Literary studies: poetry and poets Books
Cambridge University Press APOLLONIUS OF RHODES Cambridge Greek and Latin
Book SynopsisApollonius'' epic, the Argonautica, is not just a masterpiece of Hellenistic poetry drawing on the entire tradition of previous Greek literature, but was enormously influential on Latin epic, especially Virgil''s Aeneid. Book IV tells the story of the Argonauts'' return to Greece with the Golden Fleece, their nightmarish trips through the uncharted rivers of central Europe and the desert wastes of North Africa, the terrible killing of Medea''s brother, and the anguish of the young girl which foreshadows her bloody future. This is the first modern commentary in English. Problems of syntax and language are fully explained, and there is a sophisticated discussion of the poem as literature. It will be useful for advanced undergraduates and graduate students studying Greek poetry, as well as of interest to scholars.Trade Review'With … Hunter's Argonautica IV, Anglophone scholars of Alexandrian literature have been superbly served at the highest level of scholarship …' Colin Leach, Classics for AllTable of ContentsIntroduction; Text; Commentary.
£26.99
Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Alchemy and the Creative Imagination The Sonnets and a Lovers Complaint
Book SynopsisShakespeare's sonnets and A Lover's Complaint constitute a rich tapestry of rhetorical play about Renaissance love in all its guises. A significant strand of this spiritual alchemy is working the 'metal' of the mind through meditation on love, memory work and intense imagination. Healy demonstrates how this process of anguished soul work - construed as essential to inspired poetic making - is woven into these poems, accounting for their most enigmatic imagery and urgency of tone. The esoteric philosophy of late Renaissance Neoplatonic alchemy, which embraced bawdy sexual symbolism and was highly fashionable in European intellectual circles, facilitated Shakespeare's poetry. Arguing that Shakespeare's incorporation of alchemical textures throughout his late works is indicative of an artistic stance promoting religious toleration and unity, this book sets out a crucial new framework for interpreting the 1609 poems and transforms our understanding of Shakespeare's art.Trade Review"Healy displaysconsiderable erudition in a broad array of topics, including Neoplatonism, esoteric, as well as practical alchemy, theological allegory, and much of the critical tradition of interpreting these poems." -Katherine Eggert,University of Colorado"...treats Shakespeare's poetry as an allegory of the alchemical processes of soul making." --Recent Studies in the English RenaissanceTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Alchemical contexts; 2. Lovely boy; 3. The Dark Mistress and the art of blackness; 4. A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare; 5. Inner looking, alchemy and the creative imagination; 6. Conclusion: Shakespeare's poetics of love and religious toleration.
£37.99
Cambridge University Press The Havamal
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1923, this volume provides the entire text of the Hávamál in the original Old Norse, together with a facing page English translation. A long introduction and generous notes are also provided, together with extracts from three other poems which serve to complement the main text.Table of ContentsPart I. Introduction: 1. The poetry of the Edda; 2. The Hávamál; 3. The Sigdrífumal, Reginsmál, and Grógaldr; 4. The gnomic material of the Edda; 5. The mythical material of the Hávamál; 6. Spell songs in the Edda; Part II. Text and Translation: 7. The Hávamál; 8. The Sigdrífumal; 9. The Reginsmál; 10. The Grógaldr; Notes.
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Cambridge University Press Titi Lucreti Cari de Rerum Natura Libri Sex Volume 2
Book SynopsisMunro's two-volume edition of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, published in Cambridge in 1864, was an important contribution to nineteenth-century classical scholarship. Volume 2 contains Munro's notes and index.Table of ContentsDedication; Notes on the text; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Pindar Olympian and Pythian Odes
Book SynopsisThis influential edition of Pindar by the American classicist Basil L. Gildersleeve (18311924) contains a brilliant and accessible introduction that outlines the poet's life and work. The odes themselves appear in the original Greek and are accompanied by extensive notes explaining their content and grammatical structures.Table of ContentsPreface; Introductory essay; The Olympian odes; The Pythian odes; Notes; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Works of Sir William Jones With The Life Of The Author By Lord Teignmouth Volume 8 Cambridge Library Collection Perspectives from the Royal Asiatic Society
Book SynopsisA renowned Enlightenment polymath, Sir William Jones (1746â94) was a lawyer, translator and poet who wrote authoritatively on politics, comparative linguistics and oriental literature. Known initially for his Persian translations and political radicalism, Jones became further celebrated for his study and translation of ancient Sanskrit texts following his appointment to the supreme court in Calcutta in 1783. He spent the next eleven years introducing Europe to the mysticism and rationality of Hinduism through works such as his nine 'Hymns' to Hindu deities and his translation of the Sanskrit classic SacontalÃ. Volume 8 of his thirteen-volume works, published in 1807, contains more of Jones' legal work, including his pre-India tracts on Islamic laws of succession and inheritance - culturally comparative works debunking prejudiced claims that Islamic cultures denied private property. Also included is his formative 'Essay on the Law of Bailments' (1781), a work still cited in some legal cTable of Contents9. On judicature (cont.); 10. On the mixed classes, and on times of distress; 11. On penance and expiation; 12. On transmigration and final beatitude; General note; Letter to the Right Honourable Henry Dundas; The mahomedan law of succession to property of intestates; Al Sirajiyyah, or the mohammedan law of inheritance; An essay on the law of bailments; An inquiry into the legal mode of suppressing riots; Speech on 28th May, 18782; Letter to * * *; The Principles of Government; Character of Lord Ashburton.
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Cambridge University Press The Works of Thomas Chatterton
Book SynopsisThomas Chatterton (175270), Wordsworth's 'marvellous boy', died aged only seventeen, but his legacy influenced the Romantics for decades. First published in 1803, this three-volume collection brings together his works. Volume 1 includes his earliest poetry, alongside George Gregory's biographical account (also reissued separately in this series).Table of ContentsPreface; List of subscribers; The life of Thomas Chatterton; Miscellaneous poems.
£41.79
Cambridge University Press The Works of Thomas Chatterton
Book SynopsisThomas Chatterton (175270), Wordsworth's 'marvellous boy', died aged only seventeen, but his legacy influenced the Romantics for decades. First published in 1803, this three-volume collection brings together his works. Volume 2 is devoted to the expertly forged Rowley poems, Chatterton's crowning achievement.Table of ContentsPoems attributed to Rowley; Account of the family of the de Bergham; Description of Chatterton's arms; Glossary.
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Cambridge University Press The Works of Thomas Chatterton
Book SynopsisThomas Chatterton (175270), Wordsworth's 'marvellous boy', died aged only seventeen, but his legacy influenced the Romantics for decades. First published in 1803, this three-volume collection brings together his works. Volume 3 includes Chatterton's will, a selection of his letters, and epistolary debates about his poems.Table of ContentsMiscellaneous pieces; Chatterton's letters; Chatterton's will; List of Chatterton's friends; Account of Rowley's MSS; List of books relating to Chatterton.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Dantes Commedia
Book SynopsisThis newly commissioned volume presents a focused overview of Dante''s masterpiece, the Commedia, offering readers of today wide-ranging insights into the poem and its core features. Leading scholars discuss matters of structure, narrative, language and style, characterization, doctrine, and politics, in chapters that make their own contributions to Dante criticism by raising problems and questions that call for renewed attention, while investigating contextual concerns as well as the current state of criticism about the poem. The Commedia is also placed in a variety of cultural and historical contexts through accounts of the poem''s transmission and reception that explore both its contemporary influence and its continuing legacy today. With its accessible approach, its unstinting focus on the poem and its attention to matters that have not always received adequate critical assessment, this volume will be of value to all students and scholars of Dante''s great poem.Table of ContentsIntroduction Zygmunt G. Barański and Simon Gilson; 1. Narrative structure Lino Pertile; 2. Dante Alighieri, Dante-poet, Dante-character Giuseppe Ledda; 3. Characterization Laurence E. Hooper; 4. Moral structure George Corbett; 5. Title, genre, metaliterary aspects Theodore J. Cachey, Jr; 6. Language and style Mirko Tavoni; 7. Allegories of the corpus James C. Kriesel; 8. Classical culture Simone Marchesi; 9. Vernacular literature and culture Tristan Kay; 10. Religious culture Paola Nasti; 11. Doctrine Simon Gilson; 12. Politics Claire E. Honess; 13. Genesis, dating, and Dante's 'other works' Zygmunt G. Barański; 14. Transmission history Prue Shaw; 15. Early reception until 1481 Anna Pegoretti; 16. Later reception from 1481 to the present Fabio Camilletti.
