{"title":"Poetry","description":"Books on the subject of Poetry","products":[{"product_id":"sappho-a-new-translation-of-the-complete-works-hardback-9781107023598","title":"Sappho; A New Translation of the Complete Works (Hardback) 9781107023598","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSappho\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA New Translation of the Complete Works\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDiane Rayor's graceful translations and André Lardinois's thorough introduction and notes present the best combination of intelligibility, information, and poetry.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDiane J.  Rayor (Edited and translated by), André Lardinois (Introduction by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107023598, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 14 July 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e184 pages, 1 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.3 x 14.5 x 1.7 cm, 0.38 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'This beautiful book offers exactly what it says on its cover: a new translation of the complete works of Sappho. The fullness and quality of the work make it a wonderful resource for the Greekless, and it will be of considerable value to students of classical literature too. Cambridge University Press deserves our thanks for producing such an accurate and attractive volume at such a reasonable price.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSappho, the earliest and most famous Greek woman poet, sang her songs around 600 BCE on the island of Lesbos. Of the little that survives from the approximately nine papyrus scrolls collected in antiquity, all is translated here: substantial poems, fragments, single words - and, notably, five stanzas of a poem that came to light in 2014. Also included are new additions to five fragments from the latest discovery, and a nearly complete poem published in 2004. The power of Sappho's poetry - her direct style, rich imagery, and passion - is apparent even in these remnants. Diane Rayor's translations of Greek poetry are graceful and poetic, modern in diction yet faithful to the originals. The full range of Sappho's voice is heard in these poems about desire, friendship, rivalry, family, and 'passion for the light of life'. In the introduction and notes, internationally respected Sappho scholar André Lardinois presents plausible reconstructions of Sappho's life and work, the importance of the recent discoveries in understanding the performance of her songs, and the story of how these fragments survived.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Note on translation\u003cbr\u003e Sappho\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Selected bibliography.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Gender studies: women [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Gender studies: women\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Gender%20studies:%20women%20%5BJFSJ1%5D%22\"\u003eJFSJ1\u003c\/a\u003e], Classical history \/ classical civilisation [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Classical history \/ classical civilisation\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Classical%20history%20\/%20classical%20civilisation%20%5BHBLA1%5D%22\"\u003eHBLA1\u003c\/a\u003e], Ancient history: to c 500 CE [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Ancient history: to c 500 CE\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Ancient%20history:%20to%20c%20500%20CE%20%5BHBLA%5D%22\"\u003eHBLA\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary studies: classical, early \u0026amp; medieval [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: classical, early \u0026amp; medieval\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20classical,%20early%20\u0026amp;%20medieval%20%5BDSBB%5D%22\"\u003eDSBB\u003c\/a\u003e], Poetry by individual poets [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Poetry by individual poets\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Poetry%20by%20individual%20poets%20%5BDCF%5D%22\"\u003eDCF\u003c\/a\u003e], Poetry [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Poetry\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Poetry%20%5BDC%5D%22\"\u003eDC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45909031354648,"sku":"9781107023598","price":70.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107023598i_91ce0bc8-5428-4e3c-992c-2bb14ac0ae35.jpg?v=1691361152"},{"product_id":"theology-and-poetry-in-early-byzantium-the-kontakia-of-romanos-the-melodist-hardback-9781107140134","title":"Theology and Poetry in Early Byzantium; The Kontakia of Romanos the Melodist (Hardback) 9781107140134","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTheology and Poetry in Early Byzantium\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Kontakia of Romanos the Melodist\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book studies Romanos' lively and dramatic hymns, highlighting especially the relationship between theological themes and performative rhetoric.