Literary studies: poetry & poets books

31425 books were found.

The Old English Poet as Reader

The Old English Poet as Reader

Author: Daniel Thomas
ISBN: 9782503612201
Format: Hardback
$330.00

How did Old English poets read Old English poetry?  Read More >>

""Follow the Person"": Archival Encounters

""Follow the Person"": Archival Encounters

Author: Ammiel Alcalay
ISBN: 9781685712860
Format: Paperback
$68.64

Poet, novelist, translator, scholar, and critical essayist extraordinaire, Ammiel Alcalay's intrepid work has always...  Read More >>

The Essential Mir

The Essential Mir

Author: Anisur Rahman
ISBN: 9789373071107
Format: Hardback
$72.42

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Dante, Michelangelo and Milton

Dante, Michelangelo and Milton

Author: John Arthos
ISBN: 9781032834313
Format: Paperback
$82.77

Originally published in 1963, this is a study of the greatness of Dante, Michelangelo and Milton, and of the differences...  Read More >>

Philosophers' Poets

Philosophers' Poets

Author: David Wood
ISBN: 9781032769516
Format: Paperback
$82.77

First published in 1990, Philosophers’ Poets is a collection of case studies of philosophers’ readings of poets...  Read More >>

Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney

Author: Blake Morrison
ISBN: 9781032872506
Format: Paperback
$69.84

In this book, originally published in 1982, Blake Morrison identifies the central characteristics of his achievement,...  Read More >>

Ted Hughes

Ted Hughes

Author: Thomas West
ISBN: 9781032871462
Format: Paperback
$69.84

Originally published in 1985, this study provides a clear and intelligent introduction to the work of the former...  Read More >>

Cotton Famine Poetry: Functions of Emotion in British and American Verse 1861–65

Cotton Famine Poetry: Functions of Emotion in British...

Author: Simon Rennie
ISBN: 9783032019622
Format: Hardback
$422.37

This book represents the first substantial text examining the nature of Cotton Famine poetry, which responded to...  Read More >>

المدينة في القصيدة المغربية المعاصرة

المدينة في...

Author: أحمد الدمناتي
ISBN: 9789190116180
Format: Paperback
$48.81

هذا الكتاب دراسة نقدية رصينة تستكشف حضور المدينة في القصيدة المغربية المعاصرة من زاوية جمالية وتخييليّة عميقة. يفتح...  Read More >>

Nature and the Tradition of Late Latin Christian Poetry

Nature and the Tradition of Late Latin Christian Poetry...

Author: Donato de Gianni ,  Luciana Furbetta
ISBN: 9782503616544
Format: Paperback
$330.00

A collection of eleven scholarly essays by prominent international scholars, exploring how nature was perceived...  Read More >>

Vom rechten Tun und Lieben: Gedichte zur Sinnstiftung und geistigen Orientierung

Vom rechten Tun und Lieben: Gedichte zur Sinnstiftung...

Author: Rainer Werner
ISBN: 9783695185368
Format: Paperback
$46.20

Von einem unserer größten Lyriker, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, kennen wir das Motto seines lyrischen Schaffens:...  Read More >>

India for the World

India for the World

Author: Ajit Kumar Mahapatra
ISBN: 9781645607625
Format: Paperback
$36.96

""Seeing the World"" famed Dr. Mahapatra has come up with his second collection of poems ""India for the World"",...  Read More >>

Salute the Everlasting Day: John Donne and Romanos the Melodist in Dialogue

Salute the Everlasting Day: John Donne and Romanos the...

Author: Chrysostom Koutloumousianos
ISBN: 9780718898267
Format: Paperback
$100.32

An imaginative dialogue between the sixth-century Byzantine poet and hymnwriter and the sixteenth-century English...  Read More >>

The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Odyssey

The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Odyssey

Author: Joel P. Christensen (Professor of Classical and Early Mediterranean Studies, Professor of Classical and Early Mediterranean Studies, Brandeis University)
ISBN: 9780198985099
Format: Paperback
$58.95

A unique collection of 24 book-by-book essays on the Homeric Odyssey by renowned scholars aimed at a general audience....  Read More >>

The Final Chant - The Sea Remembers: A Deluxe Companion Collection of sea Snaty Poetry

The Final Chant - The Sea Remembers: A Deluxe Companion...

