Poetry History category: 2770 books

Con La Renault di Aldo Moro Luca Ariano prosegue il suo percorso di un romanzo – o forse meglio racconti – in versi iniziato nel 2010 con Contratto a termine. I personaggi sono gli stessi: Fiulin, Teresa, l’Emilio, l’Enrico, l’Andrea (rigorosamente con l’articolo, retaggio di lombardismi...

Whether the rapt trances of Romanticism or the corpse-like figures that confounded Victorian science and religion, nineteenth-century depictions of bodies in suspended animation are read as manifestations of broader concerns about the unknowable in Anne C. McCarthy’s Awful Parenthesis. Examining...

This book addresses the poetics of space and place in Scottish literature. Focusing chiefly on twentieth- and twenty-first century texts, with acknowledgement of historical and philosophical contexts, the essays address representation, narrative form, the work of the poetic, perception and experience....

En El río de los amigos –título también de un poema de Gamoneda–, un conjunto de escritores y críticos celebra la trascendencia de la obra de Antonio Gamoneda, así como el renovador sustrato que ésta aporta al panorama de las letras hispanas contemporáneas. Rafael Saravia ha reunido a un...

¿Sabías que el soneto en castellano nace durante una conversación entre dos embajadores? ¿Que los franceses inventaron la poesía moderna europea en bares y hostales de mala muerte? ¿Que una mujer excéntrica, empeñada en vestir de blanco durante los últimos años de su vida, cambió la poesía...

An Introduction to Octavio Paz is a valuable and concise primer to the ideas of the world renowned Mexican writer and Nobel Prize winner. Written and edited by Alberto Ruy Sánchez, a well-respected writer whom Paz considered one of Mexico's best essayists, this book offers a comprehensive overview...

«Ma la preziosa monografia di Rombi, dopo tanti anni dalla sua prima edizione del 1983, sostanzialmente di altro non ha avuto bisogno che di aggiornamento biobibliografico, è un esempio prezioso di lettura letteraria juxta propria principia. Satta non è visto astrattamente, né “misurato” su...

When T.S. Eliot wrote of W.S. Graham's collection, The Nightfishing, that 'some of these poems - by their sustained power, their emotional depth and maturity and their superb technical skill - may well be among the more important poetical achievements of our time', he could not have stated the truth...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis De son temps, c’est à son œuvre de savant que le persan ‘Umar Khayyām (1047 env.-1122 env.) doit son renom, et c’est comme tel qu’il fut d’abord connu en Europe. Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue...

Mi piace pensare che tutte queste mie parole siano come onde di pensieri in quel mare che può essere la vita. Ogni giorno lo attraversiamo portando con noi qualcosa dentro. Un bagaglio fatto di emozioni, sentimenti, avventure, paure, forze; regali che questo vivere ci dona ogni singolo istante. A...

Un poème de Sarah-Maude Beauchesne.

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Lorsque paraît son premier recueil en octobre 1953, sous la couverture bleutée des éditions du Mercure de France, Yves Bonnefoy n’a publié qu’une plaquette, Traité du pianiste (1946). Une fiche de lecture spécialement...

Blake’s ‘Human Form Divine’ has long commanded the spotlight. Beastly Blake shifts focus to the non-human creatures who populate Blake’s poetry and designs. The author of ‘The Tyger’ and ‘The Lamb’ was equally struck by the ‘beastliness’ and the beauty of the animal kingdom, the...

William Blake was ignored in his own time. Now, however, his Songs of Innocence and Experience and 'prophetic books' are widely admired and studied. The second edition of this successful introductory text: • leads the reader into the Songs and 'prophetic books' via detailed analysis of individual...