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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to John Donne
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare National PoetPlaywright
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to EighteenthCentury Poetry Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press Solon and Early Greek Poetry
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Robert Frost Cambridge Introductions to Literature
Book SynopsisRobert Frost is one of the most popular American poets and remains widely read. This Introduction provides a comprehensive but intensive look at his remarkable oeuvre. The most accessible overview available, this book will be invaluable to students, readers and admirers of Frost.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Life; 2. Contexts; 3. Works; 4. Reception; Guide to further reading.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Walt Whitman
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Cambridge University Press Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Emily Dickinson
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Cambridge University Press Ovids Lovers
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Cambridge University Press Theocritus and the Invention of Fiction
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Cambridge University Press Iliad Book 6
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Cambridge University Press Homer
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Cambridge University Press Meter in Poetry A New Theory
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Cambridge University Press The Poetry of Praise 69 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 69
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Cambridge University Press Poetry and the Romantic Musical Aesthetic
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press Archaic Greek Epigram and Dedication
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Cambridge University Press Greek and Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity
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Cambridge University Press The Afterlife of Shakespeares Sonnets
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Cambridge University Press Discovering Medieval Song
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Cambridge University Press Urban Aesthetics in Early Modern London
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry and Politics since 1900
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry and Politics since 1900
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Cambridge University Press Conversing in Verse
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Cambridge University Press Matter and Making in Early English Poetry
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Cambridge University Press A Mirror for Magistrates
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Cambridge University Press Lyric Humanity from Virgil to Flaubert
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Cambridge University Press Catullan Questions Revisited
Book SynopsisCatullan Questions Revisited offers a new insight into the brilliant poet who loved an aristocratic girl, attacked Julius Caesar and became a satirical playwright. Insisting on scrupulous use of the primary sources, Peter Wiseman combines textual, historical and even archaeological evidence to explode the orthodox view of Catullus'' life and work. ''Lesbia'' was not a woman in her thirties, as has been believed for 150 years, but a girl only recently married; Catullus'' poems were written for performance, private or public, and it was only in 54 BC, at what he saw as the turning-point of his life, that he collected their texts into a sequence of probably seven volumes. His subsequent literary career, equally successful but much less well attested, was as a ''mime''-dramatist. This book is intended for everyone who is interested in poetry and history, and who does not believe that literary texts exist in a vacuum.Table of ContentsPart I: 1. Who was Lesbia?; 2. How many books?; 3. Where was the audience?; 4. What were the long poems?; Part II: 5. How Gallic were the Transpadanes?; 6. Why is Ariadne naked?; 7. Clodia: some imaginary lives.
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Cambridge University Press Coleridge and the Geometric Idiom
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Cambridge University Press Late Romanticism and the End of Politics
Book SynopsisThis study invites researchers of Romantic literature and literary and political culture to consider how this period's imaginings of the end of the world shaped thinking about politics and political change. Its highly original arguments on this current theme will interest students of political thought, affect theory, and ecocriticism.Table of Contents1. The end of politics and the end of the world; 2. The last Whigs; 3. Byron, Brougham, and the end of slavery; 4. 'Crowns in the Dust': the ends of politics in The Last Man; 5. New worlds: Frankenstein, The Island, and the ends of the earth.
