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  • Perspectives on Renaissance Poetry
    Robert C. Evans
    Introducing students to the full range of approaches to the study of Renaissance poetry that they are likely to encounter in their course of study, Perspectives on Renaissance Poetry is an authoritative and accessible guide to the verse of the Early Modern period. Each chapter covers a major figure in Early Modern poetry and explores two different poems from a full range of the...
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    154,37 €

  • Spine
    Carolyn Guinzio
    FREE VERSE EDITIONS | Series Editor: JON THOMPSON | Praise for SPINE: 'My fellow-/assemblages of cells and I thread/ our minds through the loops/of our bodies' is as succinct a statement of the human (not to mention non-human as well) condition as I have ever read. The loops and hoops of bodies, of the physical constraining the spiritual, is the essential conflict providing the...
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    17,47 €

  • Eavan Boland
    Jody Allen Randolph
    As a comprehensive introduction to Eavan Boland’s work, this book provides an essential guide to the work of one of the most important and challenging voices in contemporary poetry. Approachable for the general reader but at the same time inviting to the specialist, it draws on original research and archival material as it tracks the emergence of a new poetic voice in a nation...
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    59,56 €

  • Saint Paul Lives Here (In Minnesota)
    Zach Czaia / Zachary Welter Czaia
    Unabashedly local and particular, these poems bring alive the sights, sounds, and people of Minneapolis and Saint Paul--the 'twin cities' of Minnesota. In addition, they aim to think and feel their way through one of the most painful episodes in the history of the local church, the revelations of cover-up surrounding the sexual abuse of children by priests. The poet’s words pre...
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    22,36 €

  • Shakespeare the Man
    Desai
    These essays investigate the political, cultural, and religious mores of the time and how these societal factors may have pressured or influenced Shakespeare and his work. Hamlet speaks of “the very age and body of the time his form and pressure,” a discussion that challenges the reader to decipher the links between cultural history and their manifestations in various forms and...
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    66,55 €

  • Reconsidering Longfellow
    Ten essays provide a new approach to the work of the most popular American poet of all time. The essays, written by a new generation of Longfellow scholars, cover the entire range of Longfellow’s work, from the early poetry to the wildly successful epics of his middle period (Evangeline, The Song of Hiawatha) to his Chaucerian collection of stories published after the Civil War...
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    61,25 €

  • War Wisdom
    Christian P Potholm / Christian P. Potholm / Christian P. Potholm II / Christian PPotholm
    War Wisdom looks at the way societies and cultures throughout history have viewed warfare and contrary to many assumptions about warfare, the author finds a dozen key themes which are duplicated across time, space, countries and peoples. Students of military history will find these themes both surprising and illuminating. ...
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    101,58 €

  • The Cambridge Companion to American Poets
    Mark Richardson
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    63,98 €

  • Summoned
    Eugène Guillevic / Monique Chefdor / Stella Harvey
    FREE VERSE EDITIONS, Edited by JON THOMPSON | In English and French. The sixteenth of the twenty-five major works of Guillevic published by Gallimard since 1942, SUMMONED (REQUIS) represents a pivotal moment, reaffirming the poet’s position as an essential voice in contemporary French po­etry. Noted for its ceaseless probing of the ungraspable enigma experienced in every immedi...
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    37,52 €

  • Spring Shoots
    Arnold McMillin
    Spring Shoots introduces individually the early work of two score young Belarusian poets, all of whom began writing after the start of the present regime. This is the first such survey in any language, including Belarusian. All poetic illustrations are cited in the original and accompanied by English prose translations. The poets' work is presented in eight loosely thematic...
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    50,91 €

  • American Comic Poetry
    Jeff Morgan
    Comic poetry is serious stuff, combining incongruity, satire and psychological effects to provide us a brief victory over reason--which could help us save ourselves, if not the world. This book champions the literary movement of comic poetry in the U.S., providing an historical context and exploring the work of such writers as Denise Duhamel, Campbell McGrath, Billy Collins,...
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    42,98 €

  • Generations of Texas Poets
    Dave Oliphant
    Dave Oliphant is widely considered the finest poetry critic ever produced by Texas. This volume brings together some 40 years of essays, articles, and reviews on the topic of Texas poetry -- its history as well as addressing individual poets and their books. Only one other book in the last two decades addressed the topic, and Generations of Texas Poets is larger, more comprehen...
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    18,87 €

  • Better To Travel
    Collin Kelley
    Travel becomes the antidote for a disintegrating love affair as these poems take the reader deep into Kelley’s wanderlust at the turn of the millennium. From the rise of the Internet and the death of Princess Diana to the First Congo War and the tragedy of September 11, Kelley’s personal journey from America to Europe intersects with history-making events and pop culture. ...
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    16,26 €

