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Virgil's Eclogues are a fundamental text of Western literature that served as a model for the nascent poetry of the Augustan and later of the Imperial Age. Inspired by the bucolic poetry of Theocritus, the work uses the apparent simplicity of rural settings to explore...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-08-24
Format(s) : PDF
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This new, select edition of Wilfred Owen's letters provides a fresh understanding of the poet's life in his own words.
Wilfred Owen's fame as one of the great war poets of the twentieth century is unsurpassed, with Dulce et Decorum est possibly the defining piece of...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-07-26
Format(s) : PDF
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This new, select edition of Wilfred Owen's letters provides a fresh understanding of the poet's life in his own words.
Wilfred Owen's fame as one of the great war poets of the twentieth century is unsurpassed, with Dulce et Decorum est possibly the defining piece of...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-07-11
Format(s) : ePub
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Wallace Stevens and Francis Parkman: The American West and Beyond discovers a previously unacknowledged connection between the poet and the historian. Parkman in his historical narratives served as a source for a variety of poems by Stevens, including some of his more...
Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2023-07-05
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Woman Much Missed is the first book-length study of the many poems (over 150) that Thomas Hardy composed in the wake of the death of his first wife Emma in November of 1912. Mark Ford uses these poems to develop a narrative of their four-year courtship on the remote and...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-06-30
Format(s) : PDF
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Woman Much Missed is the first book-length study of the many poems (over 150) that Thomas Hardy composed in the wake of the death of his first wife Emma in November of 1912. Mark Ford uses these poems to develop a narrative of their four-year courtship on the remote and...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-06-14
Format(s) : ePub
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The forty-two chapters in this book consider Yeats's early toil, his practical and esoteric concerns as his career developed, his friends and enemies, and how he was and is understood. This Handbook brings together critics and writers who have considered what Yeats...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-06-05
Format(s) : PDF
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The forty-two chapters in this book consider Yeats's early toil, his practical and esoteric concerns as his career developed, his friends and enemies, and how he was and is understood. This Handbook brings together critics and writers who have considered what Yeats...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-05-30
Format(s) : ePub
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The Oxford History of Poetry in English is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry,...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-05-09
Format(s) : PDF
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Repetition has connotations of something boring, or unoriginal, or lacking in poetic skill, but repetition - in several different senses - dominates Wordsworth's poetry. This book explores those moments of repetition, placing them in the early nineteenth century context...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-05-04
Format(s) : PDF
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Repetition has connotations of something boring, or unoriginal, or lacking in poetic skill, but repetition - in several different senses - dominates Wordsworth's poetry. This book explores those moments of repetition, placing them in the early nineteenth century context...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-04-25
Format(s) : ePub
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Die Untersuchung des letzten großen Gedichtzyklus von Heinrich Heine, des „Romanzero“, legt mythische Denkstrukturen frei, die nach einschlägigen Mythostheorien (Blumenberg, Eliade) eine ordnende Funktion in einer dem Menschen als Chaos erscheinenden Welt erhalten....
Editeur : J.B. Metzler
Parution : 2023-04-21
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The Oxford History of Poetry in English is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry,...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-04-12
Format(s) : ePub
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In dem vorliegenden Buch wird untersucht, auf welche Weise Rilkes religiöse Erfahrungen einen ästhetischen Ausdruck in seinem Werk finden und wie diese Motive literarisch verarbeitet werden. Die Autorin beschäftigt sich eingehend mit den in Rilkes Werk auftauchenden...
Editeur : J.B. Metzler
Parution : 2023-03-31
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This study explores the way Calvinist experientialism provided both a theology and an epistemology in the poetry of five early modern English poets: William Shakespeare, Robert Herrick, John Donne, Fulke Greville, and John Milton. In both official church ecclesiology...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-03-01
Format(s) : PDF
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This book explores sixteenth-century humanism as an origin for the idea of literature as good, even great, books. It argues that humanists located the value of books not only in the goodness of their writing-their eloquence--but also in their capacity to shape readers...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-03-01
Format(s) : PDF
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Ausgehend von der These, dass es sich bei der politischen Lyrik der Gegenwart vor allem um eine Lyrik des Politischen, eine lyrische Streitkultur handelt, wird in „Lyrische Agonistik. Das Politische in Gedichten der Gegenwart“ auf der Basis einer...
Editeur : J.B. Metzler
Parution : 2023-02-24
Collection :
Lyrikforschung. Neue Arbeiten zur Theorie und Geschichte der Lyrik
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book explores sixteenth-century humanism as an origin for the idea of literature as good, even great, books. It argues that humanists located the value of books not only in the goodness of their writing-their eloquence--but also in their capacity to shape readers...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-02-23
Format(s) : ePub
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This study explores the way Calvinist experientialism provided both a theology and an epistemology in the poetry of five early modern English poets: William Shakespeare, Robert Herrick, John Donne, Fulke Greville, and John Milton. In both official church ecclesiology...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-02-20
Format(s) : ePub
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The pride o' a' our Scottish plain;
Thou gi'es us joy to hear thy strain,
(Janet Little, 'An Epistle to Mr Robert Burns')
The 18th century saw Scotland become one of the leading international centres of literature, philosophy, and publishing and yet still retain its...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-01-10
Format(s) : PDF
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