- Baldo, Volume 2, Books XIII-XXV
- Teofilo Folengo
- Translated by Ann E. Mullaney
- Hardcover 2008
- Bosphorus Nights
- James R. Russell
- Bedros Tourian (1851-1872) is generally acknowledged as the creator of the modern Western Armenian poetic language. Inspired by the French Romantics, Tourian produced a corpus of about forty poems in the last few years before his death. They have been the touchstone for generations of Armenian symbolists, decadents, and revolutionary realists. Tourian's complete lyrics are available here for the first time in English, along with an analysis of his poetics and roots and evocations of the fabulous polyglot metropolis of his birth.
- Hardcover 2006
- Children of the Mire
- Octavio Paz
- Hardcover 1974 / Paperback
- Crafting a Collection
- Anna M. Shields
- Compiled in 940 at the court of the kingdom of Shu, the Huajian ji is the earliest extant collection of song lyrics by literati poets. In this book, Anna Shields examines the influence of court culture on the creation of the anthology and the significance of imitation and convention in its lyrics. By illuminating the historical and literary contexts of the anthology, the author aims to situate the Huajian ji within larger questions of Chinese literary history.
- Hardcover 2006
- Emily Dickinson
- Cristanne Miller
- Paperback 1989
- Hesiod, I, Theogony. Works and Days. Testimonia
- Hesiod
- Edited and Translated by Glenn W. Most
- Hesiod's exact dates are unknown, but he has often been considered a younger contemporary of Homer. This volume of the new Loeb Classical Library edition contains his two extant poems, along with a selection of testimonia from a wide variety of ancient sources.
- Hardcover 2007
- Homeric Conversation
- Deborah Beck
- Homeric Conversation is the first full-length study of conversation in the Homeric poems. Deborah Beck argues that conversation should be considered a traditional Homeric type scene, alongside recognized types such as arrival, sacrifice, battle, and hospitality. This book is a wide-ranging, closely argued aesthetic analysis of repetition and variation in the Homeric epics.
- Paperback 2006
- The Late Tang
- Stephen Owen
- In this continuation of the literary history of the Tang, Stephen Owen analyzes the redirection of poetry that followed the deaths of the major poets of the High and Mid-Tang and the rejection of their poetic styles. Poets had always drawn on past poetry, but in the Late Tang, the poetic past was beginning to assume the form it would have for the next millennium; it was becoming a repertoire of styles, genres, and the voices of past poets--a repertoire that would endure.
- Hardcover 2007
- The Lyric Journey
- James Cahill
- Poetic paintings--works done in response to lyric poems or as pictorial equivalents to them--compose a major category of East Asian art. In this beautifully illustrated book James Cahill, looks at three exemplary traditions in this genre.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 2002
- The Making of Early Chinese Classical Poetry
- Stephen Owen
- This study adopts a double approach to the poetry composed between the end of the first century b.c.e. and the third century c.e. It examines extant material from this period synchronically, as if it were not historically arranged. It also considers how the scholars of the late fifth and early sixth centuries selected this material and reshaped it to produce the standard account of classical poetry.
- Hardcover 2006
- The Making of Shinkokinshu
- Robert N. Huey
- In the history of traditional Japanese waka poetry, Shinkokinshu of 1205 is generally regarded as one of the three most important anthologies. The collection--the "New Kokinshu"--is in many ways a neo-classical effort. Reading history backward, scholars have often taken this to be a nostalgia for greatness presumed to have been lost in the wars of the late 1100s. In this detailed study of the origins of Shinkokinshu, the author argues that the compilers of Shinkokinshu instead saw their collection as a "new" beginning, a revitalization and affirmation of courtly traditions, and not a reaction to loss. It is a dynamic collection, full of innovative, challenging poetry--not an elegy for a lost age.
- Hardcover 2002
- Marianne Moore
- Cristanne Miller
- Not confessional or autobiographical, not openly political or gender-conscious: all that Marianne Moore's poetry is not has masked what it actually is. Cristanne Miller's aim is to lift this mask and reveal the radically oppositional, aesthetic, and political nature of the poet's work.
