Poetry History & Criticism 84

This book explores how Romanticism was shaped by practices of popular magic. It seeks to identify the place of occult activity and culture – in the form of curses, spells, future-telling, charms and……続きを見る

Perhaps no classical writer has been so consistently in vogue as Horace. Famous in his own lifetime as a close associate of the Emperor Octavian, to whom he dedicated several odes, Quintus Horatius ……続きを見る

Questa nuova raccolta di poesie,nasce dalla mia voglia di continuare a raccontare l'amore,un sentimento complesso,che nella vita possiamo trovare sotto varie sfaccettature.Ispirato da un luogo magic……続きを見る

Coleridge's Dejection Ode completes J.C.C. Mays’ analysis of Coleridge’s poetry, following Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner (Palgrave 2016) and Coleridge’s Experimental Poetics (Palgrave 2013). "Dejectio……続きを見る

A vital hub of poetry readings, performance, publications and radical politics in 1960s New York, the Umbra Workshop was a cornerstone of the African American avant-garde. Bringing together new arch……続きを見る

The Great War, The Waste Land and the Modernist Long Poem explores how cultural responses to the trauma of the First World War found expression in the form of the modernist long poem. Beginning with……続きを見る

"The Prophecy of Dante" is a story in verse written by Lord Byron in 1819 and published two years later (1821). The entire work was dedicated to Countess Guiccioli: in fact, the story was written in……続きを見る

This volume takes as its focus an oft-neglected work of ancient philosophy: Aristotle's lost Homeric Problems. The evidence for this lost work consists mostly of 'fragments' surviving in the Homeric……続きを見る

Now thoroughly revamped with a diverse selection of poetic voices from the last fifty years, this third edition of Rhian Williams's bestselling book, The Poetry Toolkit guides readers through key te……続きを見る

Avant Canada presents a rich collection of original essays and creative works on a representative array of avant-garde literary movements in Canada from the past fifty years. From the work of Leonar……続きを見る

Desiderata, that world-famous poem that begins, 'Go placidly amid the noise and haste', must be one of the best-loved poems in the English language, revered by many as the ideal philosophy of life. ……続きを見る

"Helen of Troy and Other Poems" from Sara Teasdale. American lyrical poet (1884-1933). This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civ……続きを見る

Sidonius Apollinaris' letters offer a vivid series of glimpses into an otherwise sparsely documented period. His rich anecdotes feature the events, characters, and moments that defined his life, ran……続きを見る

Giuseppe Ungaretti. Biografia, poesie: parafrasi e analisi è una raccolta delle poesie più studiate a scuola. Per ogni poesia il testo, la parafrasi, l'analisi e il commento. Completa l'ebook una br……続きを見る

Was the experience of poetry--or a cultural practice we now call poetry--continuously available across the two-and-a-half millennia from the composition of the Homeric epics to the publication of Be……続きを見る

What is the political potential of poetry in the contemporary era? Exploring an often overlooked history of Marxist-Feminist poetics in post-war Britain – including such poets as Denise Riley, Veron……続きを見る

First published in 1977. This book ascertains what sources Shakespeare used for the plots of his plays and discusses the use he made of them; and secondly illustrates how his general reading is wove……続きを見る

How poetry can help us think about and live in the Anthropocene by reframing our intimate relationship with geological time The Anthropocene describes how humanity has radically intruded into deep t……続きを見る

Ugo Foscolo. Biografia, poesie: parafrasi e analisi è una raccolta delle poesie più studiate a scuola. Per ogni poesia il testo, la parafrasi, l'analisi e il commento. Completano l'ebook una breve b……続きを見る

'I was blown away by Layli Long Soldier's WHEREAS.' Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts WHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apo……続きを見る

This edition first published in 1982. Previous edition published in 1972 by Houghton Mifflin. Outlining methods and techniques for reading Shakespeare's plays, Roland Frye explores and develops a co……続きを見る

First published in 1968. By selective study of certain of the comedies, tragedies and sonnets, Philip Edwards views Shakespeare's work as a whole and explains why his art developed as it did. The wo……続きを見る

First published in 1957. This edition reprints the second edition of 1962. The originality, vitality and variety of Shakespeare's comedies do not suggest a writer at ease with a formula which works ……続きを見る

First published in 1951. 'The book has the sterling qualities of shrewd sense and acumen that mark the 'rational' classical school of Shakespeare criticism.' Notes and Queries 'Professor Duthie's ap……続きを見る

The plague first arrived in the English port of Weymouth in the summer of 1348. Two years later, half of Britain was dead, but the Black Death was just beginning. In the decades to come, England wou……続きを見る

James Merrill: Knowing Innocence reevaluates the achievement of this important poet by showing how he takes up an old paradigm – innocence – and reinvents it in response to new historical, scientifi……続きを見る

First Published in 2005. Whitman's Ecstatic Union rereads the first three editions of Leaves of Grass within the context of a nineteenth-century antebellum evangelical culture of conversion. Though ……続きを見る

Visionary Dreariness: Readings in Romanticism’s Quotidian Sublime undertakes a reconceptualization of the theoretical and experiential framework of the Romantic sublime by shifting the focus from Bu……続きを見る

Quem nunca perdeu um botão de roupa? Quem nunca deixou de abotoar um botão de camisa? Você alguma vez já falou com os seus botões ao pensar alto? Sabe o preço aproximado de um botão? E os modelos? J……続きを見る

Este livro elabora uma espécie de "história informal" da poesia brasileira, percorrendo-a desde o século XVIII, com Tomás Antônio Gonzaga, até alcançar alguns escritores do século XXI. Ao lado de es……続きを見る