Literary studies: poetry & poets books

31414 books were found.

Skaldic Poetry as Christian Propaganda: Honouring Bishop Guðmundr Arason in Fourteenth-Century Iceland

Skaldic Poetry as Christian Propaganda: Honouring Bishop...

Author: Margaret Clunies Ross
ISBN: 9781843847731
Format: Hardback
$219.94

A detailed literary study of fourteenth-century poetry composed in honour of a controversial thirteenth-century...  Read More >>

Edmund Spenser: An Essay on Renaissance Poetry

Edmund Spenser: An Essay on Renaissance Poetry

Author: W. L. Renwick
ISBN: 9781041250456
Format: Hardback
$232.88

First published in 1925, Edmund Spenser: An Essay on Renaissance Poetry explores Spenser's poetic artistry, his...  Read More >>

Y Gelfyddyd Gymodlawn: T. Gwynn Jones a Cherddoriaeth

Y Gelfyddyd Gymodlawn: T. Gwynn Jones a Cherddoriaeth...

Author: Elen Ifan
ISBN: 9781837723324
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Mae’r gyfrol hon yn mynd i’r afael â gwaith T. Gwynn Jones (1871–1949), un o brif feirdd Cymraeg yr ugeinfed ganrif,...  Read More >>

A History of Old English Verse Layout: Poetics on The Page

A History of Old English Verse Layout: Poetics on The...

Author: Rachel A. Burns (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781802704440
Format: Paperback
$100.19

Presents the first full history of Old English poetic mise-en-page, paying special attention to lineation, and arguing...  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 >>

Supplementum Hellenisticum Novum: Volume I: Auctores

Supplementum Hellenisticum Novum: Volume I: Auctores...

Author: Franco Montanari ,  Fausto Montana
ISBN: 9783110557138
Format: Hardback
$435.57

About 25 years have passed since the publication of the Supplementum Hellenisticum by Hugh Lloyd-Jones and Peter...  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 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

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

Lyric Temporalities

Lyric Temporalities

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

Lyric Temporalities explores how lyric a form of poetry often concerned with an insistently present experience...  Read More >>

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 >>

Vaḷḷalār and Nāvalar: A History of the Literary Feud: ‘Aruṭpā’ (Poems of Divine Grace) vs. ‘Maruṭpā’ (Poems of Delusion)

Vaḷḷalār and Nāvalar: A History of the Literary Feud:...

Author: P. Saravanan ,  K. Thiagarajan
ISBN: 9781041117179
Format: Hardback
$375.19

This historical study chronicles and delves into the bitter literary feud between Vaḷḷalār and Nāvalar, which profoundly...  Read More >>

Understanding Jorie Graham

Understanding Jorie Graham

Author: N.S. Boone
ISBN: 9781643366418
Format: Paperback
$50.99

The first comprehensive study of Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Jorie Graham Since her first book appeared in 1980,...  Read More >>

Beckett and Leopardi

Beckett and Leopardi

Author: Peter Boxall (University of Oxford) ,  Peter Nicholls (New York University)
ISBN: 9781009547918
Format: Hardback
$142.31

This Element revisits the relation between Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett. It suggests that Leopardi becomes...  Read More >>

The Cambridge History of Australian Poetry

The Cambridge History of Australian Poetry

Author: Ann Vickery (Deakin University) ,  Philip Mead (University of Western Australia)
ISBN: 9781009237192
Format: Hardback
$310.50

The Cambridge History of Australian Poetry is the authoritative volume on Australian poetry. It provides multiple...  Read More >>

Italian Futurism and the Development of English Literary Modernism

Italian Futurism and the Development of English Literary...

Author: Robyn Jakeman (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350327689
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Going against most accounts of Futurism in England, this book unpacks the profound influence of Italian Futurism’s...  Read More >>

Faith in Verse: Biblical Presence in Contemporary Anglo-American Poetry

Faith in Verse: Biblical Presence in Contemporary Anglo-American...

Author: Philipp Reisner (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany)
ISBN: 9781350532212
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The book examines the profound influence of biblical themes on contemporary poetry written in English through the...  Read More >>

Unglaub, Rilke, Cornet: Deutscher Text Und Franzosische Ubertragung / Le Texte Original Et Sa Transcription Francaise

Unglaub, Rilke, Cornet: Deutscher Text Und Franzosische...

Author: Rainer Maria Rilke ,  Suzanne Kra
ISBN: 9783796552977
Format: Hardback
$92.40

Rainer Maria Rilke hatte zahlreiche Angebote zur Ubersetzung seines Cornet. Doch erst in seinem letzten Lebensjahr...  Read More >>

Understanding Jorie Graham

Understanding Jorie Graham

Author: N.S. Boone
ISBN: 9781643365428
Format: Hardback
$266.00

The first comprehensive study of Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Jorie Graham Since her first book appeared in 1980,...  Read More >>

The Unraveling Heart: Women's Oral Poetics and Literary Vernacularization in Marathi

The Unraveling Heart: Women's Oral Poetics and Literary...

Author: Madhuri Deshmukh
ISBN: 9780231217927
Format: Paperback
$61.95

This groundbreaking book shows that women’s songs of the grind mill played a foundational role in the vernacular...  Read More >>

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