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Oxford University Press The Oxford Shakespeare The History of King Lear
Book SynopsisBased on the 1608 quarto of "King Lear", this commentary aims to help readers understand the language and dramaturgy of the play, in relation to the theatres in which it was performed.Table of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; INTRODUCTION; TEXTUAL INTRODUCTION AND EDITORIAL PROCEDURES; ABBREVIATIONS AND REFERENCES; KING LEAR; THE BALLAD OF KING LEAR; OFFSHOOTS OF KING LEAR; ALTERATIONS TO LINEATION; INDEX
£215.00
Clarendon Press Byrons Don Juan and the Don Juan Legend
Book SynopsisPrevious interpretations of Byron's epic poem Don Juan have almost unanimously neglected the context of the Don Juan legend in European literature and culture. This book argues that the Don Juan legend is a vital context for understanding the poems cultural and sexual politics. The argument focuses on such issues as seduction, class sexualities, and popular theatrical forms.Trade ReviewRecently won the British Academy Rose Crawshay prize of £500Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ; Introduction ; 1. The Legend of Don Juan ; 2. Byron's Don Juan ; 3. The Political Implications of a Don Juan ; 4. Don Juan and the Female Reader ; 5. The Seduction of Don Juan ; 6. Epilogue: Contemporary Seductions ; Bibliography
£140.00
Oxford University Press, USA The Shakespeare First Folio The History of the Book Volume II A New World Census of First Folios 2
Book SynopsisThis major reference book for Shakespeare scholars and bibliographers is the second part of the story of 'the greatest book' in the English language. Listing 228 copies of the First Folio, the Census gives concise descriptions of each, covering condition, special features, provenance, and binding. It traces the search for copies, and much more.Trade Review... here is evidence gathered on a scale that has been accorded to no other book. * Times Literary Supplement *The sheer extent and reach of West's researches, which have seen him in transit across the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Rest of the World not only suggest the excitement of following leads and locating copies, but say more of the hard work and hard travelling that has gone into the production of his book. * The Library *As an exercise in census-making, West's book is exemplary ... As a piece of functional scholarship that will prompt and enable future Shakespearean scholars securely to embark upon this and other projects, West's Census is warmly to be welcomed. * The Library *Review from Volume I: Genuinely monumental ... Through a combination of careful archival research and tireless legwork, West has located 228 copies - a remarkable 70 more than were listed in Sidney Lee's 1902 Census ... This is an essential reference work for Shakespeareans, librarians, book-collectors, and antiquarian book dealers ... a monumental achievement. * Eric Rasmussen, Shakespeare Survey *"[A] work of painstaking scholarship that will be the standard reference tool for the field." * Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *'(West's) thorough and comprehensive census...provides not only a fresh and reliable work of reference, but also an indispensible tool for future researchers...All future workers in the field will owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. West both for his impressive achievement and for the stimulus to further and different investigations that they will derive from his invaluable books.' Richard Proudfoot, from the Foreword to Volume IIFrom Volume I 'a magisterial study of the posthumous history of a book . . . Dr West's enterprise is comparable in scope to that of the compilers of the Folio itself. . . . his monumental study forms a major contribution to the shelf of volumes essential to the Shakespeare scholar.' * Stanley Wells, Foreword to Volume I *Review from Volume I: An amazing piece of scholarship ... West's study is the first comprehensive study of the book as book and as cultural object. One wonders why we had to wait nearly four centuries for such a study. * Notes and Queries *
£275.00
Clarendon Press The Historia Vie Hierosolimitane of Gilo of Paris and a Second Anonymous Author Oxford Medieval Texts
Book SynopsisThis is the first critical edition of the twelfth-century Latin epic poem, Historia Vie Hierosolimitane, in an authoritative Oxford Medieval Texts edition, with facing-page text and translation and detailed introduction and notes.Trade Reviewvery welcome ... it makes more easily available the most substantial account of that expedition to have been written in Latin verse ... the text is a reminder that narratvie strategies and authorial preferences have an important bearing on how we are able to retrieve the crusade both as an historical event and as an historiographical phenomenon. The edition is excellently produced and presented, the translation is clear and readable, and the editorial apparatus is full, informative and learned ... Grocock and Siberry are to be congratulated on producing a very good edition. * Marcus Bull, History, January 2000 *This edition and translation of one of the lesser-known narrative sources for the First Crusade, last edited in 1895, is very welcome, not least because it makes more easily available the most substantial account of that expedition to have been written in Latin verse. The edition is excellently produced and presented, the translation is clear and readable, and the editorial apparatus is full, informative and learned... Grocock and Siberry are to be congratulated on producing a very good edition. * Marcus Bull, History Vol.85 No.277 *
£232.50
Oxford University Press The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare
Book SynopsisSituated within the Oxford Handbooks to Literature series, the group of Oxford Handbooks to Shakespeare are designed to record past and present investigations and renewed and revised judgments by both familiar and younger Shakespearean specialists. Each of these volumes is edited by one or more internationally distinguished Shakespeareans; together, they comprehensively survey the entire field. An essential resource for the study of Shakespeare, The Oxford Handbook to Shakespeare is edited by esteemed scholar Arthur Kinney and contains forty specially written essays. It provides fresh and imaginative readings of his plays and poems, reflects on the current state of Shakespeare Studies, and suggests the likely future directions it will take. The Handbook is divided into five sections: ''Texts'' explores how Shakespeare wrote, who he collaborated with, the ways in which his works were transmitted, and the reactions of his early readers; ''Conditions'' examines the economic, social, artisTrade Reviewinventive and inspiring. * Julia Reinhard Lupton, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *Table of ContentsI. TEXTS; II. CONDITIONS; III. WORKS; IV. PERFORMANCES; V. CURRENT SPECULATIONS
