CK - Poetry History & Criticism 7

This book is an entertaining, informative and enchanting introduction to its subject – just as those medieval banes of the farmyard, the Fox and the Vixen, were enchanting in escapades from fables a……続きを見る

The topic of force has long remained a problem of interpretation for readers of Homer's Iliad, ever since Simone Weil famously proclaimed it as the poem's main subject. This book seeks to address th……続きを見る

Poetics of Cognition investigates the material effects of experimental poetics using new evidence emerging from cognitive science. It asks: How do experimental poems “think” and how do we think thro……続きを見る

“Our sense of eighteenth-century poetic territory is immeasurably expanded by [this] excellent historical and cultural” study of UK women poets of the era (Cynthia Wall, Studies in English Literatur……続きを見る

Just as the story of an epic poem is woven from characters and plot, so too the individual similes within an epic create a unique simile world. Like any other story, it is peopled by individual char……続きを見る

The fascinating history of poetry anthologies and their influence on British society and culture over the last four centuries. For hundreds of years, anthologies have shaped the way we encounter lit……続きを見る

Anthropocene Poetry: Place, Environment and Planet argues that the idea of the Anthropocene is inspiring new possibilities for poetry. It can also change the way we read and interpret poems. If envi……続きを見る

The life of Keats provides a unique opportunity for the study of literary greatness and of what permits or encourages its development. Its interest is deeply human and moral, in the most capacious s……続きを見る

Ever since Plato’s Socrates exiled the poets from the ideal city in The Republic, Western thought has insisted on a strict demarcation between philosophy and poetry. Yet might their long-standing qu……続きを見る

Widely considered the definitive edition of Emily Dickinson’s poems, this landmark collection presents her poems here for the first time “as she preserved them,” and in the order in which she wished……続きを見る

The definitive edition of Emily Dickinson’s correspondence, expanded and revised for the first time in over sixty years. Emily Dickinson was a letter writer before she was a poet. And it was through……続きを見る

One of the most striking American lyric poet, Emily Dickinson came to be known only after she passed away. This collectable edition brings together her finest poems including ‘ Heart! We will forget……続きを見る

Quel lien entre des thèmes aussi divers que l’amour, l’incendie de Notre-Dame, le Brexit ou l’émotion devant un tableau ? En réalité, ces expériences de vie, ces faits d’actualité et ces sensations ……続きを見る

Qui n’a jamais connu une déception amoureuse ? Une trahison ? L’amour est ardent et ne laisse point de place à la rationalité, mais plutôt à l’intensité. C’est pourquoi, si le bonheur est pétillant,……続きを見る

Octogenarian Jack Foley’s COLLISIONS is a book at play in the forests of the mind. The opening quotation from Dana Gioia defines the book’s understanding of consciousness: “Human consciousness is an……続きを見る

Quels que soient le rêve de silence, l’égarement aux limbes ou la résolution à ne plus jamais, les mots reviennent comme une obsession. On ne le comprend pas, mais on y revient toujours. Ils paresse……続きを見る

Those who are able to read Homer in Greek have ample recourse to commentaries, but the vast majority who read the Iliad in translation have not been so well servedーthe many available translations c……続きを見る

In a mannerーfrom the introduction: This volume is not technical in the way Thĕ (Study of) Trees was presented, and is geared more to the general reader of formal poetry. The title of this collectio……続きを見る