Literary studies: poetry and poets Books

Explore the golden age of English literature with this collection of Elizabethan sonnets. Crow offers a comprehensive look at the sonnet cycles of the era, highlighting the key themes and figures that shaped this influential literary movement. This book...

In this insightful primer, Laurie Magnus provides a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the life and work of William Wordsworth, one of the most important poets of the Romantic era. Magnus offers a close reading of a selection of Wordsworth's major...

This guide to English verse offers a detailed analysis of its structure, style, and meaning, with an emphasis on the beauty and harmony of language. From Shakespeare to Keats to Tennyson, Corson covers a wide range of poets and styles, making it a...

A Handbook to the Works of Browning is an essential guide to the poetry of one of the Victorian era's greatest poets. With in-depth analysis of each of his major works and a comprehensive overview of his life and times, this book is a must-read for...

Modernist Literature and European Identity examines how European and non-European authors debated the idea of Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. It shifts the focus from European modernism to modernist Europe, and shows how the notion of...

The conquest of Wales by the medieval English throne produced a fiercely contested territory, both militarily and culturally. Wales was left fissured by frontiers of language, jurisdiction and loyalty-a reluctant meeting place of literary traditions and...

British Victorian Women's Periodicals explores themes and patterns of poetry publication in a variety of women's periodicals published throughout the Victorian era to answer questions about taste, style, and the significance of poetry to our...

Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing and Screen Adaptation charts a new chapter in the changing fortunes of a unique cultural phenomenon. This book examines the afterlives of the Byronic hero through the work of nineteenth-century women...

Contents Preface Acknowledgements Personal Narrative I: Ambiguous Applause Popular Shakespeares Personal Narrative II: Stand-up Shakespeare Text and Metatext: Shakespeare and Anachronism Personal Narrative III: Jeffrey Archer: The One That Got Away 'A...

Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Evasion Confrontation Resignation Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Constructing Coleridge examines Coleridge's penchant for re-invention and carefully demonstrates how the Coleridge family editors followed his lead in constructing his posthumous reputation. Following his death in 1834, the family editors faced immediate...

The Petrarchan revival in Romantic England was a unique phenomenon which involved an impressive number of scholars, translators and poets. This book analyses the way Petrarch was read and re-written by Romantic figures. The result is a history of the...

This new study explores the poetic tradition of the love sonnet sequence in English as written by women. Natasha Distiller offers a unique contribution to the debate about gender and subjectivity by taking the subject of the sonnet as an analogue for the...

Wordsworth's verse and compelling criticism have shaped our understanding of poetic art since the Romantic period. This collection is the first in years to reexamine Wordsworth's complex theory of poetry in depth. Designed to be equally useful and...

This title proposes a fundamental revaluation of the central poet of British Romanticism. By looking at the later Wordsworth's ekphrastic writings about visual art and his increased awareness of the printed dimension of his work, and by relating these...

American Modernist Poetry and the Chinese Encounter offers a framework for understanding the variety of encounters by eight different American poets with their imagined 'Chinese' subject. While the tradition of Asian-American literature and criticism is...

An in-depth study of early modern women's modesty rhetoric from the English Reformation to the Restoration. This book provides new readings of modesty's gendered deployment in the works of Anne Askew, Katharine Parr, Mary Sidney, Aemilia Lanyer and Anne...

This new collection of essays by major scholars in the field looks at the ways in which cross-fertilization has taken place in Gothic writing from France, Germany, Britain and America over the last 200 years, and argues that Gothic writing reflects...

This book uses the theme of "debatable lands," a term first applied to disputed parts of the Anglo-Scottish border, to explore aspects of writing in the Romantic period. Walter Scott brought it to a wider public, and the phrase came to be applied, by...

Today's Latino poetry scene is bursting at the seams. While Latino poetry has played an important role in establishing Latino letters, surprisingly only a few scholars have spent time analyzing its form. The first of its kind, Formal Matters in...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Opus Maximum, written in the early 1820s and first published in 2002, is a challenge to every scholar who has encountered it. Sublime Coleridge offers an entry point to this important text of British Romanticism, with a reader's...

The recent deaths of Philip Larkin's friends Kingsley Amis, Monica Jones, Maeve Brennan, Jean Hartley, Judy Egerton and Ruth Bowman underline the stark reality that the future of his reputation is passing irrevocably out of the hands of those who knew...

For centuries, spoken Arabic was kept separate from the language of literary expression, with poetry exclusively the domain of the latter. Today, modern Egyptian colloquial poetry is a robust, sophisticated, and versatile genre, enjoyed by millions...

