Literary studies: poetry & poets books

31462 books were found.

Izibongo zoogxa: poems on contemporaries (1902–1944)

Izibongo zoogxa: poems on contemporaries (1902–1944)...

Author: Jeff Opland ,  Jeff Opland
ISBN: 9781847014603
Format: Hardback
$219.94

33 poems by Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi, in isiXhosa and English translation, with a comprehensive introduction....  Read More >>

Cavalier Perspective: Last Essays, 1952-1966

Cavalier Perspective: Last Essays, 1952-1966

Author: Andre Breton ,  Austin Carder
ISBN: 9780872869394
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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The Dynamic Quality of Late Greek Non-Christian Poetry: Studies in Minor Genres

The Dynamic Quality of Late Greek Non-Christian Poetry:...

Author: Krystyna Bartol ,  Jerzy Danielewicz
ISBN: 9789004748101
Format: Hardback
$282.48

The volume brings together studies on the concept of minor literary genres in late Greek non-Christian poetry and...  Read More >>

A Child's Christmas In Wales 70th Anniversary Edition: the timeless Christmas classic, celebrating 70 years

A Child's Christmas In Wales 70th Anniversary Edition:...

Author: Dylan Thomas ,  Edward Ardizzone
ISBN: 9781510114104
Format: Hardback
$16.99

Celebrating 70 years, this is the timeless classic story of Dylan Thomas's childhood Christmas memories, featuring...  Read More >>

The Poems of Seamus Heaney

The Poems of Seamus Heaney

Author: Seamus Heaney ,  Bernard O'Donoghue
ISBN: 9780571340385
Format: Hardback
$89.99

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Beatdom 25: The San Francisco Renaissance Issue

Beatdom 25: The San Francisco Renaissance Issue

Author: David S. Wills
ISBN: 9781068698033
Format: Paperback
$47.52

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City of Lyrics: Ordinary Poets and Islamicate Popular Culture in Early Modern Delhi

City of Lyrics: Ordinary Poets and Islamicate Popular...

Author: Nathan L. M. Tabor
ISBN: 9781469690223
Format: Paperback
$92.99

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Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe

Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe...

Author: George Santayana
ISBN: 9798211414020
Format: Paperback
$39.57

The present volume, Three Philosophical Poets, is composed, with a few additions, of six lectures read at Columbia...  Read More >>

Poetical Works of Robert Bridges: Excluding the Eight Dramas

Poetical Works of Robert Bridges: Excluding the Eight...

Author: Robert Bridges
ISBN: 9781479411245
Format: Paperback
$60.69

Poetical Works of Robert Bridges gathers the collected verse of Britain's Poet Laureate from 1913 to 1930, showcasing...  Read More >>

Your Historical Loveliness Knows No Bounds: Form, Futurity, and Documentary Desire

Your Historical Loveliness Knows No Bounds: Form, Futurity,...

Author: Wendy Xu
ISBN: 9780472040001
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Pushing the boundaries of what poetry can hold  Read More >>

Evil Without Theatre: Essays and Poems on Power, Truth and the Human Condition

Evil Without Theatre: Essays and Poems on Power, Truth...

Author: W J Riley
ISBN: 9798267505918
Format: Paperback
$26.37

Evil Without Theatre: Essays and Poems on Power, Truth, and the Human Condition is a hybrid of poetry and philosophy...  Read More >>

City of Lyrics: Ordinary Poets and Islamicate Popular Culture in Early Modern Delhi

City of Lyrics: Ordinary Poets and Islamicate Popular...

Author: Nathan L. M. Tabor
ISBN: 9781469690216
Format: Hardback
$229.00

For centuries, Urdu-speaking poets and their audiences have gathered for mushāʿirahs, literary competitions for...  Read More >>

The Verse and the Language of Old Germanic Poetry

The Verse and the Language of Old Germanic Poetry

Author: Olga A. Smirnitskaya ,  Ilya V. Sverdlov
ISBN: 9780866986472
Format: Hardback
$234.96

The first English translation of Olga A. Smirnitskaya's influential 1994 Russian work on Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse...  Read More >>

ʿAḇdīšōʿ of Gazarta: Patriarch, Poet and Scribe: East Syriac Poetry and Manuscript Culture of the Ottoman Period

ʿAḇdīšōʿ of Gazarta: Patriarch, Poet and Scribe: East...

