princeton University Press The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Helpful spin-offs from an acclaimed 'mother volume.'"--Library JournalTable of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments ix Alphabetical List of Entries xi Bibliographical Abbreviations xiii General Abbreviations xvii Contributors xix Entries A to Z 1 Index 393
£28.80
Princeton University Press Virgils Gaze Nation and Poetry in the Aeneid
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Point of view or perspective, in all its forms, has been a chief concern of Virgilian criticism for decades now, and Reed's book shows that there is yet much to be discovered in these well-traveled areas of investigation, especially where narratology meets intertextuality... [T]he book both informs and provides much to contemplate."--Brian W. Breed, New England Classical Journal "Reed is an excellent interweaver of citations. He seems to have photographic recall of every metaphor ever penned in Hellenistic literature. His elucidation of the tangled ethnographies of peoples and cities of the ancient world is admirably precise. And he is correct to note the ironies that Virgil has built into his foundational epic."--Anthony Esolen, Claremont Review of Books "This book has many strengths. The close readings it extracts from the Aeneid's intertextuality with early Roman poetry, especially Naevius and tragedy, are often exciting."--Brian W. Breed, New England Classical JournalTable of ContentsPREFACE vii Introduction 1 CHAPTER ONE: Euryalus 16 CHAPTER TWO: Turnus 44 CHAPTER THREE: Dido 73 CHAPTER FOUR: Andromache 101 CHAPTER FIVE: Ancient Cities 129 CHAPTER SIX: Marcellus 148 CHAPTER SEVEN: Aeneas 173 BIBLIOGRAPHY 203 INDEX OF TEXTS CITED 211 GENERAL INDEX 223
£20.90
Princeton University Press Early Auden Later Auden
Book SynopsisTrade Review"It's a wealth of intelligence, knowledge and insight that Mendelson ... brings to this study... With his array of interpretative tools, he solves for the first time the notorious obscurities of Auden's earliest work."--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times "Remarkable ... Presents the poet's life and art so vividly as to illuminate the major works and bring out neglected ones."--Grace Schulman, Nation "Rich and suggestive in its generalizations, resourceful in its scholarship, and precise in its readings of Auden's work."--Paul Fussell, New Republic "Mendelson's brilliant anatomy of Auden's career as a poet and magus in America is an intellectual and artistic tour de force."--Economist "[An] astonishing critical study... An absorbing life of the poet's mind ... Exciting and provocative."--Walter Clemons, Newsweek "[Mendelson's] close readings are always meticulous and insightful, and he draws detailed connections between what Auden read and what he wrote... [S]hould be kept on the shelf right next to the Collected Poems."--Adam Kirsch, New York Observer "Could well change the map of modern poetry... A model of condensation, [it] proceeds through the huge, often neglected body of work with grace and wit."--Tom D'Evelyn, Boston Book ReviewTable of ContentsPreface to the One-Volume Edition ix Early Auden Introduction to Early Auden 3 Part One: The Border And The Group (August 1927-May 1933) I The Exiled Word 15 II The Watershed 36 III Family Ghosts 53 IV The Evolutionary Defile 69 V Trickster and Tribe 86 VI Private Places 115 VII Looking for Land 132 Part Two: The Two Worlds (June 1933-January 1939) VIII Lucky This Point 151 IX The Great Divide 167 X The Insufficient Touch 196 XI Their Indifferent Redeemer 220 XII Parables of Action: 1 236 XIII Parables of Action: 2 257 XIV History to the Defeated 277 XV From This Island 297 Epilogue 325 Later Auden Introduction to Later Auden 329 Part One: Vision And After (1939-1947) I Demon or Gift 339 II The Vision Enters 363 III Against the Devourer 389 IV Investigating the Crime 418 V It without Image 448 VI Imaginary Saints 471 VII The Absconded Vision 495 VIII The Murderous Birth 522 IX Asking for Neighborhood 557 Part Two: The Flesh We Are (1948-1957) X The Murmurs of the Body 589 XI Waiting for a City 615 XII The Great Quell 638 XIII Number or Face 664 XIV The Altering Storm 690 Part Three: Territorial (1958-1973) XV Poet of the Encirclement 715 XVI The Air Changes 735 XVII This Time Final 755 XVIII The Concluding Carnival 783 Postscript His Secret Life 809 Notes and Index Reference Notes 821 Index 877
£999.99
Princeton University Press Prose Poetry
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shortlisted for the Prize for Literary Scholarship, Australian University Heads of English""The rich variety of work featured in this study provides a hugely valuable sense of just how vibrant the form currently is. . . . The book’s robust championing of prose poetry in its many manifestations — and the recognition that this is a contemporary literary mode growing in significance — are perspectives to which we ought to attend."---Simon Collings, Fortnightly Review"With this work, Hetherington and Atherton enrich understanding of and debates about the 'new' genre of prose poetry. Their impressive explication of the genre’s history from the mid-19th century to the present sets a frame for their equally impressive exploration of many facets of this protean art." * Choice Reviews *
