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A COMPANION TO POETIC GENREA COMPANION TO POETIC GENRE This eagerly awaited Companion features over 40 contributions from leading academics around the world, and offers critical overviews of numerous poetic genres. Covering a range of cultural traditions from Britain,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-10-13
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Poetry is supposed to be untranslatable. But many poems in English are also translations: Pope's Iliad, Pound's Cathay, and Dryden's Aeneis are only the most obvious examples. ThePoetry of Translation explodes this paradox, launching a new theoretical approach to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
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2011-09-29
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Reflecting the surge of critical interest in Eliot renewed in recent years, A Companion to T.S. Eliot introduces the 'new' Eliot to readers and educators by examining the full body of his works and career. Leading scholars in the field provide a fresh and fully...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-26
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Demystify and appreciate the pleasures of poetrySometimes it seems like there are as many definitions of poetry as there are poems. Coleridge defined poetry as “the best words in the best order.” St. Augustine called it “the Devil’s wine.” For Shelley, poetry was “the...
Editeur :
For Dummies
Parution :
2011-03-16
ePub
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From Hesiod's first person account of his encounters with the Muses on Mount Helikon to Theokritos' nymphs, love between goddesses and mortal men provides the ancient Greeks with a way of articulating both the genealogical and cultic connection to their gods and to...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-01-10
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The Poetry of Susan Howe provides a comprehensive survey of the major works of one of America's foremost contemporary poets.The book describes the relationship between poetic form and the various configurations of history, religious thought, and authority in Howe's...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-09-27
Collection :
Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
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W.B. Yeats and the Muses explores how nine fascinating women inspired much ofW.B. Yeats's poetry. These women are particularly important because Yeats perceived them in terms of beliefs about poetic inspiration akin to the Greek notion that a great poet is inspired and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-07-22
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W.B. Yeats and the Muses explores how nine fascinating women inspired much ofW.B. Yeats's poetry. These women are particularly important because Yeats perceived them in terms of beliefs about poetic inspiration akin to the Greek notion that a great poet is inspired and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-07-22
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The night can sweat with terror as before
We pieced our thoughts into philosophy,
And planned to bring the world under a rule,
Who are but weasels fighting in a hole.
W.B. Yeats, 'Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen'
This is a book about how poetry, seen through the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-06-24
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The night can sweat with terror as before
We pieced our thoughts into philosophy,
And planned to bring the world under a rule,
Who are but weasels fighting in a hole.
W.B. Yeats, 'Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen'
This is a book about how poetry, seen through the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-06-24
ePub
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Focusing in particular on pairings of writers within the larger grouping of poets, this book suggests how literary partnerships became pivotal to American poets in the wake of Donald Allen's 'New American Poetry' anthology.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-05-24
Collection :
Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
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This is a collection of studies on ancient (especially Latin) poetry and historiography, concentrating especially on the impact of rhetoric on both genres, and on the importance of considering the literature to illuminate the historical Roman context and the historical...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-05-20
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This is a collection of studies on ancient (especially Latin) poetry and historiography, concentrating especially on the impact of rhetoric on both genres, and on the importance of considering the literature to illuminate the historical Roman context and the historical...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-05-20
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From Song to Print is a study of the major cultural transition from oral forms of art and discourse to the commercial culture of print that happened during the Industrial Revolution. Through a discussion of ancient musical forms (classical, biblical, and early-modern...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-03-01
Collection :
Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters
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The Idea of Iambos is a long overdue study of the genre of Greek iambic poetry from the perspective provided by ancient testimonies. Andrea Rotstein places research on iambos in the framework of a new methodological approach to ancient genres based on the cognitive...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-12-17
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The Idea of Iambos is a long overdue study of the genre of Greek iambic poetry from the perspective provided by ancient testimonies. Andrea Rotstein places research on iambos in the framework of a new methodological approach to ancient genres based on the cognitive...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-12-17
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This is a study of mock-epic poetry in English, French, and German from the 1720s to the 1840s. While mock-heroic poetry is a parodistic counterpart to serious epic, mock-epic poetry starts by parodying epic but moves on to much wider and richer literary explorations;...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-11-12
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This is a study of mock-epic poetry in English, French, and German from the 1720s to the 1840s. While mock-heroic poetry is a parodistic counterpart to serious epic, mock-epic poetry starts by parodying epic but moves on to much wider and richer literary explorations;...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-11-12
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By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and DearlyTHE DOOR is Margaret Atwood's first book of poetry since the 1995 MORNING IN THE BURNED HOUSE. Its lucid yet urgent poems range in tone from lyric to ironic to meditative to prophetic, and in subject from the personal to...
Editeur :
Virago
Parution :
2009-10-01
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Volume 15 in The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Browning presents poetry Browning wrote in his seventies, his last two volumes: Parleyings (1887) and Asolando (1889). The former is the poet's last sustained meditation on life and on his times, a nine-section credo...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-08-20
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