£34.99
Clarendon Press Beowulf
Book SynopsisBeowulf, the major surviving poem in Old English, is composed in a language that is rich but often difficult. This fully annotated edition makes the poem more accessible in its original language, while at the same time providing the materials necessary for its detailed study at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.To facilitate understanding and fluent reading of the poem, the Old English text of Beowulf is here accompanied by an extensive running glossary which includes the greater part of the vocabulary of the poem. Words that occur more than once are glossed on each occasion. The inclusion of marginal glosses will enable readers who may be at an early stage in the study of Old English to cope more easily with the complex vocabulary of the poem. But this edition is not meant only for those who are approaching Old English for the first time; it is designed to be suitable for students at any stage, and those who are already familiar with Old English will find the marginal glossesTrade Review`This will surely be the standard edition of Beowulf' Dr Margaret Connolly, University College, Cork`very student user-friendly' Dr J. A. George, Uninversity of Dundee`it will be most useful and exactly the kind of student edition that has long been needed' Dr William Marx, University of Wales, Lampeter`This up-to-date edition it a godsend.' Peter J. Lucas, University College, DublinWe have long been waiting for it.' Professor Dr Heinz Bergner, Justus-Liebig-Universitat Giessenpresents its familiar material in a conspicuously rejuvenated way...This edition follows a current trend towards providing most of the material necessary for the study of a major work within a single volume...The introduction has detailed and authoritative discussions of all the major aspects of the poem, apart from general critical interpretation, for which the reader is referred to items in the extensive bibliography. * English *This fully annotated edition makes the poem Beowulf more accessible in its original language, and provides the materials necessary for its detailed study by those new to Old English. * The Medieval World *Students working through Beowulf in the original language for the first time ... may find themselves grateful for this compact, efficient, and inexpensive introduction to the poem. Every part of Jack's text is presented with meticulous accuracy - a welcome virtue in publications of this kind. References are brief but apt, expert, and up-to-date. * John D. Niles, University of California, Berkeley, Speculum - A Journal of Medieval Studies, Jan 1997 *
£35.99
Clarendon Press Choephori
Book SynopsisProduced in 458 BC, Aeschylus'' Choephori stands as the second play in the Oresteian trilogy. The bloodshed begun in the first play with the murder of Agamemnon by his wife Clytemnestra is here continued when Agamemnon''s son Orestes avenges his father''s death by killing Clytemnestra. It is not until the third and final play, Eumenides, that peace is restored to the family of the Atreiadae.This edition (first published in hardback in 1986) takes into account the large amount of recent research on the play and tackles the problems presented by an unusually corrupt text. The introduction discusses the pre-Aeschylean ''Orestes'' tradition in literature (from Homer to Pindar) and art (representations on vases and reliefs), as well as the place of Choephori within the Oresteia, its imagery and dramatic structure, the questions of staging the play, and the manuscript tradition. Much of the commentary looks at problems of style, dramatic technique, and interpretation of the play, and before Trade Review'Meticulous and profound scholarship, wide familiarity with relevant work, painstaking attention to detail: all these are to be seen in profusion ... this work of genuine scholarship can only be welcomed as an outstanding, and outstandingly produced, long-needed edition from the Clarendon Press.' J. H. C. Leach, Times Literary Supplement'[Garvie's] commentary is immensely thorough, open-minded and sober.' Greece and Rome'Particularly valuable is the treatment of the myth before Aeschylus ... the combination of literary and archaeological evidence fills a serious gap left by previous commentators, and will be useful also to those reading or teaching the other plays of the trilogy.' R. A. S. Seaford, JACT Bulletin'The need for a detailed, up-to-date commentary on the play was clear, and it is fully met by this solid and substantial work...a fine and valuable commentary.' Martin L. West GnomonTable of ContentsText. Commentary. Metrical appendix.
£32.77
Oxford University Press Horace Odes III Dulce Periculum
Book SynopsisThe aim of this book is to provide a translation and commentary which will help newcomers to Horace, whether or not they know Latin, to understand how the poetry works. This third book of Odes begins with the ''Roman odes'' in praise of Augustus, the ruthless politician who had won control over the whole known world. These poems should, therefore, interest historians as poetic presentations of an ideology, and students of literature as the work of a man who found ways of praising while asserting his independence. Part of his strategy is to follow the political odes with an array of poems on love, friendship, country life, religion, and on poetry, all of them filled with delight in life and a unique sense of humour.Trade ReviewDavid West takes a refreshing approach insofar as academic questions are sobered by looking at how the poems work as poems. * Quadrant No.405 *All of us who love Latin and its diverse literature are in West's debt for this series of books exploring some of the most challenging poems written in any language. * JACT Review *West's book has many strengths; his obvious and passionate admiration of Horace's poetic genius is foremost among them. He offers some powerful summaries of Horace's gifts, as well as accumulating evidence for a detailed defence of him against his critics ... The commentaries are written in a very accessible style ... There are plenty examples of humour to lighten the mood and many illuminating cross-references. * JACT Review *(Horace: Odes I: Carpe Diem) Professor West takes us closer to understanding his ancient master works. This may not be fashionable literary theory. It is better than that: to help us to understand a great poem is an act of creative poetry itself. * The Times *(Horace: Odes I: Carpe Diem) This book will be needed by all who know Horace. ... can new readers start here? Resoundingly, yes. They will gain a sound idea of what Horace means and how his poetry works, and these are achievements not to be obtained from other translations.