£85.00
Princeton University Press An Essay on Man
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An Essay on Man . . . was one of the most widely disseminated and well-known publications of the 18th century, notably impacting Enlightenment writers Voltaire, David Hume, Adam Smith, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Jones provides a reliable modern version." * Library Journal *"The book is exemplary in its scholarship. [Jones] has unearthed a multiplicity of references and illuminates the antecedents of Pope's ideas with authority. This is an edition which should be recommended to every student and teacher of the poem…. There is no sensible criticism that could be levelled at his work in this volume." * Penniless Press *"Jones's edition makes the energetically paradoxical Essay on Man accessible…. The introduction is extensive and excellent."---Robert Phiddian, Australian Book Review
£14.24
Princeton University Press The Man of the Crowd
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A deeply informed, academic work, but highly readable."---Steven Carroll, Sydney Morning Herald"The Man of the Crowd, by Scott Peeples, has something for everyone. It should be equally attractive to Edgar Allan Poe scholars, aficionados, and those who simply want to read more of Poe’s stories, poems, and essays."---Henry T. Edmonson III, Law & Liberty"Engaging. . . . [The Man of the Crowd] succeeds admirably in bringing us closer to a man we can now better appreciate as part of the crowd rather than a remote and inexplicable monad."---Ian Finseth, Edgar Allan Poe Review"Peeples convincingly demonstrates that Poe remained “in transit” throughout his life, despite his literary successes, and was never in full control of his career. This accessible book will interest casual readers and Poe scholars alike." * Choice *"What sets Scott Peeples’s ‘compact biography’ apart from other recent work is that it also concerns cities, specifically Richmond, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York, where Poe spent much of his life and which stirred his imagination. Peeples’s aim is to re-contextualize the image of Poe as a campy ‘nowhere man,’. . . . In detailing Poe’s moves from city to city, Peeples presents an ambitious young man seeking to support his family and to establish himself as a writer, critic, and editor."---Katherine J. Kim, The Metropole"[A] superb new biograph[y] of Poe. . . . The Man of the Crowd . . . give[s] us a clearer view of Poe as a man and an artist, while at the same time showing how the myth mill about him was busy from the start, forming and deforming his choices, and creating the brand of Poe we know today."---Jonathan Elmer, Public Books"A welcome, engaging introduction to Poe’s life. . . . This compact biography is an affable ramble, a genial journey, with Poe through the years. It knowledgeably and accessibly recounts Poe’s urban contexts and relates his relevant texts. . . . The whole is interestingly complemented by archival images of contemporary maps and periodicals and by archival photographs, blended photographs, and recent photographs by Michelle Van Parys of various Poe sites and locales. This volume is a useful vade mecum for our armchair Poe peregrinations."---Richard Kopley, Poe Studies"Well-researched . . . [and] deeply informed. . . . Scott Peeples's streamlined account of Poe's journeys . . . grounds itself determinedly in the arc of his life's movement through various urban social realities. . . . This biography achieves its freshness through framing Poe's life as a series of chapters related to the cities in which he took up primary residence."---Stephen Rachman, Poe Studies"A highly absorbing, important, and superbly crafted study that deserves a place on the top shelf of Poe biographies."---Jason Richards, American Literary History
£18.00
Princeton University Press The River Twice
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the UNT Rilke Prize, University of North Texas""“Readers will find Graber’s reflections on a perpetually transforming world relevant, astutely analytic, and deeply felt.”" * Publishers Weekly *"I don’t know where this poet has been all my life, but I’ve certainly missed her — those long lines that float us through ache and love and quarrels. The only thing that parallels exquisite thought is the poem that carries it. Whether she’s picking up dog excrement or tasting a bitter peach or considering Mary Shelley, every word is placed exactly."---Grace Cavalieri, Washington Independent Review of Books"Kathleen Graber takes readers on a fascinating, slow-motion journey in her splendid third book, The River Twice. Simple scenes or observations — watching pigeons build a nest or visiting a thrift shop — expand into rich meditations on change and impermanence . . . . Yet even as she contends with time, grief and fear for the planet, she brilliantly balances intelligence and heart, and never forgets the conscious act of looking for beauty"---Elizabeth Lund, The Washington Post"[P]owerful and deeply convincing . . . [The River Twice] has an undeniable authenticity, not just in feeling but in form as well."