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This book takes the work of three contemporary poets John Burnside, John Kinsella and Alice Oswald to reveal how an environmental poetics of place is of significant relevance for the Anthropocene: a geological marker asking us to think radically of the human as one part of the more-than-human world.

Extrait : "Je te promettais une douce vie, Je t'aurais donné les plus beaux joujoux, Tous ceux qu'un enfant maladif envie, Pour te voir me faire un peu les yeux doux. Mes meilleurs amis devaient te sourire, Et, pour me payer leur tasse de thé, Le soir, en fumant, t'auraient laissé dire, Tout ce qu'imagine...

Byron’s and Shelley’s experimentation with the possibilities and pitfalls of poetic heroism unites their work. The Poet-Hero in the Work of Byron and Shelley traces the evolution of the poet-hero in the work of both poets, revealing that the struggle to find words adequate to the poet’s imaginative...

This book reads Hardy's poetry of the rural as deeply rooted in the historical tradition of the pastoral mode even as it complicates and extends it. It shows that in addition to reinstating the original tensions of classical pastoral, Hardy dramatizes a heightened awareness of complex communities and the relations of class, labour, and gender.

Food and the Literary Imagination explores ways in which the food chain and anxieties about its corruption and disruption are represented in poetry, theatre and the novel. The book relates its findings to contemporary concerns about food security.

Scientific modernity treats interpretation as a matter of discovery. Discovery, however, may not be all that matters about interpretation. In Milton's Secrecy, J. D. Fleming argues that the poetry and prose of John Milton (1608-1674) are about the presentation of a radically different hermeneutic...

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...

San Antonio Express-News poetry columnist Robert Bonazzi gathers 20 years of reviews and profiles, essays and articles in Outside the Margins. Bonazzi focuses on poets and writers from Texas, the Southwest, Mexico and Latin America. His criticism finds threads of mutual interests, shared sources of...

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...