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The half-dozen generations from 100 B.C. to A.D. 100 were epoch-making in Chinese history, and there is a real need for "vignetting sketches of manner, character, and thought" based on documents identifiable as to date and authorship. Fortunately such documents are available in the fu (Chinese literary form) on the Two Capitals by Pan Ku and Chang

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Verbal Transformation, Despair, and Hope in The Waste Land argues a prosodically explainable literary case regarding how a hidden phenomenon of verbal transformation serendipitously turns the conspicuous message of despair into the message of hope hidden in the text of The Waste Land.

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Treating Vergil's poetry as a foundation of Latin European identity, this title seeks to give a complete history of the medieval conception of the preeminent poet.

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Lynda Van Devanter--author of the backlist classic Home Before Morning, which inspired the TV show "China Beach"--edited this powerful collection of poems reminiscent of Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam. All author proceeds from the book will go to the Vietnam Women's Memorial Project. 6 photographs.

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In the twentieth century no form of experience has been more frequently taken up by poets eager to capture both the openness and fluidity of life and the aesthetic closure of an artwork than that of a walk. Examining the walk poem, Roger Gilbert contends that at its heart is the "desire to keep what we have lived." What is the appeal of the walk po

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Michel Benamou's essays have established his reputation as a critical interpreter of Stevens' relation to the French poetic tradition. Mr. Benamou has now collected these essays in one volume, revising and expanding them, and has added a general introduction. He discusses, in turn, Stevens' affinities with and differences from Baudelaire, Laforgue,

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The search for a substitute for religion, Adalaide Kirby Morris argues, occupies Stevens' poetic energy from his earliest to his latest work. It emerges in his patterns of speech, in his symbols, and in his poetic forms; it encompasses a critique of Christianity, often wryly humorous and sometimes bitterly satiric; and it results in a theory of poe

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The years between 1900 and 1915 were a crucial period in Wallace Stevens' poetic career. But until Robert Buttel was given access to 30 manuscript poems written during this time, these years constituted the largest gap in our knowledge of Stevens' artistic development. These poems, as well as those printed in the Harvard Advocate, are presented in

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As the first full treatment of Walt Whitman's French sources and his later impact on French writers, this book revises our image of the poet and challenges many critical assumptions. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the

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Western Art and Jewish Presence in the Work of Paul Celan examines The Meridian as a base from which to explore the poets work as a whole, following the speechs connections to its sources and to poems written before and after. The discussion focuses on the complex dialogue between Celans Jewishness and his vocation as a Western writer.

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Just as the cultural background of readers shapes how they respond to texts, the context in which writers live shapes what they write.

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The first full-length study to explore the idea of a gay epic' in American poetry.

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The first full-length study to explore the idea of a 'gay epic' in American poetry.

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Discusses the case of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the poems he wrote during his imprisonment by the Nazis. This book states that although any one of his poems should be read within their respective historical and biographical context, they are also pieces of work that cannot be explained by the biographical and theological prose that surrounds them.

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A unique look at Bonhoeffer's poetry written during his prison years, facilitating a fascinating conversation between biography and theology.