Poetry History category: 2770 books
Horace
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
The work of the great Roman poet, Horatius Flaccus (65 BC to 8 BC), spanned all aspects of Roman life: politics, the arts, religion, and the authority of the emperor, while his legendary poems (Satires, Odes, Epistles) about friendship, philosophy, love and sex still have widespread appeal. This biography...
American Bards
Walt Whitman and Other Unlikely Candidates for National Poet
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Walt Whitman has long been regarded as the quintessential American bard, the poet who best represents all that is distinctive about life in the United States. Whitman himself encouraged this view, but he was also quick to remind his readers that he was an unlikely candidate for the office of national...
Parmenides’ Vision
A Study of Parmenides’ Poem
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
This book intends to establish, against his numerous modern critics, that the ancient philosopher Parmenides was a mystic. Instead of arriving at his conclusions by cold reason, Parmenides found the unity of Being, which he called “the Truth,” by turning to a life of meditation. His use of reason...
by Mark Griffith
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Aristophanes is widely credited with having elevated the classical art of comedy to the level of legitimacy and recognition that only tragedy had hitherto achieved, and producing some of the most intriguing works of literature to survive from classical Greece in the process. Among them, Frogs has...
Egil, the Viking Poet
New Approaches to 'Egil's Saga'
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Egil, the Viking Poet focuses on one of the best-known Icelandic sagas, that of the extraordinary hero Egil Skallagrimsson. Descended from a lineage of trolls, shape-shifters, and warriors, Egil’s transformation from a precocious and murderous child into a raider, mercenary, litigant, landholder,...
by Victor Hugo
Language: French
Release Date: February 26, 2002
Language: French
Release Date: February 26, 2002
For most of his life, Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was the most famous writer in the world. His legacy includes the nineteenth century's most celebrated works of drama, fiction, memoir, and criticism. But in his day Hugo was know foremost as a poet-indeed the greatest French poet of the age. He wrote with...
by Conor Carville
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Samuel Beckett and the Visual Arts is the first book to comprehensively assess Beckett's knowledge of art, art history and art criticism. In his lifetime Beckett thought deeply about visual culture from ancient Egyptian statuary to Dutch realism, from Quattrocento painting to the modernists and after....
The Leslie A. Marchand Memorial Lectures, 2000–2015
A Legacy in Byron Studies
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
This unique collection of lectures honors the pioneering work in Byron studies of Leslie Alexis Marchand, who has had an enduring influence on the appreciation and study of Lord Byron for sixty years. Generations of readers and writers have come to Byron through his biographies and his edition of...
Ovid (Routledge Revivals)
The Classical Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Ovid: The Classical Heritage, first published in 1995, contains a diverse collection of reflections, ranging from the first century, through the Middle Ages, to the twentieth, on a poet who has been adored and reviled in equal measure.
With the entire notion of ‘Western culture’ under duress,...
Reading Anew
José Lezama Lima's Rhetorical Investigations.
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The work of the Cuban poet, novelist and thinker José Lezama Lima (Havana, 1910-1976) constitutes one of the most fascinating intellectual projects ever made in Latin America. He is the author of some of the most difficult poems in the Spanish language and of an ambitious theory of poetics, culture...
Modernity's Mist
British Romanticism and the Poetics of Anticipation
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Modernity’s Mist explores an understudied aspect of Romanticism: its future-oriented poetics. Whereas Romanticism is well known for its relation to the past, Emily Rohrbach situates Romantic epistemological uncertainties in relation to historiographical debates that opened up a radically unpredictable...
Discovering Modernism
T. S. Eliot and His Context
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2007
When Discovering Modernism was first published, it shed new and welcome light on the birth of Modernism. This reissue of Menand's classic intellectual history of T.S. Eliot and the singular role he played in the rise of literary modernism features an updated Afterword by the author, as well as a detailed...
by R. Howard Bloch
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
In the tradition of The Swerve comes this thrilling, detective-like work of literary history that reveals how a poem created the world we live in today.
It was, improbably, the forerunner of our digital age: a French poem about a shipwreck published in 1897 that, with its mind-bending possibilities...
Raps and Rhymes About Tudor Times
A Poetic Interpretation of History
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Children are fascinated by the past and this poetic interpretation of life in Tudor times makes History fun and accessible to everyone. From the very real Christopher Columbus and Henry VIII to the fictitious schoolboy named Jack and the nobleman, Sir Alec Smith-Brown, Sue Nields poems whisk the reader...