Kirjallisuudentutkimus: runous ja runot

Although best remembered today for his novels, Thomas Hardy thought of himself as a poet forced by circumstance to write fiction for a living. This generous selection of nearly two …

In 13 essays, the great poetry critic offers her final word on the poems and poets who have meant the most to her, from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson to Wallace Stevens and …

This highly anticipated new edition features NEW poets, NEW poems and innovative digital resources. The Sixth Edition of The Norton Anthology of Poetry is an even better teaching …

The deepest and most varied of the Tang Dynasty poets, Tu Fu (Du Fu) is, in the words of David Hinton, the “first complete poetic sensibility in Chinese literature.” First …

The life and times of Dante’s soaring poetic allegory of the soul’s redemptive journey toward GodWritten during his exile from Florence in the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri’s Divine …

This is the only fully annotated and comprehensive selection of Tennyson’s poetry. Acknowledged as a major achievement of editorial scholarship, it has established itself as the …

Att skriva en dikt efter Auschwitz är barbariskt, menade filosofen Theodor Adorno i en föreläsning 1948. Samma år anländer den unge poeten Paul Celan till Paris som en överlevande …

I denna första stora biografi om en av den svenska litteraturens världsförfattare skildrar Johan Svedjedal ett fascinerande författarliv. Harry Martinson blev tidigt känd för sin …

‘All serious lovers of poetry will want this book.’ A. N. Wilson All good poetry has the power to transport and transform us, to inspire and challenge us, to comfort and heal us, …

Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer energy of everyday Roman life. In The Sixteen Satires he evokes a …