- Hardcover 1995
- A New Theory for American Poetry
- Angus Fletcher
- Intense, resonant, and deeply literary, this account of an American poetics shows how today's consumerist and conformist culture subverts the imagination of a free people. While centering on American vision, the argument extends our horizon, striking a blow against all economically sanctioned attacks upon the finer, stronger human capacities. Poetry, the author maintains, is central to any coherent vision of life.
- Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2006
- Our Secret Discipline
- Helen Vendler
- The fundamental difference between rhetoric and poetry, according to Yeats, is that rhetoric is the expression of one's quarrels with others while poetry is the expression (and sometimes the resolution) of one's quarrel with oneself. This is where Vendler's Our Secret Discipline begins. Through exquisite attention to outer and inner forms, Vendler explores the most inventive reaches of the poet's mind.
- Hardcover 2007
- Poets Thinking
- Helen Vendler
- Poetry has often been considered an irrational genre, more expressive than logical, more meditative than given to coherent argument. Yet Vendler argues that, although they may prefer different means, all poets of any value are thinkers. The four poets taken up in this volume--Alexander Pope, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and William Butler Yeats--come from three centuries and three nations, and their styles of thinking are characteristically idiosyncratic.
- Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2006
- Pointing at the Past
- Egbert J. Bakker
- With numerous fresh linguistic observations Bakker shows that the epic narrator makes the epic past come to the present: epic is not only a verbal artifact that points to the past; it also is a performer's act of pointing at a past that has become present in and through language. Building on his earlier work, Egbert Bakker demonstrates the power of discourse analysis as an essential tool for elucidating the poetics of the Homeric tradition.
- Paperback 2006
- Radio Corpse
- Daniel Tiffany
- Radio Corpse offers a fundamental revision of one of the most powerful and persistent aesthetic ideologies of modernism. Focusing on the necrophilic dimension of Pound's earliest poetry and on the inflections of materiality authorized by the modernist image, Daniel Tiffany establishes a continuum between Decadent practice and the incipient avant-garde, between the prehistory of the image and its political afterlife, between what Pound calls the "corpse language" of late Victorian poetry and a conception of the image that borrows certain "radioactive" qualities from the historical discovery of radium and the development of radiography.
- Hardcover 1998
- Short Epics
- Maffeo Vegio
- Edited and translated by Michael C. J. Putnam
- Edited and translated by James Hankins
- Maffeo Vegio (1407-1458) was the outstanding Latin poet of the first half of the fifteenth century. This volume includes Book XIII of Vergil's Aeneid, Vegio's famous continuation of the Roman epic, which was extremely popular in the later Renaissance, printed many times and translated into every major European language (and even into Scottish). It also contains three other epic works.
- Hardcover 2004
- Silvae
- Angelo Poliziano
- Edited and translated by Charles Fantazzi
- Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance and a leading figure in the circle of Lorenzo de'Medici "il Magnifico" in Florence. His "Silvae" are poetical introductions to his courses in literature at the University of Florence, written in Latin hexameters. They not only contain some of the finest Latin poetry of the Renaissance, but also afford unique insight into the poetical credo of a brilliant scholar as he considers the works of his Greek and Latin predecessors as well as of his contemporaries writing in Italian.
- Hardcover 2004
- Sincerity's Shadow
- Deborah Forbes
- Ever since Wordsworth redefined poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings," poets in English have sought to represent a "sincere" self-consciousness through their work. Forbes's generative insight is that this project can only succeed by staging its own failures. By preserving the possible claims of sincerity longer than postmodern criticism has tended to, while understanding sincerity in the strictest sense possible, Forbes establishes a new vantage on the purposes of poetry.
- Hardcover 2004
- Victim of The Muses
- Todd Merlin Compton
- This book probes the narratives of poets who are exiled, tried or executed for their satire. It views the scapegoat as a group's dominant warrior, sent out to confront predators or besieging forces. Both poets and warriors specialize in madness and aggression and are necessary, yet dangerous, to society.
- Paperback 2006
- Words Well Put
- Graham Sanders
- As traced in Words Well Put, the vision of poetic competence evolved for over a millennium from calculated performances of inherited words to sincere passionate outbursts to displays of verbal wit combining calculation with the appearance of spontaneity. This book tells the story of the development of poetic competence to uncover the complexity of the concept and to identify the sources and exemplars of that complexity.
- Hardcover 2006