Imagined Romes: The Ancient City and Its Stories in Middle English Poetry 9780271083216

This volume explores the conflicting representations of ancient Rome—one of the most important European cities in the me

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Imagined Romes: The Ancient City and Its Stories in Middle English Poetry
9780271083216

This volume explores the conflicting representations of ancient Rome―one of the most important European cities in the me

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This volume explores the conflicting representations of ancient Rome—one of the most important European cities in the me

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Imagined Homelands chronicles the emerging cultures of nineteenth-century British settler colonialism, focusing on poetr

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The core problem that drives my dissertation is to find a definition for what has been called Middle English “debate poe

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Filling a gap in what we know about medical writing in England in the 100+ years after the advent of the “Great Mortalit

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"Like love, Greek poetry was not for hereafter," writes Eva Stehle, "but shared in the present mirth and

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Like love, Greek poetry was not for hereafter, writes Eva Stehle, but shared in the present mirth and laughter of festiv

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In this book Robert Pinsky writes about contemporary poetry as it reflects its modernist and Romantic past. He isolates

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Part of the rich legacy of the Middle East is a poetic record stretching back five millennia. This unparalleled reposito

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The latest edition of this highly praised anthology of ancient Egyptian literature offers fresh translations of all the

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