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A moving inquiry into the dramatic life, epic success, and ultimate tragedy of the great Hebrew poet By the time he was twenty-eight, Hayim Nahman Bialik was already considered the National Hebrew Poet. He had only published a single collection, but his deeply personal poetry established a profound link...

Lachlan MacKinnon's fourth collection opens with a gathering of lyrics and descriptive poems: observing rites of passage (elegies, wedding poems), offering nuanced accounts of places and their patchwork afterlives (the Midlands, a Suffolk sketchbook), or meditations on historical figures introspectively...

After its publication in 1667, John Milton's Paradise Lost was celebrated throughout Europe as a supreme achievement of the human spirit. Now it is little read. To bring readers back to Milton's masterpiece, John Carey has shortened it to a third of its original length. In this fascinating...

In the first edition of this now-classic text, Richard Peterson offered an important revaluation of the poetry of Ben Jonson and a new appreciation of the way in which the classical doctrine of imitation-the creative use of the thoughts and words of predecessors-permeates and shapes Jonson's critical...

When at the age of twenty-three Barnabe Googe allowed the publication of his Ecologues, Epitaphs, and Sonnets, he became the first English author to publish personal poetry during his lifetime. His ecologues are, with Barclay's, the first examples of the form in English, anticipating in several respects...

Philip Larkin's second collection, The Less Deceived was published by The Marvell Press in 1955, and now appears for the first time in Faber covers. The eye can hardly pick them out From the cold shade they shelter in, Till wind distresses tail and mane; Then one crops grass, and moves about - The other seeming to look on - And stands anonymous again. from 'At Grass'

This is a revised second edition of Edward Mullen's landmark scholarly presentation of Juan Francisco Manazo's autobiography and poetry. Taking into account the extensive scholarship that has accrued in the intervening decades, this is an accessible, essential resource for scholars and students of Caribbean literatures.

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) ne fut pas seulement un grand poète novateur et visionnaire. Il s’engagea en politique, explora l’histoire celte, cofonda l’Abbey Theatre, le théâtre national irlandais. Une fiche...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Un des manuscrits qui contient le Canzoniere de Pétrarque (1304-1374) porte le titre en latin de Rerum vulgarium fragmenta (« fragments en langue vulgaire »). Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique,...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Ovide, Publius Ovidius Naso (43 av. J.-C.-17 apr. J.-C.), reprend dans ses Métamorphoses un thème classique de l’Antiquité : le récit des transformations d’hommes en bêtes, en objets inanimés, parfois en forces de...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Composé selon François Villon (1431-apr. 1463) dans la nuit de Noël 1456, le Lais avait utilisé en le parodiant le motif courtois de la « départie » d’amour de « l’amant martyr », afin de distribuer sur le mode...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis C’est au château de Duino, sur les bords de l’Adriatique, où il avait été invité par la princesse de La Tour et Taxis et trouvé un havre provisoire de paix, qu’en janvier-février 1912 Rilke compose les deux premières...

Originally published in 1964, The Sonnets by Ted Berrigan is considered by many to be his most important and influential book. This new annotated edition, with an introduction by Alice Notley, includes seven previously uncollected works. Like Shakespeare's sonnets, Berrigan's poems involve friendship...

In his collection Risking Everything, Housden addressed love’s many aspects. Now, in Dancing with Joy, he assembles 99 poems from 69 poets that celebrate the many colors of joy. Anything can be a catalyst for joy, these poems reveal. For Wislawa Szymborska, the catalyst is a dream; for Robert...