Gerard Brault's 1984 student edition of La Chanson de Roland has become a standard text in classrooms. It contains the text and translation from his 1978 analytical edition along with an introduction illuminating the poem's historical and literary background and significance. This new revised edition contains a new preface and makes significant ......
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Anthony Hecht (1923-2004) was known not only for his masterful control of form and language but also for his wit and humor. With the help of Helen Hecht, the poet's widow, Jonathan F. S. Post combed through more than 4,000 letters to produce an intimate look into the poet's mind and art across a lifetime. The letters ......
Contains twenty pieces that form a poet's travelogue A- since his exile from China in 1989. This title includes tales and descriptions of cities such as Copenhagen, Durham, Johannesburg, New York, Paris and Prague and stories of ordinary Chinese immigrants, as well as of literary, artistic and political figures.
A collection of studies of writers and mystics, past and present, which considers from a Christian poet's perspective how religious or mystical experience informs the imagination. This work provides readings of Elizabeth Jennings's chosen authors and offers clues to her own poetry.
Joseph Brodsky in English: Pages from a Journal 1996-97
For many years the author was associated with the late Russian emigre poet Joseph Brodsky. This work offers an account of their relations, in which the author is both translator and confidant to the great poet. It also includes detailed discussions of the problems of translating Brodsky's poems.
A unique opportunity to examine the apprenticeship of a great writer, this selection of poems composed between 1785 and 1790 reveals a precocious and remarkably accomplished early talent and shows that even in his earliest work, Wordsworth was already preoccupied with the themes that would later be explored fully in "The Prelude,"
A major new compendium of poems including: 'The Uninvited Guest' where a new world emerges in a strangely edited riot of epigrams and annotations and 'West Aland' in which a massively important writer and thinker is put firmly in his place. The compendium also includes a collection of individual new poems.
Nigel Forde is fascinated by things in the process of change: music, the momentary epiphany, the precarious balance of twilight rather than night or day. The poems, written over a period of years, meditate on memory and landscape: in the unremarkable and evanescent lives can find their greatest clarity. Two central sequences, 'A Map of the ......
