Literary studies: poetry and poets Books

This book is the first extended critical study of the early modern poet Edmund Spenser from the perspective of animal studies. With an introduction situating Spenser in current discussions of animal life and literary form, and early modern animal...

This book considers Samuel Taylor Coleridge's engagement with 'Whig poetry': a tradition of verse from the eighteenth century which celebrated the political and constitutional arrangements of Britain as guaranteeing liberty. It argues that, during the...

Poetry, Architecture, and the New York School: Something Like a Liveable Space examines the relationship between poetics and architecture in the work of the first generation New York School poets, Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, and James...

This book analyses the evolution of literary and artistic representations of the soul, exploring its development through different time periods. The volume combines literary, aesthetic, ethical, and political considerations of the soul in texts and works...

Although the Bible is the foundation of American poetic tradition, there is no study of the Bible as an ongoing force in American poetry. Not only a source of imagery, allusion, rhythm and style, the Bible is central to how poetry has both shaped and...

Anthropocene Poetry: Place, Environment and Planet argues that the idea of the Anthropocene is inspiring new possibilities for poetry. It can also change the way we read and interpret poems. If environmental poetry was once viewed as linked to...

This book reinterprets C. P. Cavafy's historical and archaeological poetics by correlating his work to major cultural, political and sexualized receptions of antiquity that marked the turn of the 20th century. Focusing on selected poems which stage...

This edited collection explores the work of highly awarded and twice American Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin. Spanning Merwin's early career, his mid-career success, his Hawaiian epic, his eco-poetry, his lesser-known later poetry and the influence of...

This book explores how two early modern and two modern Japanese writers - Yosa Buson (1716-83), Ema Saikō (1787-1861), Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902), and Natsume Sōseki (1867-1916) - experimented with the poetic artifice afforded by the East Asian literati...

This book introduces a new way of looking at how poems mean, drawing on the framework first developed in the author's book Critical Stylistics, but applied here to aesthetic more than ideological meaning. The aim is to empower readers of poetry...

This edited collection brings together scholars from across the world, including France, Italy, Germany, Hungary, Japan, the USA and India, to offer a truly international perspective on the global reception of Shakespeare's Sonnets from the...

The Politics of Speech in Later Twentieth-Century Poetry: Local Tongues in Heaney, Brooks, Harrison, and Clifton argues that local speech became a central facet of English-language poetry in the second half of the twentieth century. It is based on a key...

This book explores how confessional poets in the 1950s and 1960s US responded to a Cold War political climate that used the threat of nuclear disaster and communist infiltration as affective tools for the management of public life. In an era that...

This book demonstrates the way in which William Blake aligned his idiosyncratic concept of the Selfhood - the lens through which the despiritualised subject beholds the material world - with the atomistic materialism of the Epicurean school as it was...

This book presents a cognitive stylistic analysis of the writing of Siegfried Sassoon, a First World War poet who has typically been perceived as a poet of protest and irony, but whose work is in fact multi-faceted and complex in theme and shifted in...

This book sets out to navigate questions of the future of Australian poetry. Deliberately designed as a dialogue between poets, each of the four clusters presented here-"Indigeneities"; "Political Landscapes"; "Space, Place, Materiality"; "Revising an...

This book frames British Romanticism as the artistic counterpart to a revolution in subjectivity occasioned by the rise of "The Rule of Law" and as a traumatic response to the challenges mounted against that ideal after the French Revolution. The bulk of...

This book describes the practice of poetic inquiry and takes the reader through the process of translating lived experience into poetry that attends to the lives of others. Using her own writing-from early drafts to published poems-Apol demonstrates...

Limits and Languages in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry examines the transactions between the two main languages of Irish literature, English and Irish, and their formative role in contemporary poetry by Irish women. Daniela Theinová explores the works...

This book offers a broad re-evaluation of the key ideas developed by the German Romantics concerning philosophy and literature. It focuses not only on their own work, but also on that of their fellow travelers (such as Hölderlin) and their contemporary...

This book is a critical study of the ancestors of contemporary poetry anthologies: the poetic miscellanies of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It argues that miscellanies are a distinctive kind of literary collection and that...

This book explores how authors profited from their writings in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, contending that the most tangible benefits were social, rather than financial or aesthetic. It examines...

This book addresses the poetics of space and place in Scottish literature. Focusing chiefly on twentieth- and twenty-first century texts, with acknowledgement of historical and philosophical contexts, the essays address representation, narrative form,...

