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A companion to the gawain-poet
`Provides an excellent one-volume guide to the works of the anonymous Gawain-poet.' CHOICEThe essays collected here on the Gawain-Poet offer stimulating introductions to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness and Patience, providing both information and original analysis. Topics inclu...
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A critical edition of thomas tod stoddart's ‘the death-wake’ or 'lunacy'
Thomas Tod Stoddart’s innovative gothic epic poem The Death-Wake (1831), now little known, may have been lost to history if not for the interventions of Edgar Allan Poe in 1842 and Andrew Lang in 1895. This critical edition reprints and contextualises Stoddart’s morbid and distinctive masterpiece...
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A feast of creatures
In A Feast of Creatures, Craig Williamson recasts nearly one hundred Old English riddles of the Exeter Book into a modern verse mode that yokes the cadences of Aelfric with the sprung rhythm of Gerard Manley Hopkins.Like the early English riddlers before him, Williamson gives voice to the nightin...
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A journey in translation
This book explores the amazing journey of Anne Hébert’s writing into English by people “in the middle” of the process of editing, publishing, distributing, and preservation.
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A reader's guide to wallace stevens
Wallace Stevens is one of the major poets of the twentieth century, and also among the most challenging. His poems can be dazzling in their verbal brilliance. They are often shot through with lavish imagery and wit, informed by a lawyer's logic, and disarmingly unexpected: a singing jackrabbit, t...
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A vertical art
From the UK Poet Laureate and bestselling translator, a spirited book that demystifies and celebrates the art of poetry todayIn A Vertical Art, acclaimed poet Simon Armitage takes a refreshingly common-sense approach to an art form that can easily lend itself to grand statements and hollow gestur...
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Aesthetics
A collection of Valéry’s writings on the making of “works of the mind”—in art, philosophy, history, and scienceFor Paul Valéry, art consisted of all that the mind makes for its own pleasure and use, not only works of art in the usual sense but also philosophy, history, and the pure sciences—in hi...
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All the world on a page
The rich and ongoing development of Russian lyric poetry, explored through close readings of thirty-four poems by poets ranging from Alexander Blok to Maria StepanovaThe Russian cultural tradition treats poetry as the supreme artistic form, with Alexander Pushkin as its national hero. Modern Russ...
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An anthology
A compelling selection of Valéry’s poetry and proseDrawn from the authoritative Collected Works of Paul Valéry, this anthology offers an introduction to the diverse genius of this important poet and essayist. The volume features “The Evening with Monsieur Teste” (1896), from Jackson Mathews’s Nat...
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Analects
A collection of Valéry’s shorter prose writingsThis book brings together smaller volumes and booklets in which Paul Valéry published selections of his shorter prose writings: aphorisms, moral reflections, poetic observations, flashes of wit or fancy, even jokes—a variety of remarks and impression...
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Avant canada
Avant Canada presents a rich collection of original essays and supporting creative works on a representative array of Canadian, literary avant-garde movements from the past 50 years. Featuring 28 of the best writers and critics in the field, it offers an essential overview of the past, present, a...
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Battle lines
Reorients conventional understandings of Canadian First World War poetry. By focusing on poems about the Canadian soldier, Battle Lines reveals the period's robust literary activity and its conflicting poetic renditions of battle romance and modernist fractiousness.
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Before modernism
How Black poets have charted the direction of American poetics for the past two centuriesBefore Modernism examines how Black poetics, in antagonism with White poetics in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, produced the conditions for the invention of modern American poetry. Throug...
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Cantigas
A bilingual volume that reveals an intriguing world of courtly love and satire in medieval Portugal and SpainThe rich tradition of troubadour poetry in western Iberia had all but vanished from history until the discovery of several ancient cancioneiros, or songbooks, in the nineteenth century. Th...
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Centuries encircle me with fire
The introduction and translated poems of Mandelstam within are the gold-standard for critics and readers who don’t know Russian. They expertly illuminate other Mandelstam translations, not replacing them, but rather allowing for a better understanding of what they specifically contribute.
