Literary studies: poetry and poets Books
Liverpool University Press Menander The Bad Tempered Man
Book SynopsisThough in later antiquity the social comedies of Menander ranked second in popularity only to Homer, his plays were for centuries thought to be irretrievably lost. Only in this century have instances begun to re-emerge from the sands of Egypt, and it was not until 1958 that a complete play, Dyskolos or The Bad-Tempered Man, came to light.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Parallel Greek text and English translation; Commentary; Bibliography; Index
£29.95
Liverpool University Press Lucretius De Rerum Natura III
Book SynopsisLucretius' poem, for which Epicurean philosophy provided the inspiration, attempts to explain the nature of the universe and its processes with the object of freeing mankind from religious fears.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Parallel Latin Text and English Translation; Commentary; Select Bibliography; Index
£29.95
Liverpool University Press Catullus The Shorter Poems Classical Texts Aris
Book SynopsisThis volume completes Godwin’s edition of all the surviving poetry of Catullus, aiming to bring the literary history of this poet to new readers. It describes and discusses recent scholarship on the poems, seeing them in their context as fully as possible. Latin text with facing-page English translation, introduction and detailed commentary.Trade Review‘Catullus would have been delighted with Godwin’s edition of his shorter poems [...] It is attractively produced [...] This is a work of tremendous scholarship [...] His introduction is particularly good [...] for all teachers of classics and for university students this is an edition much to be recommended, as it adds many new ideas to the body of scholarship on Catullus.’ The Classical Review‘Godwin’s Catullus is an admirable example of the series at its best: the commentary is clear, helpful and undogmatic [...] the introduction helpfully sets Catullus’ poetry in its historical and literary context.’ Greece and Rome‘This is an extremely useful edition of Catullus which would be helpful to teachers and sixth form students. [...] The commentary on the text is very helpful both to student and teacher and includes a summary of the main points contained within each poem as well as more detailed comments on style.’ JACTTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: Catullus' Life and Times Poetry and Performance Neoteric Poetry Interpretative Strategies The Metres The Transmission of the Text Sigla Text and Translation Commentary
£29.95
Liverpool University Press Menander The Shield and The Arbitration
Book Synopsis'What reason has an educated man for going to the theatre, except to see Menander'?Thus the judgement of Aristophanes of Byzantium, and in later antiquity the social comedies of Menander ranked second in popularity only to the epics of Homer.Table of ContentsPreface The Shield: Introduction The Shield (Aspis) Commentary The Arbitration Introduction The Arbiration (Epitrepontes) Bibliography
£29.95
Liverpool University Press Lucretius De Rerum Natura V
Book SynopsisFor a work written more than two thousand years ago, in a society in many ways quite alien to our own, Lucretius' De Rerum Natura contains much of striking, even startling, contemporary relevance.Trade Review...a significant addition to the Lucretius bibliography... merits high praise as a splendid achievement by a distinguished Lucretian [...] offers exactly what students need to appreciate one of the longest and finest achievements of Latin epic.'Table of ContentsList of illustrations Preface Abbreviations Introduction I. Lucretius and the Late Republic II. Epicurus and his Philosophy III. The Didactic Epic IV. De Rerum Natura V Cosmology and Human Prehistory V. Language and Style VI. The Transmission of the text Note on references to the Presocratic Philosophers De Rerum Natura V Commentary Bibliography
£109.50
Liverpool University Press Lucretius De Rerum Natura V
Book SynopsisFor a work written more than two thousand years ago, in a society in many ways quite alien to our own, Lucretius' De Rerum Natura contains much of striking, even startling, contemporary relevance.Trade Review...a significant addition to the Lucretius bibliography... merits high praise as a splendid achievement by a distinguished Lucretian [...] offers exactly what students need to appreciate one of the longest and finest achievements of Latin epic.'Table of ContentsList of illustrations Preface Abbreviations Introduction I. Lucretius and the Late Republic II. Epicurus and his Philosophy III. The Didactic Epic IV. De Rerum Natura V Cosmology and Human Prehistory V. Language and Style VI. The Transmission of the text Note on references to the Presocratic Philosophers De Rerum Natura V Commentary Bibliography
£29.95
Seagull Books London Ltd At the Burning Abyss Experiencing the Georg Trakl
Book SynopsisAt the Burning Abyss is Franz Fuhmann's magnum opus a gripping and profoundly personal encounter with the great expressionist poet Georg Trakl. It is a taking stock of two troubled lives, a turbulent century, and the liberating power of poetry. Picking up where his last book, The Jew Car, left off, Fuhmann probes his own susceptibility to ideology's seductions Nazism, then socialism and examines their antidote, the goad of Trakl's enigmatic verses. He confronts Trakl's unlivable life, as his poetry transcends the panaceas of black-and-white ideology, ultimately bringing a painful, necessary understanding of the whole human being: in victories and triumphs as in distress and defeat, in temptation and obsession, in splendor and in ordure. In 1982, the German edition of At the Burning Abyss won the West German Scholl Siblings Prize, celebrating its courage to resist inhumanity. At a time of political extremism and polarization, has lost none of its urgency.
£18.04
Seagull Books London Ltd Mydriasis Followed by to the Icebergs French List
Book SynopsisWhile presenting the Nobel Prize in Literature to J. M. G. Le Cl zio in 2008, the Nobel Committee called him the author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization. In Mydriasis, the author proves himself to be precisely that as he takes us on a phantasmagoric journey into parallel worlds and whirling visions. Dwelling on darkness, light, and human vision, Le Cl zio's richly poetic prose composes a mesmerizing song and a dizzying exploration of the universe--a universe not unlike the abysses explored by the highly idiosyncratic Belgian poet Henri Michaux. Michaux is, in fact, at the heart of To the Icebergs. Fascinated by his writing, Le Cl zio includes Michaux's 'poem of the poem', 'Iniji', thereby allowing the poet's voice to emerge by itself. What follows is much more than a simple analysis of the poem; rather, it is an act of complete insight and understanding, a personal appropriation and elevation
£14.99
Seagull Books London Ltd Collected Poems
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Collected Poems comes to us as the first volume in translation to fully present this worthy poet to an English-speaking audience. While largely forgotten on the international scene today, in Switzerland Brambach remains an important literary figure much admired for his often melancholic, always insightful little poems that present the bucolic landscapes of his adopted country in disquieting light. Concise they may be, but they leave room on the page for the mind to linger in contemplation.” * Rain Taxi *Table of ContentsTranslator’s NoteToss a Coin LifeLumberjack BarThe Greenhouse, My AbodeMarch in BaselSnowIn Those TimesDay’s LabourPoetryThe AxeSchoolyardAt the HoardingPaulBy the RiverIt Was Loneliness that Forced MeIn the AfternoonToss a CoinLetter to Hans BenderDreamt PoemOld People’s HomeLight in AugustBistroSung LandscapeConfidenceHikeThere Will BeRichterswil IRichterswil IIBrief NoteLe LavandouMoon Late MorningFriendsMerriment in the GardenAchim RaabeThe Wind BreakSummer SundayThe TreeDog DaysEvil TricksReport from the GardenOne Day among ManyBrooding SummerIndentity CardDay in JulyEncounterGraniteSant EremoUnder Apple TreesTirednessPortrait of a Young ManThe Erratic RockIn July and AugustEmbassyWords for W.Belated IcarusNo One Will ComeSaltDeath of a CentaurEndangered LandscapeSingle MenOrganic FaultIroningThe StrangerThe End of SomethingVisit in M.Setting SailSouthern TownThe Gingko LeafPoem for FrankYou beside MeComing HomeA Leaf in Memory of SeptemberHard Times for DrinkersBack ThenIn the VineyardGoodbye to the EiffelShotsPromenadeBeyond RijekaBlack ForestAthletics for HaresHealthLucky CharmsDepartureLate in the EveningColdTracesDark DayFlight TimeStraw Flowers at FarewellPigeons When Sleep Is All I Long forHotel RoomCaution Should Be Called forEverydayAlso in April‘The year still young…’‘No sweet green glade…’‘As it has been raining…’‘My ancestors never left…’‘So many wonders in this world…’‘Dust is still an alien word…’‘The ribbon blue as Mörike saw it…’‘The maypoles standing tall…’‘Not strange at all…’‘The birds are shouting…’‘The evening’s still far away…’‘Your strength Ulea…’‘A stiff old-fashioned straw hat…’‘High noon, Sunday afternoon…’‘Me with my prose…’‘Perpetual begetting…’‘Summer evenings…’‘Not wanting to be part…’‘Concrete can be so ugly…’‘Surely the summer…’‘To live in a sunflower…’‘Fly a kite…’‘To write a poem…’‘Month of wine…’‘Westwind with its unspeakable force…’‘Taking a bite…’‘The rows of vines…’‘The cottage gardens…’‘Last day of October…’‘Free time…’‘Must a summer poem…’‘Sitting by the window…’‘A postcard from the Caribbean…’‘Ice grey, a wolf word…’‘My four and sixtieth winter…’‘Rust-red Reynard…’‘Picked up a handful of snow…’‘Ten degrees below zero…’‘Foehn wind in February…’‘Never put to paper…’Notes
