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The six overlapping studies that make up this book on the poetry of Eugenio Montale analyze a large number of individual poems and, with Le occasioni (1939) as a point of reference, show how they shape and are shaped by changes and continuities that extend from the earliest poems of Ossi di seppia (1925) to the notoriously difficult poems in his cu

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Marks a literary milestone. This title collects 129 poems from the four leading literary traditions of the Middle East which provide an unusual window into Middle Eastern history. These poems come from diverse languages and traditions - Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Hebrew - and span more than a thousand years.

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My Alexandria comprises a series of eloquent meditations on the essential themes- mortality and life, beauty and loss. The collection is haunted by the spectre of AIDS, but is transfigured by Mark Doty's ranging imagination, effortless stylistic skill and huge emotional power.

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Professor Colie brings together all previous and partial perspectives on Andrew Marvell, adds new ones harvested from her own deep learning and wide research, and transforms the whole into what Professor Joseph Summers of the University of Michigan has called "the best critical book on Marvell's poetry." Rich in details and knowledge of seventeenth

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A survey of modern English poetry from the new tradition established by Yeats in the 1890s through to an influential reading of Eliot, and including a reassessment of the Georgians and the influence of Pound.

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In this book the author express more completely than in her earlier studies what were the implications for the poet of a great advance in scientific thought. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of

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In a series of closely related essays, Professor Lindenberger analyzes the language, style, imagery, and organization of Wordsworth's "Prelude." In precise detail and with richly relevant use of critical and historical materials, he demonstrates the variety and complexity of "The Prelude" leading the reader into a deepened understanding of one of t

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Waltzing Matilda is the one song that belongs to all Australians. It has been bringing people together spontaneously since 1895. This book tells the story and evolution of Australia's favourite song up until the twenty-first century. It tries to answer the riddles within the song, and unpick its inherent contradictions.

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A fascinating and comprehensive review of the position of the Rossettis within the social and cultural maelstrom of Victorian London.

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The most prolific of Roman poets, Ovid was born in 43 BC and died in exile on the Black Sea in 17 AD, banished by the Emperor Augustus.

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Wilfred Owen's poetry is now very widely known as the finest that came out of the First World War.

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This comprehensive study interprets Paradise Lost as a rhetoric of literary forms, by attending to the broad spectrum of literary genres, modes, and exemplary works Milton incorporates within that poem. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-p

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Defying critical suggestions that the pastoral elegy is obsolete, the author reveals the popularity of the form in the work of major contemporary poets Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Paul Muldoon, Michael Longley, Douglas Dunn and Peter Reading. He outlines the development of the form, and identifies its characteristics and functions.

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Questioning the view that the work is not representative of the poet's mature accomplishment, Suzanne Nash argues that the revisionary process involved in its creation led Valery to reflect on problems fundamental to poetic production and thus provided inspiration for all his later poetry. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Librar

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