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City of beginnings
How poetic modernism shaped Arabic intellectual debates in the twentieth century and beyondCity of Beginnings is an exploration of modernism in Arabic poetry, a movement that emerged in Beirut during the 1950s and became the most influential and controversial Arabic literary development of the tw...
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Comic spenser
Comic Spenser explains how the deep-rooted cultural bias against humour has skewed interpretation of The Faerie Queene since its first publication. As well as bringing a comic perspective to new areas of the poem, this study explores profound connections between humour, faith, and allegory.
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Culture and communication
Yuri Lotman was one of the most prominent and influential scholars of the twentieth century working in the Soviet Union. This approachable collection of translations provides a primer to his vast intellectual legacy with a choice of works that address contemporary concerns such as gender, memory,...
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Dante's divine comedy
The life and times of Dante’s soaring poetic allegory of the soul’s redemptive journey toward GodWritten during his exile from Florence in the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy describes the poet’s travels through hell, purgatory, and paradise, exploring the state of the human soul aft...
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Dares paradise
Two long poems by eighteenth-century Scottish Gaelic poet, Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, revived and reintroduced for twenty-first century Anglophone readersLittle of Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair’s biography can be confirmed other than his work as a teacher in Scotland’s Ardnamurchan Peni...
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Dear ms. schubert
The first complete English translation of Ewa Lipska’s exciting “Dear Ms. Schubert” poemsEwa Lipska is one of Europe’s most compelling and important poets, but relatively little of her recent work has been translated into English. A Polish-English bilingual edition, Dear Ms. Schubert is the first...
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Degas, manet, morisot
A collection of Valéry’s writings on the visual arts, including his book on his friend Degas and his personal recollection of RenoirPaul Valéry spent as much of his life among painters as writers—in a house filled with the memory and works of Berthe Morisot and her friends Manet, Degas, and Renoi...
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Deportment
A selection of poems by Alice Burdick in which she examines the dangers of dogma, women’s rights, and environmental degradation in biting satires, moving elegies, and anti-sentimental lyrics filled with mischievous wordplay. The selection includes rare work from the beginning of her career as wel...
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Disintegration of the atom and petersburg winters
Georgy Ivanov’s brilliant and controversial Petersburg Winters (1927), a memoir of blended fact and fiction, and the surrealistic Disintegration of the Atom (1937), a prose poem of Parisian émigré life moving erotically in war’s shadow “at the speed of darkness.”
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Displace
A selection of poetry from Otiono's previous collections that engage with multiple poetic traidtions and engage with Afripolitan life in the diaspora.
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Eugene onegin
When Vladimir Nabokov's translation of Pushkin’s masterpiece Eugene Onegin was first published in 1964, it ignited a storm of controversy that famously resulted in the demise of Nabokov’s friendship with critic Edmund Wilson. While Wilson derided it as a disappointment in the New York Review of B...
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Fate, nature, and literary form
A theoretical reexamination of the concept of the “tragic” combined with detailed analyses of Japanese literary texts. Inspired by Western critical theory, the author unveils a rich tradition of tragic literature in Japan that has registered the unbridgeable gap between universal ideals and socia...
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Fearful symmetry
The landmark book that situates Blake’s poetry within the intellectual movements of his day and unlocks his symbolism for modern readersSince it was first published, Northrop Frye’s Fearful Symmetry has established itself as the defining commentary on the poetic vision of William Blake. Frye give...
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Hosts and guests
An exciting new collection from a poet whose debut was praised by Colorado Review as “a seduction by way of small astonishments”Nate Klug has been hailed by the Threepenny Review as a poet who is “an original in Eliot’s sense of the word.” In Hosts and Guests, his exciting second collection, Klug...
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Idée fixe
An informal dialogue of ideas in which Valéry paints a witty portrait of himselfOffhand, personal, and amusing, Paul Valéry’s Idée Fixe is an informal imaginative dialogue of ideas in which two men vacationing at the sea seek refuge from boredom by engaging in intellectual banter about human natu...
