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  • Cambridge University Press Poetry Realized in Nature

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  • Cambridge University Press Ovid Epistulae ex Ponto Book I Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

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  • Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Horace Cambridge Companions to Literature

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  • Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to John Donne

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    Book SynopsisAn invaluable guide for both student and teacher, this collection of specially written essays offers the most up-to-date scholarship and introduces students to the current thinking and debates about John Donne - the pre-eminent 'metaphysical' poet, and one of the greatest lyric poets of all time.Trade Review'… important … the first comprehensive guide to Donne's work …' The Times Literary Supplement' … important…. the first comprehensive guide to Donne's works …' Contemporary Review'… libraries serving the humanities should have this book on their shelves as it is sure to be consulted by students and teachers - and general readers - who are eager to find out more about one of the most rewarding of our poets.' Reference Reviews'The volume is refreshing in its inclusion of a sociolinguistic exploration of the works, as well as an electrifying final piece by A. S. Byatt … This companion more than deserves to be on our libraries' shelves, enjoying pride of place next to its older siblings on Jonson, Marlowe, Shakespeare and Spenser'. English StudiesTable of ContentsChronology; 1. Donne's life: a sketch Jonathan F. S. Post; 2. The text of Donne's writings Ted-Larry Pebworth; 3. The social context and nature of Donne's writing: occasional verse and letters Arthur F. Marotti; 4. Literary contexts: predecessors and contemporaries Andrew Hadfield; 5. Donne's religious world Alison Shell and Arnold Hunt; 6. Donne's political world Tom Cain; 7. Reading and rereading Donne's poetry Judith Herz; 8. Satirical writing: Donne in shadows Annabel Patterson; 9. Erotic poetry Achsah Guibbory; 10. Devotional writing Helen Wilcox; 11. Donne as preacher Peter McCullough; 12. Donne's language: the conditions of communication Lynne Magnusson; 13. Gender matters: the women in Donne's poems Ilona Bell; 14. Facing death Ramie Targoff; 15. Donne's afterlife Dayton Haskin; 16. Feeling thought: Donne and the embodied mind A. S. Byatt; 17. Select bibliography L. E. Semler.

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  • Cambridge University Press Lucretius and the Transformation of Greek Wisdom

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    Book SynopsisThis book studies the structure and origins of De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), the great first-century BC poem by Lucretius.Trade Review'[this] may be recommended unreservedly as a major contribution to the understanding of Lucretius' poetics, [and] must become required reading for all students of Lucretius … [It is] one of the most stimulating works on Lucretius for many years.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review'This is a very rich book, a milestone in Lucretian scholarship and without any doubt a major point of reference for future Lucretian studies.' Phronesis'Lucretius and the Transformation of Greek Wisdom recommends itself for its overall wealth of detail, as well as for its engaging reconstruction of the relationship between the poems of Lucretius and that of Empedocles … ' The Times Literary Supplement'… fascinating … S gives us a lot of excellent insights into many aspects of the poem … will continue to provoke healthy critical debate and is already required reading in university courses on Lucretius. It is not afraid to raise big questions about Lucretius … scrupulous accuracy and apparently effortless readability … his opinions, and the light his arguments shed on the detail of the poem and its background, cannot be ignored by any serious student - or teacher- of this poem.' The Journal of Classics TeachingTable of Contents1. The Empedoclean opening; 2. Two languages, two worlds; 3. Lucretius the fundamentalist; 4. Epicurus, On Nature; 5. Lucretius' plan and its execution; 6. The imprint of Theophrastus; 7. The transformation of Book I; Epilogue.

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  • Cambridge University Press Mania and Literary Style

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  • Cambridge University Press H. D. and the Victorian Fin de Siecle

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  • Cambridge University Press Lucretius and the Transformation of Greek Wisdom

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  • Cambridge University Press Lyric and Labour in the Romantic Tradition 30 Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Series Number 30

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  • Cambridge University Press Horace and the Rhetoric of Authority

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  • Cambridge University Press Alliteration and Sound Change in Early English 101 Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Series Number 101

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  • Cambridge University Press Chicano Poetics Heterotexts and Hybridities 109 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 109

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  • Cambridge University Press The Troubadours

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  • Cambridge University Press The Troubadours

