Les mains jointes et autres poèmes (1905-1923)

Les Mains Jointes (1909) was the collection of poetry that launched the long career of Nobel Prize-winning author François Mauriac (1885-1970). This critical edition provides the first ever overview of the volume’s complex textual history (spanning four decades).

Soledades

This edition of Antonio Machado’s work offers a complete revision of the interpretations advanced by critics on the first version of Soledades (1903). Based on Machado’s original edition it will be the only reliable text on the market of this work, the very embodiment of Spanish modernism.

Poems to lisi

Poems to Lisi is presented here as an undergraduate student text with parallel-text English verse translations. This edition is a successor to the same editor’s original text in Exeter Hispanic Texts, which only contained the Spanish text of the poems (published in 1988).

Elles

Elles is the first bilingual anthology of its kind. It introduces English-speaking readers to some of the best French poetry written by women over the last twenty years. Martin Sorrell has chosen work from seventeen distinctive and diverse poets, and provided lively facing-page verse translations...

The white man's burdens

For the first time, The White Man's Burdens offers a cross-section of British poetry in which the Empire was the burden of the song. The material, much of it previously uncollected, is drawn from a broad cultural spectrum that includes narrative poetry, heroic verse, patriotic ballads, music hall...

Les perles ou les larmes de la saincte magdeleine

Critical edition, edited by Robert T. Corum, of the early seventeenth-century religions poem by César de Nostredame (1553-1629).

La quête du blé

Rémy Cazals provides a critical edition of this little-known text accompanied by a biography of its author, who became inflamed by the passions of the Revolution, and who was guillotined in 1794.

Rythmes pittoresques

The poems in this book, first published in 1890, present not only a poet searching for a voice, but also a female poet searching for a voice while breaking down rules of both versification and gender-determined source of expression. They went straight to the heart of the male-dominated poetry of ...

'ensaladas villanescas' from the 'romancero nuevo'

A collection of poems in the 'ensaladas' tradition, a Renaissance style of rustic and pastoral lyricism.

Poésies complètes

A collection of the poetry of Jean de La Péruse, a mid-sixteenth century French poet.

Pour louis bouilhet

A selection of extracts documenting the friendship between Louis Bouilhet and Gustave Flaubert.

Les marguerites

This is the first critical edition of Les Marguerites, poèmes héroïque, a volume originally published in Bordeaux in 1676. Written in alexandrines, divided into five cantos (chants), Les Marguerities offers a fascinating example of playful contemporary poetic taste where epic heroism is transform...

New berceo manuscript

This monograph includes a description, study and partial edition of Berceo’s Mecolaeta manuscript discovered in the Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid. This manuscript is important because it helped to identify previously mysterious fragments of Berceo’s works.

Satyres nouvelles

Poet, novelist, sometime member of Mademoiselle de Montpensier’s circle and correspondent of the Mercure Galant, Cantenac was notorious in his own time but has only recently become a subject of serious study. This book contains seventeen poetic “satyres” together with various other poems.

A natural history of insects in 100 limericks

The book is light in style but heavy in fact. A limerick teases the intellect, but this is backed up but scientific information in easily readable, bite-sized portions. The book is illustrated by simple but striking pictures by the author’s son, who was only 13 at the time.

Mastering arabic through literature: poetry

The third volume in the Mastering Arabic through Literature series, built on a new learning approach that brings together language study and literary appreciationIn an innovative approach to teaching Modern Standard Arabic, this new content-based book aims to bolster study for advanced students i...

Eugene onegin

A powerful love story set in the class-conscious Tsarist Russia of the early 19th century. It embraces every level of that society – serf, provincial, aristocrat – in verse which is by turns beautiful, witty, wickedly perceptive and always readable.

Evgeny boratynsky and the russian golden age

Evgeny Boratynsky and the Russian Golden Age is the first metrical and rhymed translation of nearly all the lyrics by Evgeny Boratynsky (1800–1844), one of the greatest poets of the Golden Age of Russian poetry. A long introduction and a detailed commentary, which includes multiple poems by Pushk...

Love if we can stand it

This powerful collection of poems by Bruce F. Kawin deals with the nature and demands of love, from the sexual and romantic to the metaphysical, in an engaging variety of forms and voices. The poems are clear, fresh and vivid, with good stories and characters, and they relate plainly to real life.

Tasos leivaditis' triptych

Tasos Leivaditis made his stunning literary debut in 1952-53 with three poetry books, counteracting the violence and oppression of his times with the values of eros and solidarity, freedom and justice.

Selected poems of bernard barton, the 'quaker poet'

The first ever modern edition of Bernard Barton’s selected verse, recovering an important figure from the Romantic era. A diverse variety of his unusual and striking poetry is supplemented by letters, reviews and other contextual material, as well as a scholarly introduction and notes.

All things dusk

Winner of the Hong Kong University International Poetry Prize 2014

This longing city

This anthology includes seventy-seven poems of modern Hebrew poetry, from the 1930s to 2023, spanning approximately ninety years. Forty-one poets are represented, some with a single poem and some with more. Of the forty-one poets, all but one are Jewish, with Hebrew as their primary language of c...

