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Classic Love Poems
By: Shakespeare, William; Wordsworth, William; Browning, Robert
Published by: Summersdale Publishers Ltd
Of all the stimuli that have inspired poets over the centuries, love in all its guises has been an unceasingly rich and varied source of powerful, romantic and exquisite verse.
Love poems have retained their popularity through the years by expressing eternal and universal emotions. From Chaucer to Coleridge, Shakespeare to Shelley, the same message of love has been put to verse in a myriad of poetic styles.
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Price: $9.99
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Comic Provocations
By: Crocker, Holly A. (ed.)
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan
Explores the ability of Old French fabliaux to disrupt the literal bodies with which they come into contact. This volume addresses issues including fragmentation and multiplication, social anxiety and excessive circulation, and others to trace the competing consequences that result from this literary body's unsettling capacity.
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Price: $69.95
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A companion to Apollonius Rhodius
By: Papanghelis, T.D. (ed.); Rengakos, A. (ed.)
Published by: Koninklijke Brill NV
This collection of essays, on the author of the "Argonautica", covers a wide range of issues from the history of the text and the problems of the poet's biography through questions of style, literary technique and intertextual relations to the epic's library and cultural reception.
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Price: $256.00
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Dante
By: Havely, Nick
Published by: Blackwell Publishing, Ltd
Giving consideration to the social, cultural, and historical contexts in which he wrote, this volume examines the scope and significance of Dante's work. It explores the various influences that shaped his writing, from cultural traditions and exile, to political figures and the works of his contemporaries.
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Price: $34.95
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Dante and the Making of a Modern Author
By: Ascoli, Albert Russell
Published by: Cambridge University Press
The first comprehensive study of Dante's evolving, transformative relationship to medieval ideas of authorship and authority.
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Price: $79.00
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Dante and the Romantics
By: Braida, Antonella
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan
The British Romantic poets were among the first to realise the centrality of the Divine Comedy for the evolution of the European epic. This study explores the significance of Dante for Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats and William Blake.
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Price: $85.98
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Description in classical Arabic poetry
By: Motoyoshi Sumi, A.
Published by: Koninklijke Brill NV
This work deals with "wasf" or description which is one of the salient characteristics of the "qasidah" (classical Arabic poetry) tradition. It examines descriptive passages in a selected group of Arabic "qasidah" from different ages, with the motifs of horses, and bees and honey-gathering.
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Price: $114.00
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The Distaff Side
By: Cohen, Beth
Published by: Oxford University Press (US)
This study examines the different representations of women in the Odyssey and their significance within the context of the poem and Greek culture. A central theme of the book is the visualisation of the Odyssey's female characters by ancient artists.
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Encomium of Ptolemy Philadelphus
By: Theocritus; Hunter, R. L.
Published by: University of California Press
Under Ptolemy II Philadelphus, who ruled Egypt in the middle of the third century B.C.E., Alexandria became the brilliant multicultural capital of the Greek world. Theocritus's poem in praise of Philadelphus--at once a Greek king and an Egyptian pharaoh--is the only extended poetic tribute to this extraordinary ruler that survives.
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Price: $15.95
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