Literary studies: poetry and poets Books

In her provocative reassessment of the modern American love lyric, Barbara L. Estrin discovers the connection between the language of love poetry and the rhetoric of hate speech that culminated in the genocides of World War II. The American Love Lyric...

Against the backdrop of Britain's underground 18th and early-19th century homosexual culture, mob persecutions, and executions of homosexuals, Hobson shows how Blake's hatred of sexual and religious hypocrisy and state repression, and his revolutionary...

We Heal From Memory shows how poetry allows us to witness to and heal from traumatic histories, both individual and collective.

This study uncovers a vital thematic unity within Blake's early work: his far-reaching use of humor. Although often dismissed as a product of his eccentricity, the comic was an essential key to Blake's concept of Vision. With special reference to...

Acknowledgements - Abbreviations - Introduction - Dante, the Risorgimento and the British: the Italian Background - George Eliot's Contact with Italian Life and Culture 1840-1861 - George Eliot's Italian Exile in 'Mr Gilfil's Love Story' - George Eliot's...

African-American expressive arts draw upon multiple traditions of formal experimentation in the service of social change. Within these traditions, Jennifer D. Ryan demonstrates that black women have created literature, music, and political statements sign

Against a historical backdrop that includes eighteenth-century language theory, children's literature and education, debates on the French Revolution, Biblical interpretation, and print culture, Blake on Language, Power, and Self-Annihilation breaks new g

From British attempts on the stage and page to reinvent the world order with their island at the center to the Jesuit Athanasius Kircher's museum that strove to make the invisible visible, the early modern period was rife with attempts to reimagine the...

There are times in our lives when we deal with circumstances that seem overwhelming; when all we need is a hug, a smile, or just a kind word. The Reason God Made Rainbows and Ribbons is about implementing the strength of poetry as a connection to faith...

Si l'on connaît la passion célèbre de Maupassant ou de Baudelaire pour Poe, Jules Verne nous livre, à son tour, avec cette biographie d'Edgar Poe, un discret hommage à un auteur qu'il appréciait par dessus tout. Un livre incontournable à qui veut...

Le 18 avril 1839, Charles Baudelaire, 18 ans, est renvoyé du collège pour avoir refusé de livrer un billet qu'un camarade venait de lui glisser. Il avale le bout de papier. Au proviseur qui lui ordonne de révéler son contenu, Baudelaire répond par des...

The Return of Pytheas is a study of poetry and poems through and across two language traditions – Greek and English. While the main focus is recent and contemporary, exchanges reach back as far as Aeschylus and the Iliad. The book thus investigates...

Araki Yasusada, allegedly a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, had his work published posthumously and in translation in the mid-1990s. The work was widely praised and seemed to fuse traditional Japanese forms and themes with more innovative...

This companion volume to On Performance Writing, with implicated readings, brings together most of the essays-taking a deliberately broad view of that term so as to include, for example, two single-page visual essays and one sonnet-on the reading and...

In 1993, say, the term Performance Writing, if used at all, suggested simply writing for performance. By 2011, when the author of this collection became the first Professor of Performance Writing, it had attained a much wider (indeed international)...

Gómez Manrique (c.1412-c.1490) had a long and active life, engaging in military activity as a typical medieval knight before becoming a diplomat and statesman. He was deeply involved in the political turbulence of fifteenth-century Castile,...

Paul Celan (1920-1970) is perhaps the most widely read of modern German-language poets, and yet his reputation has been constructed on a small body of primary texts. Thomas C. Connolly seeks to destabilize canonical readings of Celan’s work by...

’If I have been a vagabond, and have never been able to root myself in any one place in the world, it is because I have no early memories of any one sky or soil. It has freed me from many prejudices in giving me its own unresting kind of freedom;...

Virgil's story of Aeneas, exiled from fallen Troy and leading his people to a new life through the founding of Rome, was familiar in the middle ages. The first true and full translation into any form of English was completed in Scotland in 1513 by Gavin...

Virgil's story of Aeneas, exiled from fallen Troy and leading his people to a new life through the founding of Rome, was familiar in the middle ages. The first true and full translation into any form of English was completed in Scotland in 1513 by Gavin...

Gerard Manley Hopkins, a leading Victoria poet, known for his innovative style, is considered as influential as T.S. Eliot in initiating the modern movement in poetry. This edition is edited by Robert Bridges, poet laureate, and lifelong friend of...

Spectral Realms completes its eighth year of publication with an issue that displays the full gamut of expression in weird poetry. Aside from contributions by some of the leading exponents of terror in verse (Christina Sng, Adam Bolivar, Ann K. Schwader,...

This eighth issue of Spectral Realms features a diverse array of poetry from the pens of such acclaimed poets as Adam Bolivar, Ashley Dioses, K. A. Opperman, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Ann K. Schwader, John Shirley, and Richard L. Tierney. Wade German...

This book introduces a style of a unique fiber. A fusion between deep philosophy and creative poetry. ADAB society described the author as "the resurrection of the greater Neruda." SOUL magazine wrote: "History will prove that his new school of...

Resonating with passion, pureness and simplicity, in Cherish The Moment, Rosalind leads us on a journey into the hearts, souls and lives of others. By transporting us to that majestic place of the raw beauty of the heart and genuine connections between...

This vintage book contains James Edmund Harting’s 1841 work; “The Birds under Domestication - Domesticated Birds in Literature and Poetry”. Within it, Harting explores the link between beautiful songbirds and their use in literature, covering the...

"Nets to Catch the Wind" is a 1921 collection of poetry by Elinor Morton Wylie. The poems include: "Beauty", "The Eagle And The Mole", "Madman's Song", "The Prinkin' Leddie", "August", "The Crooked Stick", "Atavism", "Wild Peaches", "Sanctuary", "The...

In 1763, an 11-year-old boy named Thomas Chatterton began publishing mature works of poetry. Before long, he was fooling the literary world by passing his work off as that of a non-existent 15th-century poet named Thomas Rowley-which he did until...

While the odyssey traced in Ithaca Is The Journey is highly personal, its central insight relates to the odyssey of all. Spiritual journeyers are invited by these pages to remember the great secret: the Promised Land they are yearning for is somehow the...

Eriatarka follows the downward spiral of an unnamed protagonist, whose life is turned out of his control from a sudden death, only being able to remember dreams and nightmares depicted to him in the form of poetry. Showing his childhood, addictions and...

263 pages, consisting of 175 poems (two volumes) of spiritually penetrating poetry, including an introduction and afterthought, and A Letter To Those Who Are Listening. Not associated with any group, cult, organized religion or dogma, the author...

Sketching for the Mirror is a collection of poems in search of a voice, a sound or maybe even a song. Language is a measure on experience that assumes a likeness to what passes for our reality. Poetry explores that reality, catches it from odd angles,...

A collection of poems about some of the people, places, or events from the author's journey through life.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

The Colonial Journal No. 9 (1818) is a historical book published by Baldwin Cradock and Joy Publisher that provides a fascinating insight into the colonial world of the early 19th century. The book is a compilation of articles written by various authors,...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

""Bidrag Til Den Danske Literaturs Historie Af N. M. Peterson V5, Del 1: Oplysningens Tidsalder, 1750-1800"" (1870) er en del af en serie b������ger, der beskriver historien om dansk litteratur. Forfatteren, Niels Matthias Petersen, fokuserer i denne bog...