Carmen perpetuum deducere ?Retour sur le ‘programme callimachéen’ du proème des Métamorphoses by Florence Klein

“…Si – comme d’autres poètes latins avant lui – Ovide cherche à se positionner comme l’héritier d’une poétique ‘callimachéenne’ dans les Métamorphoses, où exactement faut-il déceler une telle revendication dans les quelques vers qui constituent le proème de l’œuvre ? …”
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The Plough and the Pen. Of the Scribbling Hoe and Library of Yams by Niyi Osundare

“…Cet article se termine sur une question qui donne à réfléchir : où se tiendra le poète et où regardera-t-il lorsque les arbres seront tombés et que les oiseaux auront disparu ? …”
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ONEGIN AND COMPUTER: THE POTENTIAL OF EXCEL TABLE EDITOR IN STUDYING LITERATURE

“…Process of solving these ones does not technically differ with reconstruction first stanza but from the position of intrinsic labor being made by students, it is a competition and cocreation with the great Russian poet.This program may be used in teaching process with a group of students or as an individual training dependently on teacher’s intention.…”
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A study of the translations of Li Bai's Yuefu poems by Cheng, Tadjudin Yu Yun

“…Li Bai, perhaps China’s greatest poet, is the most important influence in the history of Tang poetry, especially in the genre of yuefu, an essential part of classical Chinese poetry. …”
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[Go-Far 2016] by Chong, Kai Yan, Pang, Xue Qiang

“…Find your destiny with the help of 14th-century Persian poet Hafez - and a bird. -- [7] Preparing for a Religious Procession in Yazd, Iran (Video by Jim Chan). …”
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Root(ed) : a collection of poems by Atifa Othman

“…The poems in this collection reflect upon being composed of disconnected angles, a term borrowed by American poet Adrienne Rich. Rich writes: “Sometimes I feel I have seen too long from too many disconnected angles: white, Jewish, anti-Semite, racist, anti-racist, [...] split at the root that I will never bring them whole” (481). …”
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‘A minor atlantic Goethe’: W.H. Auden’s Germanic bias by Arnold, H

“…<p>This thesis is an account of the poet and critic W.H. Auden's relations with Germany and Germans over the course of his life (1907-1973), presented through a selection of influences that have received little critical attention in the corpus of secondary literature to date. …”

Innokenty Fedorovich Annensky and the classical ideal by Kelly, C, Kelly, Catriona

“…<p>Innokenty Annensky (1855-1909) was better known to his contemporaries as a classics teacher and translator than as a poet; but, with the exception of two or three obituary articles, nothing has been written on his work as a classicist. …”

Melodic exchange and musical violence in the thirteenth-century jeu-parti by Mason, J

“…The thirteenth-century jeu-parti was a sung debate between two or more poet singers. In the jeu-parti, singers exchanged stanzas composed to the same melody, rhyme scheme and syllable count. …”

Rethinking the metre of Parzival: iambic verse for a trochaic language by Booth, J

“…This analysis is further corroborated by the consistently iambic structure of line-final feet, as well as the foot structures avoided by the poet, identified according to the weight of the final, penultimate and antepenultimate syllables. …”

The four elements of nature and narrative: from antiquity to neo-mythological Russian drama by New, KA

“…Each of the four mythological dramas composed by Innokenty Annensky is conceptualised through an element, enabling the poet to explore problems of psychology and ethics by fusing the natural world with the human soul. …”

Dante's masterplot and the alternative narrative models in the Commedia by Crisafi, N

“…This is the teleological trajectory which allows the poet to subjugate earlier works or earlier parts of the poem to the revisionist gaze of its endpoint. …”

Miscellany/Mélanges

“…Kaiser, The abbé Dubos and the historical defence of monarchy in early eighteenth-century France <br/> Wanda Dzwigala, Voltaire and Poland: the historical works <br/> Uta Janssens-Knorsch, Against Voltaire: an unfavourable view of the philosopher-poet among the French expatriates in Berlin <br/> James May, Edward Young’s criticism of Voltaire in <em>Resignation</em> 1761, 1762 <br/> José-Michel Moureaux, D’Argens éditeur de Julien <br/> Thadd E. …”

A commentary on Catullus 64, lines 1-201 by Trimble, GC

“…Finally, the thesis looks at Ariadne’s speech as an intertextual node, investigating the meanings generated by its relationships with other speeches from both earlier and later in Greek and Roman poetic traditions, and examining how each theme or topos is used in this particular situation both by the alluding poet and by Ariadne herself. More discursive notes introducing the various sections are interspersed with shorter lemmata considering textual, metrical, linguistic and cultural-historical issues as well as literary interpretation. …”

A literary commentary on Claudian's De raptu Proserpinae by Gruzelier, C, Gruzelier, Claire E.

“…It also deals with the various sets of images and themes that give the work an overall unity, while the details alter in accordance with the conception of the moment; with Claudian's portrayal of character, his methods of narrative composition and his heavy reliance on speeches and descriptions; with his humanization of the divine and his humorous appreciation of social conventions; with his wide range of learning, his interest in natural curiosities and his keen eye for detail; with his mastery of literary imitation, including a detailed examination of the sources of his motifs and the use he has made of his literary forebears; with his verbal precision, the fertility of his invention, his use of paradox, sententiae and other rhetorical figures, together with a variety of notes upon his elegant and highly polished metre; and with his vivid sense of colour, his gaiety and vivacity and sheer intellectual cleverness, so that one may be able to comprehend the high reputation he has enjoyed as a poet in every age since he wrote up to the present day.…”

Retrospection and re-orientation in Dante's Ante-Purgatory by Dormor, C

“…In Chapter 3, I explore the value of landscape reading and how the poet makes important recalls to infernal landscapes and modes of travel through Hell. …”

An invisible terrain: John Ashbery and nature by Ross, S

“…Challenging a critical consensus that would cast Ashbery as either a belated romantic in search of lost nature or an arch-postmodernist who dissolves "nature" into text, this study reveals his deep historical awareness of the transmission and collision of literary ecologies. The poet who emerges delights in putting different poetic natures into contact with each other—and in humorously making nature unnatural. …”

A critical edition, with introduction and commentary, of the libretto texts of Montagu Slater and Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes by Greenhalgh, M

“…Additions to the draft and final libretto texts and revisions throughout this process by Slater, Britten, producer Eric Crozier and, in the final scene, poet Ronald Duncan, are clarified and a critique provided. …”

East-west dialogue on Jalaluddin Rumi and Ralph Waldo Emerson in relation to mysticism by Livani, Hosseinali

“…Molana Jalauddin Rumi (1207-1273), Persian poet and Muslim Sufi, has dealt profoundly with the concepts of microcosm and macrocosm, in his Masnavi-e-Manavi. …”
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An Investigation of Cognitive Stylistic Balance, Translated by Abdurrahman Jami from Taiyeh ibn Faraz by Narjes Ansari, Zahra Salimi, Abdul Ali Al-Boyeh Langroudi

“…Taking into account the notable similarities between Jami and Taiyeh ibn Faraz’s poems in terms of words, sounds, and clarity of words, Jami’s work can be considered as a translation loyal to the original text. The poet does not attempt to create literary aspects to convey the idea via an independent work in Farsi. …”
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