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Cambridge University Press New Essays on John Clare
Book SynopsisJohn Clare (17931864), one of England's most important early chroniclers of nature and environmental change, was keenly interested in natural history, folk culture, balladry and the literary tradition. This collection assesses Clare's work from many different angles analysing his engagements with religion, ecology, 'green' politics, class prejudice and working-class culture.Trade Review'This fine collection of essays exemplifies, as the editors' note in their introduction, the 'striking variety' of Clare's writings and the 'interpretive capaciousness' of this fertile moment in Clare scholarship … Ranging widely from Clare's engagement with eighteenth-century verse to his reception in the years following his death, the contributors shed new light on some of his most characteristic forms and themes and on his complex place in the literary and political cultures of his day … ground-breaking and important not only for Clare scholarship but also for the study of nineteenth-century literature.' Stephanie Kuduk Weiner, Modern Philology'New Essays on John Clare marks a fresh departure in John Clare studies, and it will prove rewarding to Clare specialists and to generalist readers who seek to understand Clare's place in the broader historical development of literary culture in the Romantic and Victorian periods.' Jim McKusick, The Wordsworth Circle'New Essays on John Clare serves as a new landmark collection that articulates the wonderfully diverse avenues for rereading Clare as a full participant in the nineteenth-century intellectual milieu of literature, art, and politics.' Katey Castellano, Romanticism Journal'Simon Kövesi's and Scott McEathron's collection represents an engaging and timely contribution to Clare studies, one most rewarding for the way it testifies to Clare's 'ongoing status as an uncategorizable literary and social misfit'.' Daniel Westwood, The Keats-Shelley ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction Simon Kövesi and Scott McEathron; Part I. Poetry: 1. John Clare's colours Fiona Stafford; 2. John Clare, William Cowper and the eighteenth century Adam Rounce; 3. John Clare's conspiracy Sarah M. Zimmerman; Part II. Culture: 4. John Clare and the new varieties of enclosure: a polemic John Burnside; 5. Ecology with religion: kinship in John Clare Emma Mason; 6. The lives of Frederick Martin and the first Life of John Clare Scott McEathron; 7. John Clare's deaths: poverty, education, and poetry Simon Kövesi; Part III. Community: 8. John Clare's natural history Robert Heyes; 9. 'This is radical slang': John Clare, Admiral Lord John Radstock and the Queen Caroline affair Sam Ward; 10. John Clare and the London Magazine Richard Cronin.
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Cambridge University Press Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature
Book SynopsisWorking from the example of the mythic prophet Cassandra, this book uses insights from translation theory to uncover the value of female seers' riddling prophecies in the most canonical of ancient Greek and Latin poetry. It will interest students and scholars of classics, translation studies, gender studies, and comparative literature.Trade Review'… an exceptionally detailed and minutely researched text which explores how the figure of Cassandra is used to effect within the texts it examines … Yet the argument of the study remains clear throughout and will encourage its reader to re-examine all that they know of Cassandra, seeking out texts with which they are unfamiliar; a successful result for any academic study.' Anactoria Clarke, Classics For All'… this rich monograph provides a multifaceted view of Cassandra from Aeschylus to Seneca that stresses again and again Cassandra's own polyvalence as a figure of translation.' Christopher Trinacty, Classical PhilologyTable of ContentsIntroduction: translating Cassandra; 1. Understanding too much: Aeschylus' Agamemnon; 2. Rewriting her-story: Euripides' Trojan Women; 3. A scholarly prophet: Lycophron's Alexandra; 4. Greco-Roman Sibylline scripts: Virgil's Aeneid; 5. Cassandra translated: Seneca's Agamemnon; Conclusion: transposing Cassandra.
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Cambridge University Press Romanticism 100 Poems
Book Synopsis''Romanticism'', though a debated term, is broadly understood as a cultural movement which gripped the European imagination in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Embodying a poetics of feeling intersecting with nature and the notion of the sublime, its experiential aesthetics were furthermore bound up with ideas of personal and political rebellion. Michael Ferber''s lively anthology includes lesser-known verse from the best-known poets, as well as a few fine poems by little-known poets. Perfect for readers who would like to enjoy the many riches of arguably poetry''s greatest era, or for those already familiar with the poets but who would welcome some happy surprises, this varied international selection includes verse translated from six languages, with several poems appearing in the original language alongside its translation. This engaging selection features concise, informative headnotes and a helpful introduction that charts a course to understanding the Romantic mTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Charlotte Smith; 2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; 3. William Blake; 4.Robert Burns; 5. Friedrich Schiller ; 6. Helen Maria Williams; 6. André Chénier; 7. Friedrich Hölderlin; 7. Sophie Mereau; 8. William Wordsworth; 9. Sir Walter Scott; 10. Friedrich Schlegel; 11. Samuel Taylor Coleridge; 12. Robert Southey; 13. Ugo Foscolo; 14. Clemens Brentano; 15. Thomas Moore; 16. Karoline von Günderode; 17. Leigh Hunt; 18. Marceline Desbordes-Valmore; 19. Joseph Freiherr on Eichendorff; 20. Lord Byron; 21. Susan Evance; 22. Alphonse de Lamartine; 23. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822; 24. John Clare; 25. Felicia Dorothea Hemans; 26. William Cullen Bryant; 27. John Keats; 28. Annette von Droste-Hülshoff; 29. Alfred de Vigny; 30. Heinrich Heine; 31. Giacomo Leopardi; 32. Anton Delvig; 33. Amable Tastu; 34. Adam Mickiewicz; 35. Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin; 36. Victor Hugo; 37. Letitia Elizabeth Landon; 38. Alexander Odoevsky; 39. Ralph Waldo Emerson; 40. Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve; 41. Elizabeth Barrett Browning; 42. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; 43. Gérard de Nerval; 44. Edgar Allen Poe; 45. Alfred de Musset; 46. Théophile Gautier; 47. Mikhail Lermontov; 48. Emily Brontë; 49. Walt Whitman; 50. Emily Dickinson; 51. Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer; 52. William Butler Yeats.
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Cambridge University Press Apollonius Rhodius Herodotus and Historiography
Book SynopsisExamines the relationship of Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica with Herodotus' Histories. Argues that it uses Herodotean historiography as a key intertext in order to manipulate the reader's generic expectations for an epic poem and to complicate the relationship between the contemporary Hellenistic Mediterranean and the distant mythological past.Trade Review'An excellent resource for those engaged in advanced study of classics.' S. M. Burstein, Choice'… this is a valuable contribution to the study of Herodotus and Apollonius and the ways that historiography in general and Herodotus in particular can influence epic.' Laura Marshall, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Receiving Herodotus; 3. Creating authorities; 4. Explaining the past; 5. Telling stories; 6. Greeks and non-Greeks; 7. Kings and leaders; 8. Conclusions and consequences.
