Literary studies: poetry and poets Books

Some of the best known African American poems are sonnets: Claude McKay's "If We Must Die," Countee Cullen's "Yet Do I Marvel," Gwendolyn Brooks's "First fight. Then fiddle." Yet few readers realize that these...

Focusing on the significance of place, connection and relationship in three poets who are seldom considered in conjunction, Rory Waterman argues that Philip Larkin, R.S. Thomas and Charles Causley epitomize many of the emotional and societal shifts and...

To Samuel Taylor Coleridge, tragedy was not solely a literary mode, but a philosophy to interpret the history that unfolded around him. Tragic Coleridge explores the tragic vision of existence that Coleridge derived from Classical drama, Shakespeare,...

Bringing to bear his expertise in the early modern emblem tradition, William E. Engel traces a series of self-reflective organizational schemes associated with baroque artifice in the work of Herman Melville and Edgar Allan Poe. While other scholars have...

Urdu Literary Culture examines the impact of political circumstances on vernacular (Urdu) literary culture through an in-depth study of the writings of Muhammad Hasan Askari, who lived during the Partition of India.

These essays address the intersections between Shakespeare, history and the present using a variety of new and established methodological approaches, from phenomenology and ecocriticism to the new economics and aesthetics.

Tennyson experienced at first hand the all-pervasive nature of celebrity culture. It caused him to retreat from the eyes of the world. This book delineates Tennyson's reluctant celebrity and its effects on his writings, on his coterie of famous and...

Shakespeare's Boys: A Cultural History offers the first extensive exploration of boy characters in Shakespeare's plays, examining a range of characters from across the Shakespearean canon in their original early modern contexts and surveying their...

Hardy's Geography reconsiders a familiar element in Hardy's novels: their use of place and, specifically, of Dorset. Hardy said his Wessex was a 'partly real, partly dream-country'. This study examines how reality and dream interact in his work. Should...

Exile defines the Shakespearean canon, from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to The Two Noble Kinsmen . This book traces the influences on the drama of exile, examining the legal context of banishment (pursued against Catholics, gypsies and vagabonds) in...

Spatial Representations and the Jacobean Stage offers a timely alternative to theatre criticism's neglect of the intensely spatial character of theatrical performance. The book shows that early modern audiences were highly aware of the spatial aspects of...

Shakespeare's Culture in Modern Performance is an original study at the interface of a historicizing literary criticism and the study of modern performance. In a critical climate that views the cultural object of performance as authentic in itself, is...

John Clare, Politics and Poetry challenges the traditional portrait of 'poor John Clare', the helpless victim of personal and professional circumstance. Clare's career has been presented as a disaster of editorial heavy-handedness, condescension, a poor...

With the great merit of Aristotle's Poetics , poetic logic became a theoretical activity endowed with a philosophical nature allowing it to be more philosophical than the pure representation of existence. Today, however, the theoretical status of poetic...

This book is a study of war and the perceptions of war. It deals specifically with the British Romantic period writers who lived through the Napoleonic wars, and the way in which those wars affected the writing of Scott, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley,...

Shakespeare Among the Animals examines the role of animal-metaphor in the Shakespeare stage, particularly as such metaphor serves to underwrite various forms of social difference. Working through texts such as Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream ,...

The Bible serves Wordsworth as a basis for his poetry and poetics, providing language, images, figures, and importantly, a paradigm of poetic genres. Working from three interrelated critical approaches - intertextuality, poetics, and metaphysics -...

Expectation of the millennium was widespread in English society at the end of the eighteenth century. The essays in this volume explore how exactly, this expectation shaped, and was shaped by, the literature, art, and politics of the period we now call...

This book explores the political significance of formal experimentation in American poetry written during the 1960s, 70s and 80s. It focuses on the use of procedural forms, which involve the invention of rules or methods designed to structure the...

This highly readable book represents a unique approach to the controverted matter of the relations of literature and religion, eschewing linear argument in favor of a nuanced essayistic manner that elucidates texts and issues of immediate and lasting...

Through an analysis of Dante's story of Paolo and Francesco, this book combines contemporary ethical theory, literary interpretation, and historical narrative to defend the humanities as a source of moral guidance.