£11.77
Boydell & Brewer Ltd New Approaches to Editing Old English Verse
Book SynopsisSeven original essays on the theory, practice and future of editing Old English verse.Questions of the theory, practice and future of editing Old English verse have become increasingly pressing in the light of new research and technology, and this volume of seven original substantial essays explores a number of important editorial issues. The collection investigates the implications of current concerns in textual editing relating to the presentation of Old English verse, among them materialist criticism and approaches to the culture of thebook in the early middle ages; revisionist readings of the canons and heritage of nineteenth-century philology; and the electronic future of editing Old English. Particular topics addressed include the ethics of editing and its responsibility to both poet and reader; the neglected verses of the Paris Psalter; the editorial problems presented by the mixed form of Ælfric's rhythmical prose; and the difficulties of the printed page. The final essay in the volume explores the capabilities of the electronic hypertext to reinvent the whole process of editing and editions. KATHERINE O'BRIEN O'KEEFFE is Professor of English and Fellow of the Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame; Dr SARAH LARRATT KEEFER teaches in the Department of English at Trent University. Contributors: EDWARD B. IRVING, JR, SARAH LARRATT KEEFER, A.N. DOANE, D.G. SCRAGG, M.J. TOSWELL, PAUL E. SZARMACH, PATRICK W. CONNERTable of Contents`Respect for the Book: A Reconsideration of `Form', `Content' and `Context' in Two Vernacular Poems'. - Sarah Larratt Keefer Introduction - A.N. Doane `Towards a New Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records'. - Donald G Scragg `How Pedantry Meets Intertextuality: Editing the Old English Metrical Psalter'. - M J Toswell `Abbot Ælfric's Rhythmical Prose and the Computer Age'. - Paul E Szarmach `Beyond the ASPR: Electronic Editions of Old English Poetry'. - Patrick W Conner Introduction - Editing Old English Verse: The Ideal - Edward B. Irving Jr
£76.00
Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US The Lyrics of the Henry VIII Manuscript Volume
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsTable of Abbreviations and Sigla Acknowledgments Introduction The Lyrics of the Henry VIII Manuscript Benedictus [Isaac] (Incipit) (3v–4r) Fortune esperee [Busnois] (Incipit) (4v–5r) Alles regretz uuidez dema presence [van Ghizeghem / Jean II of Bourbon] (Incipit) (5v–6r) En frolyk weson [Barbireau] (Incipit) (6v–7r) Pastyme with good companye, Henry VIII (14v–15r) Adew mes amours et mon desyre, Cornish (15v–17r) Adew madam et ma mastress, Henry VIII (17v–18r) HElas madam cel que ie metant, Henry VIII (18v–19r) Alas what shall I do for love, Henry VIII (20v–21r) Hey nowe nowe, Kempe (Incipit) (21v) Alone I leffe alone, Cooper (22r) O my hart and o my hart, Henry VIII (22v–23r) Adew adew my hartis lust, Cornish (23v–24r) Aboffe all thynge, Farthing (24v) Downbery down, Daggere (25r) Hey now now, Farthing (25v) In may that lusty sesoun, Farthing (26r) Whoso that wyll hym selff applye, Rysby (27v–28r) The tyme of youthe is to be spent, Henry VIII (28v–29r) The thowghtes within my brest, Farthing (29v–30r) My loue sche morneth for me, Cornish (30v–31r) A the syghes that cum fro my hart, Cornish (32v–33r) With sorowfull syghs and greuos payne, Farthing (33v–34r) Iff I had wytt for to endyght [Unattributed] (34v–35r) Alac alac what shall I do, Henry VIII (35v) Hey nony nony nony nony no [Unattributed] (Incipit) (36r) Grene growith the holy, Henry VIII (37v–38r) Whoso that wyll all feattes optayne, Henry VIII (38v–39r) Blow thi hornne hunter, Cornish (39v–40r) De tous bien plane [van Ghizegehem] (Incipit) (40v–41r) Iay pryse amours [Unattributed] (Incipit) (41v–42r) Adew corage adew, Cornish (42v) Trolly lolly loly lo, Cornish (43v–44r) I love trewly withowt feynyng, Farthing (44v–45r) Yow and I and amyas, Cornish (45v–46r) Ough warder mount [Unattributed] (Incipit) (46v–47r) La season [Compère / Agricola] (Incipit) (47v–48r) If love now reynyd as it hath bene, Henry VIII (48v–49r) Gentyl prince de renom, Henry VIII (Incipit) (49v–50r) Sy fortune mace bien purchase [Unattributed] (50v–51r) Wherto shuld I expresse, Henry VIII (51v–52r) A robyn gentyl robyn, Cornish [Wyatt] (53v–54r) Whilles lyue or breth is in my brest, Cornish (54v–55r) Thow that men do call it dotage, Henry VIII (55v–56r) Departure is my chef payne, Henry VIII (60v) It is to me a ryght gret Ioy, Henry VIII (Incipit) (61r) I haue bene a foster, Cooper (65v–66r) Fare well my Ioy and my swete hart, Cooper (66v–68r) Withowt dyscord, Henry VIII (68v–69r) I am a joly foster [Unattributed] (69v–71r) Though sum saith that yough rulyth me [Henry VIII] (71v–73r) MAdame damours [Unattributed] (73v–74r) Adew adew le company [Unattributed] (74v–75r) Deme the best of euery dowt, Lloyd (79v) Hey troly loly loly [Unattributed] (80r) Taunder Naken, Henry VIII (Incipit) (82v–84r) Whoso that wyll for grace sew, Henry VIII (84v–85r) En vray Amoure, Henry VIII (86v–87r) Let not vs that yongmen be [Unattributed] (87v–88r) Dulcis amica [Prioris] (Incipit) (88v–89r) Lusti yough shuld vs ensue, Henry VIII (94v–97r) Now [Unattributed] (98r) Belle sur tautes [Agricola] (Incipit) (99v–100r) ENglond be glad pluk vp thy lusty hart [Unattributed] (100v–102r) Pray we to god that all may gyde [Unattributed] (103r) ffors solemant, [de Févin, after Ockeghem] (Incipit) (104v–105r) And I war a maydyn [Unattributed] (106v–107r) Why shall not I [Unattributed] (107v–108r) What remedy what remedy [Unattributed] (108v–110r) Wher be ye [Unattributed] (110v–112r) QUid petis o fily, Pygott (112v–116r) My thought oppressed my mynd in trouble [Unattributed] (116v–120r) Svmwhat musyng [Fayrfax / Woodville] (120v–122r) I loue vnloued suche is myn aduenture [Unattributed] (122v–124r) Hey troly loly lo [Unattributed] (124v–128r) Commentary and Textual Notes Bibliography and Works Cited Index of First Lines
£41.80
Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Clément Marots Epistles
Book SynopsisThe first complete, versified English-language translation of the epistles of Renaissance poet Clément Marot. Clément Marot (14961544), a royal poet in Renaissance France who ushered in new verse forms and renewed existing ones, stands as one of the most important literary voices of the first half of the sixteenth century. Clément Marot's Epistles represents a first attempt to offer a sustained English-language translation and critical edition of what is widely considered his most personal, historically relevant, and crowning verse form. Aiming for integrality and poetic precision, the volume translates and sets to verse all seventy-four of Marot's epistles, employing the same meter and rhyme scheme used by the poet in the original compositions. Likewise focused on capturing Marot's poetic voice, thus maintaining idiomatic and literary integrity, the resulting translation is an attempt to relate the playfulness and pathos of Marot's verse, rendering it accessible to an anglophone public. Beyond the more traditional verse epistles included in the primary base text, Marot's authorized complete works from 1538, the volume also offers translations of the introductory prose epistles penned by Marot for his Adolescence clémentine of 1532 and the 1538 edition (Lyon, Dolet), as well as the coq-à-l'âne and other versified satirical epistles, the artificial epistle retelling of a popular medieval romance, and more. A robust critical apparatus includes ample footnotes, an extensive introduction, illustrations, a bibliography, a chronological table, and a concordance with the principal modern French-language editions of Marot's epistles. The book should appeal to English-speaking historians and literary scholars alike, as well as to poetry lovers, who will appreciate a new acquaintance with this distinctive voice from poetry's past. Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsAbbreviationsNotes on the TranslationIntroductionClément Marot’s EpistlesIntroductory Epistle to the Adolescence clémentineIntroductory Epistle to Marot’s Œuvres of 1538EPISTLESBibliographyChronologyConcordanceIndex
£60.80
University of KwaZulu-Natal Press Into the Day Breaking
Book SynopsisA description of a domestic world face-to-face with the dry contours and harsh economics of a small sawmill community in the southern Cape, this book traces those not always visible connections that tie us to each other and to the earth.Trade Review'These poems evade nothing. They enter the personal so fully that the personal is transcended.' Robert Berold, Sunday Independent
£13.46
Michigan State University Press Versification A Short Introduction
Book SynopsisVersification is written by one of Australia's most distinguished poets. The book discusses poetic meter, and may be the only source you need.
