Litteraturvetenskap: poesi & poeter

Roberto Calasso is one of the most original and acclaimed of writers on literature, art, culture and mythology. In Baudelaire's Folly, Calasso turns his attention to the poets and …

Erik Johan Stagnelius är för Sverige vad Shelley och Keats är för England, vad Hölderlin och Novalis är för Tyskland. Han är den svenska romantikens mörka …

In this Companion, an international team of leading T. S. Eliot scholars contribute studies of different facets of the writer’s work to build up a carefully co-ordinated and fully …

Thirty-one essays-categorized as "essays in generalization," "appreciations of individual authors," and "social and religious criticism"- written over a half century. This volume …

An invaluable companion for any writer seeking to make the writing life a more complex and cooperative venture “Illuminating, deeply endearing essays.”—Ron Charles, Washington Post …

The Beauty of the Husband is a work that explores these oldest of lyrical subjects - beauty, desire, love, betrayal - with freshness and devastating power. **ONE OF THE …

This is the first introduction to rhythm and meter that begins where students are: as speakers of English familiar with the rhythms of ordinary spoken language, and of popular …

The Age of the Poets revisits the age-old problem of the relation between literature and philosophy, arguing against both Plato and Heidegger's famous arguments. Philosophy neither …

Born in Africa in 1753, Phillis Wheatley was kidnapped at the age of 7 and sold into slavery. At 19, she became the first black American poet to publish a book, on which this …

Shahnama Studies III focuses on the hugely successful afterlife of the Shahnama or Book of Kings, completed by the poet Firdausi around 1010 AD. This long epic grew out to be an …