Poetics of the Body examines representations of the body in the work of four important twentieth-century poets: Edna St. Vincent Millay, Elizabeth Bishop, Marilyn Chin, and Marilyn Hacker. Drawing on both past and present discussions regarding the place...

400 after his birth, John Milton remains one of the greatest and most controversial figures in English literature. 'The Oxford Handbook of Milton' is a comprehensive guide to the state of Milton studies in the early 21st century, bringing together an...

Questions of genres as well as their possible definitions, taxonomies, and functions have been discussed since antiquity. Even though categories of genre today are far from being fixed, they have for decades been upheld without question. The goal of this...

ARTHUR RIMBAUD: SELECTED POEMS edited and translated by Andrew Jary With the French text and an English translation. These new versions of searing lyricism will delight lovers of poetry. Andrew Jary has selected the most representative pieces by the...

Where poetry is dominated by amateurs, its key ideas are the ones that nobody owns. Underneath the glittering cavalcade of conscious and innovative art is another world of poetry without technique, protected from change. Can we find a history of what...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, ...

Das Buch ""Die Eigennamen Bei Homer"" wurde im Jahr 1880 von C. L. August Hagemann ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um eine Studie �����ber die Eigennamen, die in Homers Werken vorkommen. Der Autor untersucht die Bedeutung und Herkunft der Namen und...

""Die Doktrin der Liebe bei den italienischen Lyrikern des 13. Jahrhunderts"" ist ein Buch, das im Jahr 1889 von Lothar Goldschmidt ver������ffentlicht wurde. In diesem Werk untersucht der Autor die Liebesdoktrin, die in der italienischen Lyrik des 13...

Die Dietsche Lucidarius is een leerdicht uit de veertiende eeuw, geschreven in het Middelnederlands. Het is een allegorisch werk dat probeert de lezer te onderwijzen over verschillende onderwerpen, zoals de natuur, de menselijke ziel en de deugden en...

""Die Deutsche Renaissance-Lyrik"" ist ein Buch von Max von Waldberg, das im Jahr 1888 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Es handelt sich um eine Studie �����ber die Lyrik der deutschen Renaissance, die im 16. Jahrhundert stattfand. Waldberg untersucht in diesem...

Das Buch ""Die Deutsche Bearbeitung Der Lateinischen Alexandreis Des Quilichinus De Spoleto"" von Ernst Neuling wurde im Jahr 1884 ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich dabei um eine Studie zur deutschen �����bersetzung der lateinischen Alexandreis von...

Das Buch ""Die Darstellung der Barbaren Teil 1: In griechischer Literatur und Kunst der vorhellenistischen Zeit"" wurde 1896 von Robert Zahn ver������ffentlicht. In diesem Werk untersucht der Autor die Darstellung von Barbaren in der griechischen...

Das Buch ""Die D�����nischen Annalen und Chroniken des Mittelalters"" wurde 1861 von Rudolf Usinger ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um eine Sammlung von historischen Aufzeichnungen und Chroniken aus dem Mittelalter, die sich auf D�����nemark...

In these wise and lovely mortal ruminations Neil Carpathios, long one of my favorite poets, turns fifty, that perilous promontory from which the world starts to flicker like an old neon sign. But age just makes Carpathios pay attention all the more...

Published in 1988: This book is a compilation of 16th century poetry and manuscripts.

Ecocriticism and the Poiesis of Form: Holding on to Proteus demonstrates how a fractal imagination helps one hold the form of a poem within the reaches of Deep Time, and it explores the kinship between the hazy, liminal moment when Sound becomes Syllable...

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2013 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, , course: Ph.D., language: English, abstract: Thomas Hardy the reputed novelist, poet, playwright and story writer has made his...

The study has its origins in the discovery the fragment of a poem from the 'school' of Friedrich II of Hohenstaufen. It is the oldest extant written example of Sicilian lyric poetry. The volume is divided into three interconnected parts: the first...

The literary genre Inscriptio arguta, which originated in the Baroque age, combines both metrical and prose elements. Its characteristics are centre-axis layout, argute diction, and presentation in both printed and unprinted form. The main focus here is...