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Cambridge University Press Horace Odes Book III
Book SynopsisBook 3 of the Odes completes the lyric trilogy which Horace, who rivals Virgil as the greatest of all Latin poets, published in 23 BC. Arguably his most famous book, it opens with the six so-called ''Roman Odes'', those defining texts of the Augustan Age, and concludes with the statement of his achievement: he has produced for his Roman readers a body of lyric poetry to rival the great lyric poets of Greece, a monument which will last as long as Rome itself. The present volume aims to place Horace''s Odes in their literary and historical context, to explain his Latin, to articulate his thought, and to attempt to elucidate his brilliance. It presents a new text and adopts an approach independent of that of earlier commentators.Trade Review'W. brings the ancient text to new life on every page and provokes insight into (and admiration for) this 'exceptional and much loved author' even when the reader may disagree with the commentator. This book proves (if proof were needed) that a lifetime reading Horace is indeed a lifetime very well spent.' John Godwin, Classics for AllTable of ContentsPreface; Abbreviations and references; Introduction: Politics and poetry; Book 3; Vocabulary; Models and metres; 'Artiste de sons'; Scholarship; The text; Q. HORATI FLACCI CARMINVM LIBER III; Commentary; Select bibliography; Indexes: General; Latin words.
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Cambridge University Press EighteenthCentury Illustration and Literary Material Culture
This Element focuses on the 'content' of illustrations and its adaptation within the framework of a new medium; case studies examine the use across different media of illustrations of three eighteenth-century works. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Cambridge University Press Pastoral
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1942, this book contains four poems on the different seasons by James Turner. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in English poetry and the works of Turner.Table of ContentsSummer; Autumn; Winter; Spring.
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Cambridge University Press Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Poetry of Religious Experience
Book SynopsisThis nuanced yet accessible study is the first to examine the range of religious experience imagined in Hopkins' writing. By exploring the shifting way in which Hopkins imagines religious belief in individual history, Martin Dubois contests established views of his poetry as a unified project.Trade Review'Diverse, generous, flexible, contingent. After reading this book, I believe these words best express both the version of Hopkins it offers and the nature of its author's unique critical approach … Along with his excellent argumentation and thorough grounding in biographical research and religious history, Dubois displays an intimate knowledge of the poems and a fine ear for their idiosyncrasies.' Summer J. Star, Review 19'Dubois's study is a rigorous and scholarly investigation which highlights the close dependence of Hopkins's work on elements of contemporary Catholic religious practice.' Joseph Phelan, The Times Literary Supplement'Martin Dubois' brilliantly simple project in Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Poetry of Religious Experience is to restore this recognition of the essential variety or 'mixed insight' of Hopkins' thought to our understanding of his theological and spiritual awareness … Dubois demonstrates how these various contexts of religious experience were further variegated by a number of persistent cross-pressures in Hopkins' theological thinking, charting them along a number of axes … [A] compelling account of the varieties of religious experience in Hopkins' verse …' A. J. Nickerson, The Cambridge Quarterly'The approach is flexible, skilful, believable, and helpful … Dubois' acute appreciation of the rhythm and music of Hopkins' lines as the patterns of sound shift and create different effects is an additional pleasure in experiencing these poems … It is a pleasure to read a scholarly work that is so in harmony with its subject, not bogged down in theory but adept at offering balanced readings and giving a host of other interpretations an opportunity to be heard.' James Finn Cotter, Hopkins Quarterly'[A] fine, detailed, and extremely thoughtful study.' Adrian Grafe, Victorian Poetry'Through close readings of poems like 'The Wreck of the Deutschland', 'Spelt from Sybil's Leaves' and 'That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection', and with a keen ear for prosody capable of handling the linguistic daring of Hopkins, Dubois insightfully unpacks the theological narrowness of Hopkins's notion of a final judgement and its contrast with the beauty and dignity of natural and human life that his best-loved poems celebrate.' Sean Sheehan, Dublin Review of Books'Although his aim is to illuminate complexity, Dubois argues his claims with admirable clarity. … [Dubois] invites Hopkins scholars to understand the man's work more inclusively and with a more attentive eye to the 'spiritual as well as … linguistic importance' of his poetic choices. It is a compelling invitation.' Sarah Weaver, Victoriographies'Throughout the book, the fluency and depth of Dubois's readings impress, steeped as they are in painstaking research and close readings of lapidary detail. The precision and particularity of Dubois's attention echo those of the poems themselves and fittingly unveil the 'piedness' of Hopkins's poetic vision. … [Dubois] demonstrates most profoundly the density and intricacy inherent in Hopkins's religious works.' Amanda Paxton, Modern Language Review'… a clear-sighted and necessary study … It brings forward and gives due consideration to unjustly neglected and occasionally maligned texts, as well as mobilizes insightful new readings of the canonical poetry … This poised and unconstraining study of Hopkins's religious experience, of 'the miscellaneousness of his lived experience,' offers a strong fillip for Hopkins studies, a standard and stimulus for further scholarship.' Daniel Brown, Victorian Studies'… deeply scholarly and at the same time absorbingly readable …' Jean Ward, The Heythrop JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Forms of Devotion: 1. Bibles; 2. Prayer; Part II. Models of Faith: 3. The soldier; 4. The martyr; Part III. Last Things: 5. Death and judgement; 6. Heaven and hell.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to The Canterbury Tales
Book SynopsisChaucer''s best-known poem, The Canterbury Tales, is justly celebrated for its richness and variety, both literary - the Tales include fabliaux, romances, sermons, hagiographies, fantasies, satires, treatises, fables and exempla - and thematic, with its explorations of courtly love and scatology, piety and impiety, chivalry and pacifism, fidelity and adultery. Students new to Chaucer will find in this Companion a lively introduction to the poem''s diversity, depth, and wonder. Readers returning to the Tales will appreciate the chapters'' fresh engagement with the individual tales and their often complicated critical histories, inflected in recent decades by critical approaches attentive to issues of gender, sexuality, class, and language.Trade Review'This essay collection lives up to its aim, as stated in the back matter: to 'deliver an accessible introduction to the variety, depth, and wonder of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.' Grady (Univ. of Missouri, St. Louis) emphasizes the volume's utility not just for students but also for faculty assigned to teach Chaucer and for the general reading public.' D. W. Hayes, Choice'… this collection is a welcome addition to the field of Chaucer studies that will provide its intended readers with a plethora of approaches, questions, and suggestions to refresh their reading of this venerated author.' Josephine A. Koster, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval StudiesTable of ContentsList of illustrations; List of contributors; Preface; Note on the text; Chronology; List of abbreviations; 1. The form of the Canterbury tales Marion Turner; 2. Manuscripts, scribes, circulation Simon Horobin; 3. The general prologue Steven Justice; 4. The knight's tale and the estrangements of form Mark Miller; 5. The miller's tale and the art of solaas Maura Nolan; 6. The man of law's tale Catherine Sanok; 7. The wife of bath's prologue and tale Elizabeth Scala; 8. The friar's tale and the summoner's tale in word and deed David K. Coley; 9. Griselda and the problem of the human in the clerk's tale Holly A. Crocker; 10. The franklin's symptomatic sursanure Peter W. Travis; 11. The pardoner and his tale Kathy Lavezzo; 12. The prioress's tale Steven F. Kruger; 13. The nun's priest's tale Mishtooni Bose; 14. Moral Chaucer Frank Grady; 15. Chaucer's sense of an ending Patricia Clare Ingham and Anthony Bale; 16. Postscript: How to talk about Chaucer with your friends and colleagues; Reading Chaucer: Easier than you think? David Matthews; Scholarship or distraction? new forums for talking about Chaucer Ruth Evans; Talking about Chaucer with school teachers David Raybin; Who will pay? Stephanie Trig; Further reading, Index.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 1
Book Synopsis“The Letters of Sylvia Plath underscores Plath’s jaw-dropping output, her rapid growth from merely talented to singular voice. . . . The result is a comprehensive portrait of the artist as a young woman, ardently — unnervingly — committed to literature and relationships.” —Hamilton Cain, Minneapolis Star-TribuneThe first volume in the definitive, complete collection of the letters of Sylvia Plath—most never before seen.One of the most beloved poets of the modern age, Sylvia Plath continues to inspire and fascinate the literary world. While her renown as one of the twentieth century’s most influential poets is beyond dispute, Plath was also one of its most captivating correspondents. The Letters of Sylvia Plath is the breathtaking compendium of this prolific writer’s correspondence with more than 120 people, including family, friends, contemporaries, and colleagues.The Letters of Sylvia Plath includes her correspondence from her years at Smith, her summer editorial internship in New York City, her time at Cambridge, her experiences touring Europe, and the early days of her marriage to Ted Hughes in 1956.Most of the letters are previously unseen, including sixteen letters written by Plath to Hughes when they were apart after their honeymoon. This magnificent compendium also includes twenty-seven of Plath’s own elegant line drawings taken from the letters she sent to her friends and family, as well as twenty-two previously unpublished photographs.This remarkable, collected edition of Plath’s letters is a work of immense scholarship and care, presenting a comprehensive and historically accurate text of the known and extant letters that she wrote. Intimate and revealing, this masterful compilation offers fans and scholars generous and unprecedented insight into the life of one of our most significant poets.