£22.78
Oregon State University He Leo The Life and Poetry of Lew Welch
Book SynopsisInvestigates the life and work of Beat poet Lew Welch in a chronological fashion, structured around Welch’s own notion of how three main aspects of his life - The Man, The Mountain, and The City - were interdependent and how they informed the others in terms of creating his ‘life’.
£23.96
MP-MLA Modern Lanuage Assoc Husn u Ask
Book SynopsisThis Turkish verse romance written in 1783 is a religious interpretation of the Islamic love tale. It is widely recognised as the greatest work of Ottoman literature.
£20.85
MP-MLA Modern Lanuage Assoc Beauty and Love
Book SynopsisThis Turkish verse romance written in 1783 is a religious interpretation of the Islamic love tale. It is widely recognised as the greatest work of Ottoman literature.
£22.91
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Nikki Giovanni
Book SynopsisOut of this collection of twenty-two interviews spanning two decades rises the distinctive voice of “the princess of black poetry”. Nikki Giovanni entered the literary world at the height of the Black Arts Movement and quickly achieved not simple fame but stardom, a phenomenon almost unprecedented for a poet.
£22.46
Oberlin College Press A FIELD Guide to Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
Book SynopsisOne of the hallmarks of FIELD magazine has always been its attention to what poets have to say about poetry; many of these essays have become classics. This revised and expanded collection provides a rich and stimulating view on the state of contemporary poetry through the eyes of the poets themselves.Table of ContentsPreface • THE PROCESS OF WRITING • A Way of Writing — William Stafford • Work and Inspiration: Inviting the Muse — Denise Levertov • Poetic Process? — Margaret Atwood • Goatfoot, Milktongue, Twinbird: The Psychic Origins of Poetic Form — Donald Hall • Reflections on the Origins of Poetic Form — Robert Bly • Portrait of the Writer as a Fat Man: Some Subjective Ideas or Notions on the Care & Feeding of Prose Poems — Russell Edson • Poetry and Science: The Science of Poetry/The Poetry of Science — Miroslav Holub • Gorky Street: Syntax and Context — Dennis Schmitz • The Two-Tone Line, Blues Ideology, and the Scrap Quilt — Sandra McPherson • THE POETIC LINE: A SYMPOSIUM • The Working Line — Sandra McPherson • A Response to “The Working Line” — James Wright • Further Reflections on Line and the Poetic Voice — John Haines • The Line — Donald Hall • Some Thoughts about Lines — Shirley Kaufman • A Note on Prose, Verse and the Line — William Matthews • Some Thoughts about the Line — Charles Simic • THE IMAGE: A SYMPOSIUM • Image and “Images” — Charles Simic • Notes on the Image: Body and Soul — Donald Hall • Recognizing the Image as a Form of Intelligence — Robert Bly • Image and Language — Russell Edson • Noun/Object/Image — Marvin Bell • POETRY AND VALUES • Some Remarks on “Literature and Reality” — Günter Eich • Meanings of Poetry — Jean Follain • Poetry, Community & Climax — Gary Snyder • Some Notes on the Gazer Within — Larry Levis • The Bite of the Muskrat: Judging Contemporary Poetry — David Young • Not Your Flat Tire, My Flat Tire: Transcending the Self in Contemporary Poetry — Alberta Turner • Stone Soup: Contemporary Poetry and the Obsessive Image — David Walker • Language: The Poet as Master and Servant — David Young • Second Honeymoon: Some Thoughts on Translation — David Young • Here and There: The Use of Place in Contemporary Poetry — Shirley Kaufman • Eden and My Generation — Larry Levis • A Taxable Matter — C. D. Wright • PORTRAITS AND SELF-PORTRAITS • Urgent Masks: An Introduction to John Ashbery’s Poetry — David Shapiro • Poetry, Personality and Death — Galway Kinnell • Poetry, Personality and Wholeness: A Response to Galway Kinnell — Adrienne Rich • Charles Wright at Oberlin — Charles Wright • Secrets: Beginning to Write Them Out — Sandra McPherson • Lessons in Form — Laura Jensen • Body and Soul: Three Poets on Their Maladies • Charles Simic: My Insomnia and I • Shirley Kaufman:Backache, Poemache, and Botz • Lee Upton: The Closest Work • Notes on Contributors • Acknowledgments
£18.05
The University of Chicago Press Homer in Print
Book SynopsisTraces the print transmission and literary reception of the Iliad and the Odyssey from the fifteenth through the twentieth century. This title is suitable for students and teachers of classics, classical reception, comparative literature, and book history.
