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In An Introduction to the Gawain Poet, John Bowers surveys an expanded selection of the works of Chaucer's anonymous contemporary, considering Sir Gawain and the Green Knight alongside the poet's le……続きを見る

In most college and university libraries, materials published before 1800 have been moved into special collections, while the post-1923 books remain in general circulation. But books published betwe……続きを見る

Since the turn of the new millennium English-language verse has entered a new historical phase, but explanations vary as to what has actually happened and why. What might constitute a viable avant-g……続きを見る

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Writing Poetry in the Dark brings together some of the most successful contemporary genre poets to discuss topics related to creating dark and fantastical poetry. While there are countless books ava……続きを見る

Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-59 traces J. R. R. Tolkien's critical engagements with Geoffrey Chaucer from his undergraduate Oxford essays in 1913 to remarks in his retirement lecture in 1959. Reprinted ……続きを見る

In Coming To, Timothy M. Harrison uncovers the forgotten role of poetry in the history of the idea of consciousness. Drawing our attention to a sea change in the English seventeenth century, when, o……続きを見る

A reimagining of Devotions upon Emergent Occasions as an original treatment of human life shaped by innovations in seventeenth-century science and medicine. In 1624, poet and preacher John Donne pub……続きを見る

Taking 44 Mecklenburgh Square as the focal point and springboard for a critical group study of D.H. Lawrence, H.D. and Richard Aldington, this book offers a fresh perspective on the relationship of ……続きを見る

More than a century after his death, Walt Whitman remains a fresh phenomenon. Startling discoveries and massive transcription efforts are enabling new insights into his life and achievements. In the……続きを見る

Dans cette expérience humaine où l’âme renoue avec sa véritable essence, le tumulte de la vie nous confronte à des événements qui nous font évoluer et transcender notre noyau intérieur. L’œuvre divi……続きを見る

Dans Nos mélancolies, les maux se transforment en mots, agissant comme des navires nous transportant à travers les méandres de la mélancolie. C’est un peu comme une araignée qui tisse lentement sa t……続きを見る

Ranges widely and deeply across William Blake's oeuvre to show how his post-Newtonian vision of space-time anticipates Einsteinian relativity. What do Einsteinian relativity, eighteenth-century fiel……続きを見る

This book offers a novel interpretation of politics and identity in Ovid's epic poem of transformations, the Metamorphoses. Reexamining the emphatically fictional character of the poem, Playing Gods……続きを見る

Arthur James Marshall Smith prize-winning poet, essayist, influential anthologist, and critic died in 1980. His last book, The Classic Shade: Selected Poems, on which Selected Writings is based, sta……続きを見る

A new collection of essays by the legendary literary scholar and critic. In the year of his one-hundredth birthday, preeminent literary critic, scholar, and teacher M. H. Abrams brings us a collecti……続きを見る

First published in 1978. In this study, Shakespeare's own life story and the development of English theatrical history are placed in the wider context of Elizabethan and Jacobean times, but the work……続きを見る

'sense too definite cancels your indistinct literature' Stéphane Mallarmé was the most radically innovative of nineteenth-century poets. His writings, with their richly sensuous texture and air of s……続きを見る

Tracing the path from Troy's destruction to Rome's foundation, the Aeneid explores the transition between past and future. As the Trojans struggle to found a new city and the narrator sings of his a……続きを見る

A collection of poetry that will tug at the heart and then empower. These poems take you on a journey through heart ache and pain then lead you into finding one's own strength within. 続きを見る

Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The essays in Phenomenal Reading entice readers to cross accepted barriers, and highlight the work of poets who challenge language-as-usual in academ……続きを見る

Enfrentando la censura y el autoritarismo de la época, durante los años 80 Enrique Lihn dejó a un lado su producción poética para desplegar un conjunto de "proyectos locos", según la acertada defini……続きを見る

Poema heroyco hispano-latino (1687), a national chronicle or “epic poem,” commemorates the founding and greatness of Lima, Peru. Its unique rhymed quatrains can be read in either Latin or Spanish wi……続きを見る

本书由两部分组成，第一部分是综述，包括“概述”“版本”“生平”“研究方法”四章；第二部分是对《二十四诗品》的逐字研究（通过大量用例对字意进行考证）和逐段翻译ーー包括逐字翻译（直译）和逐句解释（可理解为意译）……続きを見る

Nelly Sachs (1891-1970) has long been regarded as one of the most significant Holocaust poets. Her conception of language and words as a landscape has been understood by scholars and critics as an e……続きを見る

A new evaluation of one of the most significant Holocaust poets, Nelly Sachs (1891-1970), offering the first sustained critical analysis of Sachs's largely unanalyzed pre-war poetry and prose. Nelly……続きを見る

本书对孕育了《伊利亚特》和《奥徳赛》这两部伟大史诗的古代社会图景进行了精确而深刻的描绘，是一部生动刻画希腊“黒暗时代”及其家庭与亲族社群、道徳与价值观念的作品。 続きを見る

This study offers an introduction to an important branch of Spanish literatureーthe romance, or ballad. Although a great many of these poems have been translated into English by various authors, the……続きを見る

Michael Field, the poetic identity created by Katharine Bradley (1846-1914) and her niece Edith Cooper (1862-1913), ceaselessly experimented with forms of identity and forms of literary expression. ……続きを見る

The undisputed intellectual leadership of Octavio Paz, not only in Mexico but throughout Spanish America, rests on achievements in the essay and in poetry. In the field of the essay, he is the autho……続きを見る