By Piotr Sommer (NHC Fellow, 2004–05) Thematically, these sketches are linked by the subject of my interest – first of all, the contemporary languages of the poem, so probably "poetry". Even when the commentary does not stick too closely to the poem, and the poem itself, as is customary, reveals its "extra-poetic" elements and adjacencies. They are … Continued
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
Edited by James I. Wimsatt (NHC Fellow, 1987–88), Rebecca A. Baltzer, and Thomas Cable In these essays, five noted scholars draw upon the insights of musicology, philology, linguistics, and metrics to illuminate central aspects of the relationship between poetry and music in the Middle Ages.
By Houston A. Baker, Jr. (NHC Fellow, 1982–83)
By Herbert F. Tucker (NHC Fellow, 2000–01) This book is the first to provide a connected history of epic poetry in Britain between the French Revolution and the First World War. Although epic is widely held to have been shouldered aside by the novel, if not invalidated in advance by modernity, in fact the genre … Continued
By John Wilkinson (NHC Fellow, 2007–08) In this important new intervention, leading poet and critic John Wilkinson explores the material life of the lyric poem. How does the lyric – considered as an object, as an event – grapple with permanence and impermanence, the rhythms of change and the passing of time? Drawing on new … Continued
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
Edited and translated by Richard Janko (NHC Fellow, 1990–91) This, the fourth volume in the six-volume Commentary on the Iliad being prepared under the General Editorship of Professor G. S. Kirk, covers Books 13-16, including the Battle for the Ships, the Deception of Zeus and the Death of Patroklos. Three introductory essays discuss the role … Continued
By Linda Gregerson (NHC Fellow, 1991–92) Mark Strand called these poems "among the very best being written." Bravely exploring the ways in which we encounter mortality, they emphasize the resourcefulness of the human spirit, the intelligence of the body, the abundant beauty of the created world. Devotional, even celebratory in their cadence, they move with … Continued
Given the secondary position of persons of African descent throughout their history in America, it could reasonably be argued that all efforts of creative writers from that group are forms of protest. The intention of protest literature was—and remains—to show inequalities among races and socio-economic groups in America and to encourage a transformation in the … Continued