The Poetry of Alexander Pope. Volume III, "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."

African writers on African writing

Studies in African literature

Studies in African literature.

The novelist as teacher ; Where angels fear to tread ; The role of the writer in a new nation / No saviours / Aspects of Nigerian drama / The novel and the nation in South Africa / The African writer and his public / The patriot as an artist / Poetry and revolution in modern Africa / Fiction by Black South Africans / Relating literature and life / Interview / African speech ... English words / Why African literature? / The writers speak ; The soul of Africa in Guinea

T.S. Eliot

Critical insights

On T. S. Eliot / Biography of T. S. Eliot / The Paris review perspective / Cultural contexts / Critical reception and influence / T. S. Eliot and Robert Browning's dramatic monologues / Voices and language in T. S. Eliot's The waste land / "Poetry as poetry" / Playing at relationship / "Prufrock, " "Gerontion, " and fragmented monologues / "Unknown terror and mystery": The waste land / 'The world within the world': Ash-Wednesday and the 'Ariel poems' / The soul's mysterious errand / Fear in the way: the design of Eliot's drama

Surrealist women's writing : a critical exploration

'The dung beetle's snowball': the philosophic narcissism of Claude Cahun's essay-poetry / Identity convulsed: Leonora Carrington's The House of Fear and The Oval Lady / Recasting the human: Leonora Carrington's dark exilic imagination / Colette Peignot: the purity of revolt / Suzanne Cesaire's surrealism: tightrope of hope / Kay Sage alive in the world / Outside-in: translating Unica Zurn / Ithell Colquhoun's experimental poetry: surrealism, occultism, and postwar poetry / Leonor Fini's abhuman family / 'Open sesame': Dorothea Tanning's critical writing / Magic language, esoteric nature: Rikki Ducornet's surrealist ecology

The collected poems of Robert Penn Warren

Poems

Uncollected poems 1922-1943 -- Thirty-six poems -- Eleven poems on the same theme -- Selected poems 1923-1943 -- Promises: Poems 1954-1956 -- You, Emperors, and others: Poems 1957-1960 -- Tale of time: Poems 1960-1966 -- Incarnations: Poems 1966-1968: Island of summer -- Internal injuries -- Enclaves -- Audubon: Vision -- Or else: Poem/Poems 1968-1974 -- Can I see Arcturus from where I stand?: Poems 1975 -- Now and then: Poems 1976-1978: Nostalgic -- Speculative -- Being here: Poetry 1977-1980 -- Rumor verified: Poems 1979-1980: Prologue -- Paradox of time -- Events -- Point North -- If this is the way it is -- But also -- Fear and trembling -- Coda -- Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce -- Altitudes and extensions 1980-1984 -- Uncollected poems 1943-1989.

Irony on occasion : from Schlegel and Kierkegaard to Derrida and de Man

Schlegel and Kierkegaard to Derrida and de Man

Introduction: irony on occasion -- Romantic irony -- Friedrich Schlegel and the myth of irony -- Taking Kierkegaard apart: the concept of irony -- Modernity interrupted: Kierkegaard's Antigone -- Reading Kierkegaard: to keep intact the secret -- Fear and trembling: "Who is able to understand Abraham?" -- Postromantic irony -- Signs of the times: Nietzsche, deconstruction, and the truth of history -- Death in Venice: irony, detachment, and the aesthetic state -- Terrible flowers: Jean Paulhan and the irony of rhetoric -- The irony of tomorrow -- On parole: legacies of Saussure, Blanchot, and Paulhan -- "What is happening today in deconstruction" -- Bewildering: Paul de Man, poetry, politics -- Coda: dark freedom in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace.

Lucretius on death and anxiety : poetry and philosophy in De Rerum Natura

Princeton legacy library

De rerum natura.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CHAPTER ONE. Lucretius's Adequacy to the Fear of Death: Logic, Poetry, and Emotion -- CHAPTER TWO. Atoms, Bodies, and Individuals: Death in Epicurus and Lucretius -- CHAPTER THREE. The Wind-Scattered Soul -- CHAPTER FOUR. Nothingness and Eternity: The Fear of the Infinite -- CHAPTER FIVE. The World's Body and the Human Body: Walls, Boundaries, and Mortality -- CHAPTER SIX. The Violation of Corporeal Boundaries, 1 -- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Violation of Corporeal Boundaries, 2 -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Generals, Poets, and Philosophers: Death in the Perspective of Time and Eternity -- CHAPTER NINE. War, Death, and Civilization: The End of Book 5 -- CHAPTER TEN. The Plague Reconsidered: Progress, Poet, and Philosopher -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. The Fear of Death and the Good Life -- Selected Bibliography -- Index of Passages -- General Index.