Gathering together shards of autobiography, poetry, and critical commentary on music and writing, Sheets of Sound evokes DeWald's experiences as a musician and poet, father and teacher, movie-lover and teenage skater. This debut collection of essays-by...

Until he died, Sara Coleridge barely knew her father, but as editor of his estate she found him and presented her Coleridge to the world. My Coleridge responds to Sara Coleridge's diaries, essays and poems, exploring her experience of...

Ezra Pound Kabita is a selected poetry collection of the eminent American poet Ezra Pound in Odia translation. Originally published in 1958 by a passionate publisher Prafulla Chandra Das, the poems are translated by eminent Odia author and translator...

Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter is an innovative study of Scott's and Byron's poetical engagement with borders (actual and metaphorical) and the people living on and around them. The author discusses Scott's edited collection of Border...

Delving into the landscapes and politics of 20th and 21st century Yorkshire, Modern and Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry asks: what is Yorkshire poetry? In other words, what is it that connects poems by Larkin, Hughes, Armitage and Mort, whilst setting them...

THE WORLD BECOMES MORE COMPLEX EVERY MINUTE.Between political unrest, deepening inequality, and ambiguity across relationships, the future is thrown into uncertainty with no room to break free. Even the freedom to choose how to move forward is bogged...

Seit dem Jahr 2000 schreibe ich Verse und Gedichte, über alles, was mir - und wohl auch anderen - auf der Seele liegt. Im Laufe der Zeit sind es 106 Überschriften geworden - Verse sind es wesentlich mehr. Hinter denen verbirgt sich, wie der Untertitel...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Literaturgeschichte, Epochen, Note: 9,3/10, Universiteit van Amsterdam (Germanistik), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Bertolt Brecht war überzeugt, dass der Arbeiter in einer idealen Gesellschaft...

Ink Veins is a collection of poetry written over the span of a decade. Broken into collection - each touches on various times in Persephone Autumn's life. Persephone Autumn's debut poetry collection, Ink Veins, explores topics of depression, love, and...

Drip fed, little by little, I was young when I got my first taste of poison.Small doses in heart-shaped packages labeled as love.I don't remember the very first taste. But that's how poison works.

The Abiding Image by Cathy Smith Bowers gives testament to poet and editor Alfred A. Poulin’s belief that “the very act of writing poetry is an affirmative one, saying no to any force that would destroy the human spirit.” Part handbook,...

Maurice Scully is not a poet for whom experience is shrouded in words. He doesn’t begin with complicated patterns of sound that disentangle into conventional forms, or a neat trope that encapsulates a truth that oft was thought but ne’er so...

Beginning in 1963 and continuing through the late 1980s, a loose coterie of like-minded Canadian poets challenged the conventions of writing and poetic meaning by fusing their practice with strategies from visual art, sound art, sculpture, installation,...

Poet Annie Finch shares her lifelong passion for meter and scansion with poetry lovers and poets in this uniquely useful book. From the basic tools and fundamental 3 steps of scansion to the most complex metrical delights, How to Scan a...

'ଭକ୍ତ ସାଲବେଗଙ୍କ ଭଜନ ପରିକ୍ରମା' ପୁସ୍ତକଟି ଏକ ଉଚ୍ଚକୋଟୀର ସଂକଳନ । ଏଥିରେ ଭାବପୂର୍ଣ୍ଣ ବିଷୟ, ଭକ୍ତକବି ସାଲବେଗଙ୍କ ଜୀବନୀ ଏବଂ ତାଙ୍କ ଭଜନାବଳୀର କଳାତ୍ମକ ପରିପ୍ରକାଶ ଜିଜ୍ଞାସୁ ପାଠକମାନଙ୍କ ମହଲରେ ଲାଭ କରିବ ବୋଲି ବିଶ୍ୱାସ । ଆଶା କରୁ, ଏ ପୁସ୍ତକଟି ସମସ୍ତ ସୁଧୀବର୍ଗଙ୍କୁ ଶ୍ରୀଜଗନ୍ନାଥୀୟ...

