Poetry History Criticism category: 2222 books

«Se à ancora una copia dei 'Canti Orfici' me la mandi, mi farà molto piacere: io li ebbi solo in lettura da Boine che li ricevette indirettamente»: così scriveva, nel gennaio del 1916, Mario Novaro, industriale oleario, poeta-filosofo e direttore della rivista «la Riviera ligure» di Oneglia,...

"Juan Manuel Roca dice aquí lo que piensa de la poesía, lo que sabe, lo que a ella le exige. (…) Este libro de su incesante producción marca en tono acusador, que cada día parece más desafiante y evidente, su desdén por escribir solo para obtener un conocimiento de sí mismo, esa pequeña...

Je marche. je marche. Le poème est un cheval fou, se rappeler, la barque est la route. L'horizon est dans le regard du promeneur. Découvrir une chose douce et amère: des îles, il faut se résigner à foutre la mer dehors afin de pouvoir marcher librement pour célébrer la terre, dans le récitatif...

No Western text boasts a life as long as the "Iliad", and few can match its energy and glory. This introduction to Homer's poem sees it as rooted in a particular culture with narrative and thematic conventions that are only partly explained by assumptions about the properties of oral poetry....

This is the first book devoted to Horace’s Carmen Saeculare, a poem commissioned by Roman emperor Augustus in 17 B.C.E. for choral performance at the Ludi Saeculares, the Secular Games. The poem is the first fully preserved Latin hymn whose circumstances of presentation are known, and it is the only...

A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse contains the Old English texts of all the major short poems, such as 'The Battle of Maldon', 'The Dream of the Rood', 'The Wanderer' and 'The Seafarer', as well as a generous representation of the many important fragments, riddles and gnomic verses that survive from the...

This book discusses the extent of distrust and the extent of the misunderstandings that exist in the poetry world.

Drawing on new archival discoveries, this book presents an authoritative reconstruction of David Jones's The Grail Mass,the unfinished and unpublished project from which came both his masterpiece The Anathemata – a work described by W.H. Auden as 'one of the most important poems of our times' –...

Partez à la découverte du lien étonnant entre Victor Hugo et une révélation divine à Téhéran en 1817 ! Les idées humanistes et avant-gardistes de Victor Hugo sont plus brûlantes d’actualité que jamais. Soulevant ricanements et railleries, le sublime poète entrevoyait néanmoins...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 OTTAWA BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 RELIT AWARD Conflict interweaves ghosts, bad communication, the uncanny and the archival, to create a collection of poems that break down remembrance into abandoned historic...

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) was one of the most famous American poets of the twentieth century. Yet, his career is distinguished by not only his strong contributions to literature but also social justice. Conversations with Allen Ginsberg collects interviews from 1962 to 1997 that chart Ginsberg’s...

Elizabeth Bishop is one of the greatest and most influential American poets of the 20th century. First published in hardback in 1998, Five Looks at Elizabeth Bishop is a highly illuminating reader's guide written by another leading poet which makes full use of the letters Elizabeth Bishop wrote to...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Les Poésies de Catulle, c’est-à-dire le Liber Valerii Catulli, est un recueil dû à Gaïus Valerius Catullus (82-52 av. J.-C.), comprenant cent seize pièces, ordonnées à la fois selon leur genre et leur structure métrique...