Ora esguardae = Now Look
By Olga Gonçalves (NHC Fellow, 1980–81)
Poets
Ovid
By Sara Mack (NHC Fellow, 1980–81) Of all the poets of ancient Rome Ovid had perhaps the most influence on the art and literature of Medieval and Renaissance Europe. Even today he is probably the most accessible of all classical poets to the non-specialist, both in his subject matter and in his style. Ovid is … Continued
Poetry and Bondage: A History and Theory of Lyric Constraint
By Andrea Brady (NHC Fellow, 2018–19) Poetry and Bondage is a groundbreaking and comprehensive study of the history of poetic constraint. For millennia, poets have compared verse to bondage – chains, fetters, cells, or slavery. Tracing this metaphor from Ovid through the present, Andrea Brady reveals the contributions to poetics of people who are actually … Continued
Poetry of Discovery: The Spanish Generation of 1956-1971
By Andrew P. Debicki (NHC Fellow, 1979–80; 1992–93) A leading critic of contemporary Spanish poetry examines here the work of ten important poets who came to maturity in the immediate post-Civil War period and whose major works appeared between 1956 and 1971: Francisco Brines; Eladio Cabañero; Angel Crespo; Gloria Fuertes; Jaime Gil de Biedma; Angel … Continued
Stewart Parker: A Life
By Marilynn Richtarik (NHC Fellow, 1998–99) Born in Belfast during World War II, raised in a working-class Protestant family, and educated on scholarship at Queen's University, writer Stewart Parker's story is in many ways the story of his generation. Other aspects of his personal history, though, such as the amputation of his left leg at … Continued
Alexander Pope: A Life
By Maynard Mack (NHC Fellow, 1984–85; 1986–87) In the first complete biography of Alexander Pope since 1900, the most eminent Pope scholar of our day brings to life the man and his times.
Tamil Love Poetry: The Five Hundred Short Poems of the Aiṅkuṟunūṟu, an Early Third-Century Anthology
Edited and translated by Martha Ann Selby (NHC Fellow, 2010–11) Dating from the early decades of the third century C.E., the Ainkurunuru is believed to be the world's earliest anthology of classical Tamil love poetry. Commissioned by a Cera-dynasty king and composed by five masterful poets, the anthology illustrates the five landscapes of reciprocal love: … Continued
Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon
By Nigel Smith (NHC Fellow, 2007–08) The seventeenth-century poet Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) is one of the most intriguing figures in English literature. A noted civil servant under Cromwell’s Protectorate, he has been variously identified as a patriot, spy, conspirator, concealed homosexual, father to the liberal tradition, and incendiary satirical pamphleteer and freethinker. But while Marvell’s … Continued
The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Table Talk. 2 vols.
By Samuel Taylor ColeridgeEdited by Carl Woodring (NHC Fellow, 1987–88) Coleridge’s nephew, son-in-law, and first editor, Henry Nelson Coleridge, began at the end of 1822 a record of Coleridge’s remarks as a way of preparing an anthology of the interests and thought of the great poet and critic. His manuscripts, gathered to form the major … Continued
Chaucer and Langland: Historical and Textual Approaches
By George Kane (NHC Fellow, 1987–88) Professor Kane is widely regarded as the leading middle English textual and literary scholar of our time and this collection of his essays will be widely welcomed. They focus largely upon the texts of Chaucer and Langland and demonstrate in an exemplary way how critical issues can arise from … Continued