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Gender Trouble Couplets, Volume 1 by Strouse, A. W.

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Ballad of the Buried Life / by Hagelstange, Rudolf

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Melodies Unheard : Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry / by Hecht, Anthony, 1923-2004

Table of Contents: “…Shakespeare and the sonnet -- The sonnet: ruminations on form, sex, and history -- Sidney and the sestina -- On Henry Noel's "Gaze not on swans" -- Technique in Housman -- On Hopkins' "The Wreck of the Deutschland" -- Uncle Tom's shantih -- Paralipomena to The Hidden law -- On Robert Frost's "The Wood-pile" -- Two poems by Elizabeth Bishop -- Richard Wilbur: an introduction -- Yehuda Amichai -- Charles Simic -- Seamus Heaney's prose -- Moby-Dick -- St. …”
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Melodies Unheard : Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry / by Hecht, Anthony, 1923-2004

Table of Contents: “…Shakespeare and the sonnet -- The sonnet: ruminations on form, sex, and history -- Sidney and the sestina -- On Henry Noel's "Gaze not on swans" -- Technique in Housman -- On Hopkins' "The Wreck of the Deutschland" -- Uncle Tom's shantih -- Paralipomena to The Hidden law -- On Robert Frost's "The Wood-pile" -- Two poems by Elizabeth Bishop -- Richard Wilbur: an introduction -- Yehuda Amichai -- Charles Simic -- Seamus Heaney's prose -- Moby-Dick -- St. …”
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Graham R Rosamund Marriott Watson, woman of letters / by Hughes, Linda K.

Table of Contents: “…Birth and childhood, 1860-74 -- Marriage, maternity, and first poems : Tares (1884) -- Losing Rosamond Armytage, becoming Graham R. …”
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The politics of race in Panama : Afro-Hispanic and West Indian literary discourses of contention / by Watson, Sonja Stephenson

Table of Contents: “…National rhetoric and suppression of black consciousness in poems by Federico Escobar and Gaspar Octavio Hernandez -- Anti-West Indianism and anti-imperialism in Joaquin Beleno's Canal Zone Trilogy -- Revising the canon: historical revisionism in Cubena's trilogy -- West Indian/Caribbean consciousness in works by Melva Lowe de Goodin, Gerardo Maloney, Carlos Wilson, and Carlos E. …”
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The politics of race in Panama : Afro-Hispanic and West Indian literary discourses of contention / by Watson, Sonja Stephenson

Table of Contents: “…National rhetoric and suppression of black consciousness in poems by Federico Escobar and Gaspar Octavio Hernandez -- Anti-West Indianism and anti-imperialism in Joaquin Beleno's Canal Zone Trilogy -- Revising the canon: historical revisionism in Cubena's trilogy -- West Indian/Caribbean consciousness in works by Melva Lowe de Goodin, Gerardo Maloney, Carlos Wilson, and Carlos E. …”
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Victorian Poetry, Europe, and the Challenge of Cosmopolitanism / by Keirstead, Christopher M., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Arnold, Europe, and the (future) destinations of Victorian poetry -- Letter from Europe : the epistolary interventions of Clough's Amours de voyage -- Barrett Browning and the spaces of cosmofeminism : from Casa Guidi windows to "Mother and poet" -- Browning at the border : Red cotton night-cap country -- Bodies in translation : Swinburne's Poems and ballads and the Fleshly School of cosmopolitanism -- Affinity versus isolation : cosmopolitanism and the racial dynamics of Morris's Europe -- Europe in perspective : the dynasts -- Conclusion : "Argosies of magic sails" : cosmopolitan dreams and challenges.…”
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Graham R Rosamund Marriott Watson, woman of letters / by Hughes, Linda K.

Table of Contents: “…Birth and childhood, 1860-74 -- Marriage, maternity, and first poems : Tares (1884) -- Losing Rosamond Armytage, becoming Graham R. …”
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Victorian Poetry, Europe, and the Challenge of Cosmopolitanism / by Keirstead, Christopher M., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Arnold, Europe, and the (future) destinations of Victorian poetry -- Letter from Europe : the epistolary interventions of Clough's Amours de voyage -- Barrett Browning and the spaces of cosmofeminism : from Casa Guidi windows to "Mother and poet" -- Browning at the border : Red cotton night-cap country -- Bodies in translation : Swinburne's Poems and ballads and the Fleshly School of cosmopolitanism -- Affinity versus isolation : cosmopolitanism and the racial dynamics of Morris's Europe -- Europe in perspective : the dynasts -- Conclusion : "Argosies of magic sails" : cosmopolitan dreams and challenges.…”
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The eye of the eagle John Donne and the legacy of Ignatius Loyola / by Bugliani Knox, Francesca, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- John donne criticism and the Ignatian legacy -- Discretion and Ignatius's spiritual exercises in Donne's times -- Mental prayer, discretion and Donne's early religious poems -- Essays in divinity, discretion and the spiritual exercises -- Donne's biblical exegesis -- Donne's theology -- Donne's ecclesiology -- Conclusion -- Appendix I. …”
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How did poetry survive? the making of modern American verse / by Newcomb, John Timberman