£59.85
Oxford University Press, USA Archestratos of Gela Greek Culture and Cuisine in the Fourth Century Bce Text Translation and Commentary
Book SynopsisA 4th-century BCE mock-epic poem, probably entitled the "Hedupatheia" or "Life of Luxury", offering a gastronomic tour of the Mediterranean. This work is aimed at researchers and students in Greek poetry, social history, and cuisine of the late classical and early Hellenistic period.Trade ReviewOlson and Sens have produced a text and translation equipped with exhaustive introduction and commentary. Theirs is likely to remain the standard edition of Archestratos for many years ... the commentary is a useful tool for students of food and literature alike. * Gnomon *Scholars and teachers interested in ancient food and dining will welcome this collection of the fragments of the fourth-century BC gastronomical poem, Hedupatheia, by Archestratos, usually accessible only in references scattered throughout the eipnosophistae of Athenaeus * The Classical Outlook *
£225.00
Oxford University Press Greek Lyric Poetry a Commentary on Selected Larger Pieces
Book SynopsisThis book presents a new text and a detailed commentary for many of the central pieces of Greek lyric poetry. For authors from Alcman to Simonides, the pieces chosen are usually the longest and best-preserved; a single large poem each is taken from Bacchylides and Pindar; two odes from tragedy illustrate the adoption of lyric into drama. The text and apparatus contain the results of fresh work on the papyri and numerous new suggestions. The commentary is chiefly literary, and there is an introduction to each poet which gives the works a context from a wide range of evidence. The book joins textual and literary criticism of the poets together, providing a close and sustained analysis of important poems across the genre, and enables the reader to see in detail the development and diversity of a remarkable body of poetry.Trade ReviewHutchinson succeeds in throwing a great deal of light on a number of exceedingly opaque texts. An immensely valuable if difficult book; appropriate for advanced graduate students and up. * Religious Studies Review *A fresh text and detailed commentary on twenty substantial (mostly fragmentary) pieces of archaic and classical lyric poetry. * Religious Studies Review *Rarely does one find such high standards of textual and literary criticism combined. No one working on any of the poetry included here can afford to neglect Hutchinson's commentary. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Hutchinson's close sensitive readings yield many perceptive suggestions ... all advanced students of archaic lyric will learn much from the abundance of material (linguistic, metrical, and comparative) assembled in Hutchinson's notes and his introductions to the individual poets. * Greece & Rome *A valuable contribution, not only to the understanding and appreciation of the poetry involved, but also of the poets themselves. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
£240.00
Oxford University Press, USA Statius Silvae 5 Oxford Classical Monographs
Book SynopsisThis edition of Book 5 of Statius' Silvae includes an introduction, translation, and full literary and cultural commentary, enabling readers to engage with the work of this learned and increasingly popular poet.Trade Review...an exemplary commentary: a monumental work of deep and wide learning * P. J. Heslin, Journal of Roman Studies *Gibson has produced a rich and fastidious contribution to the understanding of Statius... * Bryn Mawr College *...an excellent commentary, a worthy and helpful companion for the reader of Statius' last book of lyric poems. * Antony Augoustakis, Scholia, 16 *Virtually any commentary on Silvae 5 would have been highly welcome, but Gibson's contribution to Statian scholarship is particularly so. His clear and lucid discussions of textual, literary, and social historical issues greatly enhance our understanding of these challenging poems ... Silvae 5 has been incredibly well served and readers will be thankful to Gibson for his acute and detailed study. * Charles McNelis, Hermathena *Table of ContentsGeneral Introduction ; Texts and Translations ; Commentary
£217.50
Oxford University Press The Complete Works of John Milton Volume II
Book SynopsisVolume II in Oxford's Complete Works of John Milton provides newly-collated and carefully edited old-spelling texts of two of Milton major poems: Paradise Regain'd and Samson Agonistes. A detailed introduction and notes examine the political, religious, print, and publishing context in which the poems appeared.Trade Reviewfamiliar themes are given fresh interest... Knopper's excellent general introduction positions the poems and the new evidence about their print in Milton's immediate context * Johanna Harris, Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsGeneral Introduction ; Text ; Textual Notes ; Textual Commentary ; Index
£157.50
Oxford University Press Lucan De Bello Ciuili Book 1
Book SynopsisA comprehensive new edition, including introduction, text with apparatus criticus, and commentary, of the Latin text of the first book of Lucan's De Bello Civili, an important and influential epic poem written in the 60s AD, which recounts the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey in the years 49-45 BC.Trade Reviewthis edition is likely to be a very valuable resource to the student and scholar of Lucan (and of post-Augustan epic) for many years to come. * Adam Marshall, Trinity College Dublin *this is a very impressive and useful commentary on a very important book of Roman epic poetry, one that was sorely needed. I have little doubt that it will become the standard commentary on BC I and that it will hold that distinction for quite some time. * Tim Stover, Journal of Roman Studies *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION ; M. ANNAEI LVCANI BELLO CIVILI LIBER PRIMUS ; COMMENTARY
£142.50
Oxford University Press William Wordsworth
