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The poetry produced by the English poets of the 17th and 18th centuries is considered among the best ever written. This work takes the readers on a tour of the major works and figures of the period, explaining major themes, devices, styles, language, rhythm, sound, tone, imagery, form, and meaning.

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Through 1900 alphabetically arranged entries, this reference book provides complete coverage of Poe's life and work. Some entries treat Poe's reading and his responses to literary contemporaries. Others comment on the impact of various writers and literary traditions on Poe's imagination.

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Every Siddal poem is close read alongside works by Rossetti, Swinburne, Ruskin, Tennyson and Keats and with reference to prevailing cultural, political and religious contexts to give the most comprehensive analysis yet of this enigmatic, previously undervalued poetic voice.

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Every Siddal poem is close read alongside works by Rossetti, Swinburne, Ruskin, Tennyson and Keats and with reference to prevailing cultural, political and religious contexts to give the most comprehensive analysis yet of this enigmatic, previously undervalued poetic voice.

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Complete scholarly edition of Etherege's poems, with verification of authorship, explanatory comments, records of early appearances, and textual analyses. Forty poems are included. Originally published in 1963. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the di

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Explores the poetry of Nicolas Guillen and Aime Cesaire as the exemplification of Negritude art and writing from the Caribbean. The book discusses the relationships between creative writing, the idea of Africa and the rediscovery of African values in the Caribbean.

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'The Poet-Hero in the Work of Byron and Shelley' explores the poetic heroism developed in Byron and Shelley's poetry and drama. The book traces how the heroism of the poet, as an idea, an ideal and an illusion, undergoes many different incarnations and definitions as both poets shape distinctive and changing conceptions of the hero throughout their careers.

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A groundbreaking contribution to the critical literature, this volume represents the most extensive study of the fantastic in poetry published to date.

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The dramatic political struggle of Boris Pasternak and the continued success of his novel. Dr. Zhivago, have often taken center stage in discussions of this writer. Olga Raevsky Hughes chooses instead to focus on the aesthetics underlying Pasternak's snuggles and successes to explore the ways in which his views of art and the artist were applied in

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Originally published: New York: Rockland Editions, 1939.

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The Poetics and Politics of Gardening in Hard Times illuminates the ways in which the garden as a real and imagined space, and gardening as a practice or ethic, is changed under extreme conditions of economic and environmental austerity.

Focusing on the poetry and poetics of four pivotal authors, this book examines how experimental approaches to poetic form in the post-war United States actively intervened in and reframed period-defining questions surrounding the limits and possibilities of human agency.

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This full-length theoretical examination of Constantine Cavafy breaks the study of this great Greek poet free from the narrow context of traditional scholarship and introduces the latest critical developments into the study of Greek poetry. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to ag

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Offers a comprehensive inquiry into the deity of sexual love, a power that permeated daily Greek life. Avoiding Foucault's philosophical paradigm of dominance/submission, this book uses an anthropological and linguistic approach to re-create indigenous categories of erotic love.

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This book studies the importance, the uses, and the changes in the work of genre in the contemporary novel. By looking at both the current interest in popular genres in literary writing, as well as at the currently ongoing changes to traditional genres, this book develops a broader perspective that suggests the value of genre criticism.