...Joseph Frank Yves Bonnefoy, Shakespeare and the French Poet , ed. John Naughton (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004), 304 pp. © 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 L I T T L E R E V I E W S Hauke Brunkhorst...

..., as Shakespeare’s like Because, ofa “songwriter”? instead a“poet” him call Why etc audiencesmall, is the passé, poetry’s formal (no “great” poets, poetry can Ameri- “postmortem” regarding wisdom conventional reversing poet—thereby amajor as BobDylan not:treat could American todowhatan...

...William M. Chace Moody David , Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume II: The Epic Years, 1921 – 1939 . ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2014 ), 421 pp. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015...

...David Bellos Common Knowledge 26:1 © 2020 by Duke University Press 147 L I T T L E R E V I E W S Roger Pearson, Unacknowledged Legislators: The Poet as Lawgiver in Post- Revolutionary France (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), 624 pp. Hugo was a man of many words, of many, many words...

...Shira Wolosky McGann Jerome , The Poet Edgar Allan Poe: Alien Angel ( Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2014 ), 256 pp. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 ...

..., as Shakespeare’s like Because, ofa “songwriter”? instead a“poet” him call Why etc audiencesmall, is the passé, poetry’s formal (no “great” poets, poetry can Ameri- “postmortem” regarding wisdom conventional reversing poet—thereby amajor as BobDylan not:treat could American todowhatan...

... of disciplines taking con- trol of knowledge, the disciplinary pursuit of knowledge for the sake of control. —Barry Allen Jonathan F. S. Post, ed., Green Thoughts, Green Shades: Essays by Contemporary Poets on the Early Modern Lyric (Berkeley...

...H. R. Woudhuysen Ricketts Rita , Scholars, Poets, and Radicals: Discovering Forgotten Lives in the Blackwell Collections . ( Oxford : Bodleian Library , 2015 ), 320 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017...

... as experiments themselves or as discussions of experimental principles. The introduction itself contributes to the latter by suggesting a distinction between “triumphalist” and “defeatist” calls for poets and fiction writers to do the work of scholars. In the latter variant, poets in general are challenged...

...J. Paul Hunter The third of a century between the late 1680s and the early 1720s—a time when a vast number of prolific poets flourished—is almost completely overlooked in literary history, perhaps because there was no single poetic leader and no dominant direction in the poetry. But it was a very...

...Jeffrey M. Perl By way of introducing new English translations of critical works by two French post-Symbolist poets and a Russian Formalist theoretician, the editor of Common Knowledge reflects, as the journal’s twenty-fifth anniversary approaches, on the overlapping political and academic contexts...

...Léon-Paul Fargue; Valery Larbaud After the early death of the little-known but extraordinarily promising French poet Henry J.-M. Levet, Valery Larbaud and Léon-Paul Fargue visited with Levet’s parents in the city of Montbrison. In a recorded conversation, they describe their visit...

...Yuri Tynianov Yuri Tynianov’s seminal 1924 review of contemporary poetry discusses the work of many bright lights of the early Soviet avant-garde, as well as the prerevolutionary modernist poets who were still a presence in literature of the 1920s: his subjects include Anna Akhmatova, Sergei Esenin...

...Robin Davidson This essay examines the work of Ewa Lipska, who, since the publication of her first book in 1967, has been among the most acclaimed of recent Polish poets but less well known in the West than Czesław Miłosz, Wisława Szymborska, or Adam Zagajewski. She is a philosophical poet, making...

...Charles Altieri This article elaborates on the dilemma faced by modernist poets in seeking to define values in an intellectual context that was post-Romantic and post-epistemic. Pound and Stevens, for example, reacted strongly against the ways that Romantic writers had tried to tie the rhetorical...

... Schnackenberg) and connects this development to the nostalgia evidenced in Duncan's occultism. Placing the New Critics with the poets Karl Shapiro and Richard Wilbur, Duncan dismisses them all as “academics” and “descendants of those ministers of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, holding out against...

... progress is noncumulative, the arts and humanities (unlike the sciences) must deal with the ideas of (and the evidence for) “Renaissance” and “renascence,” “resistance” and “reaction.” A poet such as Malory may achieve a permanent place in literary history and on required-reading lists by resisting a shift...

...Alissa Valles Abstract Under the sign of Libitina, the Roman goddess of burials and funerals invoked in Horace's Ode 3.30, this essay provides a celebratory introduction to the work of the Polish Jewish poet Zuzanna Ginczanka (1917–44), situating her within the cultural history of commemoration...

... is shown, in Paradise Lost , to be the original sin of the first human couple. As much as for Lanyer, then, sex is for Milton bound up with hermeneutics—and, for both poets, the individual's relationship with God is a consuming passion, about which one may report a phenomenology of affects but can offer...

...Anne Carson; Jeffrey M. Perl This essay in both literary criticism and negative theology treats three widely diverse cases of women who “had the nerve to enter a zone of absolute spiritual daring.” The three cases are of the poet Sappho (in seventh-century Greek antiquity), the mystic Margarite...