A social history of English artistic pioneers who made key achievements in the first half of the twentieth century discusses their challenge of the Victorian bourgeoisie and overall contributions to the cultural revolution of the period.
A social history of English artistic pioneers who made key achievements in the first half of the twentieth century discusses their challenge of the Victorian bourgeoisie and overall contributions to the cultural revolution of the period.
'The project of this book', writes the author in his Preface, 'is to investigate how poetry and the figure of the poet are represented, discussed, contested within the poetry of ancient Greece'. Dr Goldhill seeks to discover how ancient authors broached the questions: From what …
'The project of this book', writes the author in his Preface, 'is to investigate how poetry and the figure of the poet are represented, discussed, contested within the poetry of ancient Greece'. Dr Goldhill seeks to discover how ancient authors broached the questions: From what …
"This landmark book, together with its accompanying CD, captures the heady excitement of the vibrant, irreverent poetry scene of New York's Lower East Side in the 1960s. Drawing from personal interviews with many of the participants, from unpublished letters, and from rare sound…
"Das Buch zeigt, wie Ovid sein Exil literarisch verarbeitet. Es entsteht das Selbstbild eines souveränen Dichters, dessen individualistische Züge fast schon modern anmuten. Die Figuren des Mythos bilden ein Vergleichsschema, mit dem er sich der eigenen kulturellen Identität vers…
Victorian Poets and the Changing Bible charts the impact of post-Enlightenment biblical criticism on English literary culture. --from publisher description.
"In The Abyss Above, Silke-Maria Weineck offers the first sustained discussion of the relationship between poetic madness and philosophy. Focusing on the mad poet as a key figure in what Plato called "the ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry," Weineck explores key texts…
"This collection of essays, which should appeal both to Slavists and students of comparative literature, deals with twelve major twentieth-century Russian poets who, for varied reasons, became estranged from the Soviet state. Some stayed in Russia to become inner emigres, others…
This critical biography of Vladislav Khodasevich (1886-1939), David M. Bethea introduces to the Western reader the life and art of a literary figure described by Vladimir Nabokov as the greatest Russian poet of the twentieth century. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton L…