The Selected Letters of Robert Bridges

The Selected Letters of Robert Bridges
Author: Robert Bridges
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1984-07
Genre: Poets, English
ISBN: 9780874132045

This edition contains over one thousand letters, most of them previously unpublished, by Robert Bridges, poet laureate of England from 1913 to 1930. The se were written to his large and distinguished circle of friends, which included prominent scholars, poets, teachers, world travelers, and artists. The re are many discussions of Bridges's own poetry, his theories of prosody, and his criticism that should lead to a greater understanding of his work.

Robert Bridges

Robert Bridges
Author: Lee Templin Hamilton
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 1991
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780874133646

Robert Bridges, poet laureate of England from 1913 to 1930, is an important cultural link between the Victorian Age and the modern period. This bibliography updates and expands George McKay's A Bibliography of Robert Bridges (1933) and is the first gathering of reviews, articles, essays, books, and other scholarly notes about Bridges.

Jerusalem

Jerusalem
Author: Jason Whittaker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2022-07-14
Genre:
ISBN: 019284587X

The stanzas beginning, 'And did those feet' are among the most famous works written by the Romantic poet and artist, William Blake. Set to music by Hubert Parry in 1916 and renamed, 'Jerusalem', this hymn has become an emblem of Englishness in the past century, and is regularly invoked at sporting events, public and private ceremonies, and, of course, as part of Last Night of the Proms. Yet when Blake first engraved his lines in his epic work, Milton a Poem, he had been tried for sedition. Likewise, although Parry was commissioned to compose his music as part of the war effort by the organization Fight for Right, he soon removed permission for that group to perform his hymn and instead gave the copyright to the women's suffrage movement. 'Jerusalem', then, is a much more contested vision of England's green and pleasant land than is often assumed. This book traces the history of the poem and the music from Blake's original verses, written in Felpham, via the turmoil of the First and Second World Wars, its recording history in the late twentieth century, and its use in political controversies such as the 2016 Brexit vote. An anthem for both the left and the right, Blake's own vision of what it meant to build Jerusalem in England is both strange and familiar to many who invoke it. As such, this book explores the deep complexities of what Englishness means into the twenty-first century.

Order in Variety

Order in Variety
Author: Rebecca W. Crump
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1991
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780874134209

English and American authors contribute poems and scholarly essays to this volume in order to reflect Standford's career as a poet and a gifted scholar. The contributions reflect a rich variety of subject matter from Shakespeare to Ezra Pound; the poetry includes a drama written in verse by Donald Davie.

Cupid and Psyche

Cupid and Psyche
Author: Regine May
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 478
Release: 2020-02-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110641585

Apuleius’ tale of Cupid and Psyche has been popular since it was first written in the second century CE as part of his Latin novel Metamorphoses. Often treated as a standalone text, Cupid and Psyche has given rise to treatments in the last 400 years as diverse as plays, masques, operas, poems, paintings and novels, with a range of diverse approaches to the text. Apuleius’ story of the love between the mortal princess Psyche (or “Soul”) and the god of Love has fascinated recipients as varied as Romantic poets, psychoanalysts, children’s books authors, neo-Platonist philosophers and Disney film producers. These readers themselves produced their own responses to and versions of the story. This volume is the first broad consideration of the reception of C&P in Europe since 1600 and an adventurous interdisciplinary undertaking. It is the first study to focus primarily on material in English, though it also ranges widely across literary genres in Italian, French and German, encompassing poetry, drama and opera as well as prose fiction and art history, studied by an international team of established and young scholars. Detailed studies of single works and of whole genres make this book relevant for students of Classics, English, Art History, opera and modern film.

The Alcaic Metre in the English Imagination

The Alcaic Metre in the English Imagination
Author: John Talbot
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2022-06-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1350232513

This book reveals how a remarkable ancient Greek and Latin poetic form -- the alcaic metre -- found its way into English poetry, and continues shaping the imagination of poets today. English poets have always admired the extraordinary beauty and intricacy of the alcaic stanza (Tennyson called it 'the grandest of all measures') and their inventive responses to the ancient alcaic have generated remarkable innovations in the rhythms, sounds and shapes of modern poetry. This is the first book-length study of this neglected strand of English literary history and classical reception. Attending closely to the rhythm and texture of their verses, John Talbot reveals surprising connections between English poets across five centuries, among them Mary Shelley, Milton, Marvell, Tennyson, Edward FitzGerald, Wilfred Owen, W. H. Auden and Donald Hall. He gives special attention to a flourishing of English alcaics during the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and what it suggests about the changing place of classics and poetic form in contemporary culture.

Yeats Annual No. 11

Yeats Annual No. 11
Author: Warwick Gould
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2016-07-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1349237574

Yeats Annual No. 11 has four broad themes: W.B. Yeats's written and oral poetic technique; his philosophical interests in Eastern thought and A Vision; his manuscripts: and Jack B. Yeats's work, including his illustrations for his brother's writing. The contributions include: Michael Sidnell on Yeats's 'Written Speech'; Helen Vendler on Yeats and Ottava Rima; Steve Ellis on Chaucer, Yeats and the Living Voice; P.S. Sri on Yeats and Mohini Chatterjee; Matthew Gibson and Colin McDowell on A Vision and the automatic script; Wayne Chapman on the 'Countess Cathleen Row' of 1899 and revisions to the play; Warwick Gould and Deirdre Toomey on The Flame of the Spirit; Hilary Pyle on Jack B. Yeats's Illustrations for his Brother; John Purser's edited transcript of Jack Yeats and Thomas MacGreevy in conversation. There are shorter notes by Morton D. Paley, A.Norman Jeffares, Lis Pihl and others. Fourteen new books are reviewed and the nine plates include hitherto unpublished images.

The Uncollected Letters of Algernon Charles Swinburne Vol 3

The Uncollected Letters of Algernon Charles Swinburne Vol 3
Author: Terry L Meyers
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2024-10-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1040249795

These three volumes of letters by Algernon Charles Swinburne add approximately 600 letters by this poet that were not available when Cecil Y. Lang published his six volume edition of Swinburne's letters. The volumes also contain a selection of several hundred other letters addressed to Swinburne.

India's Prisoner

India's Prisoner
Author: Mary Lago
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0826263313

Edward John Thompson -- novelist, poet, journalist, and historian of India -- was a liberal advocate for Indian culture and political self-determination at a time when Indian affairs were of little general interest in England. As a friend of Nehru, Gandhi, and other Congress Party leaders, Thompson had contacts that many English officials did not have and did not know how to get. Thus, he was an excellent channel for interpreting India to England and England to India.