Poetry History category: 2770 books

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...

Written in three weeks of creative inspiration, Rainer Maria Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus (1923) is well known for its enigmaticpower and lyrical intensity. The essays in this volume forge a new path in illuminating the philosophical significance of this late masterpiece. Contributions illustrate the...

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,...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Le Romancero (1851), dernier grand recueil lyrique de Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), l’écrivain allemand exilé à Paris, expose dans une veine grinçante et radicale le bilan d’un rapport singulièrement déchiré avec le...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important,...

This volume offers a strikingly innovative account of Propertius' relationship with Virgil, positing a keen rivalry between two of the greatest poets of Latin literature, contemporaries within the circle of Maecenas. It begins by examining all of the references to Greek mythology in Propertius' first...

A full chronological record of the poems of Robin Hyde, a New Zealand journalist, novelist, dramatist, and poet active in the 1930s, is presented in this book. The 300 poems chosen show Hyde’s growth as a poet and her response to the painful events of her personal life and to the political and social...

The shorter English version is extant only as a fragment of 308 lines in a MS. at Vale Royal, and was edited by R.C.N. (i.e. R.C. Nichols) for the Roxburghe Club, London, 1873. The MS. is stated by editor to have been written about 1450. After relating Partinope's arrival in the enchanted city and...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Sentiment du monde, troisième recueil de l’écrivain brésilien Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902-1987), marque un tournant dans sa poésie en amorçant une réflexion sur la dimension historique de son temps, filtrée, comme...