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Leonardo, poe, mallarmé
A collection of Valéry’s essays on three artists who were of central importance to himPaul Valéry had an enduring fascination with Leonardo, Poe, and Mallarmé and his essays on these fellow artists are among his most important writings. This volume presents those essays along with extensive selec...
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Masters and friends
A collection of Valéry’s essays and speeches on a wide range of philosophers, novelists, and poetsMasters and Friends is a collection of Paul Valéry’s essays and speeches on writers who shaped his mind, interests, and affections: Descartes, Voltaire, Stendhal, Goethe, Villon, Nietzsche, Pascal, P...
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Mientras los hombres mueren
This is the first ever critical edition of Mientras los hombres mueren, the most important collection of war poetry to emerge from the Spanish Civil War. It chronicles the consequences of war on women and children: loss of menfolk at the front, physical deprivation, carpet bombing of cities.
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Moi
A collection of Valéry’s autobiographical writingsMoi presents a selection of Paul Valéry’s writings that portray his inner life as an artist. Included are several short autobiographical pieces in which Valéry talks about his early childhood, his adolescence, his military experience, his travels,...
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Monsieur teste
The National Book Award–winning translation of Valéry’s singular novel, a strange and powerful philosophical exploration of human consciousnessPaul Valéry was obsessed with exploring the conscious mind, and it was this preoccupation that produced the unusual masterpiece of modern fiction that is ...
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New york elegies
Ukrainian poets connected themselves to a powerful myth of New York, the myth of urban modernity and problematic vitality. The city of exiles and outsiders sees itself reflected in the mirror that newcomers and exiles created. By adding new voices and layers to this amalgam, it is possible to obs...
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Occasions
A collection of Valéry’s occasional writingsThis selection of Paul Valéry’s occasional pieces—speeches, interviews, and articles—reveals his life as a public figure in constant demand. Included are his speech upon his reception to the French Academy; his address welcoming Marshal Pétain into the ...
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On czeslaw milosz
A compelling personal introduction to the life and work of Nobel Prize–winning writer Czesław Miłosz from his fellow Polish exile and acclaimed writer Eva HoffmanCzesław Miłosz (1911–2004) was a giant of twentieth-century literature, not least because he lived through and wrote about many of the ...
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On poetry, culture, and democracy
“Robert Pinsky belongs to that rarest category of talents, a poet-critic.”—Robert LowellTwo important books of criticism by the Pulitzer Prize finalist and former U.S. poet laureate—now combined in a single volume with a new preface by the authorFor Robert Pinsky, poetry’s individual, human scale...
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On seamus heaney
A vivid and original account of one of Ireland’s greatest poets by an acclaimed Irish historian and literary biographerThe most important Irish poet of the postwar era, Seamus Heaney rose to prominence as his native Northern Ireland descended into sectarian violence. A national figure at a time w...
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On whitman
Pulitzer Prize–winning poet C. K. Williams's personal reflection on the art of Walt WhitmanIn this book, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet C. K. Williams sets aside the mass of biography and literary criticism that has accumulated around Walt Whitman and attempts to go back to Leaves of Grass as he fir...
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Paradise lost
The life and times of Milton’s epic poem about Satan’s revolt against God and humanity’s expulsion from paradiseJohn Milton’s Paradise Lost has secured its place in the pantheon of epic poems, but unlike almost all other works in the pantheon, it is intimately associated with religious doctrine a...
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Paul laurence dunbar
The definitive biography of a pivotal figure in American literary historyA major poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) was one of the first African American writers to garner international recognition in the wake of emancipation. In this definitive biography, the first full-scale life of Dunbar ...
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Poems
An authoritative bilingual edition of the great French poetPaul Valéry was one of the most important poets of the twentieth century. This bilingual volume, which features the English translations facing the French texts, demonstrates the wide range of Valéry’s poetry, from lyric masterpieces such...
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