Emily Dickinson's Rich Conversation: Poetry, Philosophy, Science is a comprehensive account of Emily Dickinson's aesthetic and intellectual life. Through her letters and poems, Richard E. Brantley identifies Dickinson's dialogue with John Locke's rational

We are faced with a new human condition. Fuelled by the revolutionary possibilities of technology dissolving the traditional borders that once defined life, conflicts are evolving with an overwhelming complexity. This calls for us to face...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Didaktik für das Fach Deutsch - Gattungen, Note: 1,3, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Arbeit wird aufgezeigt, weshalb Lyrikunterricht bei Schülerinnen und Schüler (SuS)...

Modernity is made and unmade by the anecdotal. Conceived as a literary genre, a narrative element of criticism, and, most crucially, a mode of historiography, the anecdote illuminates the convergences as well as the fault lines cutting across modern...

This monograph identifies and investigates the 'other-conscious' ethics in black avant-garde poetry since the 1980s. Drawing on a long tradition in the African Diaspora of ethical writings that put the Other first, this work shows how black poets writing...

In Remembering Fireflies, Pamela Laskin loosens the knot of familial relationships enough for us to lean in close to the fault lines inherent with all sorts of love and longing. Without sentimentality, in clear and precise language, Laskin traces and...

ମୁଁ ପୁଣି ଫେରିବି / ଧୂସରିତ ପୃଥିବୀ ବକ୍ଷରେ / ଛନଛନ ଘାସ ଫୁଲ / ଗୋଧୂଳିର ଚଢ଼େଇ ଗୀତରେ / ଜୁକୁଜୁକୁ ତରାଟିଏ ହେଇ / ଉଆଁସିଆ ଅନ୍ଧାର ରାତିରେ । ଏମିତି କୋମଳ ଶବ୍ଦ ପ୍ରାଚୁର୍ଯ୍ୟ ଏବଂ ସମ୍ଭାବନାକୁ ନେଇ ପରିପୁଷ୍ଟ କବି ଡଃ ସସ୍ମିତା କରଙ୍କ ସଂକଳନ 'ଆମ୍ରପଲ୍ଲୀ' । ଏହା ପୂର୍ବରୁ ତାଙ୍କର 'ଗୋଟେ...

'ପ୍ରାଚୀନ କାବ୍ୟ ବିତାନ' ପ୍ରାଚୀନ କାବ୍ୟ-କବିତାଗୁଡ଼ିକୁ ନେଇ ଏକ ଉଚ୍ଚକୋଟୀର କାବ୍ୟ ସଂକଳନ । ଏଥିରେ ପ୍ରାକ୍ ସାରଳା, ସାରଳା, ପଞ୍ଚସଖା ତଥା ମଧ୍ୟଯୁଗର ବିଶିଷ୍ଟ କାବ୍ୟ-କବିତା ସଂଗୃହିତ ହୋଇଛି । ପ୍ରାଚୀନ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା-ସାହିତ୍ୟର ଦୁର୍ଲ୍ଲଭ କାବ୍ୟ-କବିତାଗୁଡ଼ିକୁ ଗୋଟିଏ ସଂକଳନୀ ଭିତରେ ଖୋଜି ପାଇବାର ଏହା ଏକ...

Lakshmi Purana, as the title explains, is the story of goddess Lakshmi in simple narrative verses. It is recited in every household of Odisha in the Hindu month of Margashira on all the four Thursdays. In most households, this text is recited throughout...

ପଦ୍ମଶ୍ରୀ ସଚ୍ଚିଦାନନ୍ଦ ରାଉତରାୟ (୧୯୧୫-୨୦୦୪) ଆଧୁନିକ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ସାହିତ୍ୟରେ ରୋମାଣ୍ଟିକ୍ ଚେତନାର ବାର୍ତ୍ତାବହ ଏବଂ ପ୍ରଗତିବାଦୀ ତଥା ପ୍ରୟୋଗବାଦୀ ଚେତନାର ଉଦାତ୍ତ ଗାୟକ ଭାବରେ ଯଶସ୍ୱୀ କବି ସଚ୍ଚି ରାଉତରାୟ ଜଣେ ଅନତିକ୍ରମଣୀୟ ସ୍ରଷ୍ଟାପୁରୁଷ । ଆଧୁନିକ ଓଡ଼ିଆ କବିତାର ଅଗ୍ରଦୂତ ଭାବରେ ସେ ଅଗଣିିତ...

With poetry and commentary, From the Bottom: Anti-Japanese Verses offers a much-needed challenge to the culture elite and policy wonks of a sun-marked country, where its red and white colors still fly as if they were an emblem of squeezing blood from...

Heralds And Heraldry In Ben Jonson�������s Plays, Masques And Entertainments (1907) is a book written by Arthur Huntington Nason. The book explores the use of heraldry and heralds in the plays, masques, and entertainments of the English playwright Ben...