---Bruce Whiteman, The Hudson Review"Any admirer of Graber’s previous work will be familiar already with her penchant for using the words of others to throw doubt and tension into her own poems. With The River Twice, Graber introduces Heraclitus to a list of thinkers she’s wrestled with before: St. Augustine, Walter Benjamin, Marcus Aurelius, the list goes on. . . . [S]he’s at her best when she allows mystery’s presence into her poems."---Will Brebaker, Los Angeles Review of Books"Borrowed from Heraclitus, the conundrum of stepping into the same river twice resonates anew in these poems, as [Kathleen] Graber examines the small tragedies witnessed close to home. . . . Her imagery burns too, from the esoteric to the mundane, all the while keeping pace with constant flow of river that washes us all along, sometimes above the surface, sometimes below."---Glen Young, Petoskey News"Masterful self-portraits. . . . Graber’s natural yet erudite voice wanders elegantly in considerations of fluidity and impermanence as she evokes Heraclitus’s famous fragment, ‘You cannot step twice into the same river.’. . . . A remarkable tapestry of quotidian and transcendent life."---Henry Hughes, Harvard Review
£37.80
Princeton University Press The River Twice
Book SynopsisAn impressive new collection from a poet whose previous book was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Taking its title from Heraclitus's most famous fragment, The River Twice is an elegiac meditation on impermanence and change.Trade Review"Winner of the UNT Rilke Prize, University of North Texas"
£14.24
Princeton University Press Before Our Eyes
Book SynopsisA major new collection from the winner of the 2019 Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry, this volume gathers more than 30 new poems by Wilner, along with representative selections from her seven previous books, to present a major overview of her distinguished body of work.Trade Review"The book is a feast. And if you flip to the back, where her earliest poems are, you can see Wilner, right from the beginning, working with the question of a new mythmaking."---Jesse Nathan, McSweeney's
£14.24
Princeton University Press Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shortlisted for the John Florio Prize, The Society of Authors""A welcome addition to Princeton University Press’s excellent series, the Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation."---David Cooke, Modern Poetry in Translation
£15.29
Princeton University Press Hosts and Guests
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Nate Klug’s Hosts and Guests examines the sometimes uneasy, shifting economies between what serves as host and what is hosted in an array of contexts, from the Anthropocene to mother and fetus. . . . But it is perhaps in his delicate, intricate syntactical suspensions and arrangements, as much as in his arresting image systems, that Klug conveys the beautiful struggle of risking love and belief in bodies seemingly made to be lost to us."---Lisa Russ Spaar, Los Angeles Review of Books"Klug is writing some of the strongest poetry you can find in American letters these days. Stoically fierce and vividly alert. The signature surfaces of a Nate Klug poem . . . are often somehow simultaneously beautifully smooth and a little edgy. But they are also chiseled and efficient, and these qualities together are a sign of the richness in the depths they signify."---Jesse Nathan, McSweeney's"Intelligent, wry, learned, and at times witty . . . Klug bears witness to the fruitful cross-pollinations of contemporary poetry and contemporary religious faith…he is worth watching. - Library Journal""Klug is a poet of attention for whom metre is a slow-mo technology that lets you notice what’s in front of you. But he also finds words for interiority, helping you notice emotions that get lost in the rush of the everyday. - James K.A. Smith, Image Journal newsletter""Klug, at his best, can marry image, movement, and melody into precise order… I find myself…so refreshed by the poems of Hosts and Guests. - Christian Detisch, 32poems.com""Quirky and philosophical. . . . the poems in Hosts and Guests are . . . both exploratory and concise; they wander without filler or clutter. Klug’s descriptions are sharp, subtle, perceptive. . . . Here is the startling opposite of dogma’s violence: a free thinker who keeps running into God despite his disavowals."---Caroline Pittman, Threepenny Review
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Princeton University Press Rain in Plural Poems