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSarah Gador-Whyte (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107140134, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 19 April 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e242 pages\u003cbr\u003e25.4 x 18 x 1.9 cm, 0.61 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eTheology and Poetry in Early Byzantium examines the kontakia and thought-world of Romanos the Melodist, the sixth-century hymnographer whose vibrant and engaging compositions had a far-reaching influence in the history of Byzantine liturgy. His compositions bring biblical narratives to life through dialogue, encourage a level of participation unparalleled in homiletics and push the boundaries of liturgical expression of theology. This book provides an original analysis of Romanos' poetry, drawing attention to the coherence of his theology and the performative nature of his rhetoric. The main theological themes which emerge encourage the congregation to enact the life of Christ and anticipate the new creation: restoration of humanity to God, re-creation in the incarnation and life of Christ, and liturgical participation and transformation in that life. By analysing the rhetorical performance of theology in the kontakia, the book provides new insights into religious practice in late antiquity.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. On the Passion of Christ\u003cbr\u003e 2. The second Adam: a typology of salvation\u003cbr\u003e 3. The second creation: a new reality for Christians\u003cbr\u003e 4. 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Seider (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107031807, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 12 September 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.7 x 2.1 cm, 0.49 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Seider's book is a welcome addition to the recent scholarly work on the Aeneid and makes a convincing case for the importance of analyzing the concept of memory as shaping history and identity in the poem … If the reviewer may appear to have more questions than answers, it is thanks to the rich and stimulating discussions found throughout the book. Seider's work tackles a fruitful line of inquity that will surely stimulate more research on the problem of memory and identity in Roman literature.' Vassiliki Panoussi, New England Classical Journal\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eTracing the path from Troy's destruction to Rome's foundation, the Aeneid explores the transition between past and future. As the Trojans struggle to found a new city and the narrator sings of his audience's often-painful history, memory becomes intertwined with a crucial leitmotif: the challenge of being part of a group that survives violence and destruction only to face the daunting task of remembering what was lost. This book offers a new reading of the Aeneid that engages with critical work on memory and questions the prevailing view that Aeneas must forget his disastrous history in order to escape from a cycle of loss. Considering crucial scenes such as Aeneas' reconstruction of Celaeno's prophecy and his slaying of Turnus, this book demonstrates that memory in the Aeneid is a reconstructive and dynamic process, one that offers a social and narrative mechanism for integrating a traumatic past with an uncertain future.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Turning toward Rome\u003cbr\u003e 2. The challenge of Troy\u003cbr\u003e 3. A personal affair: memories of Dido\u003cbr\u003e 4. The narrator's song\u003cbr\u003e 5. 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Helen Wilcox's chastely edited volume of Herbert's lyrical poems provides a rich and persuasive answer.'  Richard Lischer, Christian Century\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eGeorge Herbert (1593–1633) is widely regarded as the greatest devotional poet in the English language. His profound influence can be seen in the lasting popularity of his verse. This selection of one hundred lyric poems by Herbert is designed for readers to enjoy the beauty, spirituality, accessibility and humanity of his best verse. Each poem uses the authoritative text from the acclaimed Cambridge edition of Herbert's poems, presenting them in their original spelling in a clear and elegant format. The selection includes such well-loved lyric verses as 'Love bade me welcome', 'Let all the world in ev'ry corner sing', 'I struck the board and cry'd, No more' and 'Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright'. 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As such, The Cambridge Guide to Reading Poetry would be useful for technical communicators looking to reintroduce themselves to the act of reading poetry critically, or even those looking for a way to write a guide for difficult and diffuse subjects with clarity.' Dylan Schrader, Technical Communication\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAt the heart of this book is a belief that poetry matters, and that it enables us to enjoy and understand life. In this accessible guide, Andrew Hodgson equips the reader for the challenging and rewarding experience of unlocking poetry, considering the key questions about language, technique, feeling and subject matter which illuminate what a poem has to say. In a lucid and sympathetic manner, he considers a diverse range of poets writing in English to demonstrate how their work enlarges our perception of ourselves and our world. The process of independent research is modeled step-by-step, as the guide shows where to start, how to develop ideas, and how to draw conclusions. Providing guidance on how to plan, organise and write essays, close readings and commentaries, from initial annotation to final editing, this book will provide you with the confidence to discover and express your own personal response to poetry.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: Reading Poetry\u003cbr\u003e 1. Reading a Poem\u003cbr\u003e 2. Studying a Poet\u003cbr\u003e 3. 