By George Mills Harper (NHC Fellow, 1981–82) Quoting copiously from the Script, Harper has traced in two volumes these incredible experiments day by day as the Yeatses moved about England, Ireland, and America. He has also cited hundreds of parallel explanatory passages from many workbooks, notebooks, and the concordance arranged like a card index in … Continued
Edited by Luis R. Corteguera (NHC Fellow, 2001–02) and Marta V. Vicente This is the first essay collection to examine the relation between text and gender in Spain from a broad geographical, social and cultural perspective covering more than 300 years. The contributors examine women and the construction of gender thematically, dealing with the areas … Continued
By William Butler YeatsTranslated by Kejia Yuan (NHC Fellow, 1981–82)
Edited by Hermione de Almeida (NHC Fellow, 1982–83) Hermione de Almeida’s edition of Critical Essays on John Keats in the series Critical Essays on British Literature consists of seventeen essays dating from 1965, with seven published during the last decade and seven more original studies written specifically for this volume. Together they represent a cross-section … Continued
By Jefferson Hunter (NHC Fellow, 1984–85) The complementarities and antipathies between photographs and literary texts allow the two arts to play off each other, denigrate or exalt each other, and sometimes reach a true collaboration that has more significance than either could achieve alone. Jefferson Hunter examines these symbiotic relationships in a highly original book that will … Continued
By PhilodemusEdited and translated by Richard Janko (NHC Fellow, 1990–91) This edition of On Poems by Philodemus (c. 110-35 BC) reconstitutes the original sequence of the 200 existing fragments, according to a new method, while exploiting previously unknown manuscript sources and new techniques for reading the extant pieces. In thus restoring this important aesthetic treatise from antiquity, … Continued
By Robert R. Edwards (NHC Fellow, 1985–86) Edwards examines the complex relations of literary theory and practice in the Middle Ages. Analyzing medieval arts of poetry, he shows that literary theory is not merely prescriptive nor does it describe the poet's craft; rather, it is part of poetic discourse and becomes a source of poetic … Continued
By Seiichi Suzuki (NHC Fellow, 2012–13) This book is a formal and functional study of the three distinct meters of Old Norse eddic poetry, fornyrðislag, málaháttr, and ljóðaháttr. It provides a systematic account of these archaic meters, both synchronic and diachronic, and from a comparative Germanic perspective; particularly concerned with Norse innovations in metrical practice, Suzuki explores how and why … Continued
By Denis Donoghue (Trustee; NHC Fellow, 1991–92; 1995–96; 1997–1998) When Denis Donoghue left Warrenpoint and went to Dublin in September 1946, he entered University College as a student of Latin and English. A few months later he also started as a student of lieder at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. These studies have informed … Continued
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.