Poetry History Criticism category: 2222 books
Re-reading Derrida
Perspectives on Mourning and Its Hospitalities
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Re-reading Derrida: Perspectives on Mourning and its Hospitalities, edited by Tony Thwaites and Judith Seaboyer, is a unique collaborative exploration of the legacies of the late philosopher, Jacques Derrida, across a wide variety of fields.
Anchoring the book are two major essays on mourning by two...
by Anne Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2005
Affectionate yet satirical, this sequence of poems focuses on a family of giants and, in particular, on a young giant woman and her efforts to conceal from her normally sized lover how tall she truly is. The witty verses are infused with warmth and transcend a reader's everyday reality and experiences....
Browning Studies (Routledge Revivals)
Being Select Papers by Members of the Browning Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
This title, first published in 1909, presents a selection of the most important essays by members of the renowned Browning Society, which existed to promulgate the works of and appreciation for perhaps the greatest English poet of the Victorian Age.
Browning’s poetry deals with themes that...
by Carolyn Miller
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Carolyn Miller is a lyric poet of redeeming grace and intense clarity. Her poems are grounded in a sense of the marvelous, as if viewing life through a jewel, transforming the dark world of memory and desire into a luminous presence. She is a master of distilled moments. The mood of the poems in Route...
Stunned into Being
Essays on the Poetry of Lorna Dee Cervantes
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
Lorna Dee Cervantes is a pivotal figure throughout the Chicano literary movement and this book gathers 30 years’ worth of essays and articles about her as well as interviews with her. A fifth-generation Californian of Mexican and Native American (Chumasch) heritage, Cervantes is widely considered...
The Browning Cyclopaedia (Routledge Revivals)
A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Robert Browning, the great Victorian poet, is often claimed to be hard to understand, largely on account of the obscurity of his language, the complexity of his thought, and his poetic style. The Browning Cyclopaedia, first published in 1891, presents an exposition of the prominent ideas of each poem,...
Wordsworth, Commodification, and Social Concern
The Poetics of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
This reading of Wordworth's poetry by leading critic David Simpson centres on its almost obsessive representation of spectral forms and images of death in life. Wordsworth is reacting, Simpson argues, to the massive changes in the condition of England and the modern world at the turn of the century:...
The Ecology of the English Outlaw in Medieval Literature
From Fen to Greenwood
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Arguing that outlaw narratives become particularly popular and poignant at moments of national ecological and political crisis, Sarah Harlan-Haughey examines the figure of the outlaw in Anglo-Saxon poetry and Old English exile lyrics such as Beowulf, works dealing with the life and actions of Hereward,...
Romantic Fiat
Demystification and Enchantment in Lyric Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
In the Romantic period's economics of 'fiat' money the legacy of romanticism involves absolutist gestures of verbal fiat. Focused on William Wordsworth, but in constant range of his poet-successors and modern critics, Romantic Fiat presents an argument for a double romantic signature of 'let there be' and 'let be.'
John Donne
Life, Mind and Art
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
'Donne is perhaps the most intellectual of English poets, and John Carey is perhaps the most intelligent of contemporary English literary critics. The encounter, as one might expect, is fierce and enthralling... This book is sensitive, searching, powerful, exciting, provocative and witty. It is a...
A Mirror for Lovers
Shake-speare's Sonnets as Curious Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
A Mirror for Lovers: Shake-speare’s Sonnets as Curious Perspective, by William F. Zak,seeks to identify in Shake-speare’e sonnet sequence the structural and thematic features of the satirical tradition born in Plato’s Symposium. Through this study, Zak traces the power of an idea to endure,...
by Charlotte Ward
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
The translations by Juan Ramón Jiménez, first resident of the Caribbean to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, have been neglected, likely because many of them were published under the name of his wife, Zenobia Camprubí Aymar, along with many of his poems. Close analysis of the style, along with...
Ovid
A Poet on the Margins
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
The Latin poet Ovid was famously exiled by the Emperor Augustus to the shores of the Black Sea for his self-confessed crimes of 'a poem and a mistake'. Throughout his poetry, he discusses his exile and embraces the themes of marginality and alterity.
This core motif is explored throughout this...
Bucolic Ecology
Virgil's Eclogues and the Environmental Literary Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Beginning in outer space and ending up among the atoms, "Bucolic Ecology" illustrates how these poems repeatedly turn to the natural world in order to define themselves and their place in the literary tradition. It argues that the 'Eclogues' find there both a sequence of analogies for their...