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Haiku, Other Arts, and Literary Disciplines investigates the genesis and development of haiku in Japan and determines the relationships of haiku with other arts, such as essay, painting, and music, as well as the backgrounds of haiku, such as literary movements, philosophies, and religions that underlie haiku composition.

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Many people in Great Britain and the United States can recall elderly relatives who remembered long stretches of verse learned at school decades earlier, yet most of us were never required to recite in class. Heart Beats is the first book to examine how poetry recitation came to assume a central place in past curricular programs, and to investigate

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Hereafter Knowing in Sonnets and Other Similars explores the work of prominent poets including Aristotles epistemology enabling a depiction of sonnets and their similars and how temporality is key, by way of Augustine, to a comparative procedure that explores the closing features in sonnet-writing and in poems by American poets.

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An overview of Homer and Homeric poetry, discussing his reception and the influence of Homer, especially on contemporary thought.

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An overview of Homer and Homeric poetry, discussing his reception and the influence of Homer, especially on contemporary thought.

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In a follow-up to his previous Homeric studies, noted classicist Paolo Vivante explores Homer's verse, highlighting rhythm rather than metre. Rhythmical qualities, he argues, constitute the force of the versefor example, in the way the words take position and in the way each pause hints suspense, producing an immediate sense of time.

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Offers an analysis of the philosophical connection between Hopkins and Heidegger. This monograph argues that the work of Hopkins does no less than propose solutions to a number of hitherto unresolved questions regarding Heidegger's later writings, vitalizing the concepts of both writers beyond their local contexts.

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A monograph offering new analysis of the philosophical connection between Hopkins and Heidegger which has been repeatedly mentioned but not fleshed out in the literature of either literary criticism or philosophy.

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A critical and literary-religious study. The author offers novel readings of some of Hopkins' most celebrated poems in the light of historical and structuralist understanding of the poetic tradition and the Western religious and liturgical tradition in which Hopkins was steeped.

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David Porter's approach to Horace's most important lyric collection is through a close sequential reading of the eighty-eight poems in Odes 1-3. Taking into account the way an ancient book was read or recited, this view of the work as a continuously unfolding creation reveals a strong sense of forward movement and of thematic development, at times

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Exposes the centrality of humor to modernist American poetry.

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"How I would like to catch the world / at pure idea", writes the author, for whom a bird may be an alphabet, and flight an arc.

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The description for this book, Hymns and Fragments, will be forthcoming.

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Why do we hate Milton's God The author reengages with a perennial problem in Milton studies, one whose genealogy dates back at least to the Romantics, but which finds its most cogent modern expression in William Empson's revulsion at Milton's God and Stanley Fish's defense.

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A story of love and grief. I became a widower and a father on the same day says Joseph Luzzi. His book tells how Dantes The Divine Comedy helped him to endure his grief, raise their infant daughter, and rediscover love.

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This volume is the first extensive collection of her poems since her Selected Poems was published in 1926.

The volume begins with a short biographical sketch of the poet and includes some 250 of her poems.