ଗୌତମ ଜେନାଙ୍କ 'ସମୟ ବିଷାଦ ନଈ' ଏକ ଉଚ୍ଚାଙ୍ଗ କାବ୍ୟ ସୃଷ୍ଟି । ଆଧୁନିକ ଓଡ଼ିଆ କବିତାର କ୍ଲାସିକ୍ ଗ୍ରନ୍ଥ ରୂପେ ଏହାକୁ ବିବେଚନା କରାଯାଇପାରେ । କାବ୍ୟ ନାୟିକା ଗୌତମୀକୁ କେନ୍ଦ୍ରରେ ରଖି କବି ପ୍ରେମ, ପ୍ରଣୟ ଓ ଅକୁଣ୍ଠ ଭଲପାଇବାର ଏକ ଚିପୁଡ଼ା ଲୋଡ଼ିବାପଣକୁ ବ୍ୟକ୍ତିଗତ ଅନୁଚିନ୍ତନର ଗଭୀରତାରେ ଆକଳନ କରି...

ବୁଦ୍ଧି ଓ ଆବେଗ ଭିତରେ ପ୍ରାର୍ଥକ୍ୟ ବା ଆବେଗର ପ୍ରାଧାନ୍ୟ ସାବ୍ୟସ୍ତ କରିବା ମୋର ଉଦ୍ଦେଶ୍ୟ ନୁହେଁ । ଏକ ମାର୍ଜିତ ଚିତ୍ତବୃତ୍ତିରେ ଏ ଦୁଇ ଉପାଦାନ ଅଭିନ୍ନ ଭାବେ ମିଶ୍ରିତ । ସାହିତ୍ୟ ସୃଷ୍ଟି କଲାବେଳେ ଛବିଟିଏ ଆଙ୍କିଲା ବେଳେ, ଗୀତଟିଏ ଗାଇଲା ବେଳେ ବୁଦ୍ଧି କାମ କରୁଥାଏ, ନଚେତ୍ ରଚନା ଭାବଜ୍ଞାପକ ହେବ...

'ଅଷ୍ଟପଦୀ' ସୀତାକାଂତଂକର ଦ୍ୱିତୀୟ କବିତା-ଗ୍ରଂଥ । ପୂର୍ବରୁ 'ଦୀପ୍ତି ଓ ଦ୍ୟୁତି'ରେ ତାଂକର ଅନେକଗୁଡ଼ିଏ କ୍ଷୁଦ୍ର କବିତା ଏକତ୍ରିତ ହୋଇ ପ୍ରକାଶ ପାଇଥିଲା । 'ଅଷ୍ଟପଦୀ'ର କବିତାଗୁଡ଼ିକ ଦୀର୍ଘ ଓ କେତେକ ପରିମାଣରେ ପରୀକ୍ଷାମୂଳକ । ଆଜି ଓଡ଼ିଶାର କାବ୍ୟ-ରସିକ-ବିଦଗ୍‌ଧ ପାଠକ କେତେକ ଅତି ଉତ୍କୃଷ୍ଟ ବୁଦ୍ଧି...

ଏକ ରକମ ଚୁପ୍‌ଚାପ୍ ହୋଇ ଯାଇଥିଲି । ଦିନେ ଯେ ମୋର କବିତା ସଙ୍କଳନଟିଏ ପ୍ରକାଶ ପାଇବ, ଏ ବିଶ୍ୱାସ ନଥିଲା । କବିତା ପ୍ରକାଶନ, ପ୍ରକାଶକ ବନ୍ଧୁମାନଙ୍କ ପାଇଁ ବ୍ୟବସାୟିକ ହତାଶା ବୋଲି ମନେ କରାଯାଏ ଆମ ରାଜ୍ୟରେ । କାରଣ କବିତା ପଢ଼ିବାର ସଉକ୍ ଏ ଦୈହିକ, ଜଡ଼, ମୁଦ୍ରାସ୍ଫିତି କାଳରେ କିପରି ବା ରହିବ! ସହଜପଣିଆକୁ...

The Poet’s Tomb contains five interconnecting essays that explore the idea of consciousness in poetry, tracking work from Anne Carson and Sappho to W.G.Sebald’s and artist Paul Nash’s take on Sir Thomas Browne’s Urne Buriall...

Michael Martin's Meditations in Times of Wonder is a collection of what might be called "postmodern metaphysical poetry." It inhabits a space characterized by love and anger, by pathos and laughter, by perplexity and grace."Michael Martin's poetry, like...

The Ordeal of Mercy is a book of wide erudition and simple style; its goal is to present the Purgatorio, according to the science of spiritual psychology, as a practical guide to travelers on the Spiritual Path. The author draws upon many sources: the...