Brand: Oxford University Press, USA

ean: 9780788503320, isbn: 0788503324,

This is the first complete English translation of an important work of Tamil poetics. Composed in southern India around the eighth century CE, this is a commentary structured around 60 verses of uncertain origin on the poetry of love. The commentary ...

mpn: 32 in-text illustrations, ean: 9780199228331, isbn: 0199228337,

From Latin love poetry's dominating and enslaving beloveds, to modern popular culture's infamous Cleopatras and Messalinas, representations of the Roman mistress (or the mistress of Romans) have brought into question both ancient and modern genders a...

ean: 9780199232994, isbn: 0199232997,

This book is the first to provide a connected history of epic poetry in Britain between the French Revolution and the First World War. Although epic is widely held to have been shouldered aside by the novel, if not invalidated in advance by modernity...