The Romantic Body: Love and Sexuality in Keats, Wordsworth, and Blake
By Jean H. Hagstrum (NHC Fellow, 1985–86; 1986–87)
Poetry
Beautiful Death: Jewish Poetry and Martyrdom in Medieval France
By Susan L. Einbinder (NHC Fellow, 1999–00) When Crusader armies on their way to the Holy Land attacked Jewish communities in the Rhine Valley, many Jews chose suicide over death at the hands of Christian mobs. With their defiant deaths, the medieval Jewish martyr was born. With the literary commemoration of the victims, Jewish martyrology … Continued
Ekphrasis: Bildbeschreibung als Repräsentationstheorie bei Spenser, Sidney, Lyly und Shakespeare = Ekphrasis: image description as representation theory in Spenser, Sidney, Lyly and Shakespeare
By Mario Klarer (NHC Fellow, 1995–96; 2000–01) This volume examines instances of ecphrasis (literary descriptions of pictures) in the works of English Renaissance authors against the background of Elizabethan theory formation on the problem of representation. References to (usually fictional) works of art in the works of Sidney, Spenser, Lyly and Shakespeare serve as a … Continued
John Milton
Edited by Annabel Patterson (NHC Fellow, 1991–92) This collection of selected writings represents the best of recent critical work on Milton. The essays cover all stages of his career, from the early poems through to the later poems of the Restoration period, especially Paradise Lost. Professor Patterson includes British and American critics such as Michael … Continued
Plato and Aristotle on Poetry
By Gerald F. Else (NHC Fellow, 1978–79) This book is a guide to the poetics of the two Greek fountainheads of Western literary theory. Part I traces the development of Plato's great themes of inspiration and imitation but makes no attempt to reduce his disparate statements to a system. Part II demonstrates that Aristotle's Poetics embodies a … Continued
Swinburne’s Medievalism: A Study in Victorian Love Poetry
By Antony H. Harrison (NHC Fellow, 1981–82)
The Unfurling of Entity: Metaphor in Poetic Theory
By Aileen Ward (NHC Fellow, 1986–87)
Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts
By Peter T. Struck (NHC Fellow, 2002–03) Nearly all of us have studied poetry and been taught to look for the symbolic as well as literal meaning of the text. Is this the way the ancients saw poetry? In Birth of the Symbol, Peter Struck explores the ancient Greek literary critics and theorists who invented the … Continued
Emily Dickinson in Context
Edited by Eliza Richards (NHC Fellow, 2010–11) Long untouched by contemporary events, ideas, and environments, Emily Dickinson's writings have been the subject of intense historical research in recent years. This volume of thirty-three essays by leading scholars offers a comprehensive introduction to the contexts most important for the study of Dickinson's writings. While providing an … Continued
Latin Poetry
Edited and translated by D. Mark Possanza (NHC Fellow, 2015–16) and Dennis Looney Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533), one of Italy’s greatest poets, was a leading figure of sixteenth-century Italian humanism. After some years working in the household of Cardinal Ippolito d’Este, to whom he dedicated his dazzling romance epic Orlando Furioso (1516), Ariosto settled in Ferrara under the patronage … Continued