Grendel’s Mere, Beowulf’s Dive, and the Visio Sancti Pauli by Rafael Pascual

“…The piece concludes by exploring the implications of its argument for two long-standing interpretative cruces in the poem: Hrothgar’s gaze at the gigantic sword hilt and Beowulf’s supposed ability to dive for hours on end.…”
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May Sinclair’s Romantic Corpus by Leslie de Bont

“…By contrast, her own narrative poem, The Dark Night (1924), articulates Eliotian references with Romantic themes (Dowson 2006). …”
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‘I roll my cigarette, and cycle to my club’: Playing with Stereotypes and Subverting Anti-Feminism in New Woman Writers’ Contributions to Punch by Katy Birch

“…This article will focus on two pieces, published in Punch just over a decade apart, by women who were committed to the cause of women’s rights: Rosaline Masson’s poem ‘The Reason Why’ (1898) and Evelyn Sharp’s short story ‘The Wreck of “The Ark”’ (1909). …”
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Carolina Maria de Jesus e a autorrepresentação literária da exclusão social na América Latina: olhares reversos aos de Eduardo Galeano e Octavio Paz by Larissa Paula Tirloni, Marcelo Marinho

“…These out - of - sight people are called “ninguneados” by Octavio Paz, while Galeano pays a tribute to th em in a denouncing poem that presents, from an external point of view, some aspects of their silenced life. …”
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« J’ai lu votre livre » by Marion Marx

“…Thus, the article shows how this epistolary meditation was able to offer Marina Tsvetaeva a space for intimate, salutary and above all, free expression – as evidenced by its form, at the crossroads of the letter, the prose poem and the essay – thereby outlining the contours of a feminine and lesbian « creative constellation », certainly imagined, but intrinsically restorative.…”
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The Reserve of Poetry by Geneviève Cohen-Cheminet

“…This heterogeneous body of poems forces us to face the material, visual and graphic dimensions of poetry. …”
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La reescritura prismática del orfismo y sus dimensiones en la poesía de Carles Riba, Agustí Bartra y Josep Sebastià Pons by Marta López Vilar

“…Agustí Bartra, in his Ecce Homo (1968), rewrites Orphic motifs (elegy II, for example) to create a civic and metaphysical awareness in man and, in this way, dignifies him. In his poem “Òrfica”, from Els himnes (1974), the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is rewritten as a new meaning of love as a transcendence removed from the body and converted into a translucent song of waiting. …”
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« A Single Tone Coming Out Of A Vast, Empty Space » : John Adams, le contemporain au risque de l’anachronisme by Mathieu Duplay

“…While John Adams’s operas often rely on anachronism and temporal distance, his early cantata Harmonium (1980‑81) already raises the question of dissociation and remoteness from the self: first, because it gives pride of place to a famous Emily Dickinson poem about alienation and disaster; secondly, because it also conducts a musical exploration of sound perceived as a paradoxical combination of immediacy and estrangement, presence and emptiness, as if music itself were seen as expressing the quintessence of the contemporary.…”
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Impact of Architectural Sculpture Design on Buildings: A Case Study of Kigezi Region. by Tumwekwase, Boaz

“…Each line, curve, and angle was a verse in a poem of stone and steel, a narrative frozen in the permanence of structure. …”
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Catholic Church Interiors in Fin-de-Siècle Literature by Claire Masurel-Murray

“…In Dowson’s correspondence or in his poem ‘Benedictio Domini’, in Johnson’s ‘Our Lady of France’, in Wratislaw’s ‘Palm Sunday’ and ‘Songs to Elizabeth’, in some of Wilde’s stories, the opposition between inside and outside expresses figuratively the fundamental incompatibility between an ideal of beauty, embodied in the aesthetic experience of the church, and the coarseness of the outside world. …”
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Une reconstruction progressiste du passé : Renaissance et Risorgimento dans « Old Pictures in Florence » de Robert Browning by François Crampe

“…One of the main roles played by Italian history in the works of Robert Browning is to serve as a model for a general political reflection on how societies evolve and on the connections between art and politics, which are as valid as regards nineteenth-century European history as more specifically English debates within the Victorian society. At the centre of the poem ‘Old Pictures in Florence’ stands the figure of Giotto’s Campanile, whose design was left unfinished after the fall of the Florentine Republic, as the symbol of this reflection. …”
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Salaman and Absal in Abd al-Rahman Jami by Halilović Tehran

“…The second version is a Hermetic story translated from Greek into Arabic by Hunayn ibn Ishaq and first told by Jami in a poem of over a thousand lines. In this story, Salaman is the king's son, in love with his nurse, Absal. …”
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Requiem – Alàgbà, Dr., Prince, Mosọbalájé Ajíbádé Àkàndé Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí, OON, DLitt., FNAL, JP, a.k.a ‘Pa Fálétí’ to Some; ‘Bàbá Fálétí’ to all and Sundry.... by Pamela J. Olubunmi Smith

“…With even greater gratitude to the dear friend who, as the story goes, having read, at Fálétí’s request, a lengthy poem Fálétí had penned in English, advised his B.A. honors-in-English friend to start writing in Yorùbá. …”
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L’autre scène dans The Three Birds de Joanna Laurens (2000) : enjeux dramatiques de la réécriture d’un mythe by Solange Ayache

“…Departing from Ovid’s poem which is itself a reworking of the original fable, as well as from the feminist takes on the story during the second half of the twentieth century, Laurens’ dramatic writing offers a new approach to the language and figure of the Barbarian, a traditional paradigm of the Other. …”
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The book graphics of Vilnius printing houses in XVI-XVII centuries by Jolita Liškevičienė

“…Kazimieras and consisted of 24 emblems (copper engravings) with lemmas expressing the virtue of the saint in one word, and a poem of 12 lines. During this period, one could find not only provincial elements but also features of professional book decoration. …”
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Al-Takrar Fii Daw'i Al-Dirasat Al-Uslubiyah Al-Haditsah by Aiyub Berdan

“…This rhythm is built through repetition, whether by repeating one or more patterns within a stanza or throughout the poem. This study examines repetition from a modern stylistic perspective. …”
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Dramatic and Cinematic Potentials of the Fifth Dome in Nizami's Haft Peykar by Heydar Ali Dahmarde, Hojat Raeisi

“…IntroductionNizami Ganjavi, a 12th-century poet, gained widespread recognition through his quintet known as "Five Treasures" (Panj Ganj), among which Haft Peykar shines prominently. This poem is celebrated for its unique structure—a story within a story—and is considered by many poets and scholars, both in Iran and globally, as one of the most exquisite poems in the Persian language. …”
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“Virtuoso[S] Of Departure” by Sarah Bouttier

“…This paper reads three poems on absence in the light of current theories of the object, hoping to clarify various trends in contemporary poetry’s relation to absence. …”
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“When the war is over […] we will all enlist again” (The Lice): W.S. Merwin P(r)o(ph)etic by Hélène Aji

“…This essay takes Kenneth White’s description of “a quiet apocalypse” as a starting point to read the complexities of W.S. Merwin’s poems in The Lice (1967). The poems are to be related to the context of the Vietnam war: the horrors perpetrated by the U.S. in Vietnam are legible in the tense and dark poems that protest against them, but they are never explicitly mentioned. …”
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"The / profile of a city / exploding": Frank O’Hara’s Aesthetics of Shock by Olivier Brossard

“…Dans le cadre d’une étude du lyrisme dans l’œuvre poétique de Frank O’Hara (1926-1966), cet article se propose d’explorer la relation du poème (et de la subjectivité qui s’y révèle) à la ville. …”
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