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    Book SynopsisThis book offers a general introduction to the dazzling world of the troubadours. Its sixteen newly-commissioned essays discuss the development of troubadour song, the main trends in troubadour scholarship, and the reception of troubadour poetry. Appendices offer an invaluable guide to troubadours, technical vocabulary, research tools and surviving manuscripts.Trade Review"All readers of troubadour poetry can profit from this well-devised, stimulating book." SpeculumTable of ContentsPreface: How to use this book; Introduction Simon Gaunt and Sarah Kay; 1. Courtly culture in medieval Occitania Ruth Harvey; 2. Fin' amor and the development of the courtly canso Linda Paterson; 3. Moral and satirical poetry Catherine Léglu; 4. Early troubadours: Guilhem IX to Bernart de Ventadorn Stephen G. Nichols; 5. The classical period: Raimbaut d'Aurenga to Arnaut Daniel Gérard Gouiran; 6. Later troubadours Michael Routledge; 7. The trobairitz Tilde Sankovitch; 8. Italian and Catalan troubadours Miriam Cabré; 9. Music and versification Margaret Switten; 10. Rhetoric and hermeneutics Sarah Spence; 11. Intertextuality and dialogism in the troubadours Maria Luisa Meneghetti; 12. The troubadours at play: irony, parody and burlesque Don Monson; 13. Desire and subjectivity Sarah Kay; 14. Orality and writing: the text of the troubadour poem Simon Gaunt; 15 The Chansonniers as books William Burgwinkle; 16. Troubadour lyric and Old French narrative Sylvia Huot; Appendices; Bibliography.

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  • Cambridge University Press Chicano Poetics Heterotexts and Hybridities Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

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  • Cambridge University Press Allusion and Intertext Dynamics Of Appropriation In Roman Poetry Roman Literature and its Contexts

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  • Cambridge University Press An Introduction to West Indian Poetry

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  • Cambridge University Press Walt Whitmans Native Representations 80 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 80

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  • Cambridge University Press An Introduction to West Indian Poetry

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  • Cambridge University Press Beowulf and Old Germanic Metre 23 Cambridge Studies in AngloSaxon England Series Number 23

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  • Cambridge University Press Poetry and Music in SeventeenthCentury England

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  • Cambridge University Press The Classical Plot and the Invention of Western Narrative

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  • Cambridge University Press The Shade of Homer

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    Book SynopsisIn exploring the significance of Homer for the poetry of modern Greece Dr Ricks is tackling a theme that has implications for the study of poetic influence in general. In this 1989 book he takes the work of Sikelianos, Cavafy and Seferis and subjects a selection of poems that deal with specifically Homeric themes to a careful scrutiny.Trade Review"...an invaluable guide to the poetry of modern Greece. His study is informed by a command of Homeric poetry and a long familiarity with the Iliad and Odyssey that allow him to recognize the many forms of allusion to Homer in modern Greek poetry, many of which would be invisible to the untrained eye. He clearly knows the full range of the poets he is working with, and this makes it possible for him to concentrate on their relation to Homer." Arion"The learning and sophistication displayed in this critical study...demonstrate how far the academic exploration of modern Greek literature has progressed...It is also among the book's virtues that it remains coherent and readable throughout, without recourse to the jargon or political bias of much contemporary criticism." Times Literary Supplement"The Shade of Homer is well researched, and Ricks provides a helpful list of books for further reading. It is a fascinating, very clearly written and effectively organized study that should prove valuable both for students of modern Greek poetry and for readers interested in the continuity of the classical tradition in modern literature." Bruce Fogelman, English"The case is proved to the hilt in this book of strenuous thinking and careful discrimination." Henry Gifford, Journal of Modern Greek StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Homer and the modern Greek poets; Part I. Homer in the New Greece: The Spirit and the Letter: 1. Kalvos and Solomos; 2. Archaism and kleftism; 3. Palamas; Part II. Sikelianos: 4. The Homeric inheritance; 5. Greek romanticism comes of age; 6. Beyond Homer; Part III. Cavafy: 7. Modes of misquotation; 8. Ancient days; 9. Homer into history; Part IV. Seferis: 10. Scholia; 11. Ulysses/Disseas; 12. Homer and the poetic vocation; 13. Beyond the folk tradition; 14. Spirit and letter in 'The King of Asine'; Reflections; Further reading; References; Index.

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  • Cambridge University Press Aratus Phaenomena 34 Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries Series Number 34

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  • Cambridge University Press Lines of Enquiry

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  • Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric Cambridge Companions to Literature

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  • Cambridge University Press Ideology and Utopia in the Poetry of William Blake

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  • Cambridge University Press Romantic Atheism Poetry and Freethought 17801830 37 Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Series Number 37

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  • Cambridge University Press English Literature and the Russian Aesthetic Renaissance

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  • Cambridge University Press Milton and Heresy

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  • Cambridge University Press Powerplay in Tibullus

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  • Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Robert Frost

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  • Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Spenser

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  • Cambridge University Press Milton and the Natural World

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