£39.42
John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Thomas Hardy
Book SynopsisA Companion to Thomas Hardy brings together new essays on all aspects of Thomas Hardy s work by thirty of the world s most distinguished Hardy scholars.Trade Review“Perhaps Hardy the poet needs a separate Companion. If it matched this one in the quality of writing and usefulness to the student, it would be a treasure.” (Victorian Studies, 1 October 2012)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii List of Abbreviations xiv Introduction 1 Keith Wilson Part I The Life 5 1 Hardy as Biographical Subject 7 Michael Millgate Part II The Intellectual Context 19 2 Hardy and Philosophy 21 Phillip Mallett 3 Hardy and Darwin: An Enchanting Hardy? 36 George Levine 4 Hardy and the Place of Culture 54 Angelique Richardson 5 “The Hard Case of the Would-be-Religious”: Hardy and the Church from Early Life to Later Years 71 Pamela Dalziel 6 Thomas Hardy’s Notebooks 86 William Greenslade 7 “Genres are not to be mixed. . . . I will not mix them”: Discourse, Ideology, and Generic Hybridity in Hardy’s Fiction 102 Richard Nemesvari 8 Hardy and his Critics: Gender in the Interstices 117 Margaret R. Higonnet Part III The Socio-Cultural Context 131 9 “His Country”: Hardy in the Rural 133 Ralph Pite 10 Thomas Hardy of London 146 Keith Wilson 11 “A Thickness of Wall”: Hardy and Class 162 Roger Ebbatson 12 Reading Hardy through Dress: The Case of Far From the Madding Crowd 178 Simon Gatrell 13 Hardy and Romantic Love 194 Michael Irwin 14 Hardy and the Visual Arts 210 J. B. Bullen 15 Hardy and Music: Uncanny Sounds 223 Claire Seymour Part IV The Works 239 16 The Darkening Pastoral: Under the Greenwood Tree and Far From the Madding Crowd 241 Stephen Regan 17 “Wild Regions of Obscurity”: Narrative in The Return of the Native 254 Penny Boumelha 18 Hardy’s “Novels of Ingenuity” Desperate Remedies, The Hand of Ethelberta, and A Laodicean: Rare Hands at Contrivances 267 Mary Rimmer 19 Hardy’s “Romances and Fantasies” A Pair of Blue Eyes, The Trumpet-Major, Two on a Tower, and The Well-Beloved: Experiments in Metafiction 281 Jane Thomas 20 The Haunted Structures of The Mayor of Casterbridge 299 Julian Wolfreys 21 Dethroning the High Priest of Nature in The Woodlanders 313 Andrew Radford 22 Melodrama, Vision, and Modernity: Tess of the d’Urbervilles 328 Tim Dolin 23 Jude the Obscure and English National Identity: The Religious Striations of Wessex 345 Dennis Taylor 24 “. . . into the hands of pure-minded English girls”: Hardy’s Short Stories and the Late Victorian Literary Marketplace 364 Peter Widdowson 25 Sequence and Series in Hardy’s Poetry 378 Tim Armstrong 26 Hardy’s Poems: The Scholarly Situation 395 William W. Morgan 27 That’s Show Business: Spectacle, Narration, and Laughter in The Dynasts 413 G. Glen Wickens Part V Hardy the Modern 431 28 Modernist Hardy: Hand-Writing in The Mayor of Casterbridge 433 J. Hillis Miller 29 Inhibiting the Voice: Thomas Hardy and Modern Poetics 450 Charles Lock 30 Hardy’s Heirs: D. H. Lawrence and John Cowper Powys 465 Terry R. Wright Index 479
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Romantic Poetry Handbook
Book SynopsisAn absorbing survey of poetry written in one of the most revolutionary eras in the history of British literature This comprehensive survey of British Romantic poetry explores the work of six poets whose names are most closely associated with the Romantic eraWordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Keats, Byron, and Shelleyas well as works by other significant but less widely studied poets such as Leigh Hunt, Charlotte Smith, Felicia Hemans, and Letitia Elizabeth Landon. Along with its exceptional coverage, the volume is alert to relevant contexts, and opens up ways of understanding Romantic poetry. The Romantic Poetry Handbook encompasses the entire breadth of the Romantic Movement, beginning with Anna Laetitia Barbauld and running through to Thomas Lovell Beddoes and John Clare. In its central section Readings' it explores tensions, change, and continuity within the Romantic Movement, and examines a wide range of individual poems and poets through sensitive, attentive and accessible analyses.Trade Review“It is a beautifully written and well-organized textbook, which will be of great value to undergraduates in English departments around the world…O’Neill and Callaghan are to be commended for the deft way they combine close reading and scholarship in these delightful essays” -- The Year’s Work in English Studies, Volume 98 (2019)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements viii Part 1 Introduction 1 Part 2 Timeline of the Late Eighteenth Century and Romantic Period 21 Part 3 Biographies 47 Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825) 49 Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849) 51 William Blake (1757–1827) 54 Robert Burns (1759–1796) 57 Lord George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) 59 John Clare (1793–1864) 61 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) 63 Felicia Hemans (1793–1835) 66 (James Henry) Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) 69 John Keats (1795–1821) 72 Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) 74 Thomas Moore (1779–1852) 77 Mary Robinson (1758–1800) 80 Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) 82 Charlotte Smith (1749–1806) 85 Robert Southey (1774–1843) 87 William Wordsworth (1770–1850) 90 Ann Yearsley (1753–1806) 93 Part 4 Readings 95 First-Generation Romantic Poets 95 Anna Laetitia Barbauld, ‘Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq., on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade’; ‘The Rights of Woman’; Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, A Poem 97 Charlotte Smith, Elegiac Sonnets 101 Charlotte Smith, Beachy Head 107 Ann Yearsley, ‘Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-trade’; ‘Bristol Elegy’ 110 William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience 115 William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell ; The Book of Urizen ; ‘The Mental Traveller’ 124 Mary Robinson, Sappho and Phaon 132 Robert Burns, Lyrics 137 William Wordsworth and S. T. Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads 144 William Wordsworth, ‘Resolution and Independence’; ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality’; ‘Elegiac Stanzas, Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont’; ‘Surprized by Joy’ 152 William Wordsworth, The Prelude 163 William Wordsworth, The Excursion 174 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Conversation Poems: ‘The Eolian Harp’, ‘This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison’, ‘Frost at Midnight’, and ‘Dejection: An Ode’ 179 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ; Kubla Khan; ‘The Pains of Sleep’; Christabel 187 Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer and The Curse of Kehama 196 Second-Generation Romantic Poets 203 Thomas Moore, Irish Melodies 205 Leigh Hunt, The Story of Rimini 211 Lord Byron, Lara ; ‘When We Two Parted’; ‘Stanzas to Augusta’; Manfred 215 Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage 223 Lord Byron, Don Juan, Cantos 1–4 232 Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab ; Alastor; Laon and Cythna [The Revolt of Islam] 242 Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘Hymn to Intellectual Beauty’; ‘Mont Blanc’; ‘Ozymandias’; ‘Ode to the West Wind’; the late poems to Jane Williams 251 Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound; Adonais; The Triumph of Life 260 John Keats, Endymion ; ‘Sleep and Poetry’; The Sonnets 268 John Keats, Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion 277 John Keats, The 1820 Volume 284 Third-Generation Romantic Poets 295 John Clare: Lyrics 297 Felicia Hemans, Records of Woman: With Other Poems 304 Letitia Elizabeth Landon, ‘Love’s Last Lesson’; ‘Lines of Life’; ‘Lines Written under a Picture of a Girl Burning a Love-Letter’; ‘Sappho’s Song’; ‘A Child Screening a Dove from a Hawk. By Stewardson’ 311 Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Death’s Jest-Book and Lyrics 318 Part 5 Further Reading 325 General Critical Reading 327 Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825) 328 Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849) 328 William Blake (1757–1827) 329 Robert Burns (1759–1796) 329 Lord George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) 329 John Clare (1793–1864) 330 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) 330 Felicia Hemans (1793–1835) 331 (James Henry) Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) 331 John Keats (1795–1821) 331 Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) 331 Thomas Moore (1779–1852) 332 Mary Robinson (1758–1800) 332 Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) 332 Charlotte Smith (1749–1806) 333 Robert Southey (1774–1843) 333 William Wordsworth (1770–1850) 333 Ann Yearsley (1753–1806) 334 Index 335
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd John Wilmot Earl of Rochester The Poems and