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Each of them is written with intelligence and insight. The collection, by leading scholars, gives an important overview of the state of the field.' The Year's Work in English Studies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePoetry written in English is uniquely powerful and suggestive in its capacity to surprise, unsettle, shock, console, and move. The Cambridge History of English Poetry offers sparklingly fresh and dynamic readings of an extraordinary range of poets and poems from Beowulf to Alice Oswald. An international team of experts explores how poets in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland use language and to what effect, examining questions of form, tone, and voice; they comment, too, on how formal choices are inflected by the poet's time and place. The Cambridge History of English Poetry is the most comprehensive and authoritative history of the field from early medieval times to the present. It traces patterns of continuity, transformation, transition, and development. Covering a remarkable array of poets and poems, and featuring an extensive bibliography, the scope and depth of  this major work of reference make it required reading for anyone interested in poetry.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction Michael O'Neill\u003cbr\u003e 1. Old English poetry Bernard O'Donoghue\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Gawain-poet and medieval romance Corinne Saunders\u003cbr\u003e 3. Late fourteenth-century poetry (Chaucer, Langland, Gower, and their legacy) Wendy Scase\u003cbr\u003e 4. Langland: Piers Plowman A. V. C. Schmidt\u003cbr\u003e 5. Chaucer - Troilus and Criseyde and The Canterbury Tales Laura Varnam\u003cbr\u003e 6. Late-medieval literature in Scotland: Henryson, Dunbar and Douglas Felicity Riddy\u003cbr\u003e 7. Sixteenth-century poetry: Skelton, Wyatt and Surrey Elizabeth Heale\u003cbr\u003e 8. Spenser Andrew Hadfield\u003cbr\u003e 9. Sidney, Shakespeare and the Elizabethan sonnet and lyric Katharine A. Craik\u003cbr\u003e 10. The narrative poetry of Marlowe and Shakespeare Paul Edmondson\u003cbr\u003e 11. Seventeenth-century poetry 1: poetry in the age of Donne and Jonson Jonathan Post\u003cbr\u003e 12. Seventeenth-century poetry 2: Herbert, Vaughan, Philips, Cowley, Crashaw, Marvell Alison Shell\u003cbr\u003e 13. Milton's shorter poems Barbara K. Lewalski\u003cbr\u003e 14. Milton: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes Barbara K. Lewalski\u003cbr\u003e 15. Aphra Behn, John Dryden and their contemporaries Hester Jones\u003cbr\u003e 16. Dryden: major poems  Steven N. Zwicker\u003cbr\u003e 17. Swift Claude Rawson\u003cbr\u003e 18. Poetry of the first half of the eighteenth century: Pope, Johnson and the couplet Claude Rawson\u003cbr\u003e 19. Eighteenth-century women poets Christine Gerrard\u003cbr\u003e 20. Longer eighteenth-century poems (Akenside, Goldsmith, Thomson, Young, Cowper, and others) Richard Terry\u003cbr\u003e 21. Lyric poetry: 1740–90 David Fairer\u003cbr\u003e 22. Romantic poetry: an overview Seamus Perry\u003cbr\u003e 23. William Blake's poetry and prophecies John Beer\u003cbr\u003e 24. Wordsworth and Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads and other poems Timothy Webb\u003cbr\u003e 25. Wordsworth's The Prelude and The Excursion Alison Hickey\u003cbr\u003e 26. Second-generation Romantic poetry 1 (Hunt, Byron, Moore) Jane Stabler\u003cbr\u003e 27. Byron's Don Juan Bernard Beatty\u003cbr\u003e 28. Second-generation Romantic poetry 2 (Shelley and Keats) Michael O'Neill\u003cbr\u003e 29. Third-generation Romantic poetry: Beddoes, Darley, Clare, Hemans, Landon Michael Bradshaw\u003cbr\u003e 30. Women poets of the Romantic period (Barbauld to Landon) Heidi Thomson\u003cbr\u003e 31. Victorian poetry: an overview Richard Cronin\u003cbr\u003e 32. Tennyson Robert Douglas-Fairhurst\u003cbr\u003e 33. Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning Herbert Tucker\u003cbr\u003e 34. Emily Brontë, Arnold, and Clough Michael O'Neill\u003cbr\u003e 35. Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Swinburne David G. Riede\u003cbr\u003e 36. Christina Rossetti and Hopkins Catherine Phillips\u003cbr\u003e 37. Later Victorian voices 1 (James Thomson, Symons, Dowson, Lionel Johnson, Housman) Nicholas Shrimpton\u003cbr\u003e 38. Later Victorian voices 2: John Davidson, Rudyard Kipling, 'Michael Field' (Katherine Harris Bradley and Edith Cooper), Eugene Lee-Hamilton, May Kendall, Augusta Webster Francis O'Gorman\u003cbr\u003e 39. Modernist and modern poetry: an overview Jason Harding\u003cbr\u003e 40. Hardy and Mew Ralph Pite\u003cbr\u003e 41. Yeats Peter Vassallo\u003cbr\u003e 42. Imagism Vincent Sherry\u003cbr\u003e 43. T. S. Eliot Gareth Reeves\u003cbr\u003e 44. Owen, Rosenberg, Sassoon, and Edward Thomas Mark Rawlinson\u003cbr\u003e 45. Auden, Day Lewis, MacNeice, Spender: the thirties poetry Michael O'Neill\u003cbr\u003e 46. Dylan Thomas and poetry of the 1940s John Goodby\u003cbr\u003e 47. Larkin and the Movement Stephen Regan\u003cbr\u003e 48. Three twentieth-century women poets: Laura Riding, Stevie Smith, Sylvia Plath Alice Entwistle\u003cbr\u003e 49. Hughes and Heaney Edward Larrissy\u003cbr\u003e 50. Hill Andrew Michael Roberts\u003cbr\u003e 51. Mahon, Muldoon, McGuckian, Carson, Boland and other Irish poets Stephen Regan\u003cbr\u003e 52. Contemporary poetries in English: c.1980 to the present 1 - the radical tradition Peter Barry\u003cbr\u003e 53. 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