Book SynopsisThe Wordsworth volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series is the most comprehensive selection currently available of the poetry and prose of one of the finest poets in the English language. The familiar poems from Wordsworth''s ''Great Decade'' are all included, but they are complemented by a more than usually generous selection of the best poems from his later years. The extracts from the Guide to the Lakes will be a revelation to many readers, as will the political prose of the Convention of Cintra. All of the material is presented in chronological sequence, so that the reader can see how Wordsworth''s changing concerns were expressed in prose as well as poetry. Work which Wordsworth published is separated from that which he did not reveal, which will enable the reader to trace through successive published volumes the development of Wordsworth''s public poetic self, while also being able to follow the growth of the body of poetry which, for whatever reason, Wordsworth did not cTrade ReviewIn all ways, the edition is a credit both to Oxford University Press and to this fine scholar to whom Wordsworthians owe much. * Paul F. Betz, Notes and Queries *Rereading Wordsworth is particularly rewarding and fitting since he is himself the great revisitor and rewriter. This generous selection of his work offers the perfect occasion to do so. * Paul Batchelor, The Guardian *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ; Introduction ; Chronology ; A Note on the Selection and Its Ordering ; FROM LYRICAL BALLADS (1798) ; FROM LYRICAL BALLADS (1800) ; OTHER POEMS 1798-1800 ; FROM POEMS, IN TWO VOLUMES (1807) ; OTHER POEMS 1800-1808 ; THE PRELUDE (1805) ; FROM THE CONVENTIONS OF CINTRA (1809) ; FROM ESSAYS UPON EPITAPHS (1810) ; FROM THE EXCURSION (1814) ; FROM POEMS (1815) ; FROM A LETTER TO A FRIEND OF ROBERT BURNS (1816) ; FROM THE RIVER DUDDON (1820) ; FROM TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY OF THE LAKES (1820) ; OTHER POEMS 1815-1846 ; Appendix: Wordsworth before Lyrical Ballads ; Notes ; Further Reading ; Index of Titles and First Lines
£29.92
Oxford University Press, USA Srinatha
Book SynopsisDavid Shulman and Velcheru Narayana Rao offer a groundbreaking cultural biography of Srinatha, arguably the most creative figure in the thousand-year history of Telugu literature. This fourteenth- and fifteenth-century poet revolutionized the classical tradition and effectively created the classical genre of sustained, thematically focused, coherent large-scale compositions. Some of his works are proto-novellas: self-consciously fictional, focused on the development of characters, and endowed with compelling, fast-paced plots. Though entirely rooted in the cultural world of medieval south India, Srinatha is a poet of universal resonance and relevance. Srinatha: The Poet who Made Gods and Kings provides extended translations of Srinatha''s major works and shows how the poet bridged gaps between oral (improvised) poetry and fixed literary works; between Telugu and the classical, pan-Indian language of Sanskrit; and between local and trans-local cultural contexts. Srinatha is a protean fiTrade ReviewIt is impossible to slap a label on this book. It begins as a biography (a rare genre for this culture) of Srinatha , a poet who lived in Andhra, in South India, in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. But then it goes on to combine hardheaded historical contextualization with a generous appreciation of the rich web of legends about Srinatha, all informed by lyrical translations and brilliant readings of his poems.... The works of Srinatha , like this work of Shulman and Narayana Rao, are playful, rejoicing in comic incongruity and exuberant excess, no holds barred. The authors rightly insist that you do not need to know Telugu to read this book and that readers will recognize here much that resonates with their knowledge of other great literatures. It's a great read. * Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, University of Chicago *Table of ContentsPreface ; 1. Introduction ; 2. What Happens When a Poem is Translated into a Poem? ; 3. Building in Sound ; 4. A Novella in Two Voices ; 5. Afterlife ; 6. Conclusion ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index
£39.89
The University of Chicago Press El Dorado
Book SynopsisExplores what it feels like to live in America, at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Splicing cell-phone chatter with translations of ancient poems, and turning his high-res lens on everything from box stores to trout streams to airport lounges, the author renders both personal and collective experience with capacious and subtle skill.Trade Review"Because his language is so alive and spicy, Peter Campion can write about almost anything and make it memorable. His poems are equally at home in the cities of today and in the wreck we've made of nature. Reading him, you feel the whole weight of American poetry from Whitman through Hart Crane to Kenneth Koch ennobling his lines and giving them both their form and their crackle." (American Academy of Arts and Letters)"
£18.00
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Henry V The RSC Shakespeare
Book SynopsisFrom the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's great exploration of patriotism and war.
£12.63
Palgrave Macmillan Next Word Better Word The Craft of Writing Poetry
Book SynopsisThis accessible writer's guide provides a helpful framework for creating poetry and navigates contemporary concerns and practices. Both enlightening and encouraging, Next Word, Better Word demystifies a subtle art form and shows writers how to overcome obstacles in the creative process.Trade Review'Dobyns (Warren Wilson College) has long been prominent in contemporary American letters, not only for several books of poetry and an impressive number of novels and literary awards but also for his first collection of essays on poetry, Best Words, Best Order (1996). In the introduction to this new collection, Dobyns explains that Next Word, Better Word "complements and continues" its predecessor while attempting to be "more methodical" and more accessible to lay readers. Organized into 13 chapters, each devoted to some aspect of the genre, this book will certainly become, as did its predecessor, a classic. Impeccable in scholarship, packed with apt examples and careful reasoning, the present volume offers novice poets full, readable explanations on how to approach some of the most difficult problems of the craft. Seasoned poets and critics will find much to reconsider in terms of craft and aesthetics. Dobyns's polite, quiet attempt to reframe the genre amid divergent contemporary debate is of particular importance and should occupy conversations on the topic for quite some time. A particularly worthwhile challenge for undergraduates. Summing Up: Essential. All readers. - C. E. O'Neill, New Mexico State