Author: Anton Pritula
ISBN: 9789004730670
Format: Hardback
$459.36

ʿAḇdīšōʿ of Gazarta: Patriarch, Poet and Scribe focuses on the literary legacy of this prominent East Syrian poet...  Read More >>

Memory

Memory

Author: Dorothea Lasky
ISBN: 9781635902594
Format: Paperback
$47.39

A poet’s spacious exploration of time, memory and art, in homage to poet Bernadette Mayer.  Read More >>

The Poetics of Greek Ekphrasis: From the Hellenistic Period to Late Antiquity

The Poetics of Greek Ekphrasis: From the Hellenistic...

Author: Matthew Chaldekas ,  Irmgard Männlein-Robert
ISBN: 9783119147224
Format: Hardback
$377.49

Responding to recent trends in the study of ancient Greek ekphrasis, this volume explores the poetic aspects of...  Read More >>

Unlimited Eligibility?: Inclusive Democracy and the American Lyric

Unlimited Eligibility?: Inclusive Democracy and the...

Author: Ryan Cull
ISBN: 9798855802238
Format: Paperback
$94.91

Rewrites the dominant narrative of the political work of lyric poetry in the United States since the nineteenth...  Read More >>

Sadomasochistic “Beowulf”: Queer Narratives of Desire and Dissolution in Old English Literature

Sadomasochistic “Beowulf”: Queer Narratives of Desire...

Author: Christopher Vaccaro ,  Mayburd Miriam
ISBN: 9781501517945
Format: Hardback
$261.33

Sadomasochistic Beowulf explores a field of queer pleasures in Beowulf as well as other Old English texts, applying...  Read More >>

The Kingdom of Middle Children

The Kingdom of Middle Children

Author: Mark Parsons
ISBN: 9798218741808
Format: Paperback
$39.60

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Science Fiction Poetry (Volume 17)- SciFi, Fantasy, and Speculative Poetry, Discover Chronicles of the Sci-fi Stellar Verse, Echoes of the Void, and Nebula Narrative Anthology

Science Fiction Poetry (Volume 17)- SciFi, Fantasy,...

Author: Taylor Beelt Tillerson
ISBN: 9798887233369
Format: Paperback
$105.57

In the infinite expanse between a heartbeat and a supernova, where logic dances with wonder, this book of sci-fi...  Read More >>

Aichinger-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung

Aichinger-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung

Author: Barbara Thums ,  Armin Schäfer
ISBN: 9783662715680
Format: Hardback
$395.97

Wesentliche Bezugspunkte bilden die Verfolgung und Ermordung der jüdischen Familie Aichinger und das Exil der Zwillingsschwester...  Read More >>

Revisiting the Poetics and Politics of Modernism: The Women of 1922

Revisiting the Poetics and Politics of Modernism: The...

Author: Tamlyn Avery ,  Sascha Morrell
ISBN: 9783031952432
Format: Hardback
$422.37

This book revisits women’s literature in 1922, long hailed as the miracle year of literary modernism, a landmark...  Read More >>

Choreography of the Poem: Exploring Poetry and Prosody through Dance

Choreography of the Poem: Exploring Poetry and Prosody...

Author: Richard Andrews
ISBN: 9789819692347
Format: Hardback
$316.77

This book explores analogies and correspondences between dance and poetry, with an emphasis on how dance and dance...  Read More >>

Poetization of Illness: A Study of German-language Literature in the 20th Century

Poetization of Illness: A Study of German-language Literature...

Author: Dongyao Liu
ISBN: 9789819508433
Format: Hardback
$448.77

font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;"">This book draws on historical sources and current research findings, skillfully...  Read More >>

Poetics of Prophecy and Planetary Hispanic Modernism: The Tragic Aesthetic of the Vates Poets

Poetics of Prophecy and Planetary Hispanic Modernism:...

Author: Dr. or Prof. Matthew Fehskens (East Tennessee State University, USA)
ISBN: 9798765126783
Format: Hardback
$180.00

A transatlantic study of Hispanic literary modernism’s use of prophetic discourse as an attempt to counter modern...  Read More >>

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