Trade Review"Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry, Arrowsmith Press""A splendid follow-up to the LJ best-booked The Ruined Elegance with broader appeal." * Library Journal, starred review *"Fiona Sze-Lorrain’s fourth book of original poems, Rain in Plural . . . uses language to uncover questions of citizenship, memory, and image. We love Sze-Lorrain’s lush, musical sensibilities. . . . If you’ve enjoyed her work in the past, you’re sure to enjoy Rain in Plural, too!" * Lantern Review *"The poetry in her newest collection, Rain in Plural, is neither a mélange nor a mosaic of cultural, intellectual and linguistic referents, but a deeply intertwined layering . . . Sze-Lorrain seems at home and a visitor everywhere, connecting dots across cultures and continents, dipping into languages and cuisines. If there is a globalized future for English-language literature, this is perhaps an early glance at it."---Asian Review of Books, Peter Gordon"Provocative . . . lyrical. . . . These lovely poems slide between equally compelling realities that don’t seem to belong together but ultimately unify and bring sense, compassion, and beauty."---Kyle Torke, Colorado Review"The collection reveals the inner-life of a truly remarkable poet. Radiantly intelligent, Sze-Lorrain’s work is as musically intoxicating as the zheng she plays with precision . . . Rain in Plural is a collection of poetry deserving of multiple reads in the quietude of soft light over one’s left shoulder."---Michael Escoubas, Quill & Parchment"Rain in Plural is a collection that quietly insists on your attention."---Lisa Higgs, The Adroit Journal"There is something for every reader in Rain in Plural . . . Rain in Plural is an invitation to a myriad of entanglements with the inner life, and what grows from the seeds planted there."---Hannah VanderHart, EcoTheo Review"Rain in Plural is a lush and intimate study of the porous boundaries of personal life. Inflected with quietude and hardened by rigorous examination, Sze-Lorrain’s careful eye ranges over landscapes both within and outside the self, mining language for new entry points." * Yaddo News *"Fiona Sze-Lorrain's much-awaited fourth poetry collection, Rain in Plural, is a polyphonic gathering of wide-ranging themes. . . . Sze-Lorrain’s work allows us to grasp, for a moment, the points of contact that translation perpetually seeks. Therein lies the philosophical importance of Rain in Plural: eschewing equivalence, Sze-Lorrain crafts a poetics of border spaces and contact zones."---Lara Norgaard, Singapore Unbound"Such unexpected juxtapositions lend the collection a quirky vividness. Though consecutive lines and stanzas often touch on drastically different subjects, the poems still offer a sense of wholeness. . . . Regardless of her subject, Sze-Lorrain manages to be inventive and original without sacrificing authenticity and musical balance."---Maggie Wang, Harvard Review"The poems in this very good collection, even those that are slight on the page, have an epic, Yeatsian sweep to them, a grandeur of statement found in a lightness of touch."---Dominic Leonard, Poetry London
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Princeton University Press Dear Ms. Schubert
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Written by a Mr. Butterfly, these brief, playful poems show the intimacies of love while maintaining deep cultural skepticism." * New York Times *"Dear Ms. Schubert is an admirable addition to international literature, a gift to the English-speaking world."---L. Ali Khan, NY Journal of Books"Readers lucky enough to find themselves immersed in the poems [in Dear Ms. Schubert] will discover a lovely garden of delights…The poems, in a confident translation by Robin Davidson and Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska, are pleasant to read…clever and startling. —Kyle Torke, Colorado Review""The fascinating puzzle Lipska has put in front of us continues with the blurring of the boundary between prose and poetry. According to Lipska herself, the poems were written as prose postcards, and indeed only the poems of Dear Ms. Schubert are set as free verse poems. This is a revolutionary act, a democratization that anchors poetry in spoken and written nonliterary texts and gives it the rhythm of breathing; its speaker/writer perceives the world in a particular, poetic rhythm."---Alice-Catherine Carls, World Literature Today
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Princeton University Press The Trials of Orpheus
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] fascinating and erudite book. . . . The Trials of Orpheus will be indispensable for decades to come to early modernists and those in other fields who seek to understand the complexities of classical reception and the uncanniness of poetic creativity from antiquity to the present."---Benjamin Parris, Modern Philology
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Princeton University Press Before Modernism
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Before Modernism is] full of fascinating detail and Jackson’s research is impeccable."---Alan Dent, Penniless Press
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Princeton University Press Before Modernism
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Princeton University Press Soul and Substance
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An incredibly beautiful volume."---Matthew Goulish, EcoTheo Review
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Princeton University Press Soul and Substance