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Penguin Books Ltd Decadent Poetry from Wilde to Naidu
Book SynopsisThe poems collected in this volume are exquisite and languorous expressions of a spirit of self-indulgence, eroticism and moral rebelliousness that emerged in the late Victorian age. They deal with eternal themes of transition, artifice and, above all, the cruel ravages of time - often depicting flowers, with their heady, perfumed beauty, as the embodiment of decay and desire. Decadent Poetry brings together the works of many fascinating writers - Oscar Wilde on tainted love and the torments of the human spirit, Arthur Symons on an absinthe-induced stupor and the mysteries of the night, Rosamund Marriott Watson on disenchantment and memory, W. B. Yeats on waning passion and faded beauty, Ernest Dowson on lust and despair and Lord Alfred Douglas on shame and secret love, among many others of this exhilarating poetic movement.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Pengui
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Penguin Putnam Inc Leaves of Grass 1855 Penguin Classics Deluxe
Book SynopsisContains twelve free-flowing, untitled poems which embrace almost every realm of experience.Trade Review"Whitman's best poems have that permanent quality of being freshly painted, of not being dulled by the varnish of the years."--Malcolm Cowley
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Penguin Books Ltd Civil War Penguin Classics
Book SynopsisA magnificent new translation of the enduring epic about the sundering of the Roman Republic.Lucan lived from 39-65 AD at a time of great turbulence in Rome. His Civil War portrays two of the most colorful and powerful figures of the age-Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great, enemies in a vicious struggle for power that severed bloodlines and began the transformation of Roman civilization. With Right locked in combat with Might, law and order broke down and the anarchic violence that resulted left its mark on the Roman people forever, paving the way for the imperial monarchy. Accessible and modern yet loyal to the rhetorical brilliance of the original, this will be the definitive Civil War of our times.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history Trade Review“Matthew Fox’s new translation of Lucan’s poem, together with the introduction, notes, and glossary he co-authored with Ethan Adams, is most welcome. His translation gives us a new look at the poem, and the ancillary materials provide a general audience with necessary social, historical, and literary information…readers will find Fox’s spirited, fastpaced rendering a pleasure.” — Jane Wilson Joyce, The New Republic"I was deeply impressed. It is not just another translation: it has a special intensity and vibe, and I am recommending it to whoever teaches Lucan and also to people interested in contemporary translations of poetry. The quality of the footnotes and summaries is also noteworthy." — Professor Alessandro Barchiesi, Stanford Universityof Si"I teach this poem as part of an MA seminar course on the epic tradition, and I was most impressed at its suitability for students. The translation is fluent and readable, yet still manages to convey something of the violent and jagged nature of Lucan's epic style. The excerpt from Petronius included as an appendix will be especially valuable in situating the poet in his literary context. I look forward to assigning this translation as a core text for many years to come." — Dr. Martin Brady at University College Dublin, School of Classics"I think it is a fantastic translation---really a scholarly commentary and literary interpretation as much as a translation. I shall be very lucky to consult it in future classes and for my research! Thanks again for sending it. The authors have definitely done a remarkable job and it will surely become the standard translation of this difficult poem." — Leah Kronenberg, Rutgers University
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Oxford University Press Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry Volume 2
Book SynopsisAnthology of Contemporary American Poetry contains poems by over 115 American poets, including many who have not been anthologized before. This collection is the first to review the twentieth century comprehensively, and is the first anthology to give full treatment to American long poems and poem sequences.Trade ReviewThe Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry is an impressive collection, ranging in style - from traditional to experimental-and in content-from private to public concerns. It provides poetic sustenance for a variety of student hungers. * Rhonda Pettit, University of Cincinnati *Table of ContentsTopical Table of Contents ; Preface ; Acknowledgements ; MARY CORNELIA HARTSHORNE (c. 1910-) ; --Fallen Leaves ; --Hills of Doon ; --Wind in Mexico ; CHARLES HENRI FORD (1910-2002) ; --Plaint ; --Flag of Ecstasy ; --Pastoral for Pavlik ; CHARLES OLSON (1910-1970) ; --Variations Done for Gerald Van De Wiele ; --Maximus, to himself ; --Cole's Island ; ELIZABETH BISHOP (1911-1979) ; --The Fish ; --The Man-Moth ; --At the Fishhouses ; --Filling Station ; --Questions of Travel ; --The Armadillo ; --In the Waiting Room ; --Pink Dog ; --Crusoe in England ; --One Art ; WILLIAM EVERSON (1912-1994) ; --The Making of the Cross ; --A Canticle to the Waterbirds ; TILLIE LERNER OLSEN (1912-2007) ; --I Want You Women Up North To Know ; ROBERT HAYDEN (1913-1980) ; --Middle Passage ; --Runagate Runagate ; --A Letter from Phillis Wheatley ; --Those Winter Sundays ; --Night, Death, Mississippi ; --Aunt Jemima of the Ocean Waves ; --from Elegies for Paradise Valley ; --No. 1 ; --The Dogwood Trees ; --O Daedalus, Fly Away Home ; WELDON KEES (1914-1955) ; --June 1940 ; --Travels in North America ; RANDALL JARRELL (1914-1965) ; --The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner ; --A Front ; --Losses ; --Second Air Force ; --Protocols ; JAPANESE AMERICAN CONCENTRATION CAMP HAIKU (1942-1944) ; --Shiho Okamoto (Being arrested-) ; --Sadayo Taniguchi (Hand-cuffed and taken away) ; --Kyotaro Komuro (Lingering summer heat-) ; --Taro Katay, (Shouldering) ; --Komuro (Passed guard tower) ; --Okamoto (In the shade of summer sun) ; --Shonan Suzuki (Withered grass on ground) ; --Hakuro Wada (Young grass red and shriveled) ; --Hyakuissei Okamoto (Dandelion has bloomed) ; --Shizuku Uyemaruko (On certain days) ; --Wada (Released seagull) ; --Ryokuin Matsui (Sprinkling water outside) ; --Komuro (Want to be with children) ; --Wada (Even the croaking of frogs) ; --Hangetsu Tsunekawa (Sentry at main gate) ; --Shokoshi Saga (Thin shadow of tule reed) ; --Tokuji Hirai (Looking at summer moon) ; --Suzuki (Moon shadows on internment camp) ; --Hirai (Early moon has set) ; --Suiko Matsushita (Rain shower from mountain) ; --Kyokusui (Thorns of the iron fence) ; --Neiji Ozawa (Desert rain falling) ; --Senbinshi Takaoka (Frosty morning) ; --Oshio (Stepping through snow) ; --Jyosha Yamada (Black clouds instantly shroud) ; --Takaoka (Winter wind) ; --Hekisamei Matsuda (Doll without a head) ; --Sei Sagara (Suddenly awakened) ; --Hyakuissei Okamoto (Jeep patrolling slowly) ; --Shizuku Uyemaruko (Grieving within) ; --Okamoto (In the sage brush) ; --Matsushita (Oh shells-) ; JOHN BERRYMAN (1914-1972) ; --from The Dream Songs ; --1 Huffy Henry ; --4 Filling her compact & delicious body ; --5 Henry sats ; --14 Life, friends ; --22 Of 1826 ; --29 There sat down, once ; --40 I'm scared a lonely ; --45 He stared at ruin ; --46 I am, outside ; --55 Peter's not friendly ; --76 Henry's Confession ; --382 At Henry's bier ; --384 The marker slants ; WILLIAM STAFFORD (1914-1993) ; --Traveling Through the Dark ; --At the Bomb Testing Site ; --At the Un-National Monument along the Canadian Border ; --The Indian Cave Jerry Ramsey Found ; DUDLEY RANDALL (1914-2000) ; --Ballad of Birmingham ; --A Different Image ; JOY DAVIDMAN (1915-1960) ; --This Woman ; --For The Nazis ; MARGARET WALKER (1915-1998) ; --For My People ; RUTH STONE (1915-2011) ; --In an Iridescent Time ; --I Have Three Daughters ; --Pokeberries ; --American Milk ; --From the Arboretum ; --Drought in the Lower Fields ; --Some Things You'll Need to Know/ Before You Join the Union ; THOMAS McGRATH (1916-1990) ; --Deep South ; --Crash Report ; --First Book of Genesis According to the Diplomats ; --Ars Poetica: Or: Who Lives in the Ivory Tower? ; --A Little Song About Charity ; --Against the False Magicians ; --After the Beat Generation ; --Ode for the American Dead in Asia ; --Poem at the Winter Solstice ; ROBERT LOWELL (1917-1977) ; --Inauguration Day: January 1953 ; --A Mad Negro Soldier Confined at Munich ; --Commander Lowell ; --"To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage" ; --Man and Wife ; --Memories of West Street and Lepke ; --Skunk Hour ; --For the Union Dead ; --The Mouth of the Hudson ; --July in Washington ; --The March I ; --The March II ; --Central Park ; --Epilogue ; GWENDOLYN BROOKS (1917-2000) ; --A song in the front yard ; --Of De Witt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetery ; --Gay Chaps at the Bar ; --We Real Cool ; --The Ballad of Rudolph Reed ; --The Blackstone Rangers ; --Malcolm X ; --Young Afrikans ; --The Boy Died in My Alley ; --To Those of My Sisters Who Kept Their Naturals ; --To the Diaspora ; WILLIAM BRONK (1918-1999) ; --At Tikal ; --The Mayan Glyphs Unread ; --I Thought It Was Harry ; --Where It Ends ; --Left Alone ; ROBERT DUNCAN (1919-1988) ; --Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow ; --My Mother Would Be a Falconress ; --The Torso (Passages 18) ; --Up Rising (Passages 25) ; BARBARA GUEST (1920-2006) ; --from Quilts ; ---"Couch of Space" ; --Words ; --Twilight Polka Dots ; AARON KRAMER (1921-1997) ; --Denmark Vesey ; RICHARD WILBUR (b. 1921) ; --The Pardon ; --A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra ; --Beasts ; --Love Calls Us to the Things of This World ; --Advice to a Prophet ; --Children of Darkness ; MONA VAN DUYN (1921-2004) ; --Toward a Definition of Marriage ; JACK KEROUAC (1922-1969) ; --The Perfect Love of Mind Essence ; -- Haiku ; JAMES DICKEY (1923-1997) ; --The Sheep Child ; --Falling ; DENISE LEVERTOV (1923-1997) ; --The Ache of Marriage ; --Olga Poems ; --What Were They Like? ; --Life at War ; ANTHONY HECHT (1923-2004) ; --A Hill ; --"More Light! More Light!" ; --The Book of Yolek ; BOB KAUFMAN (1925-1986) ; --The Biggest Fisherman ; --Crootey Songo ; --No More Jazz at Alcatraz ; --from Jail Poems, Nos. 1-3 ; MAXINE KUMIN (b. 1925) ; --Voices from Kansas ; --Saga ; --Oblivion ; --Pantoum, With Swan ; --With William Meredith in Bulgaria ; DONALD JUSTICE (1925-2004) ; --An Old Fashioned Devil ; --The Wall ; --Early Poems ; --Presences ; --Absences ; PAUL BLACKBURN (1926-1971) ; --At the Crossroad ; --At the Well ; FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) ; --from Alma ; --Poem (The eager note on my door) ; --A Step Away From Them ; --The Day Lady Died ; --Why I Am Not a Painter ; --A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island ; --On Seeing Larry Rivers' Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art ; --Thinking of James Dean ; JAMES MERRILL (1926-1995) ; --An Urban Convalescence ; --The Broken Home ; --Willowware Cup ; --Lost in Translation ; ALLEN GINSBERG (1926-1997) ; --Love Poem on Theme By Whitman ; --Howl ; --A Supermarket in California ; --Who to Be Kind To ; --Rain-wet asphalt heat, garbage curbed cans overflowing ; --Father Death Blues ; --Sphincter ; ROBERT CREELEY (1926-2005) ; --After Lorca ; --I Know a Man ; --The Flower ; --For Love ; --America ; --Age ; ROBERT BLY (b. 1926) ; --Counting Small-Boned Bodies ; --Hearing Gary Snyder Read ; A.R. AMMONS (1926-2001) ; --Corsons Inlet ; --Gravelly Run ; --Coon Song ; JAMES WRIGHT (1927-1980) ; --Saint Judas ; --Beginning ; --Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio ; --Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota ; --A Blessing ; --A Centenary Ode: Inscribed to Little Crow, Leader of the Sioux Rebellion in Minnesota, 1862 ; JOHN ASHBERY (b. 1927) ; --"They Dream Only of America" ; --Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape ; --Mixed Feelings ; --Street Musicians ; --Syringa ; --Daffy Duck in Hollywood ; --Paradoxes and Oxymorons ; --The Problem of Anxiety ; --Dull Mauve ; --A Kind of Chill ; --Spooks Run Wild ; --Marine Shadow ; --Words to That Effect ; GALWAY KINNELL (b. 1927) ; --The Porcupine ; --The Bear ; --The Vow ; W.S. MERWIN (b. 1927) ; --The Drunk in the Furnace ; --It Is March ; --Caesar ; --The Room ; --December Among the Vanished ; --For the Anniversary of My Death ; --When The War Is Over ; --The Asians Dying ; --For a Coming Extinction ; --Looking For Mushrooms at Sunrise ; --The Gardens of Zuni ; --Beginning ; --The Horse ; --Sun and Rain ; --Berryman ; --Daylight ; --The Name of the Air ; --Far Along in the Story ; --Worn Words ; ANNE SEXTON (1928-1974) ; --Her Kind ; --The Truth the Dead Know ; --And One for My Dame ; --Jesus Asleep ; --Jesus Raises up the Harlot ; --The Room of My Life ; PHILIP LEVINE (b. 1928) ; --For Fran ; --The Horse ; --Animals Are Passing From Our Lives ; --Belle Isle, 1949 ; --They Feed They Lion ; --Francisco, I'll Bring You Red Carnations ; --Fear and Fame ; --On the Meeting of Garcia