L’imaginaire de l’exil chez Kay Boyle by Anne Reynes

“…In 1923, the young poet and novelist Kay Boyle (1902-1992) took the “political” decision to leave the United States and go live in France. …”
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Point(s) d’écart chez E. E. Cummings by Penelope Sacks-Galey

“…While remaining within the convention of the readable, the poet’s idiolect leads to a unique form of creation, one of a Heideggerian order : nature trembles on the page in tune with the poet’s sensibility.…”
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Is Something Taking Place in the Sketches from the Sierra de Tejeda by John Fuller? by Aurélien Saby

“…This article examines what is taking place in the forty-two sonnets of the Sketches from the Sierra de Tejeda (2013) by the British poet John Fuller. Is something actually happening in these poems? …”
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The Yorùbá Social Values in Ọbasá’s Poetry by Saudat Adebisi Olayide Hamzat, Hezekiah Olufemi Adeosun

“…The paper also analyzes the extent to which the poet engages the ideology as exemplified in his poetry texts. …”
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Tatiana in Onegin’s life. Part I by Nikishov Yuri Mikhailovich

“…Some important details remain unnoticed. Understanding the poet’s intention is a worthy goal for a researcher. …”
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Recriar o espaço de voz do poeta: a memória entre dois mundos by Joseilda de Sousa Diniz

“…Poet, singer, reciter, engraver, who, after a tragic illness in the vocal cords became a researcher and a writer, José Alves Sobrinho was one of the main nomad poetsingers on Northeast Brazil. …”
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« The Enduring End » by Andria Pancrazi

“…Algernon Swinburne’s poetical work is autopoietic — the poet elaborates his art as a self-contained, circular system that feeds itself and articulates around itself. …”
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“Mon adorable Mécène…” Ranieri Calzabigi’s correspondence with Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz-Rietberg by Lenka Švandová Maršálková

“…The main questions in case of this paper are: Calzabigi´s position within Kaunitz´s social-informational network, his sources of information and also the relationship between the Prince and the poet …”
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N.P. VAN WYK LOUW AS SATIRIKUS by HP van Coller

“… Critics usually try to discern the crucial tenets or themes in a major poet’s work. This is also the case in the reception of the famous Afrikaans poet, N.P. van Wyk Louw’s oeuvre, especially after the publication of Tristia (1962), often regarded as his magnum opus. …”
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From Book to Playlist: How Open-Access Audio Archives are Renewing the Poetry Collection by Abigail Lang

“…To test this hypothesis, I turn to Louis Zukofsky, a poet known for the careful structuring of his books and his radical care for sound. …”
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« Petits poèmes en prose » : la forme poétique dans Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Isabelle Gadoin

“…These are the moments when the poet is revealed within the novel-writer—a poet intent on seizing and rendering what Maurice Merleau-Ponty called « the prose of the world ». …”
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Bilocation - Dislocation - Xlocation : The Apocalypse of Place in Eamonn Wall’s Poetry by Pascale Guibert

“…Contemporary Irish-American poet Eamonn Wall, commuting between continents, has experienced a new form of exile, made of impermanence and mutation. …”
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Line Breaths in Allen Ginsberg’s Poetry by Anna Aublet

“…These observations invite us to take a closer look at the long line as both a political and personal expression of the poet’s journey on and off the page.…”
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Poetry as Pagan Pilgrimage: the ‘Animative Impulse’ of Thomas Hardy’s Verse by Laurence Estanove

“…All Hardy critics have noted how the poet-novelist’s works often dramatize a constant oscillation between the Pagan and the Christian. …”
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Le “Written Speech” yeatsien et ses expressions scéniques by Pierre Longuenesse

“…A strange alliance thus took place between the poet, the actor, and a voice tradition seemingly very far from the “yeatsian utopia”. …”
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Reflexões críticas em torno de Rubén Darío: relendo as interpretações de José Enrique Rodó e de Manuel Gondra by Elisângela da Silva Santos

“…This article aims to retake two criticisms made to the book Prosas profanas y otros poemas, by Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío (1867-1916), criticisms that were written by Manuel Gondra (1871-1927) and José Enrique Rodó (1871- 1917). …”
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The Transition from Yorùbá Metaphysics to Islamic Aesthetics in Ọláńrewájú Adépọ̀jù’s Poetry by Stephen Toyin Ogundipe

“… This paper explores the poetry of Ọlánrewájú Ade ́ ṕ ọ̀jù, a major contemporary Yorùbá poet, based in Ibadan, southwestern Nigeria. Much of the scholarship on the poet focuses purely on his sociopolitical interest, but the development of his craft has been largely ignored. …”
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The Predominance of the French Language in Francophone African Literature: The Case of Konan Roger Langui’s Wandi Bla! by Métou Kané

“…This explains the poet’s choice of the French language as the language of writing in order to achieve this. …”
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Ideas clash on the mountain tops : politique de la montagne et sentiment national dans l’Ecosse du vingtième siècle by Camille Manfredi

“…But as early as in the 1930s, it became crucial to renew Scotland’s self-image and break from the outdated regional paradigms inherited from the past. For the poets of the first literary renaissance such as Hugh MacDiarmid, Iain Crichton Smith, Sorley MacLean and Norman MacCaig, a piece of "real Scotland" may have survived on the mountain tops. …”
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Language and Style in Ọbasa’s Poetry by Afọlabi Ọlabimtan (deceased)

“… Denrele Adetimkan Obasa (1878-1948) was a great Yoruba poet in his own ́ right. It was he who provided ‘the link between traditional beliefs and writing in the modern vein.’2 The three volumes of Yorùbá poetry produced by him between 1927 and 1945 had a great impact not only on the adults who were impressed by the wealth of traditional sayings in his poems, but also on the school children who were made to learn some of the poems by heart.3 In this paper I intend to answer the question: In what does Obasa’s greatness as ̣ a poet consist? …”
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