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Women Writing in a Time of War, 1642-1689 explores the stereotype of the apolitical woman who was nevertheless valuable as a messenger or secret agent during the English civil wars, not least because her imagined lack of political acumen obscured her partisan behaviour....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-06-11
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'Until effaced no one can actually
Enter the Court of Holy Majesty.
What is the meaning of the heavenly ascension?
Non-being: the mystics' law school and religion.'
Rumi is the greatest mystic poet to have written in Persian, and The Masnavi is his masterpiece. Divided...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-06-06
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Women Writing in a Time of War, 1642-1689 explores the stereotype of the apolitical woman who was nevertheless valuable as a messenger or secret agent during the English civil wars, not least because her imagined lack of political acumen obscured her partisan behaviour....
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-05-26
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This luminous and open-hearted anthology of poems from the LGBTQIA+ community proves that there is nothing more universal than love. Edited by James Crews with his husband, Brad Peacock, and illustrated by Lisa Congdon, these compassionate poems of connection and...
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Storey Publishing, LLC
Parution :
2025-05-06
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This unique collection of poems from diverse contemporary voices offers a range of perspectives on humans' complex relationship with animals, celebrating and bearing witness to the lives of animals both wild and domestic. Animals have long been a source of...
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Storey Publishing, LLC
Parution :
2025-04-01
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Despite its small size, epigram attracted some of the best poetic talents of antiquity, exerting a strong influence on Latin literature and continuing to inspire poetic creativity until today. During the last decades research on epigram flourished to an unprecedented...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-03-19
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Despite its small size, epigram attracted some of the best poetic talents of antiquity, exerting a strong influence on Latin literature and continuing to inspire poetic creativity until today. During the last decades research on epigram flourished to an unprecedented...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-03-18
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Née à Milan, adoubée par Eugenio Montale et Pier Paolo Pasolini, aimée de tout un peuple, Alda Merini est considérée dans son pays comme l'une des plus grandes, si ce n'est la plus grande poétesse italienne du XXe siècle. Elle demeure largement méconnue des lecteurs...
Editeur :
Seghers
Parution :
2025-02-20
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What happens when the 'modern woman' ages? Modernist Poetics of Ageing answers this question by being the first book-length study of three late modernist women's writers. Drawing on their place within wider modernist networks, this monograph is primarily framed around...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-22
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The familiar literary-critical category of 'graveyard poetry' has made the eighteenth-century churchyard a commonplace in the period's cultural imaginary: a location in which melancholy, religious poets get lost in imaginative reveries or didactic visions of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-22
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What happens when the 'modern woman' ages? Modernist Poetics of Ageing answers this question by being the first book-length study of three late modernist women's writers. Drawing on their place within wider modernist networks, this monograph is primarily framed around...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-12
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The familiar literary-critical category of 'graveyard poetry' has made the eighteenth-century churchyard a commonplace in the period's cultural imaginary: a location in which melancholy, religious poets get lost in imaginative reveries or didactic visions of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-12
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This enchanting collection of more than 80 poems captures the essence of the natural world, as seen through the eyes of Scotland's beloved bard. Each chapter explores a different aspect of nature - from wild, mossy mountains and glens to murmuring streams, the sorrowful...
Editeur :
Pyramid
Parution :
2025-01-02
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An anthology of 113 original poems inspired by Taylor Swift songs, from a powerhouse group of contemporary poets - including Diane Seuss, Amanda Lovelace, Hollie McNish, Richard Siken, Ilya Kaminsky, Joy Harjo, Lang Leav, Paul Muldoon, Maggie Smith, Jane Hirshfield and...
Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2024-12-03
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Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Fall 2024 Poetry BooksBefore Langston Hughes and his literary prowess became synonymous with American poetry, he was an eighteen-year-old on a train to Mexico City, seeking funds to pursue his passion. His early poems, beloved verses like...
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Dialogue Books
Parution :
2024-11-21
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No writer, before or since, has matched Shakespeare in terms of influence, critical acclaim or popular success. And the Bard had plenty to say about the subject of love - the word appears more than 2,000 times in his collected works! Packed full of timeless reflections...
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OH
Parution :
2024-10-24
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This book will help readers understand and appreciate the sonnets and songs that make up Philip Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella, widely regarded as one of the greatest sonnet collections in English literary history. The author provides commentary on each of the 108...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-10-21
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The Second World War is now recognized as a watershed for British poetry.The changes that arose were masked for some time by the enormous power and shock of the conflict itself, and by the restrictions on poetry publishing consequent on paper rationing and the general...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-09-25
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Sylvia Plath is one of the most influential and iconic American writers of the twentieth century, popular with academic and general audiences alike. Plath, who died at age 30, left behind a body of work that changed the direction of modern poetry, and buttressed...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-08-07
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'The wind is rising!... Let us try to live!'
One of the preeminent intellectuals of modern French culture, Valéry is widely considered one of the country's greatest poets of the twentieth century. Following a flurry of sonnets in his late teens, he abruptly abandoned...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-07-19
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