Literary studies: poetry and poets Books
Carcanet Press Ltd Star City: Including the Coalville Divan and
Book SynopsisJohn Gallas's new book is two volumes in one. The Coalville Divan builds on the poet's fascination with Eastern literature which he tends to experience in Leicester and its environs, where he lives and works. These poems ponder a number of his besetting themes. How dull is Wisdom, then? What it wants is Ungathering. The Coalville Divan makes moral, miniature movies out of the great scripts of old Persian sages, each of the one hundred sonnets returning a proverb to the particular lives, moments and places that made it. These little, colour narratives put Life back up there with its Meaning. Volume two has its mind on different things. If Beckett comes before Oort, and Fellini is next to the Unknown Soldier; if Alfred Schnittke can almost touch the muezzin who was a tape recorder, and William Bees VC is three steps away from a Mongolian marmot-killer, then it must be Excellent Men. Here are the lit-up males of a writer's heart, claimed by admiration, kinship, amazement, love, poetry and a good laugh. Each to his own.
£15.77
Carcanet Press Ltd Bricks and Ballads
Book SynopsisBallads are memorable. This book was finished when the poet was 50, with too much to remember: the shadows of the greater world, the bulldozers down the street tearing through a Victorian school, the generosity of its founders, its green graceful bell tower and its nesting jackdaws turned to a cry in the air. The bricks go off to salvage and are lost in other streets but the poems remain. Ballads are bare and brief; tried by time. They salvage but they sing, stubbornly. Their stories are sure: a woman in the kitchen, Handel at his illicit feast, the Russian dog heading for space. Shakespeare stops for breath on the stairs. Mithras is the milkman. There are cats and wild cranesbill. The poems nudge us on.
£15.63
Carcanet Press Ltd Pastorals
Book SynopsisApproach places, times and states of mind in a mosaic of knowledge, invention, memory and entertainment with this collection of poems. The personal and the public interact in many poems and others address personal histories and their creative consequences, alongside mythological motifs.
£16.15
Reaktion Books Stephane Mallarme
Book SynopsisAt the age of fifty Stephane Mallarme (1842-98) spoke of his published work as very precise reference points on my mind's journey. In "Stephane Mallarme", Roger Pearson charts that journey for the first time, blending a biographical account of the poet's life with a detailed analysis of his evolving poetic theory and practice. A poet on this earth must be uniquely a poet', he declared at the age of twenty-two, and he duly lived a poet's life. But what is a poet's life? What is a poet's function? In his poems, in complex prose statements, and by the example of his life, Mallarme provided answers to these questions. To Mallarme, being a poet meant many things: a continuous, lifelong investigation of language and its expressive potential; and bringing people together, as much in life as in poetry. His Tuesday salons were famous with visitors including Yeats, Rilke and Verlaine, as well as the artists Manet, Renoir, Whistler and Gauguin; his poetry inspired music by Debussy, Ravel and Boulez; and his poem "A Throw of the Dice will Never Abolish Chance" spread over 20 pages and combining verse with varied typography inspires poets and visual artists to this day. Poetry was a way of bringing all human beings together in heightened awareness and an understanding of the magnificent act of living. "Stephane Mallarme" chronicles a fascinating and utterly unique voice in French poetry. It will not only prove an essential resource for students of English and French literature, but an engaging book for anyone interested in nineteenth-century France.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Critical Moments 1 Classrooms, 1842-63 2 Crossroads, 1862-6 3 Chasms, 1866-70 4 Tombs, 1870-79 5 Tuesdays, 1879-87 6 Toasts, 1887-94 7 Dies, 1894-8 Epilogue: Beyond the Indies Bibliography Acknowledgements Photo Acknowledgements
£999.99
University Press of Colorado The Minuses
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Top Shelf Productions The Mirror of Love
Book SynopsisAcclaimed storyteller Alan Moore (From Hell, Jerusalem) yields this epic poem recounting the history of same-sex love, revealing a hidden side of Western culture through the lives of its greatest artists. Sappho, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Oscar Wilde, and many others are woven into this rich, visceral piece. Originally published in 1988, The Mirror of Love sprang from Moore''s activist heart as a reaction to Britain''s controversial anti-gay law, Clause 28. In the past, Mirror has been translated into both a comic book and a stage production, but Top Shelf presents it as it was meant to be, a hardcover book illustrated with over forty full-color photographs from acclaimed artist José Villarrubia.Included in the 128-page special edition is an essay about the poem and its previous incarnations, an index of characters and places, a selection of classic poems quoted in the text, and a bibliography.
£20.25
Carcanet Press Ltd Map of the Territory
Book SynopsisNigel Forde is fascinated by things in the process of change: music, the momentary epiphany, the precarious balance of twilight rather than night or day. The poems, written over a period of years, meditate on memory and landscape: in the unremarkable and evanescent lives can find their greatest clarity. Two central sequences, 'A Map of the Territory' and 'Touchstones', express ways of remaking memories in language. 'Touchstones', a Hungarian sonnet sequence, explores the creative possibilities of strict poetic forms. 'A Map of the Territory' attempts both truth to events and to what distance has made of them. The collection maps a landscape and the mind that it has shaped.
