Literary studies: poetry & poets books

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The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Epic

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Epic

Author: Emma Greensmith (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781316514696
Format: Hardback
$258.75

A fresh account of the oldest and foundational genre of ancient Greek literature which demonstrates its sustained...  Read More >>

Propertius’ Cynthia: The Book as Beloved

Propertius’ Cynthia: The Book as Beloved

Author: T. E. Franklinos (Lector, Lector, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198940234
Format: Hardback
$228.95

Propertius>' Cynthia considers Propertius' metapoetic and intra- and intertextual habits and their relationship...  Read More >>

Amphion: Lyre, Poetry, and Politics in Modernity

Amphion: Lyre, Poetry, and Politics in Modernity

Author: Professor Leah Middlebrook
ISBN: 9780226835518
Format: Hardback
$190.95

A reintroduction to the myth of Amphion, recovering an overlooked sphere of lyric tradition. Amphion is the figure...  Read More >>

Verwurzelungen. Sarah Kirsch (wieder) lesen

Verwurzelungen. Sarah Kirsch (wieder) lesen

Author: Jana Kittelmann ,  Stephan Pabst
ISBN: 9783662692240
Format: Paperback
$224.37

Der Sammelband arbeitet mehr als zehn Jahre nach dem Tod der Dichterin die fortwährende Brisanz und Aktualität ihres...  Read More >>

The Homeric Doloneia: Evolution and Shaping of Iliad 10

The Homeric Doloneia: Evolution and Shaping of Iliad...

Author: Christos C. Tsagalis (Professor of Ancient Greek Literature, Professor of Ancient Greek Literature, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
ISBN: 9780192870988
Format: Hardback
$249.95

The Doloneia is the most controversial book of the Iliad, its authenticity being doubted since antiquity. But by...  Read More >>

African American Children's Poetry: Themes, Issues and Social Context

African American Children's Poetry: Themes, Issues and...

Author: Wynn William Yarbrough
ISBN: 9781476695297
Format: Paperback
$131.87

Examines African American children’s poetry across two centuries through a variety of lenses: jazz poetics, the...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature

The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature

Author: Matthew C. Augustine (Senior Lecturer in English, Senior Lecturer in English, University of St Andrews) ,  Steven N. Zwicker (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, Washington University in St. Louis)
ISBN: 9780192866035
Format: Hardback
$371.95

This books brings new critical perspectives to bear on classic texts, asks challenging new questions about the relations...  Read More >>

Never By Itself Alone: Queer Poetry, Queer Communities in Boston and the Bay Area, 1944—Present

Never By Itself Alone: Queer Poetry, Queer Communities...

Author: David Grundy (Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Freie Universität Berlin)
ISBN: 9780197654842
Format: Hardback
$210.95

Providing an unprecedented exploration of key moments in queer literary history, Never By Itself Alone changes our...  Read More >>

Walking and Stealing

Walking and Stealing

Author: Stephen Cain
ISBN: 9781771669108
Format: Paperback
$47.52

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Alternative Cornwalls: Literature and the Invention of Place

Alternative Cornwalls: Literature and the Invention...

Author: Gemma Goodman
ISBN: 9781804130636
Format: Hardback
$207.00

This book takes a fresh look at the representation of Cornwall in literature. It offers new readings of familiar...  Read More >>

Liturgy, Ritual, and Secularization in Nineteenth-Century British Literature

Liturgy, Ritual, and Secularization in Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Joseph McQueen (Northwest University)
ISBN: 9781009435956
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Liturgy incarnates unseen realities in concrete forms – bread, wine, water, the architectural arrangement of religious...  Read More >>

Rewriting the Word ""God: In the Arc of Converging Lines between Innovative Theory, Theology, and Poetry

Rewriting the Word ""God: In the Arc of Converging Lines...

Author: Romana Huk
ISBN: 9780817361716
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Elucidates the substantive connections between innovative poetry of the last century and contemporary theology and...  Read More >>

Context Collapse: A Poem Containing a History of Poetry

Context Collapse: A Poem Containing a History of Poetry...

Author: Ryan Ruby
ISBN: 9781644214237
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Literary critic Ryan Ruby uncovers the secret history of poetry in a mock-academic verse essay filled with wit and...  Read More >>

The Poetry Circuit: Live Reading 1900-1970

The Poetry Circuit: Live Reading 1900-1970

Author: Peter B. Howarth (Queen Mary, University of London)
ISBN: 9780192896940
Format: Hardback
$260.95

The Poetry Circuit examines the creative impact that public reading had on twentieth-century poetry. Peter Howarth...  Read More >>

Catullus in Twentieth-Century Music: Lyrics and Lyricism

Catullus in Twentieth-Century Music: Lyrics and Lyricism...

Author: Stephanie Oade (Teacher of Classics and Head of Quadrivium, Teacher of Classics and Head of Quadrivium, Oundle School)
ISBN: 9780198918684
Format: Hardback
$228.95

Catullus in Twentieth-Century Music reinvigorates discussions around the nature of Catullus's lyricism, centring...  Read More >>

Unspoken Words

Unspoken Words

Author: Vera Yap
ISBN: 9798227270689
Format: Paperback
$26.37

In the silence between our breaths Where words are not said Lies the echoes of the truth's unspoken words A whisper...  Read More >>

From the Ground to the Birdsong

From the Ground to the Birdsong

Author: Jacob Sam-La Rose ,  Vera K Yuen
ISBN: 9781905233892
Format: Paperback
$23.16

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The Loom

The Loom

Author: Andy Weaver
ISBN: 9781773855837
Format: Paperback
$71.25

A series of lyric poems which stand on their own yet weave together to create a complete whole, like childhood days....  Read More >>

The Great Game: Essays on Poetics

The Great Game: Essays on Poetics

Author: Amit Majmudar
ISBN: 9781946724830
Format: Paperback
$29.95

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Conversations with Lenard D. Moore

Conversations with Lenard D. Moore

Author: John Zheng
ISBN: 9781496853950
Format: Paperback
$42.90

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Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens: On Reading and Writing Poetry Forensically

Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens: On Reading and Writing...

Author: Paisley Rekdal (University of Utah)
ISBN: 9780393881981
Format: Paperback
$37.95

An illuminating exploration of how to read and understand poetry and how reading critically can teach us to write...  Read More >>

Holy Sparkes of Heavenly Fire: A Psychoanalytic Reading of the Poetry of Edward Taylor

Holy Sparkes of Heavenly Fire: A Psychoanalytic Reading...

Author: Michael Reed
ISBN: 9781476693859
Format: Paperback
$145.20

Left unpublished for over 200 years, the poetry of colonial American writer Edward Taylor has left an undeniable...  Read More >>

The Loom

The Loom

Author: Andy Weaver
ISBN: 9781773855820
Format: Hardback
$150.45

A series of lyric poems which stand on their own yet weave together to create a complete whole, like childhood days....  Read More >>

Conversations with Lenard D. Moore

Conversations with Lenard D. Moore

Author: John Zheng
ISBN: 9781496853943
Format: Hardback
$185.90

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