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An incredibly beautiful volume."---Matthew Goulish, EcoTheo Review
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Princeton University Press Visionary and Dreamer
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Cecil] does more for both painters than simply recount their lives. He presents both the visionary and dreamer in the bright and captivating light of his own sympathy." * The Observer *
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Princeton University Press On the Laws of the Poetic Art
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the 1997 Tanning Prize for Lifetime Achievement, Academy of American Poets""This book is full of fruitful and fascinating suggestions about our commerce with the variety of art, and the many worlds it inhabits."---John Bayley, The Times
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Princeton University Press The First Book
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Princeton University Press The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Volume 4
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Princeton University Press Words of Eternity Blake and the Poetics of the
Book SynopsisWilliam Blake called himself a "sublime Artist" and acknowledged his own power to create "the Most Sublime Poetry." Words of Eternity reveals the fundamental importance of the term "sublime" in a defining of Blake's poetic achievement. This first full-length study of Blake and the sublime demonstrates that a sophisticated theory of sublimity permeaTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. ix*ILLUSTRATIONS, pg. xi*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xiii*TEXTS AND ABBREVIATIONS, pg. xv*INTRODUCTION, pg. 3*CHAPTER ONE. Blake's Concept of the Sublime, pg. 15*CHAPTER TWO. The Bardic Style: Sublime Extension, pg. 55*CHAPTER THREE. The Iconic Style: Sublime Concentration, pg. 80*CHAPTER FOUR. Narrative Sequences: Modes of Organization, pg. 103*CHAPTER FIVE. The Setting of Nature and the Ruins of Time, pg. 145*CHAPTER SIX. The Setting of the Divided Nations: The Antiquarian Sublime, pg. 179*CHAPTER SEVEN. The Settings of Signs: Language and the Recovery of Origins, pg. 201*EPILOGUE. Blake's Sublime in the Romantic Context, pg. 225*INDEX, pg. 233
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Princeton University Press The Antifraternal Tradition in Medieval
Book SynopsisThis book is a history of a medieval literary tradition that grew out of opposition to the mendicant fraternal orders. Penn R. Szittya argues that the widespread attacks on the friars in late medieval poetry, especially in Ricardian England, drew on an established tradition that originated in the polemical theology, eschatology, and Biblical exegesTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*PREFACE, pg. ix*ABBREVIATIONS, pg. xiii*INTRODUCTION. The Puzzle of Sire Penetrans Domos, pg. 1*ONE. William of St. Amour and the Perils of the Last Times, pg. 11*TWO. William of St. Amour in England: Circulation and Dissemination, pg. 62*THREE. The Antifaternal Ecclesiology of Archbishop Richard FitzRalph, pg. 123*FOUR. John Wyclif and the Nominalist, pg. 152*FIVE. The English Poetic Tradition, pg. 183*SIX. Chaucer and Antifraternal Exegesis: The False Apostle of the Summoner's Tale, pg. 231*SEVEN. The Friars and the End of Piers Plowman, pg. 247*APPENDIX A: Sources of Omne Bonum, Article "Fratres", pg. 291*APPENDIX B: Sources ofBodl. 784, Part 3 and Collation with Omne Bonum, Article "Fratres", pg. 296*GENERAL INDEX, pg. 301*INDEX OF BIBLICAL REFERENCES, pg. 313*INDEX OF MANUSCRIPTS, pg. 315
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Princeton University Press The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Book SynopsisColeridge began in 1795 a series of public lectures. This volume includes all the printed and manuscript versions of the Bristol lectures in chronological sequence. Among the contents are "Lectures on Revealed Religion, Its Corruption, and Its Political Views" and "Lecture on the Slave-Trade." Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy LiTrade ReviewHonorable Mention for the 2001 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Multivolume Reference: Humanities, Association of American PublishersTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. ix*LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, pg. xi*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xiii*EDITORIAL PRACTICE, SYMBOLS, AND ABBREVIATIONS, pg. xvi*CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE 1772-1795, pg. xxi*EDITORS' INTRODUCTION, pg. xxv*CONCIONES AD POPULUM, pg. 21*LECTURES ON REVEALED RELIGION, ITS CORRUPTIONS AND POLITICAL VIEWS, pg. 75*LECTURE ON THE SLAVE-TRADE, pg. 231*A COMPARATIVE VIEW OF THE ENGLISH REBELLION UNDER CHARLES THE FIRST, AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, pg. 253*LECTURE ON THE TWO BILLS, pg. 257*LECTURE ON THE TWO BILLS, pg. 261*THE PLOT DISCOVERED: OR AN ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE, AGAINST MINISTERIAL TREASON, pg. 283*An Answer to "A Letter to Edward Long Fox, M.D.", pg. 321*APPENDIX A1 FRAGMENTS OF THEOLOGICAL LECTURES, pg. 335*APPENDIX A2 A SERMON, pg. 345*APPENDIX B1 STAR REPORT OF BRISTOL GUILDHALL MEETINGS OF 17 AND 20 NOVEMBER 1795, pg. 357*APPENDIX B2 PETITION OF THE INHABITANTS OF BRISTOL AGAINST THE TWO BILLS, pg. 365*APPENDIX B3 THOMAS BEDDOES A WORD IN DEFENCE OF THE BILL OF RIGHTS, pg. 369*APPENDIX B4 A. W. A LETTER TO EDWARD LONG FOX, M.D., pg. 385*INDEX, pg. 393
