... great Scottish artworks but neither in the end brought to the big screen. This chapter explores mimetic modernism and family mysteries in the Douglas trilogy: My Childhood, My Ain Folk and My Way Home. It also discusses romanticism and the poetry...

... language and the now-immoral poetry tradition of Robert Burns were part of these barriers. Burns Robert MacDiarmid Hugh C M Grieve Muir Edwin New Age Scotland's languages Scottish modernism World War One Yeats W B Bithell Jethro Blok Alexander Eliot T S Lawrence D H Mallarmé Stéphane modernism...

... to conceal, and play tricks with the viewer’s gaze – neither to ‘reveal’ nor to expose – is taken up as a source of inspiration for the poetry. The book, Hiding in Full View, is the product of collaboration between the poet and the artist Alison Watt. ⁵ Paterson had been invited...

...This chapter describes the non-Darwinian and pseudo-Darwinian evolutionary poetry in the late Victorian period. It then explores the acts of bad faith led by Algernon Charles Swinburne and Mathilde Blind. It also investigates how the non-Darwinian elements in George Meredith's later poetry have...

... alive and writing today. Poets have been responding to Charles Darwin and his ideas ever since The Origin of Species was first published 150 years ago. The book discusses the historical development of Darwinism and the poetry that goes alongside it, and is particularly concerned...

... Alexandrian personalities on the young Badawi, Ahmad Zaki Abu Shadi, best known for his contribution to Arabic poetry in the Romantic period. It also looks at two Alexandrian painters, Mahmud Saʻid and Muhammad Nagi, whose works depict social life in the city between the two world wars. al ͑Abbasiyya...

... of Ibn Daniyal and the poetry of Philip Larkin. Badawi believed that Ibn Daniyal's plays played an essential role in the formation of Arabic drama. He analysed three of them: Tayf alkhayal, ʻAjib wa-gharib and al-Mutayyam wa'l-yutayyim. As for Larkin...

...This chapter examines the emergence of colloquial Arabic poetry as populist-political commentary in Egypt by offering a reading of Mahmud Bayram al-Tunisi's series of texts, which figured political contestation in the thematic-formal mould of the sira shaʻbiyya. It first provides...

... Beatrice Karlin Daniel Shusterman Richard Pragmatist Aesthetics Robert Browning The Ring and the Book experimental form dramatic monologue poetry composition communication As the last chapter has shown, the place of Victorian art work could not be confined to the sphere of an aesthetic...

...This chapter discusses the relationship between the poetry and the fiction that Plath was writing at the same time during the different periods of her creative career. The first section examines the poetry and fiction of 1954–55, in which Plath deals with the unresolved pain of childhood events...

...This chapter explores Langholm, which is central to the creation of Hugh MacDiarmid’s poetry and politics. His self-imposed intellectual task began in the Langholm Library. MacDiarmid revenges his insecurities by creating a fictional autodidact epitomising the generalism of the foregone academic...

...This chapter concentrates on Whalsay, which is vital to the creation of Hugh MacDiarmid’s poetry and politics. In Red Scotland, MacDiarmid has ‘cut himself off almost entirely from personal contact with the self-styled intelligentsia’ of the nation, living instead ‘off the dole...

... poems poetry conflicting obligations Epicurean friendship Lucretius And therefore it is no longer a wonder, that men Love, or Dislike each other commonly at first interview, though they scarce know why: nor can we longer withold our Assent to that unmarkable Opinion of Plato...

... women “Friendship An Elegy by Lucasia ” same sex alliances coverture poems poetry mixed obligations amicitia women's friendship He may be in his own practice and disposition a Philosopher, nay a Stoick, and yet speak sometimes with the softness of an amorous Sappho. ¹ Abraham...

... on homoerotic love Garden in Sa’di’s poetry Varieties of love If Adam and Eve were exiled from the Garden of Eden for approaching the forbidden tree, Sa‘di’s lyrical garden is one of presence and possibility. ¹ In Kristeva’s words it is the attempt “to open up the amorous experience...

...Lyrics of Life: Sa’di on Love, Cosmopolitanism, and care of the Self is an accessible study of the lyrical, humorous, and social and education aspects of classical Persian poetry through the ghazals of Sa’di of Shiraz (d.1291) the poet, traveller, and ethicist...

...This chapter introduces Siegfried Sassoon and his selective approach to the past, looking at his literary responses to each world war by studying his poetry and prose from the 1920s to the 1940s. It studies the role of nostalgia in his representation of his survival of war, how nostalgia is used...

... of the first, perhaps, of the modern polyvalent poets allowing for many interpretations. He cites Earl R. Wasserman's study of Ode on a Grecian Urn as an example of Keats's choosing poetry in order to achieve ‘fellowship with essence’. The Ode on a Grecian Urn is concerned...

...In this essay (c.1960), Paul de Man talks about symbolism as a literary movement. According to de Man, symbolism remains an obscure and controversial subject; ‘obscure, not only to the extent to which all lyrical poetry should normally be difficult, but obscure in its most fundamental intentions...

...In this essay, a translation into English of Martin Heidegger's paper Hölderlin and the Essence of Poetry, Paul de Man demonstrates his significant engagement with the work of Heidegger. He considers Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin's five key-passages on the subject of poetry...