Modern essays on eighteenth-century literature

A tale of a tub / Gulliver and the gentle reader / Rhetoric and poems: the example of Swift / Pope: bipolar implication / Alexander Pope: the political poet in his time / "A double capacity": The beggar's opera / Generic transformation and social change: rethinking the rise of the novel / Life as pilgrimage and as theater / Robinson Crusoe: the self as master / Defoe's prose style: the language of interpretation / Penetration and impenetrability in Clarissa / Tom Jones: irony and judgment / Smollett and the the old conventions / Pastoral war in Tristram shandy / Learning to read Johnson: The vision of Theodore and The vanity of human wishes / Structure and absence in Boswell's Life of Johnson / "Our unnatural no-voice": the heroic epistle, Pope, and women's Gothic / The flight from history in mid-century poetry / The urbane sublime / Dynamics of fear: Fanny Burney

How Robert Frost made realism matter

The world that made Robert Frost : the genteels, their values, and their publications -- Realism and genteel publishing -- An intellectual finds his way : Robert Frost goes to school -- Robert Frost, realism, poetry, and American publishing of the 1890s : "My butterfly : an elegy," "The birds do thus" -- Discovering realism : Frost, 1897-99 -- Robert Frost's poetry of ideas, 1906-8 : "Trial by existence," "The lost faith," "A line-storm song," and "Across the Atlantic" -- Robert Frost's new poetic realism, 1909-10 : "Into mine own," "The flower boat" -- Coming into his own : Robert Frost, 1910-12 : "Reluctance" -- Robert Frost in England : A boy's will -- Robert Frost : public poet at last : "The death of the hired man" -- Inventing a new poetry : "A hundred collars," "The fear" -- Robert Frost, a realist in the magazines of modernism : "The housekeeper" and "The code" -- Poet of the new American poetry : North of Boston, "Putting in the seed" -- The American magazines of 1915 and the making of Robert Frost.

Dying and death : inter-disciplinary perspectives

At the interface/probing the boundaries ;

Embalming the American body : sentimental mourning on the cusp of the Civil War / Collective emotions and national mourning / Issues of death and dying for adult children of Holocaust survivors / Death and images of womanhood and manhood : the case of Serbian epic poetry / Extreme makeovers and reciprocal relations between the living and the dead / Death of a friend : some themes in Jacques Derrida's The Work of Mourning / Death and the other : the ambivalence of mourning / Grace towards the dead / Death and mourning : logistics and mystery / For fear of what the neighbours might say : social networks and suicide in early modern Holland / When a young woman dies : gender, youth and the meaning of suicide in the jazz age / "Voluntary death" in Japanese history and culture / Medics facing terminal diagnosis? / Between organizations, family and death : caring creatively within the hospice organization / Reflections on the needs of palliative patients and being on the receiving end of care

Resilience and ageing : creativity, culture and community

Connected communities

Connected communities (Bristol, England)

Integrating sense of place within new housing developments : a community-based participatory research approach / Ageing in place : creativity and resilience in neighbourhoods / Crafting resilience for later life / Oral histories and lacemaking as strategies for resilience in women's craft groups / Objects of loss : resilience, continuity and learning in material culture relationships / Later-life gardening in a retirement community : sites of identity, resilience and creativity

Introduction / Setting the field : older people's conceptualisation of resilience and its relationship to cultural engagement / Ages and stages : creative participatory research with older people / Social connectivity and creative approaches to dementia care : the case of a poetry intervention / Narrative identity and resilience for people in later life with dementia living in care homes : the role of visual arts enrichment activities / After the earthquake : narratives of resilience, re-signification of fear and revitalisation of local identities in rural communities of Paredones, Chile

Faith & doubt : an anthology of poems

Faith and doubt

God says yes to me / My grandfather's hat / The girl who loved the sky / Not / The centaur / Faith / School for visionaries / The dog who walked on water / Echoes / The death of Santa Claus / "For a while we lived with people" / "There's a strange frenzy in my head" / The faithful / Doubt / Doubt / Son of the commandment / Churchgoing / "My worthiness is all my doubt" / Yet do I marvel / Long drop to black water / Bare-root / "Doubt thou the stars are fire" / The song of Chang-gan: a story of young love / What should I say / Bible / Doubt

The girl at five / The dirty hand / Of the terrible doubt of appearances / No doubt / Last apple / You may forget but / "Every word is a doubt" / The doubt of future foes / Watch god crumble / The berries / Dear neighbor God / The place where we are right / praise song / Poetry / Finders Keepers / The waking / Advertisement / Hope, fear, and doubt / In those days / Love's doubt / The direction of light / Diamond dark / The atheist's prayer / "When I was five" / Waste / A prayer to the new year / Let evening come