Literature

The great 14th-century Italian's lyric and love poems are presented as living poetry in Kilmer's powerful and moving versions. His selection convin...

Poetry, Geography, Gender explores literary and geographical analysis, cultural criticism and gender politics in the work of such well-known litera...

Edward Thomas: The Origins of his Poetry builds a new theoretical framework for critical work on imaginative composition through an investigation o...

'Devotion: Guitar': From Tuscaloosa west to Mississippi then north to Memphis through country as unmusical as I was unloved by the decorous ardor o...

In the Palace of Versailles there is a fabulous golden clock, made for Louis XV by the kings engineer, Claude-Siméon Passemant. The astronomical cl...

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The third winner of the Yale Drama Series competition for emerging playwrightsa haunting and provocative imagining of the reunion, years later, of ...

Jun'ichiro Tanizaki's In Black and White is a literary murder mystery in which the lines between fiction and reality are blurred. The writer Mizuno...

The Homeric Hymns have survived for two and a half millennia because of their captivating stories, beautiful language, and religious significance. ...

The Art of the Text contributes to the fast-developing dialogue between textual studies and visual culture studies. It focuses on the processes thr...

An Individual History describes the fears, anger, and guiltpersonal, familial, societal, political, and historicalthat comprise a life. The figure ...

Since 2012, Public Books has championed a new kind of community for intellectual engagement, discussion, and action. An online magazine that unites...

In the 1950s, Yale University Press published a number of Gertrude Stein's posthumous works, among them her incomparable Stanzas in Meditation. Sin...

At the turn of the twelfth-century into the thirteenth, at the court of King Laksmanasena of Bengal, Sanskrit poetry showed profound and sudden cha...

These hundred poems and fragments constitute virtually all of Sappho that survives and effectively bring to life the woman whom the Greeks consid...

The authoritative new translation of the epic Ramayana, as retold by the sixteenth-century poet Tulsidas and cherished by millions to this day.The ...

The first English translation of the narrative poem that is widely recognized as one of treasures of pre-modern Bengali culture.In 1752, the Bengal...

The authoritative new translation of the epic Ramayana, as retold by the sixteenth-century poet Tulsidas and cherished by millions to this day.The ...

Nikos Engonopoulos (19071985) was one of the most prominent representatives of Greek Surrealist poetry and painting. Closely associated with Andrea...

Hellenistic history.The historian Polybius (ca. 200118 BC) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served th...

Michael Marullus (c. 1453/41500), born in Greece, began life as a mercenary soldier but became a prominent Neo-Latin poet and scholar who worked in...