Book SynopsisBuilding on the strength of Keith Walker s acclaimed The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1984), leading scholar Nicholas Fisher presents a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the work of one the greatest Restoration wits.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations viii Note on This Edition ix Acknowledgments x Chronology xii Introduction xvii Further Reading xxviii Abbreviations xxxii Poems Juvenilia 1 Love Poems 5 Translations 56 Prologues and Epilogues 61 Satires and Lampoons 68 Poems to Mulgrave and Scroope 111 Epigrams, Impromptus, Jeux d’esprit, etc. 131 Poems Less Securely Attributed to Rochester 138 Lucina’s Rape or the Tragedy of Vallentinian 161 Index of Proper Names 253 Index of Titles and First Lines 257
£31.30
Palgrave MacMillan UK The Renaissance Extended Mind New Directions in
Book SynopsisThe Renaissance Extended Mind explores the parallels and contrasts between current philosophical notions of the mind as extended across brain, body and world, and analogous notions in literary, philosophical, and scientific texts circulating between the fifteenth century and early-seventeenth century.Trade ReviewTable of Contents1. The Extended Mind 2. Extending Literary Theory and the Psychoanalytic Tradition 3. Renaissance Subjects: Ensouled and Embodied4. Renaissance Language and Memory Forms 5. Renaissance Intrasubjectivity and Intersubjectivity6. Shakespeare: Natural-Born Mirrors 7. Shakespeare: Perspectives and Words of Glass Epilogue
£75.99
Palgrave Macmillan Keats and Romantic Celticism
Book SynopsisAcknowledgements The Evidence for Celticism in Keats Romantic Celticism in Context Keats as Bard The Native Muse Faery Lands Forlorn Privileging the Celtic Bibliography IndexTrade Review'Gallant's Keats and Romantic Celticism offers the first full-length study of the subject, investigating the poet's deep affinity with the Celtic world and pursuing his allusions to faerylore in key poems that mark the various stages of his career.' - Grant F. Scott, The Wordsworth Circle 'Her major achievement, however, lies in rereadings of the Hyperion poems within the context of the early Romantic recovery of the Celtic background that was to obsess Keats's later followers, and none more so than W.B. Yeats. As such, this is a valuable resource that pays further testament to this year's interest in matters of complex influence.' - The Year's Work in English StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements The Evidence for Celticism in Keats Romantic Celticism in Context Keats as Bard The Native Muse Faery Lands Forlorn Privileging the Celtic Bibliography Index
£42.74
John Wiley and Sons Ltd How to Write a Poem
Book Synopsis* An innovative introduction to writing poetry designed for students of creative writing and budding poets alike. * Challenges the reader's sense of what is possible in a poem. * Traces the history and highlights the potential of poetry.Trade Review"John Redmond's "How to Write a Poem" contains no false notes. He does not patronise his reader with easy examples or workshop games, but lights on his subject with elegant pragmatism and humility. His overall argument arises from a very personal yet wholly professional sense of poetry as an art form in practice, and his examples are informed by deep reading and writerly intuition. I consider the book a small masterpiece of clarity, economy and experience. It brings light to poetry as something made: something real and realised." David Morley, Warwick University "The examples throughout the book are contemporary and provocative in the most helpful sense. ... [Redmond] clearly loves poems, enough to show you in detail how they work." Poetry NewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. 1. The Question of Address. 2. Viewpoint. 3. The Question of Voices. 4. The Question of Scale. 5. Uses of Repetition. 6. Image. 7. Short Lines. 8. Long Lines. 9. Diction. 10. Uses of Syntax. 11. Tone. 12. Traditional Forms: Ode. 13. Traditional Forms: Epistle. 14. The Question of Background. 15. Conclusion: The Question of Variety. Index
£84.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd How to Write a Poem
Book Synopsis* An innovative introduction to writing poetry designed for students of creative writing and budding poets alike. * Challenges the reader's sense of what is possible in a poem. * Traces the history and highlights the potential of poetry.Trade Review"John Redmond's "How to Write a Poem" contains no false notes. He does not patronise his reader with easy examples or workshop games, but lights on his subject with elegant pragmatism and humility. His overall argument arises from a very personal yet wholly professional sense of poetry as an art form in practice, and his examples are informed by deep reading and writerly intuition. I consider the book a small masterpiece of clarity, economy and experience. It brings light to poetry as something made: something real and realised." David Morley, Warwick University "The examples throughout the book are contemporary and provocative in the most helpful sense. ... [Redmond] clearly loves poems, enough to show you in detail how they work." Poetry NewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. 1. The Question of Address. 2. Viewpoint. 3. The Question of Voices. 4. The Question of Scale. 5. Uses of Repetition. 6. Image. 7. Short Lines. 8. Long Lines. 9. Diction. 10. Uses of Syntax. 11. Tone. 12. Traditional Forms: Ode. 13. Traditional Forms: Epistle. 14. The Question of Background. 15. Conclusion: The Question of Variety. Index
£23.70
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Ovid
Book SynopsisThe first general introduction to Ovid written in English in over 20 years, this book provides a unique and accessible introduction to the complete works of Ovid. Using a thematic approach, Volk lays out what we know about Ovid's life, presents the author's works within their poetic genres, and discusses central Ovidian themes.Trade Review“The past few years have seen several new translations of [Ovid’s] work appear and a few acute scholarly studies, too. Among the more accessible of the latter category is Katharina Volk’s introduction to Ovid…Volk, a professor of classics at Columbia and the new editor of The Transactions of the American Philological Association,is about as high a star in the American academic firmament as one might find. Her tone is devoid of the jargon and pretense by which many an Ovidian monograph is marred. After concise initial chapters on the poet’s work and life, we find sensible discussions on elegy, women, and Rome, as well as a selective survey of Ovid’s subsequent reception in Western art and literature.” (Sewanee Review, 2012) " ...the book is truly first-class. It will, I believe, become invaluable for any course in which Ovid is a central component..." (BMCR, 6 February 2012) "Katharina Volk's Ovid is a wonderfully deft and spirited introduction to the whole of the poet's oeuvre, covering a remarkable amount of ground in just under 150 pages ." (Times Literary Supplement, 16 September 2011) "That quibble aside, this is an admirable book, suitable as both an up-to-date introduction for tyros and as a refreshing overview of matters Ovidian for advanced scholars." (Acta Classica,1 December 2011) Table of ContentsList of Figures viii Preface ix Abbreviations for Ovid’s Works xi Introduction 1 1 Work 6 2 Life 20 3 Elegy 35 4 Myth 50 5 Art 65 6 Women 81 7 Rome 95 8 Reception 110 Further Reading 128 Notes 141 Ovidian Passages Cited 142 Index 145
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Persius and Juvenal
Book SynopsisSatire, written in the verse of heroic epic but focused on the evils of contemporary society, was ancient Rome's original contribution to world literature. Two great practitioners of this art, Persius and Juvenal, wrote under the early emperors. Inspired by their Republican predecessors, both radically reinvented the genre.Trade Review“Braund and Osgood's A Companion to Persius and Juvenalis an excellent book. Specialists, non-specialists, and students alike will find in this volume a comprehensive and spacious approach to these challenging poets.” (Phoenix, 1 May 2014) “The whole book can be recommended, but I will single out a few chapters as especially interesting. . . In general, this is a useful book and a good first port-of-call for those new to the subjects.” (Religious Studies Review, 1 December 2013) “This dense volume makes a stimulating contribution to the study of imperial Latin satire.” (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 1 October 2013) “Graced with a 40-page bibliography, this 600-page work should become indispensable to classical scholars and anyone interested in satire. