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Why do authors use pseudonyms and pen-names, or ingeniously hide names in their work with acrostics and anagrams? How has the range of permissible given names changed and how is this reflected in literature?Why do some characters remain mysteriously nameless? In this...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-09-06
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Why do authors use pseudonyms and pen-names, or ingeniously hide names in their work with acrostics and anagrams? How has the range of permissible given names changed and how is this reflected in literature?Why do some characters remain mysteriously nameless? In this...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-09-06
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Speaking to You examines our pleasures in, accounts of, and uses for British poetry today. It explores the work of four important poets writing post-1960--Don Paterson, Geoffrey Hill, W.S. Graham, and C.H. Sisson--in order to show how contemporary British poetry's...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-08-30
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Reading Romantic Poetry introduces the major themes and preoccupations, and the key poems and players of a period convulsed by revolution, prolonged warfare and political crisis. Provides a clear, lively introduction to Romantic Poetry, backed by academic research and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-02-27
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Reading Poetry
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The Poetry Toolkit: For Readers and Writers provides students with the essential intellectual and practical tools necessary to read, understand, and write poetry. Explains the most important elements of poetry in clear language and an easily accessible manner Offers...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-12-27
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Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personal possession of the students and the general reader. Offers a detailed...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-12-15
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Nothing was more important to Wordsworth than tracing the evidence that affinities had been preserved between all the stages of the life of man. In this beautifully written and thoughtful book Wordsworth's biographer and editor Stephen Gill explores the ways in which...
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OUP Oxford
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2011-10-27
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Nothing was more important to Wordsworth than tracing the evidence that affinities had been preserved between all the stages of the life of man. In this beautifully written and thoughtful book Wordsworth's biographer and editor Stephen Gill explores the ways in which...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-10-27
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A COMPANION TO POETIC GENREA COMPANION TO POETIC GENRE This eagerly awaited Companion features over 40 contributions from leading academics around the world, and offers critical overviews of numerous poetic genres. Covering a range of cultural traditions from Britain,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-10-13
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Poetry is supposed to be untranslatable. But many poems in English are also translations: Pope's Iliad, Pound's Cathay, and Dryden's Aeneis are only the most obvious examples. ThePoetry of Translation explodes this paradox, launching a new theoretical approach to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-09-29
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Reflecting the surge of critical interest in Eliot renewed in recent years, A Companion to T.S. Eliot introduces the 'new' Eliot to readers and educators by examining the full body of his works and career. Leading scholars in the field provide a fresh and fully...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-26
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Demystify and appreciate the pleasures of poetrySometimes it seems like there are as many definitions of poetry as there are poems. Coleridge defined poetry as “the best words in the best order.” St. Augustine called it “the Devil’s wine.” For Shelley, poetry was “the...
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For Dummies
Parution :
2011-03-16
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From Hesiod's first person account of his encounters with the Muses on Mount Helikon to Theokritos' nymphs, love between goddesses and mortal men provides the ancient Greeks with a way of articulating both the genealogical and cultic connection to their gods and to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-01-10
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The Poetry of Susan Howe provides a comprehensive survey of the major works of one of America's foremost contemporary poets.The book describes the relationship between poetic form and the various configurations of history, religious thought, and authority in Howe's...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-09-27
Collection :
Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
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W.B. Yeats and the Muses explores how nine fascinating women inspired much ofW.B. Yeats's poetry. These women are particularly important because Yeats perceived them in terms of beliefs about poetic inspiration akin to the Greek notion that a great poet is inspired and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-07-22
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W.B. Yeats and the Muses explores how nine fascinating women inspired much ofW.B. Yeats's poetry. These women are particularly important because Yeats perceived them in terms of beliefs about poetic inspiration akin to the Greek notion that a great poet is inspired and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-07-22
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The night can sweat with terror as before
We pieced our thoughts into philosophy,
And planned to bring the world under a rule,
Who are but weasels fighting in a hole.
W.B. Yeats, 'Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen'
This is a book about how poetry, seen through the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-06-24
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The night can sweat with terror as before
We pieced our thoughts into philosophy,
And planned to bring the world under a rule,
Who are but weasels fighting in a hole.
W.B. Yeats, 'Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen'
This is a book about how poetry, seen through the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-06-24
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Focusing in particular on pairings of writers within the larger grouping of poets, this book suggests how literary partnerships became pivotal to American poets in the wake of Donald Allen's 'New American Poetry' anthology.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-05-24
Collection :
Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
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This is a collection of studies on ancient (especially Latin) poetry and historiography, concentrating especially on the impact of rhetoric on both genres, and on the importance of considering the literature to illuminate the historical Roman context and the historical...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-05-20
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