University at Alamogordo' - Choice Essential review Choice Essential review'No one but Stephen Dobyns has tackled this impossible genre with such smart, sensible, and charming results. Place this new one next to his Best Words, Best Order, and the poetry-instruction shelf of your library will be complete. All bitten by the poetry bug must read this.' - Billy Collins, Poet Laureate of the United States, 2001-2003 and author of Ballistics 'Serious but playful; stylish and true; honest yet magical-this is a comprehensive and beautifully written book about the thorny, joyous art of making poems. It is the best contemporary guide to poetry I have read.' - David Morley, National Teaching Fellow, University of Warwick and author of Enchantment 'Stephen Dobyns unpacks the essential kit of the trade, all the taken-for-granted tools which poets think with and work with to find out what their poems want to say: line breaks, how syllables behave, the hide-and-seek of metaphor, how a poem hangs on the page like a bird in flight. He enters into dialogue with a galaxy of poets, to help us listen better to poems, to read better, and also maybe write better this most central of arts.' - Ruth Padel, author of Darwin: A Life in Poems and The Poem and the Journey 'Next Word, Better Word is a gift from a great teacher returning us to the enduring mysteries of the art.' - Ellen Bryant Voigt, former Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and author of Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006 "Stephen Dobyns, a great American poet, gives a lucid explanation of his craft. This book is valuable for poets, film-makers, novelists, playwrights, and anyone interested in the clear expression of original thought." - Fred Wiseman, film-maker 'Stephen Dobyns' new book on poetic craft defines, with an impressive breadth of reference, what is required for poets to give their subjects significant form, a nuanced aesthetic embodiment that is true to the poet's deepest concerns and open to a process of discovery, resistant to any idea that might limit a full exploration of the chosen materials. This book should be of genuine interest not only to apprentice poets but to anyone who wants to understand the choices involved in making a poem substantial and persuasive.'- Carl Dennis, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry and author of Poetry as Persuasion 'Robert Frost said that a poem 'must begin in delight and end in wisdom.' Here is the rare book about the process of poetry that does both, and brilliantly. Luminous erudition coupled with a palpable love for subject, Next Word, Better Word is sure to be an education and an inspiration for student poets, seasoned poets, and-dare I say-there's plenty here for prose writers, too. Dobyns not only takes us deeply into the matter of the poet's craft, but into the poet himself: how the knowledge necessary to write a good poem intersects with the enlightenment born of experience." - Binnie Kirshenbaum, Writing Chair, School of the Arts Writing Program, Columbia University and author of The Scenic Route 'Stephen Dobyns states in his introduction that 'writing a poem is one of the ways to love the world,' and the rest of the book demonstrates, in exquisite, careful detail, exactly how. Full of invaluable insights and basic information for aspiring poets, Dobyns' collection also has much to say to his peers-and he peoples his essays with some of the art's most engaging practitioners, from the well-known, such as Baudelaire and Rilke, to those who will be new to many, such as the Russian Acmeists, and most valuably, he gives us their poetry as well their thoughts and lives. It's a book to study, to return to, to annotate with marginalia, but it's also a book to curl up with and simply enjoy.' - Cole Swensen, Professor, Iowa Writers' Workshop and author of Goest Praise for Best Words, Best Order: 'Few writers are as versatile or prolific as Stephen Dobyns ... He provides us with informed, resonant readings of contemporary poems.' -The New York Times Book Review 'Painstaking, admirable, and enjoyable.' -The Times Literary Supplement 'These essays are wonderfully efficient little machines, reproducing in the reader Dobyns's deep understanding of and affection for the work of such peers as Rilke, Mandelstan, and Chekhov.' -Library JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction Approaching Subject Matter Joining Form and Content Reconciling Paradox Aspects of the Syllable Line Breaks Context and Causality A Sense of Space Closure Revision Moral Inquiry Bearing Witness Counterpoint The Nature of Metaphor
£13.99
Penguin Putnam Inc Paradise Lost
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£17.92
Lulu.com Bring Me Dreams Of Roses
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£8.11
Lulu.com Haiku en Senryu
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£12.80
University of Illinois Press Spring National Poetry Series
Book Synopsis Oni Buchanan, a conservatory-trained concert pianist, is the author of the poetry collection What Animal.
£36.00
University of Illinois Press Latin American Melodrama
Book SynopsisDarlene J. Sadlier is a professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University and the author of Nelson Pereira dos Santos and, most recently, Brazil Imagined: 1500 to the Present.Trade Review"A welcome addition to the literature, particularly given melodrama's centrality in cinematic and televisual discourses in Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuala. A very important volume." Randal Johnson, author of Manoel de OliveiraTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; Introduction; Film Melodrama in Latin America: A Short History; Darlene J. Sadlier; 1. Gilberto Perez; Melodrama of the Spirited Woman: Aventurera; 2. Luisela Alvaray; Melodrama and the Emergence of Venezuelan Cinema; 3. Paula Felix-Didier and Andres Levinson; The Building of a Nation: La guerra gaucha as Historical Melodrama; 4. Cid Vasconcelos; Women as Civilizers in 1940s Brazilian Cinema: Between Passion and the Nation; 5. Ismail Xavier; The Humiliation of the Father: Melodrama and Cinema Novo's Critique of Conservative Modernization; 6. Darlene J. Sadlier; Nelson Pereira dos Santos'Cinema de lagrimas; 7. Marvin D'Lugo; Luis Alcoriza or a Certain Anti-Melodramatic Tendency in Mexican Cinema; 8. Mariana Baltar; Weeping Reality: Melodramatic Imagination in Contemporary Brazilian Documentaries; 9. Catherine L. Benamou; Televisual Melodrama in an Era of Transnational Migration: Exporting the Folkloric Nation, Harvesting the Melancholic-Sublime; Notes on Contributors
