The Cold War Community of Love and Scorn: Robert Duncan, The New American Poetry, and the Lavender Scare by Stephan Delbos

“…This inspired a long reply from Duncan, detailing his feelings about specific poets while describing the ability to experience and write about sexuality and romance as a significant difference between the poets of Allen’s anthology and the so-called academic poets of the period. …”
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“What’s in a Name?”: H.D.’s Re-Vision of Shakespeare by Claire Conilleau

“…H.D. is both a familiar figure of the Imagist movement fashioned by Ezra Pound and an elusive author of “high modernism.” Primarily known as a poet, H.D. wrote a lot of posthumously published autobiographical prose to disentangle herself from the enshrouding influence of Imagism and the “war trauma.” …”
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Sylvia Plath’s Poetry in Multiple Versions: A Case Study of UK School Anthologies by Julie Blake

“…As such, the multiple pedagogical versions of poems have a value in constructing a complete story of the everyday “afterlife” of a poet’s work.…”
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“We must dig our trenches, and win or die”: Voltairine de Cleyre’s Transnational Anarchism by Rita Filanti

“…Voltairine de Cleyre (1866-1912) was a refined poet, translator, editor, and public speaker who worked across languages to devise an American idiom for anarchist thought and action. …”
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Câriye Kökenli Bir Selçuklu Hâtunu: Sultan Melikşah’ın Eşlerinden Tâceddîn Seferiyye Hâtun by Züriye ORUÇ

“…There is no standalone study in the literature about this lady whom poet Muizzi composed eulogies talking about her religiousness and character. …”
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Aestheticism and Decoration: At Home with Michael Field by Ana Parejo Vadillo

“…Talia Schaffer’s work on the poet Rosamund Marriott Watson and her theories of home decoration has been key to understand how female aesthetes reconfigured and re-appropriated this aspect of aestheticism. …”
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‘Bang-whang-whang goes the drum’ : Robert Browning ou l’énergie comique de l’homme-orchestre by Yann Tholoniat

“…Robert Browning’s vis comica has long been overlooked, some readers from the Browning Society, founded in 1887, preferring to see a philosopher in the poet, and some critics, like George Santayana, choosing to dismiss Browning’s ‘poetry of barbarism’. …”
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On Some Aspects of the Poetic of ri in Dante’s Divine Comedy: Possibilities of Semantic Clustering by Ülar Ploom

“…First, a brief exploration of De vulgari eloquentia, Dante’s own treatise on language and poetry, will determine whether the poet theorises rhythm and sound semantics in this work, and whether he considers smaller textual units than the word. …”
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The book relations between the University of Lithuania and France by Nijolė Lietuvninkaitė

“…The most significant private gift was 294 publications from the personal library of the poet and diplomat of Lithuanian origin, Oskaras Milašius. …”
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Republican Dentists in Latin America: Luis Amado Blanco Fernández and his Contributions to Cuban Dentistry by Victoria María Sueiro Rodríguez, Asela Crescencia Villaurrutia Flores, Julia Roquelina Fuguet Boullón

“…Hence, there is a need for a study that offers an overview of the presence of dentists exiled in Latin America, focusing on Cuba and particularly, on Luís Amado Blanco Fernández, a personality who has been studied from a literary point of view (as a poet, novelist, playwright, literary and theater critic), but not for his work as a dentist and his contributions to Cuban dentistry, nor has been studied his work as a diplomat in depth.…”
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Intertextuality as a Poetic Rewriting Strategy in Pelin Batu’s Self-Translated Poems by Göksenin Abdal

“…In conclusion, it has been determined that Pelin Batu, as a Turkish poet, enriches her poems through intertextuality as a rewriting strategy with quotations, allusions and borrowing from various figures of literature, visual arts, art history, philosophy, and science.…”
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Polariser l'écart : la mise en scène du décalage dans Fram de Tony Harrison by Catherine Lanone

