Poetry History category: 2770 books

L’Arca è il simbolo della salvezza, è il rifugio sicuro dalle asperità della vita, dalle impetuose alluvioni che senza tregua insidiano il genere umano. L’Arca raccoglie, l’Arca soccorre, l’Arca salva. E accanto a brutture, a corruzione, al tempo che fugge e che sembra non lasciare scampo,...

“Questo libro non è una antologia. Non è nemmeno un vero e proprio libro di poesie. La poesia, del resto, non è mai stata una faccenda di libri. L’hanno fatta passare per una cosa di libri solo di recente, e hanno sbagliato. Lei infatti non ci sta. Con grave scorno di editori, professori e...

«Sono un frutto/ d’innumerevoli contrasti d’innesti». Così si definisce Giuseppe Ungaretti nella poesia Italia, manifesto del Porto Sepolto, 1916. Tale l’origine, e pari il destino: nato ad Alessandria d’Egitto nel 1888 da genitori lucchesi emigrati al momento delle opere di scavo del...

La poesía puede nacer como una sensación, un recuerdo, una certeza, una luz, o una sombra que se prolonga en la mente.

Flavia Sabato nasce a casarano nel 1985. Lavora e gioca con l'arte soprattutto con la musica popolare che le ha permesso di viaggiare e ancor più ascoltare, sentire come il soffio del vento può attraversare una conchiglia, la voce di un bimbo o il canto di un'anziano le rallegra la giornata, il...

First published in 1957. This edition re-issues the second edition of 1965. Recognized as one of the leading books in its field, The English History Play in the Age of Shakespeare presents the most comprehensive account available of the English historical drama from its beginning to the closing...

The Mirror for Magistrates, the collection of de casibus complaint poems in the voices of medieval rulers and rebels compiled by William Baldwin in the 1550s, was central to the development of imaginative literature in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Additions by John Higgins, Thomas...

With the weakening moral authority of the Catholic Church, the boom ushered in by the Celtic Tiger, and the slow but steady diminishment of the Troubles in the North, Ireland has finally stepped out from the shadows of colonial oppression onto the world stage as a major cosmopolitan country.Taking...

One hundred years after his birth, Nobel laureate Octavio Paz is considered one of the most important thinkers of Mexican identity, one of the most influential Mexican poets, and one of the main representatives of a national cosmopolitanism. Most readings of his work, whether critical or laudatory,...

This collection of essays is the first book to take up the urgent issue of torture from the array of approaches offered by the arts and humanities. In the post-9/11 era, where we are once again compelled to entertain debates about the legality of torture, this volume speaks about the practice in an...

From the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting: a narratively driven, deeply human biography of the Tang dynasty poet Li Bai—also known as Li Po In his own time (701–762), Li Bai's poems—shaped by Daoist thought and characterized by their passion, romance, and lust for life—were...

Masks of Anarchy tells the extraordinary story of Percy Shelley’s poem “The Masque of Anarchy,” from its conception in Italy and suppression in England to the moment it became a catalyst for protest among New York City workers a century later. Shelley penned the poem in 1819, after hearing...

Charles C. Calhoun's Longfellow gives life, at last, to the most popular American poet who ever lived, a nineteenth-century cultural institution of extraordinary influence and the"one poet average, nonbookish Americans still know by heart" (Dana Gioia). Calhoun's Longfellow emerges...

Adam Thorpe's fourth collection continues his engagement with history: the living continuum that connects us with our near and distant past, nourishing and illuminating our present. Here are traces left of presence: Indian scratchings on rock, the nail-marks of destroyed frescoes, spoken fragments...