£15.63
Irish Academic Press Ltd Louis MacNeice: In a Between World
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£65.00
Parthian Books Edward Thomas and Wales
Book SynopsisEdward Thomas and Wales offers a fascinating re-evaluation of Thomas's writing. Bringing together for the first time the prose and poetry centred in Thomas's ancestral land of Wales, it explores the `Welshness' of Thomas's work and of Thomas himself.
£999.99
Salmon Poetry The Salmon's Tale
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ATF Press Rumi and the Whirling Dervishes
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£56.19
The Library of America Edgar Allan Poe: Poems and Poetics: (American
Book SynopsisRichard Wilbur, a former Poet Laureate of the United States and one of the most admired poets and critics of his generation, revisits the poetry of Poe, exploring the philosophical seriousness of verse often identified with its macabre and gothic surfaces. Here is the whole canon of Poe’s mature poetry, along with a judicious selection of prose writings that illuminate Poe’s poetic goals.“Our poetry, in Poe’s view, must specialize in aesthetic transcendence, eschewing the truth, morality, and passion which might entangle it with this present world. The whole movement of Poe’s poetry is away from the material here and now. . . . The poet’s strategy is to accomplish a mock-destruction of earthly things, estranging the reader from material reality and so, presumably, propelling his imagination toward the ideal.” — Richard Wilbur, from the introductionAbout the American Poets ProjectElegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment, selected and introduced by today’s most discerning poets and critics.Trade Review“Poe is so frequently reprinted that another selection can’t possibly seem fresh. Reading him with the guidance of Wilbur, however, helps one think about him again. . . . [Wilbur] appends selections from Poe’s writings about poetics to help understanding of his cosmology and discusses some of Poe’s most intense stories to exemplify his symbolism. The poems, presented chronologically, show again what a young prodigy Poe was, formulating his poetic thought while still in his teens, and what a sonorous Romantic musician he became.” —Booklist
£17.00
The Library of America Poets of the Civil War: (American Poets Project
Book SynopsisWriters on both sides of the American Civil War “brought to the crisis” (in editor J. D. McClatchys’ words) “poetry’s unique ability to stir the emotions, to freeze the moment, to sweep the scene with a panoramic lens and suddenly swoop in for a close-up of suffering or courage.” This vibrant collection brings together the most memorable and enduring work inspired by the conflict: the masterpieces of Whitman and Melville, Sidney Lanier on the death of Stonewall Jackson, the anti-slavery poems of Longfellow and Whittier, the front-line narratives of Henry Howard Brownell and John W. De Forest, the anthems of Julia Ward Howe and James Ryder Randall. Grief, indignation, pride, courage, patriotic fervor, ultimately reconciliation and healing: the poetry of the Civil War evokes unforgettably the emotions that roiled America in its darkest hour.About the American Poets ProjectElegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment, selected and introduced by today’s most discerning poets and critics.Trade Review“McClatchy’s selection has not only breadth of representation but fine choices within forms, causes, and poets.” —Sewanee Review
£17.00
The University of Akron Press Poems at the Edge of Differences: Mothering in
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£35.14
Griffin House Publications Dante
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£999.99
Griffin House Publications The City of Dreadful Night
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Griffin House Publications Dante Revisited: Essays by Anne Paolucci
Book SynopsisScattered in a variety of academic journals here and abroad, these importnat essays have been brought together in a single volume for the first time. Included as an introduction is a lecture prepared by Dino Bigongiari, for over five decades the most eminent scholar at Columbia University and one of the great Dantist of the century.An internationally-known comparist, founder of Council on National Literatures and for over three decades Editor of its prestigious series, Review of National Literatures, Dr. Anne Paolucci brings her wide reading and training to bear in such essays as "Dante's Satan and Milton's 'Bryonic Hero'," "Dante and Machiavelli: Political 'Idealism' and Political 'Realism';" and "Women in the Political Love-Ethic of the Divine Comedy and the Faerie Queens." She sheds new light on a familiar subject in "Dante, Hegel, and the Marian Inspiration of the Commedia," showing Hegel to be a rich source for critical study in this area. "Exile Among the Exiles: Dante's Party of One" focuses on Dante's bitter life-long exile from his beloved Florence. "The Strident Voices of Hell" provides an insightful introduction to the Inferno. A brief but substantive picture of the Middle Ages is provided in "The Cosmopolitan Age of Dante and His Dream of Restored Imperial Rule."Professor Bigongiari's essya, probably written to be delivered as a lecture in Florence on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of Dante's birth, is a welcome Introduction to the volume. In his terse, informative and authoritative voice, the author raises two important questions: "Is Dante a popular poet?" and "Is Dante a classic poet?" In the course of answering these questions, Professor Bigongiari provides brilliant insights into the preservation and transmission of the precious manuscripts and codices that passed through his hands in Florence, where he had been invited to help prepare for the anniversary celebrations.
