This book aims at a better understanding of middle and late Byzantine poetry by offering both studies on specific authors and their texts and editions of so far unknown texts. It is only in recent years that Byzantine poetry " a long-neglected aspect of Byzantine literature " ha…
"Shakespeare's Sonnets are among the most complex and beautiful poems ever written. Their exploration of love, praise, homo- and hetero-sexual desire is enacted in the richest, densest writing in English. And the first printed work to which Shakespeare's name was attached was th…
Despite the foundational place of Shakespeare's poems within his oeuvre, modern readers seldom engage with his non-dramatic works as a whole. This volume includes all of Shakespeare's sonnets and poems and explains how this state of affairs has arisen.
The Masnavi
by Mojaddedi, Jawid, Mojaddedi, Jawid A., Ǧalāl-ad-Dīn Rūmī, Ǧalāl ad-Dīn Rūmī, Mawlānā
In the first century BC, Latin poetry underwent considerable changes - from the neoteric poetics of Catullus and his contemporaries, through the development of elegy, to the Roman themes that the Augustan poets finally adopted as their subject. Augustan poets were self-conscious…
