By Eric G. Wilson (NHC Fellow, 2003–04) This lively intellectual biography of the second half of Coleridge's life argues that the poet, in his mature work, reveals a brilliant though troubled genius for conveying the ambiguities of psychological limbo. Asserting that the later poetry is the key element of Coleridge's career, Eric G. Wilson proposes … Continued
By Cleanth Brooks (NHC Fellow, 1978–79; 1979–80; 1980–81) This series of case studies examines the degree and extent to which some dozen particular seventeenth-century poems deal with the history of the time out of which they came.
Edited and translated by Piotr Sommer (NHC Fellow, 2004–05) An anthology of American poetry, the heroes of which are the poets: Ashbery, Berryman, Cage, Cummings, Ginsberg, Kleinzahler, Koch, Lowell, O'Hara, Reznikoff; American painter Jane Freilicher, and the authors – Polish and Piotr Sommer. Matched thirteen.
By Alison Keith (NHC Fellow, 2007–08) In Propertius: Poet of Love and Leisure, Alison Keith explores Propertius' elegiac poetry in the context of early imperial Roman society. Examining a variety of themes associated with both Propertian poetics (such genre theory, poetic models, the girlfriend, the rival) and the poet's social context within the early Augustan principate … Continued
Edited and translated by Thorkild Jacobsen (NHC Fellow, 1986–87; 1988–89) The eminent Assyriologist Thorkild Jacobsen, author of Treasures of Darkness, here presents translations of ancient Sumerian poems written near the end of the third millennium b.c.e., including a number of compositions that have never before been published in translation. The themes developed in the poems—quite … Continued
By William LanglandEdited by George Kane (NHC Fellow, 1987–88) and George Russell (NHC Fellow, 1982–83) An edition in the form of Huntington Library MS HM 143, corrected and restored from the known evidence, with variant readings
By Piotr Sommer (NHC Fellow, 2004–05) Continued is a selection of poems by Piotr Sommer, spanning his career to date. A kind of poetic utterance, these "talk poems" are devoid of any singsong quality yet faithfully preserve all the melodies and rhythms of colloquial speech. Events and objects of ordinary, everyday life are related and … Continued
By Stanley Fish (NHC Fellow, 1991–92) Stanley Fish’s Surprised by Sin, first published in 1967, set a new standard for Milton criticism and established its author as one of the world’s preeminent Milton scholars. The lifelong engagement begun in that work culminates in this book, the magnum opus of a formidable critic and the definitive statement … Continued
By Olga Gonçalves (NHC Fellow, 1980–81)
By Rachel Blau DuPlessis (NHC Fellow, 2008–09) What is patriarchal poetry? How can it be both attractive and tempting and yet be so hegemonic that it is invisible? How does it combine various mixes of masculinity, femininity, effeminacy, and eroticism? At once passionate and dispassionate, Rachel Blau DuPlessis meticulously outlines key moments of choice and debate … Continued