Literary studies: poetry & poets books

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A Primer of Biblical Hebrew Poetry: An Essential Guide for Reading and Analysis

A Primer of Biblical Hebrew Poetry: An Essential Guide...

Author: David Emanuel
ISBN: 9780310165828
Format: Paperback
$62.99

A Primer of Biblical Hebrew Poetry by David Mark Emanuel is an essential language resource for understanding Hebrew...  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

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Agon: Poetry's Challenge to the Mathematization of Reality (1920s-1960s)

Agon: Poetry's Challenge to the Mathematization of Reality...

Author: Anirudh Sridhar (Dean of Thought Leadership, Dean of Thought Leadership, Alliance University)
ISBN: 9780198985457
Format: Hardback
$246.95

In this volume Anirudh Sridhar explores the contest between poetry and mathematics in their quest for truth. Close...  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 >>

Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times

Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times

Author: Tracy K. Smith (Harvard University)
ISBN: 9781324050988
Format: Hardback
$39.95

The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet reveals how poetry is a powerful tool of connection and understanding in a fractured...  Read More >>

The New Negro

The New Negro

Author: Alain Locke ,  Jeffrey C. Stewart (University of California, Santa Barbara)
ISBN: 9780198911456
Format: Paperback
$20.95

Published in 1925, The New Negro is an anthology of poems, stories, and essays by Black luminaries of the period,...  Read More >>

Lyric Temporalities

Lyric Temporalities

Author: Kimberly Johnson ,  Ryan Netzley
ISBN: 9781487560379
Format: Hardback
$135.00

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David Jones, Disability and Modernist Form: Corporeality, Woundedness and Embodiment in the 'Makings'

David Jones, Disability and Modernist Form: Corporeality,...

Author: Colette Nic Aodha (independent researcher, Ireland)
ISBN: 9781350454507
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Employing a fresh theoretical approach to David Jones' work, this is the first book to use disability studies as...  Read More >>

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 >>

The Rise of Rhythm Studies: Mediating Dimension, Discipline, and Scale

The Rise of Rhythm Studies: Mediating Dimension, Discipline,...

Author: Professor or Dr. Mark Lussier (Arizona State University, USA) ,  Dr. or Prof. Richard C. Sha (American University, Washington D.C., USA)
ISBN: 9798765125281
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Interdisciplinary in scope, this collection shows how transformative the study of rhythm can be across the humanities...  Read More >>

Narrative in Ovid's Amores: Comics Theory, Elegy, and Segmentary Narrative

Narrative in Ovid's Amores: Comics Theory, Elegy, and...

Author: Natalie Swain (Acadia University, Canada)
ISBN: 9781350407244
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Examines Ovid’s Amores through a comics-based methodology to demonstrate how Latin elegy uses its segmented format...  Read More >>

Iziganeko zesizwe: Occasional poems (1900–1943)

Iziganeko zesizwe: Occasional poems (1900–1943)

Author: Jeff Opland ,  Professor Peter T Mtuze
ISBN: 9781847014481
Format: Hardback
$336.38

Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi's occasional poems, in isiXhosa and English translation, with a comprehensive introduction....  Read More >>

Xhosa Poets and Poetry: Second edition, updated and revised

Xhosa Poets and Poetry: Second edition, updated and...

Author: Jeff Opland
ISBN: 9781847014504
Format: Hardback
$336.38

Essays examining the poetry and leading poets of the Xhosa-speaking peoples in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries....  Read More >>

Umoya wembongi: Collected poems (1922–1935)

Umoya wembongi: Collected poems (1922–1935)

Author: Jeff Opland ,  Professor Peter T Mtuze
ISBN: 9781847014467
Format: Hardback
$297.56

All 65 of John Solilo's poems from Izala, now out of print, with an additional 28 first published in newspapers,...  Read More >>

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 >>

Iimbali zamanyange: historical poems

Iimbali zamanyange: historical poems

Author: Jeff Opland ,  Professor Pamela Maseko
ISBN: 9781847014443
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Eight of David Livingstone Phakamile Yali-Manisi's narrative poems, in isiXhosa and English translation, with a...  Read More >>

Sulpicia: A Woman's Voice from Ancient Rome

Sulpicia: A Woman's Voice from Ancient Rome

Author: Giulio Celotto (University of Virginia) ,  Laurel Fulkerson (Florida State University)
ISBN: 9780198972662
Format: Hardback
$199.95

This volume aims to explore and highlight aspects of the work of Roman elegiac poet Sulpicia. Topics include Sulpicia's...  Read More >>

Milton's Strenuous Liberty

Milton's Strenuous Liberty

Author: Tobias Gregory (Catholic University of America, Washington DC)
ISBN: 9781009561105
Format: Hardback
$245.81

What motivated Milton? Tobias Gregory advances a new paradigm for Milton's shifting priorities, arguing that, at...  Read More >>

I Ask My Mother to Sing: Mother Poems of Li-Young Lee

I Ask My Mother to Sing: Mother Poems of Li-Young Lee...

Author: Li-Young Lee ,  Oliver Egger
ISBN: 9780819502032
Format: Paperback
$20.99

A chapbook of new and selected mother poems by celebrated poet Li-Young Lee. I Ask My Mother to Sing contains five...  Read More >>

Alexander Pope: The Major Works

Alexander Pope: The Major Works

Author: Henry Power
ISBN: 9780198867852
Format: Hardback
$309.95

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Living in History: Poetry in Britain, 1945–1979

Living in History: Poetry in Britain, 1945–1979

Author: Luke Roberts (Senior Lecturer in Modern Poetry _x000D_, King’s College London_x000D_)
ISBN: 9781399519861
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Explores the relationship between radical poetry and radical politics from the formation of the welfare state to...  Read More >>

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