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Princeton University Press The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Volume 11 Shorter Works and Fragments Volume II 5631 Princeton Legacy Library
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Princeton University Press The Letters of Edward Fitzgerald Volume 3 18671876 4475 Princeton Legacy Library
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Princeton University Press Selected Poems of Tudor Arghezi
Book SynopsisTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*Translators' Introduction, pg. ix*Acknowledgments, pg. xi*Preface, pg. xiii*Pronunciation Guide, pg. xxv*I. From Fitting Words (Cuvinte Potrivite), pg. 1*II. From Flowers of Mildew (Flori de Mucigai), pg. 75*III. From Evening Verses (Versuri se Seara), pg. 129*IV. From one Hundred and one Poems (Una suta una poeme), pg. 169*Epilogue, pg. 213
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Princeton University Press The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Volume 4
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Pluto Press Culture as Politics
Book SynopsisThe selected writings of 1930s author Christopher Caudwell, a Marxist writer of extraordinary brillianceTrade Review'It is not difficult to see Caudwell as a phenomenon - as an extraordinary shooting-star crossing England's empirical night' -- E. P. Thompson'The selection of writings presented here does justice to the richness of Caudwell's thought, and will introduce a whole new generation of readers to this remarkable thinker' -- Anindya Raychaudhuri, School of English, University of St Andrews'A revealing set of texts by the most important British Marxist cultural critic before World War II, meticulously and lovingly edited by the greatest contemporary expert in the field. Indispensable' -- Edith Hall, Professor of Classics, King's College University of LondonChristopher Caudwell was a brief and breathtakingly brilliant presence in the world ... I commend Pluto for publishing these new editions and bringing Caudwell to the attention of new audiences' -- Marx & Philosophy Review of BooksTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Studies in a Dying Culture 1. D. H. Lawrence: A Study of the Bourgeois Artist 2. Freud: A Study in Bourgeois Psychology 3. Liberty: A Study in Bourgeois Illusion Part II: Illusion and Reality 4. The Birth of Poetry 5. The Death of Mythology 6. The Development of Modern Poetry 7. English Poets I: The Period of Primitive Accumulation 8. English Poets II: The Industrial Revolution 9. English Poets III: The Decline of Capitalism 10. The World and the ‘I’ Part III: 'Heredity and Development' 11. Heredity and Development: A Study of Bourgeois Biology Notes Works Cited Index
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Liverpool University Press Geoffrey Hill
Book SynopsisA clear introductory account of the work of Geoffrey Hill.
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Liverpool University Press William Blake
Book SynopsisSteve Vine’s study introduces the full range of William Blake’s poetry and illuminated books from the early Songs to the late epics, and focuses on the socially radical and challenging nature of his art.
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Liverpool University Press Robert Browning
Book SynopsisIn this book, John Woolford specifies the precise meaning and scope of 'the grotesque' by placing Browning in a major aesthetic tradition running from the Romantic Sublime through to modern concepts and theorisations of the grotesque, such as the Bakhtinian.
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McGill-Queen's University Press Journey with No Maps
Book SynopsisPoet, traveller, artist, and mystic - the story of one extraordinary woman's many lives.Trade Review"This first full biography of a multitalented poet and visual artist, who won applause from such disparate figures as Stephen Spender, Joseph Brodsky and Margaret Atwood, is a foundational work future studies will consult for a full appreciation of Page's astonishing career as a major artist of our time." David Staines, The Globe & Mai "Journey with No Maps is not just a biography of a poet, but of a painter, and a relentless explorer of the human condition." Montreal Review of Books "[Journey with No Maps] is a body of work that will endure for generations." The Gazette
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The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer Modern
Book SynopsisBased on the ""The Canterbury Tales"", this work features an introduction by master scholar Harold Bloom, a chronology detailing Chaucer's life, a bibliography, and an index.
