Poetry History Criticism category: 2222 books

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Other British Voices

Women, Poetry, and Religion, 1766-1840

by T. Whelan
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016

This volume discusses the lives and writings of five nonconformist women who comprised the heart of a vibrant literary circle in England between 1760 and 1840. Whelan shows these women's keen awareness and often radical viewpoints on contemporary issues connected to politics, religion, gender, and the Romantic sensibility.
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by Paul Cefalu
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017

The Johannine Renaissance in Early Modern English Literature and Theology argues that the Fourth Gospel and First Epistle of Saint John the Evangelist were so influential during the early modern period in England as to share with Pauline theology pride of place as leading apostolic texts on matters...
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Couronne poétique de Napoléon

Hommage de la poésie à la gloire

by Anonyme, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: January 12, 2016

Extrait : "TE DEUM - Carthage, Athènes, Rome, élevez moins vos têtes Elevez moins vos noms ! riez moins de vos fêtes ! Etalez moins aux yeux de cent siècles ouverts Les blasons de vos dieux remplissant l'univers ! Nous avons notre Dieu ! nous avons notre Rome ! Nous avons notre histoire et notre...
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Élégies et hymnes de Friedrich Hölderlin

Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis

by Encyclopaedia Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: November 10, 2015

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Parus parfois de son vivant dans quelques revues, mais en grande partie inédits au moment où débuta la seconde « moitié de sa vie » marquée par la folie (1806-1843), les poèmes de Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) ne...
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Mythologie de Georges Séféris

Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis

by Encyclopaedia Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: November 10, 2015

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Être grec en pays étranger, condamné par l’exil à la nostalgie du pays natal, tel est le destin de Georges Séféris (1900-1971) naît à Smyrne, sur une terre qui n’allait pas rester longtemps grecque. Une fiche...
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Poèmes d'Emily Dickinson

Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis

by Encyclopaedia Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: November 10, 2015

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Contemporaine des écrivains américains Poe, Melville, Hawthorne et Whitman, Emily Dickinson est née en Nouvelle-Angleterre (États-Unis) en 1830, dans un milieu pétri de culture puritaine. Une fiche de lecture spécialement...
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Layli et Madjnun de Nizami de Gandje

Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis

by Encyclopaedia Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: November 10, 2015

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Laylī et Madjnūn est le troisième des cinq poèmes du poète persan Nizāmī (1141 env.-env. 1209) dont l’ensemble, réuni postérieurement à la mort de l’auteur, est connu sous le nom de Pandj gandj (Les Cinq Trésors)...
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Poésies de John Donne

Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis

by Encyclopaedia Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: November 10, 2015

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis John Donne (1572-1631) est sans doute le plus grand des « poètes métaphysiques » de l’âge élisabéthain, selon l’expression de Samuel Johnson, éminent critique du siècle des Lumières. Une fiche de lecture...
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The Anthropocene Lyric

An Affective Geography of Poetry, Person, Place

by Tom Bristow
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015

This book takes the work of three contemporary poets John Burnside, John Kinsella and Alice Oswald to reveal how an environmental poetics of place is of significant relevance for the Anthropocene: a geological marker asking us to think radically of the human as one part of the more-than-human world.
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by Jules Renard, Henri Bachelin, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: November 17, 2015

Extrait : "Je te promettais une douce vie, Je t'aurais donné les plus beaux joujoux, Tous ceux qu'un enfant maladif envie, Pour te voir me faire un peu les yeux doux. Mes meilleurs amis devaient te sourire, Et, pour me payer leur tasse de thé, Le soir, en fumant, t'auraient laissé dire, Tout ce qu'imagine...
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by Madeleine Callaghan
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019

Byron’s and Shelley’s experimentation with the possibilities and pitfalls of poetic heroism unites their work. The Poet-Hero in the Work of Byron and Shelley traces the evolution of the poet-hero in the work of both poets, revealing that the struggle to find words adequate to the poet’s imaginative...
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Thomas Hardy's Pastoral

An Unkindly May

by Indy Clark
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016

This book reads Hardy's poetry of the rural as deeply rooted in the historical tradition of the pastoral mode even as it complicates and extends it. It shows that in addition to reinstating the original tensions of classical pastoral, Hardy dramatizes a heightened awareness of complex communities and the relations of class, labour, and gender.
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by J. Archer, R. Marggraf Turley, H. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014

Food and the Literary Imagination explores ways in which the food chain and anxieties about its corruption and disruption are represented in poetry, theatre and the novel. The book relates its findings to contemporary concerns about food security.
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Milton's Secrecy

And Philosophical Hermeneutics

by James Dougal Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016

Scientific modernity treats interpretation as a matter of discovery. Discovery, however, may not be all that matters about interpretation. In Milton's Secrecy, J. D. Fleming argues that the poetry and prose of John Milton (1608-1674) are about the presentation of a radically different hermeneutic...
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