Excess and restraint: propertius, horace and ovid's 'ars amatoria' (bics supplement 89)

Schedies

'Rafts' by George Douatzis. Seventy-one poems, seventy-one recordings of life, which touch every reader. The deposition of a well-known poetic voice that heightens sensitivity, awakens, provokes. Greek language.

Edward fitzgerald’s rubáiyát of omar khayyám

The book examines the text of Edward FitzGerald’s three main versions of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, and features commentary on the origins, role and influence of the poem.

On the surface of silence

On the Surface of Silence offers for the first time in English the final poems of Lea Goldberg, pre-eminent and central poet of modern Hebrew poetry. This bilingual edition, with translations by award-winning translator Rachel Tzvia Back, brings us poems from a singular poetic voice of the 20th c...

In the illuminated dark

This first-ever bilingual edition of the poems of Tuvia Ruebner, published as Ruebner marks his 90th birthday, gives readers in both Hebrew and English access to stunning poetry that insists on shared humanity across all border lines and divides.

The destruction of jerusalem, or titus and vespasian

Marked by antisemitism, Christian nationalism and violence, the Middle English poem The Destruction of Jerusalem is a C15th fictionalised version of the historical Roman siege of Jerusalem. Presented in the most comprehensive edition to date the poem will be of particular interest to scholars and...

The complete works (william dunbar)

Dunbar's poems offer vivid depictions of late medieval Scottish society and serve up a striking pageant of colorful figures at the court of James IV (r. 1488-1513), with which he was associated for much of his adult life.

Women talk (greek language edition)

Poets and Nobel literature laureates Odysseas Elytis and George Seferis and poets Yiannis Ritsos and Kostas Varnalis, recipients of the International Lenin Peace Prize are represented in this series of interviews, highlighting the human side of the poets, and the personalities of these extraordin...

Sappho's gift

This latest volume from accomplished literary critic Franco Ferrari offers extraordinary new insight into the life and works of Sappho, one of the most individualistic and evocative poets of antiquity.  

Beowulf - the tragedy of a hero

Beowulf may be the most important work in Old English literature, but the poem takes place in Denmark and southern Sweden. And it is Denmark where the poem was first published, and where some of the earliest literary criticism of the work saw the light of day.

Remembering paris in text and film

For Baudelaire, Paris streets conjured visions of the past even as he contemplated the present. This book investigates this and other cases of double vision, tracing back into antiquity and following Baudelaire forwards as his poetry is translated, received and referenced through text and film to...

The collected works of ann hawkshaw

Along with a biographical and critical introduction, ‘The Collected Works of Ann Hawkshaw’ brings together Hawkshaw’s four volumes of poetry and republishes them together for the first time. An appendix of reviews and contemporary criticism of Hawkshaw’s work is included, along with details of th...

Thomas hood and nineteenth-century poetry

This, the first modern critical study of a lyricist, humorist and social protest poet who was a household name throughout the Victorian period, explores the relationship between Thomas Hood’s playfulness, his liberal politics, and contemporary cultural debate about labour and recreation, literary...

101 modern japanese poems

This remarkable anthology features 101 modern Japanese poems by 55 poets, including Shuntarō Tanikawa, Minoru Yoshioka and Taeko Tomioka, carefully selected from the postwar period by the renowned poet and literary critic Makoto Ōoka.

Mapping the nation

Focusing specifically on the poetic construction of India, ‘Mapping the Nation’ offers a broad selection of poetry written by Indians in English during the period 1870–1920.

The roland and otuel romances and the anglo-norman otinel

Four Middle English Charlemagne romances from the Otuel cycle: Roland and Vernagu, Otuel a Knight, Otuel and Roland, and Duke Roland and Sir Otuel of Spain. A translation of the romances' source, the Anglo-French Otinel, is also included.

John lydgate's 'dance of death' and related works

This volume joins new editions of both texts of John Lydgate's The Dance of Death, related Middle English verse, and a new translation of Lydgate's French source, the Danse macabre. Together these poems showcase the power of the danse macabre motif, offering a window into life and death in late m...

Decadent verse

A critical collection of late-Victorian poetry, fully annotated and explored, bringing to life the often overlooked but integral verse of the period.

Contemporary british poetry and the city

Though poets have always written about cities, the commonest critical categories (pastoral poetry, nature poetry, Romantic poetry, Georgian poetry, etc.) have usually stressed the rural, so that poetry can seem irrelevant to a predominantly urban populati. Explores a range of contemporary poets w...

Matthew arnold's the church of brou

All my moonshine

The inferno

Hailed as one of the greatest works of literature ever written, The Divine Comedy is a highly influential poem that has dazzled readers for over five centuries, with its’ first book, The Inferno, being one of the most recognizable pieces of fiction ever published. Revisit Dante’s journey through ...

Spring in new hampshire and other poems

Spring in New Hampshire and Other Poems (1920) is a poetry collection by Claude McKay. Published toward the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance, Spring in New Hampshire and Other Poems is the first of McKay’s collections to appear in the United States. As a committed leftist, McKay—who grew up in...

Sandhya: or, songs of twilight

Sandhya, or Songs of Twilight (1917) is a poetry collection by Dhan Gopal Mukerji. Published while Mukerji was a young student in California, Sandhya, or Songs of Twilight is the second collection of poems from the first Indian writer to gain a popular audience in the United States. Lyrical and r...