£63.75
University of Notre Dame Press Magnificent Errors
Book SynopsisMagnificent Errors is a collection of poems that shows how mental health challenges can elicit beauty, resiliency, and hope.In 2005, Sheryl Luna burst onto the poetry scene with Pity the Drowned Horses, which quickly became a classic of border and Southwest literature with its major point of reference in and around El Paso, Texas. Now with the poems in Magnificent Errors, Luna's third collection and winner of the Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry, Luna turns her gaze toward people living on the marginswhether it be cultural, socioeconomic, psychological, or personaland celebrates their ability to recover and thrive. Luna reveals that individuals who suffer and experience injustice are often lovely and awe inspiring. Her poems reflect on immigrants in a detention camp, a meth addict, a homeless individual, and someone on food stamps. She explores the voices of people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or PTSD, poets, visual artists, and peoplTrade Review“With Magnificent Errors, Luna has broken the regional boundaries of the American Southwest and become one of America’s finest poets.” —Dagoberto Gilb, author of Before the End, After the Beginning“In Magnificent Errors, Sheryl Luna shows us once again why she is one of America’s premier poets. Her gutsy, gorgeous language, her hard-won vision of grit and grace—all bid us enter the universe of a poetic saint whose earthy wisdom is unparalleled.” —Joy Roulier Sawyer, author of Lifeguards and Tongues of Men and Angels"Sheryl Luna's voice is unforgettable because she has a visionary touch where her experiences become our own. As readers, we are blessed to find ourselves in her poems. We have been waiting. As a poet, she shows us, in powerful poem after poem, what it takes for the poet to reveal her place in a difficult world. The result is a book that opens when the poet says so and rests, gently, in the reader's hands." —Ray Gonzalez, author of Feel Puma"Since her 2005 debut Pity the Drowned Horses, Luna has excelled at the elegant lyric, yet what stands out here are the interior landscapes that bridge a visionary attention to nature and raw reflections on mental illness, abuse, trauma, and healing. . . . Luna’s book beautifully expands upon the many intersections between Chicana ecopoetics and disability poetics, while claiming its own lyric territories." —The Latinx Project"Like her acclaimed first book 'Pity the Drowned Horses' and second book 'Seven,' Luna's newest work reminds readers, no matter a person's socio-economic or mental status, all of humanity is linked. Every poem in this collection is a standout. Each piece succinctly captures the discontent of the country's working poor." —Latino Book ReviewTable of ContentsI 1. Lowering Your Standards for Food Stamps 2. The Vocation 3. The Thief 4. Change 5. Tornillo’s Tent Prison for Migrant Children 6. Salt Shaker 7. Meditation on Hunger 8. Breathing the Border’s Fire 9. The Poet 10. Autumn’s Art 11. Forehead 12. Regeneration 13. What I’d Say if I had Fifteen Minutes of Fame II 14. Shock and Awe 15. Neighbors Smoke on an Apartment Porch Owned by a Mental Health Agency 16. Secret Missionary for the Virgin Mary Off His Meds 17. The Sailing Bicycle 18. Shock Treatment 19. Lit 20. Lamentation to Praise 21. The Language of Drowning 22. The Star Song 23. To Rest 24. The Leaves 25. Manic with Depression 26. Eccentric 27. A Homeless Poet Friend Rages at the World’s Lesser People 28. The Party 29. Adopting Step-Father 30. Alone 31. Voice 32. Figures 33. Anxiety and Diagnosis 34. The Artist Addressing Violence 35. The Singer 36. She Wishes She Never Had 37. I.Q. Over 160? 38. The Prayer III 39. Night 40. Rubbernecking 41. Listening to Sky 42. Risk 43. The Laugh 44. We Believe in Kindness Because It’s Hard to Die 45. Casualties 46. The Witness 47. The Hummingbird 48. Clouds and Sapling 49. Prayer for this Clay Earth 50. Mud 51. Finding Water 52. The Transgression
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Pennsylvania State University Press The Subtext of Form in the English Renaissance
Book SynopsisDuring the sixteenth century in England the logocentrism of the Middle Ages was confronted by a materialism that heralded the modern world. With remarkable tenacity in music, poetry, and painting, the orthodox aesthetic persisted as formal features which served as nonverbal signs and provided a subtext of form. In opposition, however, a radical aesthetic emerged to accommodate the new attention to physical nature. The growing force of materialism occasioned a fundamental rethinking of what an artifact might represent and how that representation might be achieved. This book explores the ontological and epistemological issues that poststructuralist thought raises about that shift in our cultural history. In doing so, it charts a course for Renaissance studies, now in disarray, that avoids the old positivism while not succumbing to the new nihilism.Trade Review“This is a work of seminal importance in educating scholars on how to perceive art in any medium precisely because Heninger provides a successful methodology for understanding what lies behind the apparent content of texts and images. The book is highly original in advancing new theories, analyzing specific art works as well as synthesizing the gamut of conventional and avant-garde wisdom. One has the sense of having finally understood what texts and visual arts have in common, even and especially across geographical boundaries (Italy and England).”—Charles H. Carman,State University of New York, Buffalo“Neither the politically correct, nor the theoretical avant-garde, nor the conservative opposition to any and all theory will fully endorse this book, but all of these groups are likely to be influenced by its candor and solid scholarship. This book deserves to be widely read because it advances the theoretical discussion of how we view and should view history and hermeneutics.”—Jean R. Brink,Arizona State University
£35.96
SPCK Publishing Henry Vaughan
Book SynopsisHenry Vaughan (1621-1695) was a 'cavalier' poet who sided with the king during the civil war. His influences included George Herbert and this volume is the fifth in a series on seventeenth century spiritual writing.
