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by Elaine Fantham
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
Of all stylistic devices, imagery has the greatest appeal to the imagination, but is also the most likely to offend, either by staleness or by tasteless excess. This volume establishes some of the limitations which govern figurative language in Latin speech and prose by exploring such questions as...
by Giacomo da Lentini, Richard Lansing
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
This volume presents the first translation in English of the complete poetry of Giacomo da Lentini, the first major lyric poet of the Italian vernacular. He was the leading exponent of the Sicilian School (c.1220-1270) as well as the inventor of the sonnet. Featuring illustrations and new English...
by Antonello Borra, Guittone d'Arezzo
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Guittone d’Arezzo (ca. 1230-1294) was the most important, prolific, and influential poet and prose writer of the thirteenth century. Unfortunately, his work has been overshadowed by his successor; the more learned and gifted Dante Alighieri.
The poems and prose included in this volume are...
Dantean Dialogues
Engaging with the Legacy of Amilcare Iannucci
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Dantean Dialogues is a collection of essays by some of the world's most outstanding Dante scholars., These essays enter into conversation with the main themes of the scholarship of Amilcare Iannucci (d. 2007), one of the leading researchers on Dante of his generation and arguably Canada’s finest...
Selected Poems
Collected Works of A.M. Klein
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
Throughout his career A.M. Klein struggled to define for himself the role of the poet in the contemporary world. Deeply rooted in the traditions of Judaism, and at the same time powerfully attracted by the freedom and scope of international modernism, he sought to reconcile past and present, community...
Pasolini
The Sacred Flesh
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Poet, novelist, dramatist, polemicist, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini continues to be one of the most influential intellectuals of post-war Italy. In Pasolini: The Sacred Flesh, Stefania Benini examines his corporeal vision of the sacred, focusing on his immanent interpretation of the Christian...
The World of Dante
Six Studies in Language and Thought
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1966
In celebration of the 700th anniversary of the birth of Dante in 1265 the Dante Society of Toronto invited six internationally known scholars to address its members. Believing that the greatest tribute to Dante lies in the constant acquisition of a deeper knowledge of his work, the Society prescribed...
Browning's Lyrics
An Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1974
Browning's lyrics are favourite choices for anthologies but are rarely examined closely. This is the first full-length study of the lyrics, and includes detailed analyses of such well-known poems as Love Among the Ruins, Two in the Campagna, A Serenade at the Villa, A Toccata of Galuppi's, By the...
by Joseph Howe
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
This volume, containing a selection of the poetry and prose of Joseph Howe, presents various aspects of a fascinating man who few Canadian know as other than the 'tribune of Nova Scotia' and a political giant of colonial times. Yet Howe was also a writer, and a good one. His intuitive grasp and pragmatic...
by George Frederick Cameron, Douglas Lochhead
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
A.J.M. Smith has described George Frederick Cameron as one of 'Canada's greatest poets,' who, with Isabella Valancy Crawford and Archibald Lampman, 'were cut off just when their work had reached maturity.' Cameron's poetry is rich in classical culture, and involves itself with political concerns, love and death.
The Rock Where We Stand
An Ethnography of Women's Activism in Newfoundland
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
Bay St. George in western Newfoundland is a region characterized by a boom and bust economy and shaped by the establishment of the Earnest Harmon American Airforce Base. This ethnography explores how women at the Bay St. George Women's Council deal specifically with the issues of single motherhood,...
The White Savannahs
The First Study of Canadian Poetry from a Contemporary Viewpoint
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1975
The White Savannahs, originally published in 1936, is the first study of Canadian poetry from a modern point of view. It contains essays on Archibald Lampman, Marjorie Pickthall, E.J. Pratt, Leo Kennedy, A.M. Klein, A.J.M. Smith, F.R. Scott, Marie Le Franc, and Dorothy Livesay. The contributions are...
Studies in the Eighteenth Century III
Papers presented at the Third David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, Canberra 1973
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1976
This volume of essays, from the Third David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, continues the valuable and lively tradition established in the two earlier seminars and volumes.
The essays, by distinguished international scholars, range over many of the topics that make the eighteenth century a rich...
Studies in the Eighteenth Century II
Papers presented at the Second David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, Canberra 1970
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
This volume presents an array of studies on many aspects of the eighteenth century: on the novel, history, the history of ideas, drama, poetry and sentimentality. The essays are as diverse as ‘Pope’s Essays on Man and the French Enlightenment’ and ‘Of Silk-worms and Farthingales and the Will...