£999.99
Ave Maria University Press A Lifetime With Hopkins
Book SynopsisIn these brief, readable, and insightful essays, Fr. Milward delves into the poetry of Hopkins and his central ideas on God the Trinity, the self, nature and people.
£28.45
Ave Maria University Press Languange Redeemed: Chaucer's Mature Poetry
Book SynopsisThe contemporary reader of Chaucer's poems is often surprised to discover how bawdy they are. A superficial veneer of Christian culture seems to give way easily in Chaucer to the celebration of a light-hearted hedonism. In this readable study, written for students and experts alike, the eminent literary scholar David Williams guides the reader carefully through Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and Canterbury Tales. He shows that below the surface Chaucer's narrative reveals an author attuned to the Christian story of creation, fall, and redemption. His characters expose the sophistries, spiritual and intellectual, that Chaucer seeks to mend.
£28.45
Baylor University Press R. S. Thomas: Poetry and Theology
Book SynopsisThis volume celebrates the work of the Welsh poet R. S. Thomas (1913-2000) and illuminates the theological implications of this famous twentieth-century poet-priest's pilgrimage. By providing detailed readings of individual poems, Davis explores the depth and imagination of Thomas's profound theological vision.Trade Review"This book uses strategically selected readings to trace the development of particular themes and preoccupations in Thomas' work." - Barry Sloan, University of Southampton "Davis says of R S Thomas, "His pilgrimage will long be traced by faithful followers and by readers still to come." Davis' book succeeds in showing why this should be so." - D Z Phillips, Professor Emeritus, Swansea UniversityTable of Contents1 Poetry in Theological Crisis 2 Finding and Following R. S. Thomas 3 Agnostic Faith 4 Poet-Priest and the Apocalyptic Mode 5 Mirrors and Mirror Imagery 6 Gaps in the Poetry of R. S. Thomas 7 Fathers and Sons 8 The Quarrel with Technology 9 R. S. Thomas and Soren Kierkegaard 10 R. S. Thomas and Wallace Stevens Conclusion
£45.66
Hanging Loose Press Blue Hanuman
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£17.10
Upset Press Slippers for Elsewhere: Poems
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£999.99
UpSet Press, Incorporated Tractatüus Philosophiká-Poeticüus
Book SynopsisA theoretical, mythopoetic work, Tractatüus Philosophiká-Poeticüus uses various poetic, narrative and dramatic techniques and devices to fashion a new scriptoral genre, one that is engaged with critical discourses, even while it reads like a labyrinthine story. An aesthetic theory which depicts the path of writing through the deployment of a group of anonymous wanderers and a constantly metamorphosing `I’, Tractatüus Philosophiká-Poeticüus uses the parameters and the dynamics of the reading experience to construct this treatise on poetics. A work that defies convenient categorisation and tackles, through formal and stylistic innovations, the very possibilities and limits of literature.
£999.99
Schaffner Press Short Circuits: Aphorisms, Fragments, and
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£17.09
Amherst College Writing in Time: Emily Dickinson's Master Hours
Book SynopsisA major event in Dickinson scholarship, Writing in Time: Emily Dickinson's Master Hours proposes new constellations of Dickinson's work as well as exciting new methodologies for textual scholarship as an act of intimate editorial investigation.
£28.95
Wooden Books Poetic Meter and Form
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£7.55
Caitlin Press In Fine Form: A Contemporary Look at Form Poetry
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£23.96
Massey University Press Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2023
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£23.19
Les Belles Lettres Les Dionysiaques: Tome XII
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£999.99
Les Belles Lettres Ovide, l'Art d'Aimer
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£32.00
Les Belles Lettres Virgile, Bucoliques
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£38.29
Les Belles Lettres Minimum Respect
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£22.88
Les Belles Lettres Roland Furieux - Orlando Furioso T. II: Chants XI
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£55.00
Les Belles Lettres Roland Furieux - Orlando Furioso T. III: Chants
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£55.00
Klincksieck Faut-Il Comprendre La Poesie ?
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£23.00
Encre Marine Le Cimetiere Marin Au Bolero: Un Commentaire Du
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£999.99
Classiques Garnier Le Chemin Des Correspondances Et Le Champ
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Classiques Garnier Yves Bonnefoy Ou l'Experience de l'Etranger
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£36.00
Classiques Garnier Louis de Gonzague Frick Dans Tous Ses Etats:
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£83.60
Classiques Garnier Poetes Moralistes Du Moyen Age Allemand:
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£999.99
Classiques Garnier Parodie Et Pastiche Dans l'Oeuvre Poetique de
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£999.99
Classiques Garnier Masques, Corps, Langues: Les Figures Dans La
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£83.60
Classiques Garnier L'Aede Et Le Geographe: Poesie Et Espace Du Monde
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£999.99
Classiques Garnier Priapees
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Classiques Garnier La Reception Des Anthologies de Poesie Chinoise
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£999.99
Classiques Garnier Poesie Moderne Et Oralite Dans Les Ameriques
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£70.30
Classiques Garnier La Fureur Et La Grace: Lectures de Malcolm Lowry
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£72.20
Classiques Garnier Arts de Poesie Et Traites Du Vers Francais:
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£999.99