£13.99
University of Washington Press Lights Ladder
Book SynopsisPart of the "Pacific Northwest Poetry" series, this collection of poems presents us with a spiritual paradox. The speaker remembers an earlier time of happiness, freedom, and a certain innocence. "How we live" is its major inquiry; its illustration, and the poems' major achievement.Trade Review"No excerpt of any of the poems will help you understand the poignancy and meaning in these poems. Read them. Read them all. It will change your life." * Salem Statesman Journal *"Chris Howell is probably the most gifted poet in America..He tends to write magnificent lyrical poems, but Light's Ladder is filled with narrative poems and they are tremendous." * Redactions: Poetry and Poetics *Table of ContentsPreface I If He Remembers June Light in Oslo Running Metamorphosis Trusting the Beads Unexpectation History Today Situation 2003 A Party on the Way to Rome Apacatastasis If the World Were Glass The Counterchime Confession He Writes to the Soul 1974 II Stories for Braille Calliope Sometimes at the Braille Calliope Bird Man Stranded The Eye Becomes Birds Because of War The Toad Prince King's Ex Zeno The Thriteenth Interval Teleology of the Airhose King of the Butterflies The Montavilla Reveries The Fire Elegies 1. Family Values 2. The Double Suicide of Marriage 3. To Build a Fire 4. Storm 5. Arrivals 6. The Angels of Rescue A Christmas Ode After the Fashion of Michael Hefferman... Heaven III Why the River Is Always Laughing Galileo Story Time All Day at the Brainard Pioneer Cemetery Backyard Astronomy Letter Cole Porter The Getaway Keats Event Like Rain Descending The New Orpheus A Little Blues Acknowledgments About the Poet
£68.25
University of Washington Press No Starling
Book SynopsisAccomplishes what has proven to be so difficult for poets across time: a deeply satisfying balance of the spiritual and political. This book focuses on both singular and communal: the self on its journey through the world and our responsibilities as a people for the precarious state of that world.Trade Review"No Starling touches upon spiritual and political issues alike, signing aloud in a crystal clear voices that deserves to be heard." * Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsI / Doorman Slate Waking, Working Mister We Called Goodgye, but She Was Already Gone Agape Black Stitches, Black Knots Doorman The New Boys Will Never Love You In the New Boy's In-Basket All Asides Aside White Marginalia Errata RE: The Two New Boys The Rattled Hymn of the Republic II / Middle, Nowhere Before There Was a Road (On the Way to Wilburville) Middle, Nowhere Seme and Semaphore I Am on a Break Retrograde: Echoes from Earlier Chapters Passing Through the Shadows of Great Buildings The Usual When the Van Broke Down III /Threshold Reentry White Brides, White Mistresses Almost an End of Absinthe Verlaine in Prison Simone Weil at the Renault Factory (1935) At Some Point the River Always Veers Away from the Road The Winter Cow Eurydice Our Ladies of Elsewhere You People IV / We Fall in Behind We Fall in Behind Fuck It Notes Upriver: Distinctions of Never and Ever The Ones You Love Are Cold Let Me Remind You You Are Still Under Oath I Talk to the Bread, I Chat with the Dough Breaking Only Little Laws Indiscriminate Kisses Leastways Adieu Hand-Embroidered Mourning Piece for Clara Elisabeth Kriebel, 1779 Bid Me Be the Bird Acknowledgments About the Poet
£14.24
Yale University Press The Light in Troy
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Yale University Press To the Place of the Trumpets Yale Series of Younger Poets
Book SynopsisThe winning volume in the 1987 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is To the Place of Trumpets. As James Merrill, distinguished poet and judge of the competition, has said: Brigit Pegeen Kelly's poems suggest a kind of folk art-their clay washed of narrative grit, serviceably turned and fancifully decorated, fired, then filled at the creative instinct's oldest well. It is a pleasure to drink form this fine local pottery.
£19.32
Yale University Press The Poetry of Michelangelo An Annotated
Book SynopsisA bilingual edition of the more than 300 sonnets, madrigals and other poems produced by Michelangelo over his long career. The poems reveal much of the artist's inner feelings about such universal themes as love, death and redemption.
£51.58
Yale University Press Cligès
Book SynopsisThis translation of "Cliges", the second of five surviving 12th century Arthurian poems, is in a metric form invented specifically to reflect the poet's narrative speed and tone.
£30.44
Yale University Press Reflections on Espionage
Book SynopsisThis book-length poem is structured as a series of messages transmitted by a master spy to the director of spy operations and a number of his fellow spies. The spy speaks of his own alienation and sense of purposelessness as a secret agent.
£20.43
Yale University Press Long Days Journey into Night
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The restoration of several previously missing lines of dialogue and stage direction likely make this the definitive edition of a 'play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood,' as O’Neill described it in dedicating it to his wife, Carlotta."—Boston GlobeWinner of the 1957 New York Drama Critics Circle Award given by the New York Drama Critics' CircleWinner of the 1957 Pulitzer Prize in Drama"Long Day’s Journey Into Night has long since become a classic not only of the American stage, but of universal theater. And apart from its secure place in literature, the play is an invaluable key to its author’s creative evolution. It serves as the Rosetta Stone of O’Neill’s life and art."—Barbara Gelb"Only an artist of O’Neill’s extraordinary skill and perception can draw the curtain on the secrets of his own family to make you peer into your own. Long Day’s Journey Into Night is the most remarkable achievement of one of the world’s greatest dramatists."—Jose Quintero "Long Day's Journey is O'Neill's last, most realized play, a grand act of mercy upon his family and his own life."—Arthur Miller"The helplessness of family love to sustain, let alone heal, the wounds of marriage, of parenthood, and of sonship, have never been so remorselessly and so pathetically portrayed, and with a force of gesture too painful ever to be forgotten by any of us."—Harold Bloom, from the Foreword
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Yale University Press Collected Poetry and Prose
Book SynopsisA poet, writer and painter, Dante Gabriel Rossetti was seen as a dominating cultural presence in the second half of the 19th century. Jerome McGann, scholar of the 19th and 20th century, presents this selection of Rossetti's poetry, prose and original translations, with commentaries and notes.Trade Review"This is the most coherent and intelligible selection of Rossetti's work available in print, and it has the most interpretatively suggestive notes. Its inclusion of important writings not available elsewhere will expand the current understanding of Rossetti." Elizabeth Helsinger, University of Chicgo
£43.79
Yale University Press Ben Jonson The Complete Masques
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Yale University Press The Earth in the Attic
Book SynopsisA collection of poems which are varied, coherent, fierce and tender.
