Echoes and reflections in Catullus' long poems by Trimble, G

Poem-titles in Simonides, Pindar, and Bacchylides by Prodi, E

A Poem-song on the Perfect Tibetan Physician by Jabb, L

Poems 62, 67, and other Catullian dialogues by Heyworth, S

The Literature of Italy in Byron's Poems of 1817-20 by Halmi, N

“…While in his letters – and, of course, many of his poems – Byron is both British and Italian, Italian literature could also offer the poet a way of being neither.…”

Thy fierce lotus-feet: danger and benevolence in mediaeval Sanskrit poems to Mahiṣāsuramardinī-Durgā by Sarkar, B

A Learned Spiritual Ladder? Towards an Interpretation of George of Pisidia’s Hexameter Poem 'On Human Life' by Whitby, J

Some corrections to Alan Bliss’s indices to the metre of Beowulf, together with his last known views on the metre of the poem by Griffith, M

The elegiac book: patterns and problems by Heyworth, SJ

“…A significant part of the Hellenistic heritage of the Latin poets of the first century BCE was a concern for the arrangement of their poems in books. There are clear traces of this in Catullus, when poems 1 and 22 show an interest in publication, for example, or the paired kiss poems 5 and 7 are pointedly separated. …”

From Epic to Lyric: Alice Oswald’s and Barbara Köhler’s refigurings of Homeric Epic by Paul, G

“…Köhler’s and Oswald’s poems emphasize not so much the heroic storyline as the verbal links and echoes across the poems that enable dynamic imaginative connections.…”

Momos advises Zeus: Changing representations of 'Cypria' fragment 1 by Barker, E

“…This paper investigates the importance of context for assessing fragment one of the ‘Cypria’, one of the poems belonging to an ‘Epic Cycle’ that – along with the Iliad and Odyssey – told the story of the war at Troy. …”

Coming full circle: Christianity, empire, whiteness, the global majority and the struggles of migrants and refugees in the UK by Weller, P

“…As an increasingly older White British Baptist scholar of religion and society who, over this period has, with varying emphases and foci, nationally and internationally, tried to be active in the struggle against racism and worked towards ethnic, national and religious pluralism, I have structured my contribution to this book around four originally independently generated (between 1974 and 2001) – but all personally related – pieces of writing that I consider to be of wider relevance to the overall theme of the book, and which collectively I am calling ‘A Quartet Over Time’. Three of these (a poem from 1974, and what others have suggested might better be called the ‘prose poems’ of 2016 and 2021) were written by myself, while the poem of 1986 was written by my deceased (2010) White German Catholic wife, Margret Preisler-Weller. …”

Fictional will by Swift, H

“…Interspersed amongst the poem’s narrative octaves are fixed-form lyric items. …”

Shifts in Kabīr Contexts and Texts from Mughal to Modern Times by Bangha, I

“…Each of these poems had been recorded by at least two of the six clusters of sectarian sources produced by Sikh, Vaishnava, Dādūpanthī, Kabīrpanthī, Radhasoami and Nāthpanthī compilers between the late sixteenth and the early twentieth century. …”

Authenticity and other textual problems in Heroides 16 by Heyworth, S

“…A major problem is caused by the couplets preserved in only a portion of the tradition: many of these are interpolations, but not necessarily all. In the case of poems 16 and 21 (the letters of Paris and of Cydippe respectively), we have lengthy passages transmitted only in late fifteenth-century printed editions and manuscripts derived from them. …”

'Æðele geferes’: northern saints in a Durham manuscript by Appleton, H

“…It is also the only manuscript with a northern provenance to contain Æthelwulf’s De abbatibus, a ninth-century Latin poem on a cell of Lindisfarne. The poems are found in the final part of the manuscript, which focuses on northern England, and the city of Durham in particular. …”

Gedichte - Fragmente by Kuhn, T

“…A consideration of Brecht's poems and fragments…”

Rabindranath Tagore’s সমাজ/Samaj/Communities of Song by McDonald, PD

“…What happens when songs or lyric poems, composed at particular moments, become state anthems, performed again and again across generations? …”

Kniga Chasov Ol'gi Sedakovoi i religioznaia lirika: chitaq "Piatye stansy" by Kahn, A

“…The chapter provides an in depth analysis of one of Olga Sedakova's most important lyric poems and offers key to understanding through her aesthetic philosophy and her understanding of the book culture of Russian Orthodoxy. …”

Lucretius, irreligion and atheism in early-modern Venice by Davidson, N

“…This chapter argues that, contrary to some claims for the subversiveness of the De rerum natura, the poem’s reception in Venice and Padua indicates that it was widely read by leading clergy. …”