Author: L J Rigby
ISBN: 9798244263541
Format: Paperback
$35.30

The sea keeps what it is given. And sometimes, it answers back. The Final Chant - The Sea Remembers is a deluxe...  Read More >>

The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Odyssey

The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Odyssey

Author: Joel P. Christensen (Professor of Classical and Early Mediterranean Studies, Professor of Classical and Early Mediterranean Studies, Brandeis University)
ISBN: 9780192844101
Format: Hardback
$282.95

A unique collection of 24 book-by-book essays on the Homeric Odyssey by renowned scholars aimed at a general audience....  Read More >>

Chinese Poetry From Zhou to Ming (1000BC-1647AD): The Dynasty-by-Dynasty Evolution of a Civilization From Ancient Hymns to Tang Taverns And Beyond

Chinese Poetry From Zhou to Ming (1000BC-1647AD): The...

Author: Arthur Waley ,  Charles Featherstone
ISBN: 9781918388251
Format: Paperback
$39.57

A chronological collection of Arthur Waley's seminal translations, organized by dynasty from Zhou to Ming. This...  Read More >>

Shakespeare the Reviser: A Lover's Complaint

Shakespeare the Reviser: A Lover's Complaint

Author: Marina Tarlinskaya
ISBN: 9781526193278
Format: Hardback
$210.00

The book examines the distinction between revision and rewriting in Early New English literature, analysing over...  Read More >>

This Body of Death: Form and Decay in Early Modern Lyric

This Body of Death: Form and Decay in Early Modern Lyric...

Author: Eileen Sperry
ISBN: 9781501784309
Format: Paperback
$73.99

""""How lyric poetry allows us to rethink death not as an event but as a process of decay to reimagine the body...  Read More >>

The Colosseum Book of Contemporary Narrative Verse

The Colosseum Book of Contemporary Narrative Verse

Author: Sunil Iyengar
ISBN: 9798893721195
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Narrative verse, or poems that tell a story, has existed for millennia, yet the mode of writing has been neglected...  Read More >>

Irish Writers in the Civil Service

Irish Writers in the Civil Service

Author: Jonathan Foster ,  Elliott Mills
ISBN: 9781836244929
Format: Hardback
$336.38

Tracing the evolution of the figure of the writer-cum-bureaucrat from the Victorian Irish Civil Service through...  Read More >>

The UK Immigration System: The Whole Mess Presented in Poetry: A collection of 24 poems on a broken immigration system in desperate need of reform.

The UK Immigration System: The Whole Mess Presented...

Author: Laurie Ashwell
ISBN: 9798278601357
Format: Paperback
$28.20

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This Body of Death: Form and Decay in Early Modern Lyric

This Body of Death: Form and Decay in Early Modern Lyric...

Author: Eileen Sperry
ISBN: 9781501784316
Format: Hardback
$300.00

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Trespassing in the Archive: Poetry in Conversation with History

Trespassing in the Archive: Poetry in Conversation with...

Author: Kristina Marie Darling ,  Sandra Beasley
ISBN: 9781793646095
Format: Hardback
$160.00

This edited volume brings together a diverse group of scholars to examine works of poetry that engage, question,...  Read More >>

A Study of Intertextuality in Mohja Kahf’s ""E-Mails from Scheherazad"": The ""Odalisque” Gazes Back

A Study of Intertextuality in Mohja Kahf’s ""E-Mails...

Author: Hamida Riahi
ISBN: 9781666969894
Format: Hardback
$160.00

This book examines Mohja Kahf’s use of parody and allusion in E-mails from Scheherazad to deconstruct Orientalist...  Read More >>

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