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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Spenser
Book SynopsisThe Cambridge Companion to Spenser provides an accessible and rigorous introduction to Spenser. Fourteen specially commissioned essays provide all the essential information required to appreciate and understand Spenser's rewarding and challenging work. A chronology and further reading lists make this volume indispensable for any student of Spenser.Trade Review'This valuable compendium of synoptic essays includes well-measured contributions from leading figures in the field: Richard Rambuss, Richard McCabe, Willy Maley and Hadfield himself … they offer carefully calibrated accounts of the complexity of late Elizabethan Anglo-irish affairs and timely reminders of the need to read literary texts in their own terms. The Companion as a whole gives an excellent sense of Spenser's strange position simultaneously at the very centre and the extreme margin of his culture, with one foot in the court and the other on distant Irish soil.' The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Chronology; Introduction: The relevance of Edmund Spenser A. Hadfield; 1. Spenser's life and career R. Rambuss; 2. Historical contexts: Britain and Europe D. J. Baker; 3. Ireland: policy, poetics and parody R. McCabe; 4. Spenser's pastorals: The Shepardes Calender and Colin Clouts Come Home Againe P. Cheney; 5. The Faerie Queene, I-III S. L. Wofford; 6. The Faerie Queene, IV-VII A. Hadfield; 7. Spenser's shorter poems A. L. Prescott; 8. Spenser's languages: writing in the ruins of English W. Maley; 9. Sexual politics L. Gregerson; 10. Spenser's religion J. King; 11. Spenser and classical traditions C. Borrow; 12. Spenser and contemporary vernacular poetry R. Greene; 13. Spenser's influence P. Alpers; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Keats Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Faerie Queene A Readers Guide
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Coleridge Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press Catullus and the Poetics of Roman Manhood
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Cambridge University Press Rilke Modernism and Poetic Tradition
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Walt Whitman
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Emily Dickinson Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Shadow of Callimachus
Book SynopsisExamines the Roman reaction to, and adoption of, the Greek poetry of the last three pre-Christian centuries. The critical readings offered embrace not just the central figures of Callimachus, Theocritus and Apollonius of Rhodes but the full scope of what remains of Hellenistic poetry.Trade ReviewThrough his magisterial command of ancient literature and modern scholarship, everywhere in evidence in his latest book, Hunter has enhanced our appreciation of the lengths to which poets in the Late Republic and Augustan era went to emerge from the shadow and bask in a light now fully their own.' BMCR'As hunter says in his concluding sentence, 'In the stare of the evidence, fragmentary glimpses of partial truths are probably the best for which we can hope.' Hunter has given us much more than 'fragmentary glimpses' in a volume that should be on the shelf of every scholar of ancient poetry.' LatomusTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. In the grove; 2. In the grip of the god?; 3. Nothing like this before; 4. The shadows lengthen; Afterword.
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Cambridge University Press Homer
Book SynopsisThe sixth book of the Iliad includes the exchanges between Diomedes and Glaucus, and Hector and Hecuba, Paris, Helen and Andromache. The Commentary, which is suitable for undergraduates at all levels, discusses points of morphology, syntax, and prosody, and there is a comprehensive Introduction, including a section on reception.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Note on the text and apparatus; Text; Commentary; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Homer Iliad Book 22 Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
Book SynopsisBook XXII recounts the climax of the Iliad: the fatal encounter between the main defender of Troy and the greatest warrior of the Greeks, which results in the death of Hector and Achilles' revenge for the death of his friend Patroclus. At the same time it adumbrates Achilles' own death and the fall of Troy. This edition will help students and scholars better appreciate this key part of the epic poem. The introduction summarises central debates in Homeric scholarship, such as the circumstances of composition and the literary interpretation of an oral poem, and offers synoptic discussions of the structure of the Iliad, the role of the narrator, similes and epithets. There is a separate section on language, which provides a compact list of the most frequent Homeric characteristics. The commentary offers up-to-date linguistic guidance, and elucidates narrative techniques, typical elements and central themes.Trade Review'De Jong's emphases are outlined in the preface. She says that she will focus on 'Homer's language …and his narrative style … In my own experience, she accomplishes a great deal more, bringing out meanings and connections that cast book 22 in an entirely fresh light and reveal this book's close connections to the Iliad as a whole. After reading this commentary, I felt I had experienced a thorough review and renewal of my Iliadic self.' Edith Foster, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; Text; Commentary.
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Cambridge University Press The Poetry of War
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Cambridge University Press meterinpoetry
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Cambridge University Press TwentiethCentury French Poetry
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Cambridge University Press Survivors Songs
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Cambridge University Press Simile and Identity in Ovids Metamorphoses
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Cambridge University Press Homer
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry Since 1945
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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 Women Nationalism and the Romantic Stage Theatre and Politics in Britain 17801800 46 Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Series Number 46
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Cambridge University Press Milton and Religious Controversy
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Ovid Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press Poetic Form An Introduction Cambridge Introductions to Literature Hardcover
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Cambridge University Press Poetic Form An Introduction Cambridge Introductions to Literature Paperback
Book SynopsisMichael D. Hurley and Michael O'Neill offer a perceptive and illuminating look into poetic form, a topic that has come back into prominence in recent years. Building on this renewed interest in form, Hurley and O'Neill provide an accessible and comprehensive introduction that will be of help to undergraduates and more advanced readers of poetry alike. The book sees form as neither ornamenting nor mimicking content, but as shaping and animating it, encouraging readers to cultivate techniques to read poems as poems. Lively and wide-ranging, engaging with poems as aesthetic experiences, the book includes a long chapter on the elements of form that throws new light on troubling terms such as rhythm and metre, as well as a detailed introduction and accessible, stimulating chapters on lyric, the sonnet, elegy, soliloquy, dramatic monologue and ballad and narrative.Trade Review'Michael Hurley and Michael O'Neill's Poetic Form: An Introduction offers an overview of the study of poetic form, including controversies. This clearly written and engaging text includes chapters on lyric; on the sonnet and elegy as subsets of lyric; on drama in the guise of the soliloquy and dramatic monologue, and finally on ballad and narrative.' Victorian PoetryTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The elements of poetic form; 2. Lyric; 3. The sonnet; 4. Elegy; 5. Epic; 6. Soliloquy; 7. Dramatic monologue; 8. Ballad and narrative.
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Cambridge University Press Locations of Literary Modernism
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Cambridge University Press Literary Magazines and British Romanticism 45 Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Series Number 45
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Cambridge University Press The Poetry of Franois Villon Text and Context 68 Cambridge Studies in French Series Number 68
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Cambridge University Press thecambridgeintroductiontospanishpoetry
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Cambridge University Press Ovids Poetics of Illusion
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Cambridge University Press Satires of Rome
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to French Poetry
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Cambridge University Press Statius Silvae and the Poetics of Empire
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Cambridge University Press Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland
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Cambridge University Press Inventing Homer
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Cambridge University Press The Path of the Argo
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry
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Cambridge University Press Ovid Ars Amatoria Book III 40 Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries Series Number 40
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer
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Cambridge University Press Literature and Dissent in Miltons England
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Cambridge University Press Modernism Male Friendship and the First World War
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Cambridge University Press Ovid
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Cambridge University Press Hesiods Cosmos
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Horace Cambridge Companions to Literature
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