Lorca and Hart Crane ; ADRIENNE RICH (1929-2012) ; --Aunt Jennifer's Tigers ; --From Shooting Script ; --Trying to Talk With a Man ; --Diving into the Wreck ; --Twenty-One Love Poems ; --Power ; --from An Atlas of the Difficult World ; ---XIII. (Dedications) I know you are reading this poem ; --Behind the Motel ; --Hotel ; DEREK WALCOTT (b. 1930) ; --A Far Cry from Africa ; --Laventille ; --The Fortunate Traveller ; --from Omeros ; ---Book One, Chapter 1 ; GARY SYNDER (b. 1930) ; --Riprap ; --Beneath My Hand and Eye the Distant Hills. Your Body ; --I Went Into the Maverick Bar ; --Straight-Creek-Great Burn ; --Axe Handles ; GREGORY CORSO (1930-2001) ; --Marriage ; --Bomb ; ETHERIDGE KNIGHT (1931-1991) ; --Haiku 1, 4, 9 ; --Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane ; --The Idea of Ancestry ; --A Poem for Myself ; --For Malcolm, a Year After ; --Television Speaks ; --For Black Poets Who Think of Suicide ; SYLVIA PLATH (1932-1963) ; --The Colossus ; --The Bee Meeting ; --The Arrival of the Bee Box ; --Stings ; --The Swarm ; --Wintering ; --Daddy ; --Ariel ; --Lady Lazarus ; HENRY DUMAS (1934-1968) ; --Son of Msippi ; --Kef 24 ; --Kef 16 ; --Fish ; --Knees of a Natural Man ; --Low Down Dog Blues ; --Black Star Line ; --Peas ; --Yams ; AMIRI BARAKA (Leroi Jones) (b. 1934) ; --SOS ; --Black Art ; --When We'll Worship Jesus ; N. SCOTT MOMADAY (b. 1934) ; --Plainview: 3 ; --Buteo Regalis ; --Crows in a Winter Composition ; --Carriers of the Dream Wheel ; --Rings of Bone ; --The Stalker ; -- from The Colors of Night ; ---Purple ; --The Burning ; --December 29, 1890 ; --The Shield That Came Back ; --The Snow Mare ; --To an Aged Bear ; --A Benign Self-Portrait ; MARK STRAND (b. 1934) ; --The Prediction ; --Where Are the Waters of Childhood? ; AUDRE LORDE (1934-1992) ; --From Coal ; --Sisters in Arms ; --Outlines ; --Call ; KATHLEEN FRASER (b. 1935) ; --In Commemoration of the Visit of Foreign Commercial Representatives to Japan, 1947 ; CHARLES WRIGHT (b. 1935) ; --Spider Crystal Ascension ; --Clear Night ; --Homage to Paul Cezanne ; MARY OLIVER (b. 1935) ; --Morning Walk ; --At Great Pond ; --Black Snake This Time ; JAYNE CORTEZ (1936-2012) ; --I Am New York City ; --Do You Think ; LUCILLE CLIFTON (1936-2010) ; --I Am Accused of Tending To the Past ; --At the cemetery, Walnut grove plantation, South Carolina, 1989 ; --Reply ; --The Message of Crazy Horse ; --Poem to My Uterus ; --To My Last Period ; --Brothers ; SUSAN HOWE (b. 1937) ; --From Articulation of Sound Forms in Time: ; --The Falls Fight ; --Hope Atherton's Wanderings ; MICHAEL S. HARPER (b. 1938) ; --Song: I Want a Witness ; --Blue Ruth: America ; --Brother John ; --American History ; --We Assume: On the Death of Our Son, Reuben Masai Harper ; --Reuben, Reuben ; --Deathwatch ; --Dear John, Dear Coltrane ; ISHMAEL REED (b. 1938) ; --I am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra ; --Oakland Blues ; LAWSON FUSAO INADA (b. 1938) ; -- Listening Images ; ROBERT PINSKY (b. 1940) ; --Dying ; --The Unseen ; --Shirt ; --Veni, Creator Spiritus ; WELTON SMITH (1940-2006) ; --Malcolm ; WILLIAM HEYEN (b. 1940) ; --Riddle ; --from Crazy Horse in Stillness: ; --Forces ; --White & Gold ; --One World ; --Bone & Velvet ; --Mother ; --The Count ; --Surveyors ; --Rot ; --V ; --Resolve, 1876 ; --Treaty ; --Snowbirds ; --The Slowing ; --The Paper It's Written On ; --The Tooth ; --Wakan Tanka ; --Disequilibrium ; --Eclipse ; JUDY GRAHN (b. 1940) ; --I Have Come to Claim Marilyn Monroe's Body ; --Vietnamese Woman Speaking to an American Soldier ; --Carol ; --Plainsong ; --The Woman Whose Head is On Fire ; CAROLYN M. RODGERS (1941-2010) ; --How I Got Ovah ; --And When the Revolution Came ; --Mama's God ; ROBERT HASS (b. 1941) ; --Rusia En 1931 ; --A Story About the Body ; --Forty Something ; --Sonnet ; LYN HEJINIAN (b. 1941) ; --from My Life ; --A pause, a rose, Something on paper ; --from The Distance ; --Nos. III, XIX, XXIV, XXX, XXXII, XXXVII ; SHARON OLDS (b. 1942) ; --The Pope's Penis ; --Ideographs ; --Photograph of the Girl ; --Things That Are Worse Than Death ; --The Waiting ; --His Father's Cadaver ; --Known to Be Left ; --Left-Wife Goose ; LOUISE GLUCK (b. 1943) ; --The Drowned Children ; --Vespers (You thought we didn't know) ; --Vespers (More than you love me, very possibly) ; --The Wild Iris ; --from Meadowlands: ; --Penelope's Song ; --Quiet Evening ; --Parable of the King ; --Parable of the Hostages ; --Circe's Power ; --Circe's Grief ; --Reunion ; --Telemachus' Burden ; --Before the Storm ; --A Village Life ; MICHAEL PALMER (b. 1943) ; --Song of the Round Man ; --All those words ; --I Have Answers to All of Your Questions ; --Fifth Prose ; --Autobiography ; PAUL VIOLI (1944-2011) ; --Index ; --Tanka ; --A Moveable Snack ; THOMAS JAMES (1946-1974) ; --Mummy of a Lady Named Jemutesonekh XXI Dynasty ; --Dissecting a Pig ; RON SILLIMAN (b. 1946) ; --from Ketjak ; --from Sunset Debris ; --The Chinese Notebook ; --from Toner ; ADRIAN C. LOUIS (b. 1946) ; --Dust World ; --Wakinyan ; --Without Words ; --Coyote Night ; --How Verdell and Dr. Zhivago Disassembled the Soviet Union ; --Wanbli Gleska Win ; --Looking for Judas ; --A Colossal American Copulation ; --Petroglyphs of Serena ; --Jesus Finds His Ghost Shirt ; YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA (b. 1947) ; --Tu Do Street ; --Prisoners ; --Communique ; --The Dog Act ; --The Nazi Doll ; --Fog Galleon ; --Work ; Ai (1947-2010) ; --The Root Eater ; --Twenty-Year Marriage ; --The German Army, Russia, 1943 ; --The Testimony of J. Robert Oppenheimer ; WENDY ROSE (b. 1948) ; --Truganinny ; TIMOTHY STEELE (b. 1948) ; --Daybreak, Benedict Canyon ; --April 27, 1937 ; ALBERT GOLDBARTH (b. 1948) ; --Swan ; --Coinages: A Fairy Tale ; --1400 ; C. D. WRIGHT (b. 1949) ; --Obedience of the Corpse ; --from Just Whistle: ; --THE BODY, ALIVE, NOT DEAD BUT DORMANT ; --BECAUSE CONDITIONS ARE IDEAL FOR CROWING ; --AND NOTHING ; --THE CORPSE WAS IN THE BED ; --ON THE MORN OF ; --A PARTITION SEPARATES IT FROM OTHER BODIES ; --OVER EVERYTHING ; --Song of the Gourd ; --From Cooling Time: ; --Only the crossing counts ; --Until words turn to moss ; --What Would Oppen Say, ; --DEAR DYING TOWN ; JESSICA HAGEDORN (b. 1949) ; --Ming the Merciless ; CHARLES BERNSTEIN (b. 1950) ; --You ; --from Foreign Body Sensation ; --The Kiwi Bird in the Kiwi Tree ; --Riddle of the Fat Faced Man ; --The Boy Soprano ; JORIE GRAHAM (b. 1950) ; --History ; --From the New World ; RAY A. YOUNG BEAR (b. 1950) ; --In Viewpoint: Poem for 14 Catfish and The Town of Tama, Iowa ; --It is the Fish-faced Boy Who Struggles ; CAROLYN FORCHE (b. 1950) ; --The Colonel ; --The Museum of Stones ; --The Lightkeeper ; --Morning