LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry

Current paper · Semantic Scholar

This study re-examines the literary rivalry between Xu Ling 徐陵 (507–583) of Liang and Wei Shou 魏收 (507–572) of Northern Qi through a political lens. Analyzing Wei’s “A Beautiful Woman” (Meinü pian 美女篇) poems alongside southern counterparts, it argues that Wei deliberately embraced classical allegorism and didacticism to construct Northern cultural legitimacy, contrasting with Xu Ling’s ornate palace-style aes…

Reference · Wikidata

1973 doctoral thesis by John David Needham at Massey University

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Dalkey Archive Press is an American publisher of fiction, poetry, foreign translations and literary criticism specializing in the publication or republication of lesser-known, often avant-garde works. The company has offices in Funks Grove, Illinois, in Dublin, and in London. The publisher is named for the novel The Dalkey Archive, by the Irish author Flann O'Brien. It is owned by nonprofit publisher Deep Vellum.

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Book · DOAB

At a time when most commentators fixate on American poetry's supposed ""death,"" Kevin Stein's Poetry's Afterlife instead proposes the vitality of its aesthetic hereafter. The essays of Poetry's Afterlife blend memoir, scholarship, and personal essay to survey the current poetry scene, trace how we arrived here, and suggest where poetry is headed in our increasingly digital culture. The result is a book both fetchin…

Full text · Open Library

This book contains the celebrated Butcher translation of Aristotle's Poetics, faced, page by page, with the complete Greek text (as reconstructed by Mr. Butcher from Greek, Latin and Arabic manuscripts). The editor's 300-page exposition and interpretation follows. In his classic commentary, Butcher discusses with insight, sympathy and great learning Aristotle's ideas and their importance in the history of thought an…

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Vol. 7, no. 2 (Feb. 1834)-v. 9, no. 12 (Dec. 1836)