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MB - Cornell University Press The Jeweled Style Poetry and Poetics in Late
Book SynopsisIn The Jeweled Style, Michael Roberts offers a new approach to the Latin poetry of late antiquity, one centering on an aesthetic quality common to both the literature and the art of the period...Trade ReviewRobert skillfully delineates the qualities of the 'jeweled style' and shows that, although rhetorical ostentation was sometimes viewed with suspicion by Christian authors, it became an enduring part of late antique and medieval aesthetics. Roberts's discussions of poetry and the classical tradition are clear and informative, but it is primarily the extensive chapter on literature and the visual arts that makes this study so worthwhile. This book should not be overlooked by anyone interested in a readable treatment of early Christian and medieval Latin poetry. * Religious Studies Review *Roberts has produced a gem of a book about Latin poetry of the Roman dominate.... By analyzing the style of a number of the major poets of the period, Roberts makes it clear that late Roman poetry is just as sophisticated, in its own right, as the works of the early principate. He argues that the literature has to be considered against the background of the period in which it was produced, convincingly showing that it shares much in common with the art of the period. * The Classical World *
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Cornell University Press The Structure of Old Norse Dr243ttkv230tt Poetry
Book SynopsisThe drottkvett was a form of Old Norse skaldic poetry composed to glorify a chieftain's deeds or to lament his death. Kari Ellen Gade explores the structural peculiarities of ninth- and tenth-century drottkvett poetry and suggests a solution to the...Trade ReviewThis splendid book represents a triumph over the massive technical difficulties inherent in its production.... The originality and thoroughness of Gade's methodology, her awareness and synthesis of pertinent work by other scholars, and her ability to communicate lucidly to the reader are an inspiration throughout. * Journal of English and Germanic Philology *The Islandica Series from Cornell has come to be associated with scholarship of the highest standard in central areas of Icelandic studies. Gade's book is a controversial and stimulating account which succeeds admirably in living up to the expectations of the series. * Scandinavian Studies *
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Cornell University Press Baudelaires World
Book SynopsisCharles Baudelaire is often regarded as the founder of modernist poetry. Written with clarity and verve, Baudelaire's World provides English-language readers with the biographical, historical, and cultural contexts that will lead to a fuller...Trade ReviewTranslators are moody darlings—here ecstatic, there mischievous and ready to betray—and criticism is not more faithful either. Aware of this predicament, Lloyd does not only propose a reading but, most significantly, provides a rich ground on which other readings can be drawn. Ultimately, Baudelaire's World has many entries, and many streets entice the reader with illicit charms. * Literary Research/Recherche Litteraire *Drawing on her own translations as well as those of other poets, Lloyd offers a lively discourse on the possibilities and limitations of translation. For academic libraries with large collections of poetry and poetic criticism. * Library Journal *The prose is lively, passionate, even humorous, and scrupulously researched. * Times Literary Supplement *Lloyd's objective is to scrutinize the culture and influences that shaped the French poet. She does not recapitulate his life, except to illustrate something in the verse.... Few conventional biographies, though, offer so clear a picture of personality and thought process as does Lloyd's critical study. * The New Leader *Rosemary Lloyd's latest book brings a fresh approach to Baudelaire studies, thanks to the savvy use of English translations to stress elements easily lost or unappreciated by non-French readers.... Although not a biography in the full sense, her study avoids separating the man and the work. Lloyd wants to indicate how a reading that honors the complexities of his writings might proceed. And in this respect Baudelaire's World achieves its goal.... Accompanied by some previously unpublished illustrations and printed in an edition at once environmentally responsible and esthetically attractive, Rosemary Lloyd's Baudelaire's World makes a nice acquisition for undergraduate as well as graduate libraries. For Baudelaire specialists there are some excellent finds—such as the plate from Francois Baudelaire's illustrated Latin vocabulary—as well as Lloyd's exemplary translations and shrewd assessments of other translations. Specialists will also be usefully directed to lesser-known aspects of the many-sided Baudelaire. For the non-specialist seeking an introduction, Baudelaire's World is a fine place to start: thorough, balanced, thoughtful, amusing and pleasingly written. * Nineteenth-Century French Studies *
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Cornell University Press Emersons Life in Science
