F - Poetry History & Criticism 1

The Toronto Star called him a legendary figure in Canadian writing, and indeed George Fetherling has been prolific in many genres: poetry, history, travel narrative, memoir, and cultural studies. Pl……続きを見る

W. B. Yeats is usually seen as a great innovator who put his stamp so decisively on modern Irish literature that most of his successors worked in his shadow. R. F. Foster's eloquent and authoritativ……続きを見る

A Mirror for Lovers: Shake-speare’s Sonnets as Curious Perspective, by William F. Zak,seeks to identify in Shake-speare’e sonnet sequence the structural and thematic features of the satirical tradit……続きを見る

First published in 1963. When originally published this book was the first to treat at full length the contribution which music makes to Shakespeare's great tragedies, among them Hamlet, Othello, an……続きを見る

It is difficult now to imagine the shock that this book caused when it was first published in 1932. The author was a teacher at a Cambridge college, an intensely serious man who had been seriously w……続きを見る

On Biblical Poetry takes a fresh look at the nature of biblical Hebrew poetry beyond its currently best-known feature, parallelism. F.W. Dobbs-Allsopp argues that biblical poetry is in most respects……続きを見る

First published in 1945. In this work the author seeks to correct the misinterpretation and incorrect labelling of Shelley’s thought. While not neglecting Shelley as a poet, this book focuses on his……続きを見る

Innovative and thorough, Signs and Symbols in Chaucer’s Poetry presents nine essays that reexamine the literary iconography of Middle English. Chaucer’s work is the most well-known, and possibly the……続きを見る

First published in 1960, this book studies Wordsworth’s ‘simple’ poems, such as the Lyrical Ballads, as products of a sophisticated and powerfully successful literary genius. The author aims to appr……続きを見る

This study on New World-utopian politics in The Tempest traces paradigm shifts in literary criticism over the past six decades that have all but reinscribed the text into a political document. This ……続きを見る

Today's Latino poetry scene is incredibly vibrant. With original interviews, this is the first meditation on the thematic features of such poetry. Looking at how Julia Alvarez, Rhina Espaillat, Rafa……続きを見る

Not for nothing is William Shakespeare considered possibly the most famous writer in history; his works have had a lasting effect on culture, vocabularies, and art. His plays contain some of our mos……続きを見る

W. B. Yeats is usually seen as a great innovator who put his stamp so decisively on modern Irish literature that most of his successors worked in his shadow. R. F. Foster's eloquent and authoritativ……続きを見る

Hvem var Byron og hvorfor læse en bog om ham i dag? Denne excentriske engelske lord, som Georg Brandes gav æren for at have indstiftet den moderne litteratur i Europa, og om hvilken Karen Blixen skr……続きを見る

Dansk poesihistorie formidlet af F.J. Billeskov Jansen med udgangspunkt i hans opfattelse af poesien som selvstændig æstetisk disciplin. En litteraturopfattelse, der i sin tid var omstridt. Værket i……続きを見る

I "Poetik" fremlægger den anerkendte litteraturforsker F.J. Billeskov Jansen sit syn på poesien som æstetisk disciplin i sig selv og opstiller på dette grundlag en teori om digterværkets væsen og de……続きを見る

Dansk poesihistorie formidlet af F.J. Billeskov Jansen med udgangspunkt i hans opfattelse af poesien som selvstændig æstetisk disciplin. En litteraturopfattelse, der i sin tid var omstridt. Værket i……続きを見る

Tidlig dansk poesihistorie formidlet af F.J. Billeskov Jansen med udgangspunkt i hans opfattelse af poesien som selvstændig æstetisk disciplin. En litteraturopfattelse, der i sin tid var omstridt. V……続きを見る

With literature, music constituted the most important activity of poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca's life. The two arts were closely related to each other throughout his career. As a child,……続きを見る

With literature, music constituted the most important activity of poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca's life. The two arts were closely related to each other throughout his career. As a child,……続きを見る

First published in 1981, Critic as Scientist provides a detailed and scholarly account both of the scientific background and of contemporary artistic issues in its analysis of Ezra Pound’s poetics. ……続きを見る

Women in the Victorian period were acknowledged to be the "religious sex," but their relationship to the doctrines, practices, and hierarchies of Christianity was both highly circumscribed, which ha……続きを見る

FEATURES: • Includes beautiful artworks and illustrations • A link of a FREE audio book to download at the end of the book • Active Table of Contents for an easy navigation within the book • Manuall……続きを見る

García Lorca at the Edge of Surrealism: The Aesthetics of Anguish examines the variations of surrealism and surrealist theories in the Spanish context, studied through the poetry, drama, and drawing……続きを見る

Readers of Old English would generally agree that the poem Genesis B, a translation into Old English of an Old Saxon (that is, continental) retelling of the story of the Fall, is a vigorous and movi……続きを見る

A Thickness of Particulars: The Poetry of Anthony Hecht is the first book-length study of one of the great formal poets of the later twentieth century (1923-2004). Making use of Hecht's corresponden……続きを見る

Leaving the Shade of the Middle Ground contains thirty-five of F.R. Scott’s poems from across the five decades of his career. Scott’s artistic responses to a litany of social problems, as well as hi……続きを見る

This book explores the decades between the Reform Acts of 1832 and 1884 when British poets such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Arthur Hugh Clough, Robert Browning, and Algernon Charles Swinburne, al……続きを見る

“Traces the ways that Cuban poets dealt with issues of national identity, reflected in their views of Afrocubanismo, often in response to historical changes in public and official opinions on the mo……続きを見る

Il poema futurista 'Distruzione' di F. T. Marinetti è un testo rivoluzionario che trasuda energia e modernità. Attraverso le sue parole dinamiche e visionarie, l'autore dipinge un mondo in cui la di……続きを見る