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Cambridge University Press Ovid Ars Amatoria Book III
Book SynopsisBook III of Ovid's Ars Amatoria teaches women how to catch and keep men and is here presented in the first full modern edition. Considerable attention is paid in the introduction and commentary to recent developments in interpreting didactic poetry and the treatment of women by the Latin elegiac poets.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: 'A detailed commentary on the third book of the Ars Amatoria has long been a desideratum. Roy K. Gibson's impressive work fills the gap and does an admirable job at elucidating a poem that for all its obvious entertainment value is not always easy to interpret. … the commentary is a masterwork of learning … a treasure trove … pleasantly undogmatic. … Well aware of the complexity of Ovid's text, Gibson judiciously refrains from simplifying it - an honest and reasonable attitude that provides a welcome corrective to the all-too-often one-sided and ideology-driven interpretations found in recent Ovidian scholarship.' Katharina Volk, Columbia University, New YorkTable of ContentsIntroduction; Text and critical apparatus; Method of the commentary; Commentary.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Christopher Marlowe Cambridge Introductions to Literature
Book SynopsisProviding a comprehensive survey of Christopher Marlowe's literary career, this Introduction presents an approachable account of the life, works and influence of the groundbreaking Elizabethan dramatist and poet. It includes in-depth discussions of all of Marlowe's plays, stressing what was new and revolutionary about them as well as how they made use of existing dramatic models. Marlowe's poems and translations, sometimes marginalised in discussions of his work, are analysed to emphasise their literary importance and political resonances. The book presents a balanced discussion of Marlowe's turbulent life and considers his afterlives: the influence of his work on other writers and examples of how his plays have been performed. In addition to introducing the reader to the historical and religious contexts within which Marlowe wrote, the Introduction stresses the qualities that continue to make his work fascinating: intellectual range, radical irony and an awareness of the dangerously cTrade Review'On the whole, I have found this book a model of excellence in its scholarship, intelligence, and suggestiveness. It is remarkably fresh in the focus of each chapter, wide-ranging in scope, flexible and detailed in supplying illuminating contexts, and thoroughly engaging in the persuasive candor of its well-supported observations. I recommend it without reservation.' Robert A. Logan, University of Hartford'This is the book you want for your students: it is readable, sensible, fact-filled, fancy-careful, comprehensive for its publishing category, and affordable.' Roslyn Knutson, Professor Emerita, University of Arkansas, Little Rock'On the whole, I have found this book a model of excellence in its scholarship, intelligence, and suggestiveness. It is remarkably fresh in the focus of each chapter, wide-ranging in scope, flexible and detailed in supplying illuminating contexts, and thoroughly engaging in the persuasive candor of its well-supported observations. I recommend it without reservation.' The Marlowe Society of America'… a short, engaging book targeted at students, teachers and lecturers. It covers familiar territory (the life and works of Marlowe) in an original way by combining a historical approach, an interest in performance and reader-response, and illuminating close readings of some passages of the plays and poems. Rutter's information is always precise and every statement is traced back to a primary source (letters, Privy Council reports, the Baines note, plays by other dramatists...) The book is also well documented: Rutter is aware of much of the recent criticism on Marlowe's life and works and he is also well informed on the history of theatre companies and on studies on gender and sexuality in early modern England, but he quotes his sources only sparsely, saving his reader from an ostentatious display of knowledge not fitted to this kind of work. Another strength of this book is the clarity and elegance of the exposition.' Cercles: Revue pluridisciplinaire du monde anglophoneTable of ContentsPreface; Key dates; 1. Life and historical contexts; 2. Tamburlaine, Parts One and Two; 3. Doctor Faustus; 4. The Jew of Malta and The Massacre at Paris; 5. Edward II; 6. Dido, Queen of Carthage and Marlowe's poetry; 7. Marlowe's afterlives; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Studies in Latin Poetry 21 Yale Classical Studies Series Number 21
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Cambridge University Press Statius Silvae and the Poetics of Empire
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Cambridge University Press Dangerous Matter English Drama and Politics 16231624
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Cambridge University Press Poetic Principles and Practice
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Cambridge University Press Dante and English Poetry
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Cambridge University Press Language Music and the Sign A Study in Aesthetics Poetics and Poetic Practice from Collins to Coleridge
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Cambridge University Press The Shakespeare Play as Poem A Critical Tradition in Perspective
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Poets Tongues
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Cambridge University Press Poetry and the Romantic Musical Aesthetic
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Cambridge University Press Proverbios Morales
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Cambridge University Press D. J. Enright
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Cambridge University Press Cowpers Task
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Book of Lesser Poets
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Cambridge University Press Coleridge and the Idea of Love
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Cambridge University Press Backgrounds to Augustan Poetry
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Cambridge University Press Divine Poetry and Drama in SixteenthCentury England
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Cambridge University Press Ovid as an Epic Poet
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Ted Hughes Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry Since 1945 Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press Dantes Comedy
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Cambridge University Press Chretien de Troyes
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Cambridge University Press Friderich Von Husen
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Cambridge University Press Rainer Maria Rilkes Gedichte an Die Nacht
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Cambridge University Press Dantes Paradiso and the Limitations of Modern Criticism A Study of Style and Poetic Theory
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Cambridge University Press The Mind of Dante
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1965, the seven essays that are collected in this volume reproduce, with some slight differences in detail, the text of the lectures that were delivered at Cambridge during the Lent term of that year to mark the seventh centenary of the birth of Dante.Table of ContentsForeword; 1. Genesis and structure: two approaches to the poetry of the Comedy N. Sapegno; 2. The poetry of the Comedy Philip McNair; 3. Religion and philosophy in Dante Kenelm Foster; 4. Dante's lyric poetry P. Boyde; 5. Dante's political thought U. Limentani; 6. Dante's views on language J. Cremona; 7. Dante and the English poets.