Book SynopsisRalph Waldo Emerson has traditionally been cast as a dreamer and a mystic, concerned with the ideals of transcendentalism rather than the realities of contemporary science and technology. In Laura Dassow Walls's view Emerson was a leader of the...Trade Review'The revelation of Thought takes man out of servitude into freedom.... The day of days, the great day of the feast of life, is that in which the inward eye opens to the Unity in things, to the omnipresence of law.' Emerson's Life in Science shows us how Emerson developed this faith. * The New England Quarterly *Emerson's Life in Science is the best: Of the spate of books on Emerson that have marked the bicentennial of his birth, this is one that will endure.... The author's command of her subject comes through unmistakably. No specialist in nineteenth-century American literature surpasses Walls in knowledge of the history of science.... Anyone wishing to know more about what science meant to Emerson should start here. -- Lawrence Buell, Harvard University * American Scientist *In Emerson's Life in Science: The Culture of Truth, Laura Dassow Walls gives a full account of Ralph Waldo Emerson's engagement with the discourses and philosophy of natural and social science. The range of Emerson's interests was very broad, extending from astronomy, physics, geology, and botany to anthropology, sociology, and statistics. In characterizing these interests, Walls maintains a judicious balance between the judgmental and the appreciative. On the one hand, she freely grants Emerson's old-fashioned propensity for enlisting science as reinforcement of a vision of cosmos and history rendered coherent by moral law; on the other hand, she also does fuller justice than any precursor has to Emerson's more avant-garde insistence that what counts as truth must be obedient to science—and to Emerson's canniness at his best as a critical interpreter of scientific claims.... Through Emerson's Life in Science, Walls encourages scholars to look more closely at Emerson's place in modern science. In trying to better define the relationship between Emerson and science—and perhaps between science, culture, and literature—Walls questions the overall place of science in Emerson's life. * Biology Digest *Rather than a life narrative, she delivers a brilliantly associative intellectual biography, organized around central habits of nineteenth-century scientific thought: patterns of gnomic growth, polarity, evolution. -- Lance Newman, California State University, San Marcos * American Literature *The evolution of ideas on the grand scale is a fascinating problem, and Walls' exploration of Emerson, the dominant American prophet of science and technology, opens up this world for a delightful and revealing read. * New Scientist *
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Cornell University Press Nobodys Business
Book SynopsisThe first book to treat the emergence of Flarf, Conceptual Poetry, and other genres of contemporary avant-garde poetry in a serious way.Trade Review[Brian Reed] is a useful, intelligent,and well-read omnivore, able to offer not only incisive and theoretically personable insights but also witty and dynamic writing. Reed is one of the bestmidcareer critics writing about contemporary poetry in a poetics context; hemakes a person extremely eager to follow his work, now and in the future. Thisbook seems to be one cut of a developing careerlong argument, one calf of ahearty glacier. -- Rachel Blau DuPlessis * Modern Language Quarterly *In this radical, engaging critical study, Reed extends the work he did in Phenomenal Reading (2012) by discussing poets widely recognized as formal and linguistic innovators. Innovation and the interface of art and technology, along with sociology and politics, are his subjects.... He writes of 'better appreciat[ing] the sophistication, idiosyncrasy, and value of these oddball contemporary American efforts to find viable poetic strategies for dissent, critique, and utopian dreaming.' Despite what some readers regard as the willy-nilly hodge-podge that is today's poetry, this is a book not of dreaming but of focused attention on what is new. * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface: What Now?1. In Praise of Obsolescence2. New Consensus Poetics and the Avant-Garde3. Mechanical Form and Avant-Garde Aesthetics4. Flarf, Folly, and George W. Bush5. Andrea Brady's Peculiar Dissidence6. Danny Snelson’s Disco Operating SystemAcknowledgments Notes Index
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Cornell University Press The Jeweled Style
Book SynopsisIn The Jeweled Style, Michael Roberts offers a new approach to the Latin poetry of late antiquity, one centering on an aesthetic quality common to both the literature and the art of the period...Trade ReviewRobert skillfully delineates the qualities of the 'jeweled style' and shows that, although rhetorical ostentation was sometimes viewed with suspicion by Christian authors, it became an enduring part of late antique and medieval aesthetics. Roberts's discussions of poetry and the classical tradition are clear and informative, but it is primarily the extensive chapter on literature and the visual arts that makes this study so worthwhile. This book should not be overlooked by anyone interested in a readable treatment of early Christian and medieval Latin poetry. * Religious Studies Review *Roberts has produced a gem of a book about Latin poetry of the Roman dominate.... By analyzing the style of a number of the major poets of the period, Roberts makes it clear that late Roman poetry is just as sophisticated, in its own right, as the works of the early principate. He argues that the literature has to be considered against the background of the period in which it was produced, convincingly showing that it shares much in common with the art of the period. * The Classical World *
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