BISAC SubjectsLITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry

Titles

To Hell and Back: An anthology of Dante's Inferno in English translation (1782–2017)

Tim Smith and Marco Sonzogni

Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) maintained that translation destroys the harmony of poetry. Yet his Commedia has been translated into English time and again over the last two-and-a-bit centuries. At last count, one-hundred and twenty-nine different translators have published at least one canticle of… read more

[Not in series, 212] 2017. xx, 295 pp.

Experimentalism as Reciprocal Communication in Contemporary American Poetry: John Ashbery, Lyn Hejinian, Ron Silliman

Elina Siltanen

The poems of John Ashbery, Lyn Hejinian and Ron Silliman may seem to offer endless small details of expression, observation, thought and narrative which fail to hang together even from one line to the next. But as Elina Siltanen shows here, this extraordinary flow of uncoordinated detail can… read more

[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 4] 2016. x, 210 pp.

After the Classics: A translation into English of the selected verse of Vicent Andrés Estellés

Vicent Andrés Estellés

This selection of the verse of Valencian poet Vicent Andres Estelles (1924-1993) is accompanied by a translation into English from the original Catalan. The format of an innovative dialogue with classical authors — a cornerstone of Estellesian expression — constitutes an ingenious invocation and… read more

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 5] 2013. xi, 242 pp.