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Cambridge University Press Heine the Tragic Satirist
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Cambridge University Press French VerseArt
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Cambridge University Press Homer
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Cambridge University Press Statius and Virgil
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Cambridge University Press Kleinere Aufsatze I
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Cambridge University Press Reading Virgil
Book SynopsisThis edition of the first two books of Virgil's twelve-book masterpiece the Aeneid is designed to provide all the help that someone who has finished an introductory course in Latin will need to read Virgil accurately, intelligently and with maximum benefit and pleasure.Trade Review"The accuracy and the rigor of both the line-by-line commentary and the paraphrase/discussion, the validity of the interpretation, the rich understanding and the clear explanation of Virgil's art along with the helpfulness of grammatical and lexical tools make this volume indispensable for those students and readers who are longing to read the first two books of the Virgilian masterpiece in the original language, and for those teachers who are looking for an easy and possibly pleasant approach to introduce their students to the Aeneid." --BMCR"Not only is Jones's Reading Virgil a wonderful addition to the AP Virgil curriculum, but students as well as seasoned readers of Virgil and the epic tradition will truly appreciate all the effort and care that went into producing this exquisite volume. We can hope that Jones will soon follow up with Reading Virgil for Aeneid III-XII." ---New England Classical JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction; Glossary of literary terms; Notes for the reader; Help with the text; Grammar; Metre and verse in the Aeneid; Bibliography; Maps; Book I. Aeneas' mission: from storm to refuge: topics for extended essays on Book I; Book II. Aeneas' account of the destruction of Ilium: topics for extended essays on Book II; Some views for general discussion; Appendix: other versions of the sack of Ilium; Total learning vocabulary.
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Cambridge University Press English Metrical Psalms
Book SynopsisDuring the sixteenth century the Book of Psalms was considered to be a uniquely authoritative and universally applicable collection of religious poems. Dr Zim's 1987 book was the first full-scale study of this important genre and he has produced a major contribution to our understanding of Tudor literary culture.Table of ContentsPreface; Conventions and abbreviations; 1. An introduction: imitatio and the psalms in sixteenth-century England; 2. 'Holy Davids divine Poeme': Sir Thomas Wyatt's imitation of David's penitential psalms and Sir Thomas Smith's 'other psalme'; 3. 'Particuler prayers of particular persons, in particular greefes eyther of body or soule': occasional verses by the Earl of Surrey and others (1535–1554) 4. 'Holy songes of veritie': Thomas Sternhold and psalms 'For the recreation of all such as delight in Musicke' and 'for the confortyng of suche … in the common prayers in the church'; 5. 'A heavenly poesie … of that Lyricall kind': Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke 'singing the praises … of that God, who giveth us hands to write, and wits to conceive': Part one - Sir Philip Sidney; 6. 'A heavenly poesie … of that Lyricall kind': Part two - The Countess of Pembroke; 7. Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Lucretius
Book SynopsisThe best available guide to appreciating the literary art of this book expounding the implications of Epicurus' dictum that death does not matter. Completely revised, with a considerably enlarged Commentary and a new supplementary introduction taking account of the great amount of new scholarship of the last forty years.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Supplementary introduction; Text; Commentary.
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Cambridge University Press Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society
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Cambridge University Press The Poetical Works of John Milton
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Cambridge University Press Studies in Islamic Poetry
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Cambridge University Press Troilus and Criseyde
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Cambridge University Press Johnsons Milton
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Christopher Marlowe Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press W. H. Auden in Context
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Ted Hughes Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and the Modern Poet
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Cambridge University Press Anthology of Modern French Poetry
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Cambridge University Press The Cansos and Sirventes of the Troubadour Giraut de Borneil
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Cambridge University Press The Daring Muse
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