Table of Contents: “…A modernism of the city -- Inventing the new verse -- American poetry on the brink, 1905-1912 -- Poetry's opening door : Harriet Monroe and American modernism -- Young, blithe, and whimsical : the avant-gardism of the masses -- There is always others : experimental verse and "ulterior social result" -- Volunteers of America, 1917 : the seven arts and the Great War -- Keys to the city -- Gutter and skyline : the new verse and the metropolitan cityscape -- Footprints of the 20th century : American skyscrapers, modern poems -- Subway fare : toward a poetics of rapid transit.…”
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The eye of the eagle John Donne and the legacy of Ignatius Loyola / by Bugliani Knox, Francesca, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- John donne criticism and the Ignatian legacy -- Discretion and Ignatius's spiritual exercises in Donne's times -- Mental prayer, discretion and Donne's early religious poems -- Essays in divinity, discretion and the spiritual exercises -- Donne's biblical exegesis -- Donne's theology -- Donne's ecclesiology -- Conclusion -- Appendix I. …”
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How did poetry survive? the making of modern American verse / by Newcomb, John Timberman

Table of Contents: “…A modernism of the city -- Inventing the new verse -- American poetry on the brink, 1905-1912 -- Poetry's opening door : Harriet Monroe and American modernism -- Young, blithe, and whimsical : the avant-gardism of the masses -- There is always others : experimental verse and "ulterior social result" -- Volunteers of America, 1917 : the seven arts and the Great War -- Keys to the city -- Gutter and skyline : the new verse and the metropolitan cityscape -- Footprints of the 20th century : American skyscrapers, modern poems -- Subway fare : toward a poetics of rapid transit.…”
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Timaeus of Tauromenium and Hellenistic historiography by Baron, Christopher A., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Pythagoras and Pythagoreans in Timaeus -- "Just Like a Schoolboy" : Timaeus and His Speeches -- Generic Choices : The Shape of Timaeus' Histories -- Herodotean Historiography in the Hellenistic Age -- Appendix A: New Delimitations or Translations -- Appendix B: Philodemus, On Poems and Timaeus T 15b.…”
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Timaeus of Tauromenium and Hellenistic historiography by Baron, Christopher A., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Pythagoras and Pythagoreans in Timaeus -- "Just Like a Schoolboy" : Timaeus and His Speeches -- Generic Choices : The Shape of Timaeus' Histories -- Herodotean Historiography in the Hellenistic Age -- Appendix A: New Delimitations or Translations -- Appendix B: Philodemus, On Poems and Timaeus T 15b.…”
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A poet's revolution the life of Denise Levertov / by Hollenberg, Donna Krolik

Table of Contents: “…"Dancing edgeways": coming of age as a poet in the new world (1949-1955); "The true artist": Levertov's engagement with tradition (1954-1960) -- "The poem ascends": taking a position (1960-1963) -- "To speak of sorrow": Levertov's emergence as a social poet (1963?…”
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A poet's revolution the life of Denise Levertov / by Hollenberg, Donna Krolik

Table of Contents: “…"Dancing edgeways": coming of age as a poet in the new world (1949-1955); "The true artist": Levertov's engagement with tradition (1954-1960) -- "The poem ascends": taking a position (1960-1963) -- "To speak of sorrow": Levertov's emergence as a social poet (1963?…”
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History, memory, and the literary left modern American poetry, 1935-1968 / by Lowney, John, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…The janitor's poems of every day: American poetry and the 1930's -- Buried history: the popular front poetics of Muriel Rukeyser's The book of the dead -- Allegories of salvage: the peripheral vision of Elizabeth Bishop's North & South -- Harlem Disc-tortions: the jazz memory of Langston Hughes's Montage of a dream deferred -- A reportage and Redemption: the poetics of African American countermemory in Gwendolyn Brook's In the Mecca -- A metamorphic palimpsest: the underground memory of Thomas McGrath's Letter to an imaginary friend -- The spectre of the 1930s: George Oppen's Of being numerous and historical amnesia.…”
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History, memory, and the literary left modern American poetry, 1935-1968 / by Lowney, John, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…The janitor's poems of every day: American poetry and the 1930's -- Buried history: the popular front poetics of Muriel Rukeyser's The book of the dead -- Allegories of salvage: the peripheral vision of Elizabeth Bishop's North & South -- Harlem Disc-tortions: the jazz memory of Langston Hughes's Montage of a dream deferred -- A reportage and Redemption: the poetics of African American countermemory in Gwendolyn Brook's In the Mecca -- A metamorphic palimpsest: the underground memory of Thomas McGrath's Letter to an imaginary friend -- The spectre of the 1930s: George Oppen's Of being numerous and historical amnesia.…”
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