on the Island ; ANDREW HUDGINS (b. 1951) ; --At Chancellorsville: The Battle of the Wilderness ; --The Summer of the Drought ; --He Imagines His Wife Dead ; GARRETT KAORU HONGO (b. 1951) ; --Ancestral Graves, Kahuku ; --Kubota to Miguel Hernandez in Heaven, Leupp, Arizona, 1942 ; RITA DOVE (b. 1952) ; --Parsley ; --Receiving the Stigmata ; JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA (b. 1952) ; --Mi Tio Baca El Poeta De Socorro ; --The Painters ; ALBERTO RIOS (b. 1952) ; --Madre Sofia ; --What Happened to Me ; ANITA ENDREZZE (b. 1952) ; --Return of the Wolves ; --Birdwatching at Fan Lake ; --La Morena and Her Beehive Hairdo ; ANA CASTILLO (b. 1953) ; --Seduced by Natassja Kinski ; --Hummingbird Heart ; MARK DOTY (b. 1953) ; --Homo Will Not Inherit ; --The Embrace ; HARRYETTE MULLEN (b. 1953) ; --from Trimmings ; --from S*PeRM**K*T ; LOUISE ERDRICH (b. 1954) ; --Indian Boarding School: The Runaways ; --Dear John Wayne ; --The Fence ; LORNA DEE CERVANTES (b. 1954) ; --Refugee Ship ; --Poema para los Californios Muertos ; --Starfish ; SANDRA CISNEROS (b. 1954) ; --Little Clown, My Heart ; THYLIAS MOSS (b. 1954) ; --Fullness ; --There Will Be Animals ; --The Lynching ; --Interpretation of a Poem by Frost ; --Ambition ; --Crystals ; PATRICIA SMITH (b. 1955) ; --Blond White Women ; --Skinhead ; --From Blood Dazzler: ; --from Tankas ; --(Never has there been) ; --(Go, they said. Go. Go.) ; --Man on the TV Say ; --Company's Coming ; --Voodoo II: Money ; --Voodoo V: Enemy Be Gone ; --from What to Tweak ; --(Stifle the Stinking, shut down the cameras) ; --Back Home ; --Motown Crown ; MARILYN CHIN (b. 1955) ; --How I Got That Name ; --Altar ; JANICE N. HARRINGTON (b. 1956) ; --Falling ; --If She Had Lived ; SESSHU FOSTER (b. 1957) ; --We're caffeinated by rain inside concrete underpasses ; --You'll be fucked up ; --Look and look again, will he glance up all of a sudden ; --I'm always grateful no one hears this terrible racket ; --The Japanese man would not appear riding a horse ; --Life Magazine, December, 1941 ; --I try to pee, but I can't ; --Game 83 ; LI-YOUNG LEE (b. 1957) ; --Persimmons ; --Little Father ; MARTiN ESPADA (b. 1957) ; --Bully ; --Revolutionary Spanish Lesson ; --Niggerlips ; --The New Bathroom Policy at English High School ; --Fidel in Ohio ; --Federico's Ghost ; --The Saint Vincent de Paul Food Pantry Stomp ; --Imagine the Angels Of Bread ; --Blues for the Soldiers Who Told You ; --The Trouble Ball ; --Hard-Handed Men of Athens ; --The Right Foot of Juan de Onate ; ATSURO RILEY (b. 1960) ; --From Romey's Order ; --Picture ; --Skillet ; --Bell ; --Roses ; CLAUDIA RANKINE (b. 1963) ; --from Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric ; --pp. 7, 23, 47-48, 71, 82-83, 113 ; D. A. POWELL (b. 1963) ; --[the cocktail hour finally arrives: whether ending a day at the office] ; --[dogs and boys can treat you like trash. And dogs do love trash] ; --[came a voice in my gullet: rise up and feast. thunderous] ; HEID E. ERDRICH (b. 1963) ; --True Myth ; --The Theft Outright ; --Some Elsie ; NATASHA TRETHEWAY (b. 1966) ; --Native Ground ; --Providence ; --Believer ; --Liturgy ; SHERMAN ALEXIE (b. 1966) ; --Indian Boy Love Song (#2) ; --from The Native American Broadcasting System: Evolution ; --Scalp Dance by Spokane Indians ; --How to Write the Great American Indian Novel ; --Tourists ; RICHARD SIKEN (b. 1967) ; --Visible World ; --A Primer for the Small Weird Loves ; GRAPHIC INTERPRETATIONS: ; CHARLES HENRI FORD ; --Serenade to Leonor ; --28 ; GWENDOLYN BROOKS ; --We Real Cool ; ALLEN GINSBERG ; --Kraj Majales ; --Moloch ; --Consulting I Ching Smoking Pot Listening to the Fugs Sing Blake ; William Everson ; --A Canticle to the Waterbirds ; DAVID IGNATOW ; --The Form Falls in On Itself ; W. S. MERWIN ; --When The War is Over ; GARY SNYDER ; --O Mother Gaia ; RICHARD WILBUR ; --A Difference ; Index of Poem Titles ; Index of Poets ; About the Editor
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University of Illinois Press FeLines
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Norman Shapiro, a flute, harp, and violoncello of cat song, tells the crafty musical tale of the cat from medieval France until today. Shapiro, at his artistic apogee, created an English masterpiece in his Selected Lyrics of Théophile Gautier. But now with his Fe-Lines, he has invented a new genre, as T. S. Eliot did with Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. The world is his pen. Who knows where the next Everest awaits him?"--Willis Barnstone, author of Moonbook and Sunbook"What makes a cat poem appealing to the reader? One of the salient features that I took from Fe-Lines is the constant desire to finish a poem with a 'menschliche Weisheit' (human insight of wisdom) that activates the reader's imagination and keeps the reader inside the movement of the poem. A major contribution to the field of letters and world literature."--Rainer Schulte, author of The Geography of Translation and Interpretation: Traveling between Languages“With beautiful illustrations and poems of every age and form, this book will please everyone (except dog lovers).”--World Literature Today
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MIT Press Ltd The Householders Robert Duncan and Jess The MIT
Book SynopsisHow the poet Robert Duncan and the artist Jess made the household part of their separate and collaborative creative practice.“I'm a householder,” the poet Robert Duncan once explained. “My whole idea of being able to work was to have a household.” In this book, Tara McDowell examines the household (physical and conceptual) that Duncan established with the artist Jess, beginning in 1951 when the two men exchanged marriage vows, and ending with Duncan's death in 1988. For Duncan and Jess, the household—rather than the studio, gallery, or collective—provided the support structure for their art. Indeed, McDowell argues convincingly, their work was coextensive with their household. The material surroundings of their house in San Francisco and the daily rhythms of their domestic lives became part of their creative practice. Duncan wrote poetry that is romantic, ornate, and obscure; Jess (born Burgess Franklin Collins) created multi-imaged,
£24.30
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Complete Poetry of Catullus
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£20.06
Random House USA Inc Russian Poets
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£15.15
Alfred A. Knopf Selected Poems of Vladimir Nabokov
