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This book is the first to deal with the subject of Ezra Pound's relationships with Japanese literature as a whole.

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The book examines the profound influence of biblical themes on contemporary poetry written in English through the work of Brooks Haxton, Suji Kwock Kim, Kevin Hart, and Li-Young Lee.

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Fernando Pessoa and the Lyric studies Pessoas poetic theory and practice, emphasizing Livro do desassossego and the heteronymic drama, and discovers new approaches to reading and appreciating the lyric. A number of Pessoan concepts are examined in relation to different poets, yielding unprecedented results in comparative studies of poetry.

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"Translation of Kaojirao Yoshikawa, Gen Min shi gaisetsu (Ch\AO\ugoku shijin sensh\O\u, Series 2, Vol. 2) (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1963)."--Title page verso.

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This study finds a blending of two frame narrative traditions in the "Canterbury Tales", one that originated in India and the Near-East and the other in ancient Greece. It compares Chaucer's work to a number of pre-Chaucerian frame narratives that influenced his form, as well as contemporary works.

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To make sense of free verse" in theory or in practice, the whole study of prosody--the function of rhythm in poetry--must be revised and rethought. Stating this as the issue that poets and critics have faced in the past century, Charles Hartman takes up the challenge and develops a theory of prosody that includes the most characteristic forms of tw

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With the transformation and expansion of the nineteenth-century American literary canon in the past two decades, the work of the era's American women poets has come to be widely anthologized. But scant scholarship has arisen to make full sense of it. From School to Salon responds to this glaring gap. Mary Loeffelholz presents the work of nineteenth

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In this fresh look at Chaucer's relation to English and French romances of the late Middle Ages, Crane shows that Chaucer's depictions of masculinity and femininity constitute an extensive and sympathetic response to the genre. For Chaucer, she proposes, gender is the defining concern of romance. As the foundational narratives of courtship, romance

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This book shows that the poems of Geoffrey Hill (19322016) are characteristically end-directed, tending constantly towards prosodic and thematic consummations. It offers a new thematic reading of Hill's entire body of work and touches on questions of poetry's ultimate value.

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An exploration of the later work of Geoffrey Hill, often described as 'the greatest living poet' in his lifetime. This book reads, interprets, evaluates, and sets in context the work of Hill's prolific later period from 1996 to 2016, the year of his death. -- .

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An exploration of the later work of Geoffrey Hill, often described as 'the greatest living poet' in his lifetime. This book reads, interprets, evaluates, and sets in context the work of Hill's prolific later period from 1996 to 2016, the year of his death. -- .

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This collection features an introduction and includes representative poems by 60 modern poets, including Ingeborg Bachmann, Gottfried Benn, Berthold Brecht, Paul Celan, Gunter Eich, Gunter Grass, Franz Kafka, Rainer Maria Rilke and many others.

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Born in 1749, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was one of the giants of world literature and the last European to embody the multi-faceted expertise of the Renaissance personality.

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Argues that many traditional poets treat words as visual artefacts and that some poems demand to be interpreted like pictures. While giving some attention to this subgenre, this book shifts the focus to the ways in which visual form manifests itself in 'traditional' verse, examining poems by Milton, Wordsworth, Eliot, Olson, T E Hulme, and Auden.

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Richard Bradford argues that many traditional poets treat words as visual artefacts and that some poems demand to be interpreted like pictures.

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"Contesting the binaries that still exist between modernist and First World War writing, this critical group study of D.H. Lawrence, H.D. and Richard Aldington offers a fresh perspective on the relationship of modernist biofiction and poetry to the literature of the First World War"--

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