  • He Bottles Up Every Tear Drop
    Demetries L. Merriweather / Demetries LMerriweather
    God bottles every tear; not one will be lost or forgotten. This is a collection of poems that were written over the course of many years. They express an emotional journey I have traveled, as I have grown spiritually. On many occasions, I found myself pouring my heart out to God poetically. I don’t know how He did it but through the words, I was able to heal, I was strengthened...
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    13,29 €

  • Witness and Transformation
    Sarah Valentine
    A first full-length critical study of Chuvash-born poet Gennady Aygi (1934-2006), who is considered the father of late-Soviet avant-garde Russian poetry, this book charts the development of Aygi’s poetics, which draws equally on Russian poetic and religious tradition, European literature and philosophy, and Chuvash literature, folk culture, and cosmology. Moving chronologically...
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    61,10 €

  • Reading William Blake
    Saree Makdisi
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    59,46 €

  • Things Not Seen
    Eric Potter
    The poems in Things Not Seen are by turns playful, witty, and serious. Ranging widely from rock concert to communion, from the stray dog of faith to the results of a mammogram, sewing to shooting stars, Schrodinger’s cat to Lazarus, they address issues of doubt and longing, the desire for certainty, the presence of mystery, and the struggle in, of, and for faith. After examinin...
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    31,49 €

  • The Romantic Attack on Modern Science in England and America & Other Essays
    Roger Sworder
    There are no sacred cows for modern scientists. Ironically, modern science has itself become a sacred cow, of which we hear very little criticism. But modern science has long been denounced by some of the wisest among us: our poets. The long essay in this book considers six of the very greatest poets of the English language since the Scientific Revolution. None of them consider...
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    22,81 €

  • Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the Novel Reconsidered
    Bringing together work by distinguished and younger scholars, Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the Novel Reconsidered takes seriously the connections between poetry and novels in the period between Andrew Marvell’s Upon Appleton House and Amelia Opie’s Romanic-era novels. ...
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    59,58 €

  • The Language of Robert Burns
    Alex Broadhead
    This is the first monograph to focus exclusively on the language of Robert Burns. While engaging fully with up-to-date literary criticism, it makes use of theories and analytical techniques from twenty-first-century sociolinguistics in order to offer a new understanding of how Burns’s language works. ...
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    61,25 €

  • Did I Touch You Somewhere
    L. J. Underdue
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    23,89 €

  • Ben Franklin and Divine Right
    Eligah Boykin
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    83,73 €

  • Earth Absolute & Other Texts
    Lorand Gaspar / Mary Ann Caws / Nancy Kline
    Born in 1925 in Transylvania into a Hungarian family, Lorand Gaspar grew up speaking Hungarian, Romanian, German, and also French, which would become the language in which he wrote. Endowed with many gifts, all of which he grandly used, Gaspar is a surgeon, a poet, and a writer of scientific and lyric prose in addition to a translator of Spinoza, Rilke, Seferis and others.Sol a...
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    15,67 €

  • Vita nuova
    Dante Alighieri / Dino S. Cervigni / Dino SCervigni
    This bilingual edition of the Vita Nuova is the first facing-page translation of this text to be available in over 50 years. Dino S. Cervigni and Edward Vasta have translated Dante’s lyrics into line-by-line free verse that seeks to reproduce Dante’s lyrical complexities of meaning, form, and style. The three-part introduction covers Dante’s life and work, the form and content ...
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    40,98 €

  • Vita nuova
    Dante Alighieri / Dino S. Cervigni / Dino SCervigni
    This bilingual edition of the Vita Nuova is the first facing-page translation of this text to be available in over 50 years. Dino S. Cervigni and Edward Vasta have translated Dante’s lyrics into line-by-line free verse that seeks to reproduce Dante’s lyrical complexities of meaning, form, and style. The three-part introduction covers Dante’s life and work, the form and content ...
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    179,80 €

  • A History of Modernist Poetry
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    134,07 €

  • Elizabeth Bishop’s Prosaic
    Vidyan Ravinthiran
    This book approaches, for the first time, Elizabeth Bishop’s work in multiple genres (her prose-like verse, her literary prose, her prose poems, and her letter prose) as a stylistic whole. ...
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    119,41 €

  • The Poetry and Poetics of Michael Heller
    This collection is an in-depth exploration of a central contemporary American poet with links to many key literary movements. The book provides a sweeping intellectual survey of modernism, postmodernism, and twentieth- and twenty-first-century American poetry. ...
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    105,77 €

  • POET, MYSTIC, MODERN HERO
    Zelda Irene Brooks
    The most authoritative study of one of Spain's leading philosophers whose Teoría del Quijote has received worldwide acclaim. In the present volume, Professor Brooks gives us a penetrating insight into the poetical and mystical qualities of the man and his work. ...
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    60,84 €

  • CARLOS ALBERTO TRUJILLO
    Zelda Irene Brooks
    A thorough study of the life and works of the Chilean poet, winner of the 1991 'Premio Pablo Neruda.' ...
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    61,19 €