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Cambridge University Press China in Twentieth and TwentyFirstCentury African Literature
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Cambridge University Press Greek Poetry in the Age of Ephemerality
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Cambridge University Press Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism
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Cambridge University Press Liturgy Ritual and Secularization in NineteenthCentury British Literature
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Cambridge University Press British Romanticism and the Matter of Voice
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Cambridge University Press Radical Tenderness
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Cambridge University Press About Suffering
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Cambridge University Press Beckett and Leopardi
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Cambridge University Press Antiquity Made Present in Reformation England
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Cambridge University Press The Early Textual History of Lucretius De rerum natura
Book SynopsisThis is the first detailed analysis of the fate of Lucretius'' De rerum natura from its composition in the 50s BC to the creation of our earliest extant manuscripts during the Carolingian Age. Close investigation of the knowledge of Lucretius'' poem among writers throughout the Roman and medieval world allows fresh insight into the work''s readership and reception, and a clear assessment of the indirect tradition''s value for editing the poem. The first extended analysis of the 170+ subject headings (capitula) that intersperse the text reveals the close engagement of its Roman readers. A fresh inspection and assignation of marginal hands in the poem''s most important manuscript (the Oblongus) provides new evidence about the work of Carolingian correctors and offers the basis for a new Lucretian stemma codicum. Further clarification of the interrelationship of Lucretius'' Renaissance manuscripts gives additional evidence of the poem''s reception and circulation in fifteenth-century Italy.Trade Review'The style and the structure of the volume are very clear and the book can be considered a valuable tool …' Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsPreface; Introduction; 1. A sketch of the extant Lucretian manuscripts; 2. The indirect tradition of Lucretius; 3. The capitula of DRN; 4. The correcting hands of O; 5. The marginal annotations of Q1; Conclusion; Appendix 1. Capitula Lucretiana; Appendix 2. Apparatus fontium Lucreti (ante a.d. millesimum); Appendix 3. The corrections and annotations of O; Appendix 4. The foliation of the Lucretian archetype; Appendix 5. The fate of OQS in the early modern period.
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Cambridge University Press A History of Modernist Poetry
Book SynopsisA History of Modernist Poetry examines innovative anglophone poetries from decadence to the post-war period. It also addresses the impact of both World Wars on experimental poetries and the crucial role of magazines in disseminating and proselytizing on behalf of poetic modernism.Trade Review'… a readable, engaging and infectious introduction to the world of Modernist poetry.' Ian Brinton, Tears in the FenceTable of Contents1. Form in modernist poetry Fiona Green; 2. Myths and texts Michael Bell; 3. Politics and modernist poetry Michael Tratner; 4. Modernist poetry, sexuality, and gender Georgia Johnston; 5. Modernist poetry and race Timothy Yu; 6. Modernist magazines Paige Reynolds; 7. Modernism and decadence Vincent Sherry; 8. Edwardianism, Georgianism, Imagism, and Vorticism Helen Carr; 9. Early Eliot, Pound, and H. D. Miranda Hickman; 10. Yeats, modernism, and the Irish revival Gregory Castle; 11. The First World War and modernist poetry Andrew Palmer and Sally Minogue; 12. Gertrude Stein Charles Bernstein; 13. Mina Loy Sara Crangle; 14. Pound and Eliot: the years of l'entre deux guerres Alex Davis and Lee M. Jenkins; 15. American poetry in the 1910s and '20s: Stevens, Moore, Williams, and others Bart Eeckhout and Glen MacLeod; 16. American modernism from the 1930s to the '50s: Williams and Stevens to Black Mountain and the Beats Stephen Matterson; 17. African American modernism Mark Whalan; 18. Objectivist poets Mark Scroggins; 19. Later Eliot and Pound Jason Harding; 20. War modernism, 1918–45 Adam Piette; 21. Modernist peripheries: stony limits Eric Falci; 22. Postcolonial modernisms Jahan Ramazani; 23. Modernism after modernism Anthony Mellors.