“…Polar opposites: discrepancy in Tony Harrison's Fram: Proud of his origins, Tony Harrison blends in his work the memory of his working-class background and of the vast literary tradition he descends from, from Greek tragedy to Shakespeare or Keats. Best known as a poet, Tony Harrison is also a translator and playwright; his 2008 play Fram was badly received by critics, perhaps because it plays on key structural discrepancy, embedding as it does the story of Nansen, the polar explorer (with the eponymous boat he designed, Fram) within the frame of a play written by the ghost of the late academic Gilbert Murray. …”
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Robert Duncan and the Vernacular of Preliteracy by J. Peter Moore

“…Duncan recapitulates medieval cultural divisions between the father tongue of Latin grammar and the mother tongue of fluid speech and posits the vernacular as a counter-national field of pre-semantic sound, conveyed through feminine modes of relation. The poet’s task, in Duncan’s imagination, is to return to those seedbanks of language, to re-plant the words of that early stage, in order to activate an organic music arising from preliterate babble that might transcend the boundaries that segregate speech communities.…”
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BROTHEL OF TU BA – THE INTENSE PERIOD OF THUY KIEU’S LIFE by Nguyễn Hữu Sơn

“…The article investigates, verifies the reality and the ideal, identifies the multi-personality characteristics of Thuy Kieu from the measure of instinct and individual human qualities, and contributes to affirm the creative talent of the great poet, Nguyen Du.…”
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Du Bestiaire dans le théâtre de W.B. Yeats by Pierre Longuenesse

“…We must look back to Kleist and Craig to understand what is at stake with this « guardian of the well ». In fact, poet and dancer are fascinated by this particular bird because of the hawk’s power to surpass the hero, as the bear triumphs of the swordsman in Kleist’s On the marionnette theatre : in At the Hawk’s Well, the bird overcomes the man because it has a grace that the man will never find. …”
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Professor Vanda Zaborskaitė: Why Classic? by Dalia Čiočytė

“… Vanda Zaborskaitė (1922–2010) was a famous literary critic and the author of a fundamental monograph about the prominent Lithuanian poet Jonas Mačiulis-Maironis (Maironis, 1968, 1987). …”
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Virginia Woolf’s “Modernist Renaissance” in “Anon”: A Singular Counter-History by Anne Besnault

“…The aim of this article is to examine the symbolic murder that Woolf stages in her essay, that of Anon, the anonymous female or male poet, by the invention of the printing press, while reading in context Woolf’s counter-narrative grounded in a singular, historiographical cycle of life and death.…”
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“Significant Negatives”: Genre and Ethics in Alice Meynell’s Familiar Essays, 1893–1909 by Rachel O’Connell

“…My argument can be restated as an assertion about how Meynell, best known as a poet, inhabited the landscape of prose, and what possibilities she found there. …”
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O couro lavrado de estética mudéjar na Casa-Museu e Fundação Guerra Junqueiro – memórias do al-Andalus em terras portuguesas by Franklin Pereira

“…As relações que estes motivos permitem considerar salientam Portugal como depósito de continuidades e adaptações de estéticas arcaicas; ficaram na arte do couro da elite c.1500-1600, antes dos padrões renascentistas se terem tornado dominantes.The author analyses three chairs and five upholstery pieces of the collection of the poet Guerra Junqueiro, nowadays at the House-Museum and Foundation bearing his name; these leather carvings show aesthetical peculiarities that turn them part of Mudejar art of Umayyad lineage that remained in the West of Iberia Peninsula after the Reconquest. …”
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Nightingale Garden near the Sea: on the Question of Akhmatov’s Intertext in A. Blok’s poem Nightingale Garden by Tatiana Pakhareva

“…The period of intense communication between the poets and their mutual dedications exchange (“Beauty is terrible” – you will be told ... by Blok and I came to the poet visit ... by Akhmatova) is also the time when Blok began work on Nightingale Garden. …”
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