Poetry History Criticism category: 2222 books

Three important literary questions in early Greek lyrics are addressed in this study. First, Fowler attempts to determine the extent that Homer and epic poetry generally influenced the lyric poets, with respect to both the style of compositions and their content. Identifying the certain examples of...

ALAN JENKINS - POERTY IS EXHILARATING. . . . . IT IS CHARGED WITH EROTIC ENERGY, RAGE, SORROW AND CONFUSION. - DAVID LEHMAN The poeoms in Alan Jenkin's magnificent new collection are closely linked, forming a movingly autobiographical book which deals with the disjunction between the aspirations of...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Avec La Terre vaine (1922), épopée moderniste condensée en 433 vers, T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) suit James Joyce et s’en démarque à la fois. Il avait lu des extraits d’Ulysse avant sa publication en 1922, et voyait dans...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Les grandes Odes de Keats sont au nombre de six, et furent composées en sept mois, de mars à septembre 1819. Délaissant le modèle inauguré par le poète grec Pindare (518-446 av. J.-C.), John Keats (1795-1821) fait de l’ode...

Scrivere una poesia è fare un tatuaggio sulla pelle; è sentirne il dolore mentre s’imprime addosso e poi gioirne per la bellezza, perché ciò che indelebilmente è rimasto lì, in quell’angolino recondito in fondo al cuore, è il segno del travaglio che induce al parto di se stessi. Scrivere...

A Modern Coleridge shows the interrelatedness of the discourses of cultivation, addiction and habit in Coleridge's poetry and prose, and argues that these all revolve around the problematic nexus of a post-Kantian idea of free will, essential to Coleridge's eminently modern idea of the 'human'.

Although he committed suicide at the age of twenty-five, Mário de Sá-Carneiro left behind a rich corpus of texts that is inventive, playful, even daring. The first collection in English to be dedicated to his work, this volume brings together scholars from Portugal, Brazil, and the USA to reassess...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Les dix dernières années du XIXe siècle ont vu naître en Russie quelques très grands poètes, parmi lesquels seuls Boris Pasternak et Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) auront survécu à l’époque stalinienne. Une fiche...

"La terra di nessuno" è una raccolta di poesie dall'impatto travolgente, particolarmente intense, dense di una forte carica emotiva, che vibrano in un universo caotico e claustrofobico caratterizzato da una dimensione apocalittica. Ma se apocalisse significa innanzitutto rivelazione...

This volume situates the work of American poet Charles Olson (1910-1970) at the centre of the early post-war American avant-garde. It shows Olson to have been one of the major advocates and theorists of American modernism in the late 1940s and early 1950s; a poet who responded fully and variously...

America, A Country Divided is a book that delves into some of the major societal issues that's going on in America. From abortion and birth control to the race war and police brutality, those are a few topics of many that are discussed in this book that talk about what's going on in the country. America...

This book argues for the importance of disability to authors of the Wordsworth-Coleridge circle. By examining texts in a variety of genres — ranging from self-experimental medical texts to lyric poetry to metaphysical essays — Stanback demonstrates the extent to which non-normative embodiment...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Matsuo Munefusa, dit Bashō (1644-1694), est considéré comme l’un des plus grands parmi les poètes japonais. Son œuvre excelle dans la maîtrise du haikai-renga, ou « poème libre en chaîne ». Une fiche de lecture...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis En 1910, le symbolisme, qui vingt années durant a dominé la poésie russe, se reconnaît en crise : étouffé par ses propres mots d’ordre, affaibli par ses dissensions internes, il dissout son organe principal, La Balance,...