Book SynopsisThough we know Vladimir Nabokov as a brilliant novelist, his first love was poetry. This landmark collection brings together the best of his verse, including many pieces that have never before appeared in English.These poems span the whole of Nabokov’s career, from the newly discovered “Music,” written in 1914, to the short, playful “To Véra,” composed in 1974. Many are newly translated by Dmitri Nabokov, including The University Poem, a sparkling novel in verse modeled on Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin that constitutes a significant new addition to Nabokov’s oeuvre. Included too are such poems as “Lilith”, an early work which broaches the taboo theme revisited nearly forty years later in Lolita, and “An Evening of Russian Poetry”, a masterpiece in which Nabokov movingly mourns his lost language in the guise of a versified lecture on Russian delivered to college girls. The subj
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc The Wonder Paradox
Book SynopsisThe Wonder Paradox offers a lively, practical, and transcendent road map to meaning and connection through poetry.Where do we find magic? Peace? Connection?We have calendars to mark time, communal spaces to bring us together, bells to signal hours of contemplation, o?cial archives to record legacies, the wisdom of sages read aloud, weekly, to map out the right way to live-in kindness, justice, morality. These rhythms and structures of society were all once set by religion. Now, for many, religion no longer runs the show.So how then to celebrate milestones? Find rules to guide us? Figure out which texts can focus our attention but still o?er space for inquiry, communion, and the chance to dwell for a dazzling instant in what can't be said? Where, really, are truth and beauty? The answer, says The Wonder Paradox, is in poetry.In twenty chapters built from years of questions and conversations with those looking for an authentic and m
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux The Letters of Robert Lowell
Book SynopsisOne of the most influential poets of the twentieth century, Robert Lowell was also a prolific letter writer who corresponded with many of the remarkable writers and thinkers of his day, including Elizabeth Bishop, Ezra Pound, Hannah Arendt, William Carlos Williams, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, and Edmund Wilson. These letters, conversations in writing, document the evolution of Lowell's work and illuminate another side of the intimate life that was the subject of so many of his poems: his deep friendships with other writers; the manic-depressive illness he struggled to endure and understand; his marriages to three prose writers; and his engagement with politics and the antiwar movement of the 1960s. The Letters of Robert Lowell shows us, in many cases for the first time, the private thoughts and passions of a figure unrivaled in his influence on American letters.
£22.50
Farrar, Straus and Giroux American Originality
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREA luminous collection of essays from Louise Glück, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and one of our most original and influential poetsFive decades after her debut poetry collection, Firstborn, Louise Glück is a towering figure in American letters. Written with the same probing, analytic control that has long distinguished her poetry, American Originality is Glück's second book of essaysher first, Proofs and Theories, won the 1993 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. Glück's moving and disabusing lyricism is on full display in this decisive new collection. From its opening pages, American Originality forces readers to consider contemporary poetry and its demigods in radical, unconsoling, and ultimately very productive ways. Determined to wrest ample, often contradictory meaning from our current literary discourse, Glück comprehends and destabilizes notions of narc
£14.45
Random House USA Inc Poems Everymans Library Pocket Poets
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£17.00
Alfred A. Knopf Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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£15.26
WW Norton & Co What Is the Grass
Book SynopsisNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2020 by Buzzfeed, Library Journal, The Millions, and The Rumpus Effortlessly blending biography, criticism, and memoir, National Book Award–winning poet and best-selling memoirist Mark Doty explores his personal quest for Walt Whitman.Trade Review"What Is the Grass may be the definitive book on Whitman’s life, afterlife and poetry. But it’s [in] the moments in Doty’s own life...that the book truly glistens." -- Jessica Ferri - Los Angeles Times"An incisive, personal meditation." -- New York Times Book Review"Doty puts on a clinic in how to read closely but expansively, going back to Whitman’s greatest poems, bouncing them off incidents in his own life, but also the work of his contemporaries...This is shining proof that criticism can make you want to hold it close." -- John Freeman - LitHub"A masterful example [of the hybrid memoir]—weaving a close reading of Whitman’s life and writings into Doty’s own ruminations on art, queerness, humanism, and the American experience." -- Arianna Rebolini - Buzzfeed"Doty is a reverential penitent before the greatest American poet, giving an account of how his own subjective experience intersects with that of the singer of ‘Song of Myself.’...What Doty most shares with Whitman, however, is a heretic’s faith in language, both its promise and its failures." -- Ed Simon - The Millions"[Doty] reveals a profound understanding of Whitman's life and poetry...Throughout, the author exudes an exuberance about life and words that rivals that of his subject...A captivating paean to Whitman combined with unblinking self-examination." -- Kirkus Reviews"What is the Grass is a deep-dive into Walt Whitman’s life, work, worldview, and something that feels like his cosmic theology. As if that weren’t enough, we’re also invited into Mark Doty’s own candid self-seeking, in episodes of the author’s life rendered in generous complexity. This beautiful, ingenious book affirms my belief in language as a living thing, and in the universe as a place overflowing with purpose and meaning. I wish all of the great poets could be reintroduced to me in such fashion!" -- Tracy K. Smith"Quick-witted, slyly erotic, and sometimes ecstatic, this book explores Mark Doty’s relationship with Walt Whitman, or with the idea of Walt Whitman. It is intimate in its reality and in all that it imagines, and it captures with splendid lyricism the author’s generous obsession with his forebear. Mark Doty has written a literate and lovely volume." -- Andrew Solomon
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