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-level undergraduates and above.” (Choice, 1 July 2013)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations viii Abbreviations ix Notes on Contributors x Acknowledgments xv Introduction: Persius and Juvenal as Satiric Successors 1Josiah Osgood Part I Persius and Juvenal: Texts and Contexts 17 1 Satire in the Republic: From Lucilius to Horace 19Ralph M. Rosen 2 The Life and Times of Persius: The Neronian Literary “Renaissance” 41Martin T. Dinter 3 Juvenalis Eques: A Dissident Voice from the Lower Tier of the Roman Elite 59David Armstrong 4 Life in the Text: The Corpus of Persius’ Satires 79Catherine Keane 5 Juvenal: The Idea of the Book 97Barbara K. Gold 6 Satiric Textures: Style, Meter, and Rhetoric 113E.J. Kenney 7 Manuscripts of Juvenal and Persius 137Holt. N. Parker Part II Retrospectives: Persius and Juvenal as Successors 163 8 Venusina lucerna: Horace, Callimachus, and Imperial Satire 165Andrea Cucchiarelli 9 Self-Representation and Performativity 190Paul Roche 10 Persius, Juvenal, and Stoicism 217Shadi Bartsch 11 Persius, Juvenal, and Literary History after Horace 239Charles McNelis 12 Imperial Satire and Rhetoric 262Christopher S. van den Berg 13 Politics and Invective in Persius and Juvenal 283Matthew Roller 14 Imperial Satire as Saturnalia 312Paul Allen Miller Part III Prospectives: The Successors of Persius and Juvenal 335 15 Imperial Satire Reiterated: Late Antiquity through the Twentieth Century 337Dan Hooley 16 Persius, Juvenal, and the Transformation of Satire in Late Antiquity 363Cristiana Sogno 17 Imperial Satire in the English Renaissance 386Stuart Gillespie 18 Imperial Satire Theorized: Dryden’s Discourse of Satire 409Josiah Osgood and Susanna Braund 19 Imperial Satire and the Scholars 436Holt N. Parker and Susanna Braund 20 School Texts of Persius and Juvenal 465Amy Richlin 21 Revoicing Imperial Satire 486Gideon Nisbet 22 Persius and Juvenal in the Media Age 513Martin M. Winkler References 545 Index Locorum 587 General Index 603
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Johns Hopkins University Press Piers Plowman The A Version
Book SynopsisBy conservatively editing one important witness of Piers Plowman, Vaughan takes a new generation of students to an early version of this great medieval poem.Trade ReviewThroughout he is a reliable and illuminating guide. Indeed, the scope of Professor Vaughan's introduction itself will be of lasting value to all readers of the poem. -- A.S.G. Edwards Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionProloguePassus OnePassus TwoPassus ThreePassus FourPassus FivePassus SixPassus SevenPassus EightPassus NinePassus TenPassus ElevenPassus TwelveTextual NotesNotesSelected Bibliography
£19.95
Johns Hopkins University Press The Collected Poetry of Mary Tighe
Book SynopsisMeticulously edited, this volume builds on recent pioneering scholarship to restore and burnish Tighe's reputation as a major Romantic-era poet.Trade Review... Those interested in English literature will want this extremely well-annotated edition of a poet whose star is, after long neglect, on the rise. Highly recommended. Choice ... beautiful, indispensable new edition of her poetry... The Collected Poetry of Mary Tighe is a major editorial feat. As a scholar deeply committed to the recovery of women writers of the Romantic period, I am exceedingly grateful for this first-rate scholarly edition of Mary Tighe's poetry. Review 19Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNotes on the Texts and Other Editorial MattersAbbreviations Used in the NotesBrief ChronologyIntroductionPart I: Psyche; or, The Legend of Love (1805)Part II: "Verses Transcribed for H. T."Volume IVolume IIPart III: Late Poems and Fugitive VerseAppendixes1. False and Doubtful Attributions2. Nineteenth-Century Poetic Response to Mary Tighe3. Substantive Variants, Psyche, or the Legend of Love, March 1849 Signed Holograph Manuscript4. From Mary, a Series of Reflections5. Theodosia Blachford to Rev. Henry Moore: Extracts from Letters Concerning Mary Tighe6. Inventory of Known Copies of Psyche, or the Legend of Love (1805)7. Addendum to Late Poens and Fugitive Verse by Mary TigheBibliographyIndex of Titles and First Lines
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Zukofsky Era
Book SynopsisZukofsky, Oppen, and Niedecker wrote with a diversity of formal strategies but a singularity of purpose: the crafting of an anticapitalist poetics. Inaugurated in 1931 by Louis Zukofsky, Objectivist poetry gave expression to the complex contours of culture and politics in America during the Great Depression. This study of Zukofsky and two others in the Objectivist constellation, George Oppen and Lorine Niedecker, elaborates the dialectic between the formal experimental features of their poetry and their progressive commitments to the radical potentials of modernity. Mixing textual analysis, archival research, and historiography, Ruth Jennison shows how Zukofsky, Oppen, and Niedecker braided their experiences as working-class Jews, political activists, and feminists into radical, canon-challenging poetic forms. Using the tools of critical geography, Jennison offers an account of the relationship between the uneven spatial landscapes of capitalism in crisis and the Objectivists' paraTrade ReviewAn illuminating, insightful, and theoretically rigorous engagement with Objectivist poetics that is sure to shape subsequent discussion.—Review of English StudiesJennison embraces a precise critical vocabulary that serves her purpose well. . . Most importantly, [she] presents an incisive and rigorous reading of Zukovsky's early work, not against his own interpretive choices but informed by them.—Journal of American CultureThe signal theoretical work of the year is Ruth Jennison's The Zukofsky Era . . . It seems unlikely that work on both [Zukofsky and Oppen] in the coming years will be able to avoid responding to Jennison's reconfiguration of the critical terrain—this is a work sure to have a wide influence.—American LiteratureJennison delivers the most satisfying and intellectually robust explanation we have yet had of Zukofsky, in particular, and Objectivism, in general. No account of modernist poetics should be able to present itself without embarrassment if it avoids Jennison's readings. Along with Moretti and Eagleton, The Zukofsky Era shows that large-scale historical accounts can deliver complex textual readings. More please.—The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural TheoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: The Uneven Poetics of Radical ParataxisChapter 1. Zukofsky: The Political Economy of Revolutionary ModernismChapter 2. G. Oppen, Materialiste: Cinematic CapitalismPart II: The Commodity's InscapeChapter 3. Zukofsky: The Voice of the FetishChapter 4. Niedecker: The Interior Voice CommodifiedPart III: The Objectivist ReflexChapter 5. Zukofsky: Counterfetishistic LiteracyAppendixNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Prosody and Purpose in the English Renaissance
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1989. In Prosody and Purpose in the English Renaissance the eminent scholar O. B. Hardison Jr. sets out to recover the special kinds of music inherent in English Renaissance poetry. The book begins with a thorough and wide-ranging survey of the development of prosodic theory from the ancient ars metrica tradition to the sixteenth century, with special emphasis on such issues as the relation of verse form and genre, the relation of syntax to prosody, and the role of language reform in shaping Renaissance prosody. The second part of the book considers the impact of prosodic traditions on specific literary works and verse forms, among them Surrey's Aeneid, Heywood's translation of Seneca's Thyestes, Sackville and Norton's Gorboduc, and the dramatic and epic verse of Marlowe, Shakespeare, Spenser, and Milton. Throughout, Hardison examines not only how poets crafted their verse but why. He explores authorial purposes ranging from technical attempts to match sound andTrade ReviewTwo large points that emerge are the importance of 'construction' and, perhaps more surprisingly, 'the dominance of syllabic concepts of prosody.' Hardison concludes that the English verse of this period 'is best understood in terms of this tradition.' He has written a learned, interesting, and civilized book.—Studies in English LiteratureTable of ContentsPrefacePart I. ContextsChapter 1. Prosody and Purpose Chapter 2. Ars Metrica Chapter 3. Rude and Beggerly Ryming: The Romance TraditionChapter 4. A Question of Language: Italy and the Shaping of Renaissance Prosodic TheoryChapter 5. Notes of Instruction Part II. PerformancesChapter 6. A Straunge Metre Worthy To Be Embraced Chapter 7. Jasper Heywood's Fourteeners Chapter 8. Gorboduc and Dramatic Blank Verse, with a Note on ComedyChapter 9. Heroic Experiments Chapter 10. Speech and Verse in Later Elizabethan Drama Chapter 11. True Musical DelightNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Mind of a Poet
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1941. This book stresses the transcendental, rather than purely aesthetic, qualities of William Wordsworth's work. It argues that the unusual aspects of Wordsworth's mind are not isolated and did not seem to him fanciful or merely personal; they were, for him, so many paths, difficult to find and harder to follow, yet leading to the great central truth that is the goal of all humankind's loftier strivings.Table of ContentsTable of Sigla, Abbreviations, etc.PrefaceIntroductionChapter 1. The Matter-of-Factness of WordsworthChapter 2. PassionChapter 3. The Ministry of FearChapter 4. Solitude, Silence, LonelinessChapter 5. AnimismChapter 6. NatureChapter 7. Anti-RationalismChapter 8. The Mystic ExperienceChapter 9. ReligionChapter 10. ImaginationIndex