£20.43
Yale University Press Words as Grain
Book SynopsisAn authoritative new collection by one of China's most lauded poets Trade ReviewLonglisted for the 2022 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, sponsored by PEN America“Hard-hitting yet elusive, Duo Duo’s poetry speaks to body and soul alike. Klein’s translations are uncompromising and gripping, just like the source texts. This writing is inimitable. Words as Grain gives pride of place to a truly unique voice in poetry.”—Maghiel van Crevel
£25.99
Yale University Press Crush
Book SynopsisTrade Review“One book I keep returning to is Richard Siken’s Crush. . . . The poems are vivid, heaving things, stuffed with obsession and surprises. . . . The poems aren’t comforting, but they’re invigorating. This is a book about thrashing around in the great big world, being messy, being alive.”—Elizabeth A. Harris, New York Times Book Review“Siken writes about love, desire, violence, and eroticism with a cinematic brilliance and urgency that makes this one of the best books of contemporary poetry.”—Victoria Chang, Huffington Post“Vital, immediate, and cinematic in scope, [Siken’s] verse offers sharply observed vignettes of longing, love, and pain.”—Library Journal (Best Poetry of 2005) “A powerful collection of poems . . . at once confessional, gay, savage, and charged with a violent eroticism.”—ForecastFinalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in PoetryWinner of the 2005 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, sponsored by The Publishing Triangle“Crush is a wondrous, brilliant book. Richard Siken’s poetry is daring in its construction, graceful yet startling in its beauty, and complicit with emotions and states of mind that would have remained unintelligible without him.”—Dennis Cooper
£999.99
The Perseus Books Group What Do We Know
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Hachette Books The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice
Book SynopsisAllen Ginsberg (1926-1997) kept a journal his entire life, beginning at the age of eleven. In these first journals the most important and formative years of the poet''s storied life are captured, his inner thoughts detailed in what the San Francisco Chronicle calls a vivid first-person account...Ginsberg''s unmistakable voice coming into its own for the first time. Ginsberg''s journals-so candid he insisted they be published only after his death-document his complex, fascinating relationships with such figures of Beat lore as Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, and reveal a growing self-awareness about himself, his sexuality, and his identity as a poet. Illustrated with never-before-seen photos and bolstered by an appendix of his earliest poems, The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice is a major literary event.Trade Review"(A) gem... Ginsberg's journals reveal a sensitive, vulnerable imagination." Washington Post Book World"
£22.39
Random House USA Inc Akhmatova Poems
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Stay Illusion Poems
Book SynopsisNational Book Award Finalist Stay, Illusion, the much-anticipated volume of poems by Lucie Brock-Broido, illuminates the broken but beautiful world she inhabits. Her poems are lit with magic and stark with truth: whether they speak from the imagined dwelling of her “Abandonarium,” or from habitats where animals are farmed and harmed “humanely,” or even from the surreal confines of death row, they find a voice like no other—dazzling, intimate, startling, heartbreaking. Eddying between the theater of the lavish and the enigmatic, between the gaudy and the unadorned, Brock-Broido’s verse scours America for material to render unflinchingly the here and now. Grandeur devolves into a comic irony: “We have come to terms with our Self / Like a marmoset getting out of her Great Ape suit.” She dares the unexplained: “The wings were left ajar / At the altar where I’ve knelt all night, trembling, leaning, rou
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Pan Macmillan Valparaiso
Book SynopsisIn Valparaiso, a breathtaking play from Don DeLillo, a man sets out on what he imagines will be an ordinary business trip to Valparaiso, Indiana. It proves to be anything but run-of-the-mill, turning instead into a mock-heroic journey toward identity and transcendence. Valparaiso is a funny, sharp and deeply satirical look at our information age. This is the way we talk to each other today. This is the way we tell each other things, in public, before listening millions, that we don't dare say privately. Nothing is allowed to be unseen. Nothing remains unread. And everything melts repeatedly into something else, as if driven by the finger on the TV remote. This is also a play that makes obsessive poetry out of the language of routine airline announcements and the flow of endless information.Trade ReviewValparaiso is art at its finest. * Boston Globe *A play that crawls into the most carefully protected corners of one’s consciousness—gorgeous, frightening, stunningly poetic, wickedly funny, surprisingly voluptuous and poetic. * Chicago Sun-Times *
£9.99
Pan Macmillan Slow Air
Book SynopsisA Painted Field - Robin Robertson’s first collection - was published in 1997 to unanimous acclaim. In language both sensuous and coolly forthright, the poems in Slow Air describe the arc of loss, the search for grace, and the radiances and shadows of the natural world - the work pitching its embattled romanticism, its lyric weight, against fear, grief and erasure. Praise for A Painted Field ‘A superb debut . . . darkly chiselled poems haunted by mortality and the fragility of life’s pleasures’ Kazuo Ishiguro, Sunday Times Books of the Year ‘The best new poet in Britain is Robin Robertson’ Andrew O’Hagan, Independent on Sunday Books of the Year ‘A poetic voice of quiet yet charged maturity: lyrical and complex, transparent and gravid, it can treat both the public theme and the intensely personal with the same serenely wrought fire’ William Boyd, Scotsman B
£10.44
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Fifteen OneAct Plays
Book SynopsisFilled with wry, dark humor, unparalleled imagination, unforgettable characters, and exquisitely crafted storytelling, Sam Shepard’s plays have earned him enormous acclaim over the past five decades. In these fifteen one-acts, we see him at his best, displaying his trademark ability to portray human relationships, love, and lust with rare authenticity. These fifteen furiously energetic plays confirm Shepard's status as our most audacious living playwright, unafraid to set genres and archetypes spinning with results that are utterly mesmerizing. Included in this volume: Ages of the MoonEvanescence; Shakespeare in the AlleyShort Life of TroubleThe Unseen HandThe Rock GardenChicagoIcarus’s Mother4H ClubFourteen Hundred ThousandRed CrossCowboys #2Forensic & The NavigatorsThe Holy GhostlyBack Bog Beast BaitKiller’s Head
£13.99
Lulu.com Serpent And Dove A Man With No Eyes
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Lulu.com Through My Kakuma Eyes
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