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Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry explores how American poets of the last hundred years have used laughter to create communities of readers and writers. For poets slightly outside of the literary or social mainstream, humor encourages...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-16
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This book presents Czeslaw Milosz's poetic philosophy of the body as an original defense of religious faith, transcendence, and the value of the human individual against what he viewed as dangerous modern forms of materialism. The Polish Nobel laureate saw the reductive...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-16
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Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry explores how American poets of the last hundred years have used laughter to create communities of readers and writers. For poets slightly outside of the literary or social mainstream, humor encourages...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-16
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Keats and Shelley: Winds of Light combines unrivalled textual knowledge, biographical and contextual expertise, and profoundly insightful close readings of the poetry in a selection of outstanding essays from a leading critic of English Romantic Poetry.
Some of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-16
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Keats and Shelley: Winds of Light combines unrivalled textual knowledge, biographical and contextual expertise, and profoundly insightful close readings of the poetry in a selection of outstanding essays from a leading critic of English Romantic Poetry.
Some of the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-16
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In Hexametrical Genres from Homer to Theocritus, Christopher Faraone discusses a number of short hexametrical genres such as oracles, incantations and laments that do not easily fit the generic models provided by the extant poetry of Hesiod and Homer.In the process, he...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-09-28
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This book offers the first comprehensive close reading in any language of the complete works of Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867). Taking full account of his critical writings on literature and the fine arts, it provides fresh readings of Les Fleurs du Mal and Le Spleen de...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-09-16
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This book offers the first comprehensive close reading in any language of the complete works of Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867). Taking full account of his critical writings on literature and the fine arts, it provides fresh readings of Les Fleurs du Mal and Le Spleen de...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-09-16
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Paul Muldoon was looking west long before he left Ireland for the United States in 1987, and his Transatlantic departure would prove to be a turning point in his life and work. In America, Muldoon's creative repertoire has extended into song writing, libretti, and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-09-09
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Paul Muldoon was looking west long before he left Ireland for the United States in 1987, and his Transatlantic departure would prove to be a turning point in his life and work. In America, Muldoon's creative repertoire has extended into song writing, libretti, and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-09-09
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A full-length study and new translation of the great Sanskrit poet Kalidasa's famed Meghaduta (literally "The Cloud Messenger,") The Cloud of Longing focuses on the poem's interfacing of nature, feeling, figuration, and mythic memory. This work is unique in its...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-08-31
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A defence of the importance of poetry that studies one of the greatest poets of the English tradition: John Milton.
The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-12
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A defence of the importance of poetry that studies one of the greatest poets of the English tradition: John Milton.
The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-12
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A new story about the relationships between major twentieth-century English-language poets.
Why did poets from the United States, Britain, and Ireland gather in a small town in Italy during the early years of Mussolini's regime? These writers were--or became--some of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-07-08
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A new story about the relationships between major twentieth-century English-language poets.
Why did poets from the United States, Britain, and Ireland gather in a small town in Italy during the early years of Mussolini's regime? These writers were--or became--some of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-07-08
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A first-hand account of the creative process that engages with the language of oppression and with politics in our time.
How does the poet become attuned to the language of the world's upheaval? How does one talk insightfully about suffering, without creating more of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-06-17
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The life of John Selden (1584-1654) was both contemplative and active. Seventeenth-century England's most learned person, he was also one of the few survivors who continued in the Long Parliament of the 1640s his vigorous opposition, begun in the 1620s, to abuses of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-06-17
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The life of John Selden (1584-1654) was both contemplative and active. Seventeenth-century England's most learned person, he was also one of the few survivors who continued in the Long Parliament of the 1640s his vigorous opposition, begun in the 1620s, to abuses of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-06-17
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A first-hand account of the creative process that engages with the language of oppression and with politics in our time.
How does the poet become attuned to the language of the world's upheaval? How does one talk insightfully about suffering, without creating more of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-06-17
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This volume consists of fourteen original essays that showcase the latest thinking about John Milton's emergence as a popular and canonical author. Contributors consider how Milton positioned himself in relation to the book trade, contemporaneous thinkers, and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-03-04
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