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University of Toronto Press Those Who from Afar Look Like Flies
Book SynopsisThose Who from Afar Look Like Flies is an anthology of poems and essays that aims to provide an organic profile of the evolution of Italian poetry after World War II. Beginning with the birth of Officina and Il Verri, and culminating with the crisis of the mid-seventies, this tome features works by such poets as Pasolini, Pagliarani, Rosselli, Sanguineti and Zanzotto, as well as such forerunners as Villa and Cacciatore. Each section of this anthology, organized chronologically, is preceded by an introductory note and documents every stylistic or substantial change in the poetics of a group or individual. For each poet, critic, and translator a short biography and bibliography is also provided.Table of ContentsMarjorie Perloff, Foreword Luigi Ballerini & Beppe Cavatorta, A Consummation Devoutly to Be Wished I. Windmills of Realism: a Querelle II. Research Poetry in the Late Fifties and Early Sixties III. Flashback IV. Midfielders: Consolidated Research Poetry V.The Late Sixties and Early Seventies: the Legacy of the New VI. Flashforward Appendix Credits and Acknowledgements
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University of Toronto Press Brownings Lyrics
Book SynopsisBrowning's lyrics are favourite choices for anthologies but are rarely examined closely. This is the first full-length study of the lyrics, and includes detailed analyses of such well-known poems as Love Among the Ruins, Two in the Campagna, A Serenade at the Villa, A Toccata of Galuppi's, By the Fireside, and James Lee's Wife. Eleanor Cook explores Browning's use of repeated images and themes in the lyrics, examines these patterns in other poems and in his letters, and analyses their growth and change in all his work. She demonstrates how the lyrics may be linked with Browning's other work and shows something of his essential artistic unity. His imaginary is found to be more consistent and complex than is usually assumed.Students of Browning will find this work stimulating and instructive, while lovers of Browning will read it with pure pleasure. The reader will return to many of the poems with a rcihe
£29.70
University of Toronto Press The Civil War
Book SynopsisThe Civil War is a poem which Abraham Cowley (1618-67) did not complete, for political and historical reasons, and of which only the first volume was published; the other two volumes have been considered irrecoverably lost since Cowley's death. Professor Pritchard recently found two copies of the complete poem in a collection of family papers at the Hertfordshire County Record Office and here presents a corrected edition of the first and previously published book, and the text of the hitherto unpublished books two and three.The poem is a major addition to the body of Cowley's poetry; it has close and sometimes surprising connections with much of his other work. It is not only the most extended and important of his political poems but a significant addition to the genre of the political poem. It is also unique as the attempt by a poet of stature to give epic treatment to the events of the English Civil War.Professor Pritchard provides a discussion
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University of Toronto Press A World of Love and Mystery
Book SynopsisA World of Love and Mystery is a collection of poetry divided into three parts written by the poet Walden Scott Cram.
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University of Toronto Press Dire Straits
Book SynopsisBy illustrating how early modern English writers created their works in the context of a longstanding cultural inheritance from antiquity, Elizabeth Jane Bellamy offers a new approach to the history of early modern cartography and its influences on literature.Trade Review'This volume is an ingenious and persuasive tour de force of interdisciplinary research. Highly recommended.' -- A.R. Vogeler Choice Magazine; vol 51:05:14 'Dire Straits is to be welcomed as an important counter-balance to influential histories of the rise of English patriotism and its figuration through geographic discourse... A book which has much to offer to geographers, historians and students of literature alike.' -- Robert Mayhew Journal of Historical Geography vol 30:01:2014
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University of Toronto Press Eugenio Montale the Fascist Storm and the Jewish
Book SynopsisEugenio Montale, the Fascist Storm, and the Jewish Sunflower uncovers one of the great hidden sagas of modern literature. During Italy’s fascist period, Eugenio Montale – winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature and one of the greatest modern poets in any language – fell in love with Irma Brandeis, a glamorous and beautiful Dante scholar and an American Jew. While their romance would fall apart, it would have literary repercussions that extended throughout the poet’s career: Montale’s works abound with secret codes that speak to a lost lover and muse.This study is the first to completely unlock the cryptic thematic link that connects many of Montale’s most important poems, which, taken together, form the most significant hidden poetic cycle of modernism. David Michael Hertz explores the intersecting poetic myth and background biography, with precision made possible through recently published archival materials. Bringing the reaTrade Review'Hertz succeeds admirably in revealing the rich and complex tapestry hidden behind the Clizia Cycle.' -- Rossella Riccobono Modern Language Review vol 111:02:2016Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduzione: The Clizia Myth and the Secret Cycle 2. Murder, Manifestoes, and the Poems of the Cinque Terre 3. Love in Fascist Florence 4. The Woman of The Occasions 5. Hitler and Mussolini at the Opera 6. The Storm and the Sun Goddess 7. The Poet and the Modern Beatrice Spread Their Myth around the World 8. Clizia Becomes a Woman Again Coda: Montale, Brandeis, the "I" and the "You" The Italian Notes Works Cited and Additional Bibliography Index of Poems and Translations from the Cycle General Index
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University of Toronto Press The Metaphor of Celebrity
Book SynopsisThe Metaphor of Celebrity is an exploration of the significance of literary celebrity in Canadian poetry.Trade Review'The Metaphor of Celebrity is an engrossing read because of the balance that the text strikes...That I am left for wanting more of the text is, from my point of view, an excellent challenge to the writer.' -- Kit Dobson English Studies in Canada, vol 40:2-3: 2015 'A book that can and will act as a critical touchstone as celebrity continues to evolve and involve itself in the "literariness" and visibility texts.' -- Owen Percy Canadian Literature 223 / winter 2014Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Metaphor of Celebrity 2. The Era of Celebrity in Canadian Poetry 3. Becoming "Too Public" in the Poetry of Irving Layton 4. Fighting Words: Layton on Radio and Television 5. Recognition, Anonymity, and Leonard Cohen's Stranger Music 6. "I like that line because it's got my name in it": Masochistic Stardom in Cohen's Poetry 7. Celebrity, Sexuality, and the Uncanny in Michael Ondaatje's The Collected Works of Billy the Kid 8. "A Razor in the Body": Ondaatje's Rat Jelly and Secular Love 9. The Magician and His Public in the Poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen 10. Passing and Celebrity in MacEwen's The T.E. Lawrence Poems Conclusion: Public, Nation, Now Acknowledgments Appendix: Four Tables (fig. 1-4) Works Cited Notes
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University of Toronto Press Anniversary Essays on Alexander Popes The Rape of
Book SynopsisIn celebration of its tercentenary, this collection brings together ten eminent scholars with new perspectives on the poem.Trade Review'The editor's preface provides a valuable account of the poem's somewhat complicated publication history, which is also treated thoughtfully and with illuminating effect by contributors.' -- Jenny Davidson Studies in English Literature vol 56:03:2016 'Donald W. Nichol's edition of collected essays on Alexander Pope's brilliant satire, The Rape of the Lock, is a timely and intelligent celebration of a literary masterpiece... This collection brings new and original interpretations to a classic work of eighteenth-century literature.' -- Ileana Baird SHARP News August 21, 2016Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: The Rape of the Lock After 300 Years (J. Paul Hunter) 1. Courtliness, Courtship, and Court Cards: Fractals as a Compositional Device in The Rape of the Lock (Pat Rogers) 2. Gallantry and The Rape of the Lock Reconsidered (Louise Curran) 3. Making the Perfect Woman: Female Automata from Pandora to Belinda (Glynis Ridley) 4. "Charms strike the Sight, but Merit wins the Soul": Female Spirituality and The Rape of the Lock (Katherine M. Quinsey) 5. Catholic Society and Commercial Idolatry in The Rape of the Lock (Nicholas Hudson) 6. "Hairs less in sight": Pope, Biology, and Culture (Raymond Stephanson) 7. Death and the Object: The Abuse of Things in The Rape of the Lock (Barbara M. Benedict) 8. It Narratives, Thing Theory, and "trivial Things": Sophie Gee's The Scandal of the Season and The Rape of the Lock (Kate Scarth) 9. Of Words and Things: Image, Page, Text, and The Rape of the Lock (Allison Muri) 10. From "Trivial Things" to "trivial things": Pope, Lintot, and The Rape of the Lock (Donald W. Nichol)