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Cambridge University Press John Donne and Baroque Allegory
Book SynopsisJohn Donne has been one of the most controversial poets in the history of English literature, his complexity and intellectualism provoking both praise and censure. In this major re-assessment of Donne''s poetry, Hugh Grady argues that his work can be newly appreciated in our own era through Walter Benjamin''s theory of baroque allegory. Providing close readings of The Anniversaries, The Songs and Sonnets, and selected other lyrics, this study reveals Donne as being immersed in the aesthetic of fragmentation that define both the baroque and the postmodernist aesthetics of today. Synthesizing cultural criticism and formalist analysis, Grady illuminates Donne afresh as a great poet for our own historical moment.Trade Review'Grady carefully rehearses the critical transition from the modernist to the postmodernist Donne, which he describes as essentially the transition from aesthetic unity to fragmentation. He also reviews all or most previous attempts to situate Donne's poetics in the perspective of baroque art, which leads to a fairly exhaustive review of major critics from T. S. Eliot, I. A. Richards, and Cleanth Brooks through Anthony Mazzeo, Mario Praz, and Louis Martz.' Catherine Gimelli Martin, Modern Philology'[John Donne and Baroque Allegory] offers a number of new perspectives, introducing, for example, a series of early modern and more contemporary European voices to Donne studies … As such, this is a book which will no doubt play an important role in inspiring future creative interventions in Donne studies.' Emma Rhatigan, Modern Language ReviewTable of Contents1. Walter Benjamin and John Donne: constellations of past and present; 2. The Anniversaries as baroque allegory: mourning, idealization, and the resistance to unity; 3. Donne's The Songs and Sonnets: living in a fragmented world; 4. Allegorical objects and metaphysical conceits: thinking about Donne's tropes with Benjamin; 5. The metaphysics of correspondence or a fragmented world? Baroque poetics in the seventeenth century; 6. Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Poems Volume 1
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1905 as part of the Cambridge English Classics series, this three-volume collection presents the poems of George Crabbe (1754â1832). Volume One contains mostly juvenilia, as well as notes on the text and variants of certain lines drawn from the many editions of Crabbe's works. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Crabbe's poetry and his earlier works.Table of Contents1. Juvenilia; 2. Inebriety; 3. Juvenilia; 4. Midnight; 5. Juvenilia; 6. The candidate; 7. The library; 8. The village; 9. The newspaper; 10. The parish register; 11. The birth of flattery; 12. Reflections; 13. Sir Eustace Grey; 14. The hall of justice; 15. Woman!; 16. The borough.
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Cambridge University Press Christina Rossetti
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1931, this book provides a concise discussion regarding the life and works of Christina Rossetti. The text also contains a section positioning Rossetti within the context of her time. Numerous quotations from the works, both in prose and poetry, are incorporated throughout.Table of ContentsAuthor's note; A foreword; 1. Her life; 2. Her poems; 3. Her prose; 4. Christina Rossetti in the pattern of her time.
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Cambridge University Press Miltons Visual Imagination
Book SynopsisCritics have traditionally found fault with the descriptions and images in John Milton''s poetry and thought of him as an author who wrote for the ear more than the eye. In Milton''s Visual Imagination, Stephen B. Dobranski proposes that, on the contrary, Milton enriches his biblical source text with acute and sometimes astonishing visual details. He contends that Milton''s imagery - traditionally disparaged by critics - advances the epic''s narrative while expressing the author''s heterodox beliefs. In particular, Milton exploits the meaning of objects and gestures to overcome the inherent difficulty of his subject and to accommodate seventeenth-century readers. Bringing together Milton''s material philosophy with an analysis of both his poetic tradition and cultural circumstances, this book is a major contribution to our understanding of early modern visual culture as well as of Milton''s epic.Trade Review'Dobranski finds Milton to have drawn much more on the material, visible, workaday world around him, for the conveyance of those impossible descriptions, than has been recognized until now.' Roberta Klimt, The Times Literary Supplement'Despite Dobranski's erudition and engagement with previous criticism, his prose is always lucid.' B. E. Brandt, Choice'Readers will welcome Dobranski's careful readings and explanations of the images and their functions as well as his inclusion of many clearly reproduced illustrations. Milton scholars will appreciate his ongoing engagement with the critical history and present state of his subject. The book itself is notably readable. Dobranski explains many difficult points with admirable clarity. Thus, this study deserves and should find a wide audience of scholars and students.' Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler, Renaissance Quarterly'Stephen B. Dobranski's splendid Milton's Visual Imagination: Imagery in 'Paradise Lost' draws upon the materialist turn in early modern studies, and specifically the vitalist turn in Milton studies, to confute an accusation prevalent since the days of Samuel Johnson: that Paradise Lost's visual imagery is impoverished. Dobranski's purpose, however, is not simply to demonstrate that Milton's imagery is vivid. Rather, he explicates the theological, cultural, and poetic import of the nature of visual imagery in Paradise Lost's Heaven, Hell, and Eden.' Katherine Eggert, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900'Milton's Visual Imagination has the strengths that we have come to expect from Stephen Dobranski's writing: sensitive close readings, careful research, and a staunch return to issues left unresolved or insufficiently considered by Milton scholars … The value of Milton's Visual Imagination lies in its eloquent, subtle demonstration of how images work in Milton's poem.' Karen L. Edwards, Modern Philology'It is full of vividly presented material things that often cast direct or associative light on Paradise Lost. Dobranski always astutely positions his own claims in relation to those made by others... an extremely illuminating and thought-provoking book.' Colin Burrow, Milton QuarterlyTable of Contents1. Introduction: of things invisible; 2. Free will and God's scales; 3. Heaven's gates; 4. Pondering Satan's shield; 5. What do bad angels look like?; 6. Transported touch; 7. Clustering and curling locks; 8. Images of the future and the son.
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Cambridge University Press Lucretian Receptions
Book SynopsisLucretius' 'De rerum natura' exercised a major influence on the leading poets of Augustan Rome, Virgil and Horace, and created an important model for later poets. This book makes significant claims for the reception of Lucretius' scientific poem, considering the themes of history and time, the sublime and knowledge.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Time, History, Culture: 1. Cultural and historical narratives in Virgil's Eclogues and Lucretius; 2. Virgilian and Horatian didactic: freedom and innovation; Part II. Sublime Visions: 3. Virgil's Fama and the Lucretian and Ennian sublime; 4. The Speech of Pythagoras in Ovid Metamorphoses 15: Empedoclean epos; 5. Lucretian visions in Virgil; 6. Horace's sublime yearnings; Lucretian ironies; Part III. Certainties and Uncertainties: 7. Lucretian multiple explanations and their reception in Latin didactic and epic; 8. The presence of Lucretius in Paradise Lost.
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Cambridge University Press Virgils Ascanius
Book SynopsisAscanius is the most prominent child hero in Virgil''s Aeneid. He accompanies his father from Troy to Italy and is present from the first book of the epic to the last; he is destined to found the city of Alba Longa and the Julian family to which Caesar and Augustus both belonged; and he hunts, fights, makes speeches, and even makes a joke. In this first book-length study of Virgil''s Ascanius, Anne Rogerson demonstrates the importance of this character not just to the Augustan family tree but to the texture and the meaning of the Aeneid. As a figure of prophecy and a symbol both of hopes for the future and of present uncertainties, Ascanius is a fusion of epic and dynastic desires. Compelling close readings of the representation and reception of this understudied character throughout the Aeneid expose the unexpectedly childish qualities of Virgil''s heroic epic.Trade Review'This fine and stimulating book discusses multivalent and slippery prophecies, significant names and their etymologies, and especially the importance of variant and inconsistent versions of myth.' James J. O'Hara, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The heir and the spare; 3. Old names and new; 4. Andromache and Dido; 5. Trojan games; 6. Trojan fire; 7. Protecting Ascanius; 8. Growing up; 9. Relegating Ascanius; 10. Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press de Bello Civili I
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1955, this book contains the Latin text of the first book of Lucan's Pharsalia or De bello civili. It also provides a biography of Lucan, an assessment of his ostensibly hero-less epic, and the historical sources informing the narrative, as well as explanatory notes on the text and a critical apparatus.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Text; Explanatory notes; Critical apparatus; Appendix A. SIDVS, SIDERA; Appendix B. Vv. 74–7; Appendix C. V. 313; Appendix D. Vv. 444–6; Index.
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