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University of Toronto Press E.J. Pratt Letters
Book SynopsisThis edition of E.J. Pratt's letters is the final volume in the Collected Works series. The letters take us into his workshop, illuminating the research behind his distinctive documentary long poems and the social nature of his creative production.Trade Review"Elizabeth Popham and David G. Pitt provide an invaluable resource to scholars of Canadian modernist poetry with E.J. Pratt: Letters, the last instalment of the Collected Works series… the collection that the editors present is vast – and wholly indispensable for scholars in the field and those with an interest in Pratt’s poetry … Popham and Pitt’s detailed effort is undeniable, serving any interest reader beyond expectation … This resource is one for the shelves of any researcher in the field, and will no doubt be cited regularly. " -- David Johnstone * Canadian Literature Reviews, 234 Autumn 2017 *Table of ContentsIntroduction Editorial procedures Acknowledgments Biographical chronology Letters I Peregrinations: 1903-25 II A Taste of National Acclaim: 1925-32 III Prospect and Promotion: 1932-39 IV Historical Fact and Epic Construction: 1939-44 V Steering between Extremes: 1944-48 VI Knockings at the Door: 1948-53 VII Accepting the Years: 1953-55 VIII As Good as Any Old Horse My Age: 1955-64 Appendix : Some Letters by Viola Pratt Abbreviations Textual notes Index
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University of Toronto Press Sir Charles God Damn
Book SynopsisA new era in Canadian poetry began in 1880 with the publication of Charles G.D. Roberts’ Orion and Other Poems. He was just twenty years old. Roberts was soon acknowledged as leader of the so-called Confederation Poets—Bliss Carman, Duncan Campbell Scott, and Archibald Lampman. During his long lifetime he wrote hundreds of poems as well as novels, histories, short stories, translations, and essays; he also originated the realistic animal story popularized by Ernest Thompson Seton. He awed literary critics with the versatility of his writing and shocked staid Canadians with the escapades of an unconventional private life. Married at twenty in his native New Brunswick, Roberts soon after began a series of romantic entanglements. While his wife, May, raised the children in Fredericton, he swanned around New York, Havana, and the capitals of Europe. He experienced the Bohemian life of Washington Square around the turn of the century and lived in Montparnasse
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University of Toronto Press Mirror of Minds
Book SynopsisThe aim of the author, who has long been interested in the history of ideas, has been to give some illustrations of the ways in which at various periods English poetry has reflected current views of the human mind, with special reference to such topics as its place in the cosmos, its relations with the body, the connections between sense, passions, and reason, the problem of soul and its possible survival after death. The subject matter is important, for many of the more self-conscious writers have been profoundly affected by their assumptions about the senses and passions, the reason and the imagination.The author traces four main historical phases in each of which different aspects and potentialities of the mind have been stressed. Chapter I discusses the microcosmic conception of man inherited from the Middle Ages and traces its influence in some allegorical and didactic verse, lyric and epic. Chapter II considers the development of Shakespeare’s attitude to the mind
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University of Toronto Press The Nibelungenlied
Book SynopsisIn the last fifty or so years there has been a gradual shift of attention in scholarship on the Nibelungenlied from reconstruction of the texts, and tracings of the poem’s multiple and complex antecedents, to interpretation. In spite of this trend, there is still a pressing need for a critical analysis of the Nibelungenlied as a whole that draws together its various literary qualities and examines in detail the epic’s unity, depth, and meaning. Professor Bekker’s study provides this kind of analysis. It takes a fresh approach, viewing the poem as a work of literary merit worthy to be read for its own sake. It traces the new designs which the poet brings to the Nibelungen tradition and provides detailed examinations of the main aspects of technique and structure in the epic. The approach is based on close consultation of the text, with little digression, in an attempt to guide the reader to an understanding and appreciation of the poem as the autho
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Poetic Genre
Book SynopsisA Companion to Poetic Genre brings together over 40 contributions from leading academics to provide critical overviews of poetic genres and their modern adaptations.Trade Review“If there is some conceptual wobble in the nature of this undertaking, this Companion is nevertheless a useful, informative and—yes—companionable volume on which its editor may be congratulated.” (English Studies, 1 October 2014) Table of Contents Notes on Contributors ix Preface xix Acknowledgments xxiv Part I 1 “To Get the News from Poems”: Poetry as Genre 3 Jahan Ramazani 2 What Was New Formalism? 17 David Caplan 3 Meter 34 Peter L. Groves 4 The Stanza: Echo Chambers 53 Debra Fried 5 Trying to Praise the Mutilated World: The Contemporary American Ode 64 Ann Keniston 6 English Elegies 77 Neil Roberts 7 The Self-Elegy: Narcissistic Nostalgia or Proleptic Postmortem? 93 Eve C. Sorum 8 Free Verse and Formal: The English Ghazal 104 Lisa Sewell 9 On “the Beat Inevitable”: The Ballad 117 Romana Huk 10 Oddity or Tour de Force? The Sestina 139 Nicole Ollier 11 The Rondeau: Still Doing the Rounds 157 Maria Johnston 12 Weaving Close Turns and Counter Turns: The Villanelle 171 Karen Jackson Ford 13 Looping the Loop: Terza Rima 188 George Szirtes 14 Ottava Rima: Quietly Facetious upon Everything 206 Michael Hinds 15 “Named Airs”: American Sonnets (Stevens to Bidart) 220 Meg Tyler 16 African American Sonnets: Voicing Justice and Personal Dignity 234 Jeff Westover 17 The Liberties of Blank Verse 250 Patrick Jackson 18 Arcs of Movement: The Heroic Couplet 263 David Wheatley 19 In a Sea of Indeterminacy: Fourteen Ways of Looking at Haiku 277 Peter Harris 20 On the Pantoum, and the Pantunite Element in Poetry 293 Geoff Ward 21 “Gists and Piths”: The Free-Verse Revolution in Contemporary American Poetry 306 Marie-Christine Lemardeley 22 The Emergent Prose Poem 318 Andy Brown 23 Concrete/Visual Poetry 330 Fiona McMahon 24 Poems that Count: Procedural Poetry 348 Hélène Aji 25 Modes of Found Poetry 361 Lacy Rumsey Part II 26 “Horny Morning Mood”: The Aubade and Alba 379 Kit Fryatt 27 Nox Consilium and the Dark Night of the Soul: The Nocturne 390 Erik Martiny 28 Heaney, Virgil, and Contemporary Katabasis 404 Rachel Falconer 29 The Aisling 420 Bernard O’Donoghue 30 The Printed Voice 435 Yann Tholoniat 31 Rewriting the People’s Newspaper: Trinidadian Calypso after 1956 446 John Thieme 32 Tragicomic Mode in Modern American Poetry: “Awful but Cheerful” 459 Bonnie Costello 33 Parnassus in Pillory: Satirical Verse 478 Todd Nathan Thompson 34 Poetry and Its Occasions: “Undoing the Folded Lie” 490 Stephen Wilson 35 On Verse Letters 505 Philip Coleman 36 “Containing History”: Epic Poetry and Revisions of the Genre 521 Alex Runchman 37 T.S. Eliot and the Short Long Poem 532 Jennifer Clarvoe 38 Making War Poetry Contemporary 543 Rainer Emig 39 Bestiary USA: The Modern American Bestiary Poem 555 Jo Gill 40 “From Arcadia to Bunyah”: Mutation and Diversity in the Pastoral Mode 568 Karina Williamson 41 Another Green World: Contemporary Garden Poetry 584 Mark Scroggins 42 Scenic, or Topographical, Poetry 598 Stephen Burt 43 Ekphrastic Poetry: In and Out of the Museum 614 Jonathan Ellis Index 627
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The University of North Carolina Press The Heliand
Book SynopsisMariana Scott, poet and translator of Hofmannsthal, Meyrink, Celan, and others, translates the eighth-century Old Saxon Heliand into its original meter in this work originally published in 1966. This anonymous masterpiece presents the life of Christ and affords an excellent insight into medieval life.
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