Medieval Persian court poetry by Meisami, Julie Scott, 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Conclusion: The Art of the Court Poet --…”
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Voltaire and the Century of Light. by Aldridge, Alfred Owen

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Arion's lyre : archaic lyric into Hellenistic poetry by Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Preserving her Aeolic song : traces of Alexandrian Sappho -- Lyric into elegy : Sappho again -- Alcaeus : voice and metaphor of the symposium -- From Samos to Alexandria : earlier court poets and their legacies -- Simonides recalled : imitations of a poikilos original -- Lyric transformed.…”
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Sir Walter Raleigh : In Life and Legend. by Williams, Penry

Table of Contents: “…El Dorado; 6. The Rival; 7. The Court Poet; 8. The Suspect; 9. The Traitor; 10. The Prisoner; 11. …”
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Shakespeare and the Poet's Life. by Schmidgall, Gary

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Hitomaro and the birth of Japanese lyricism by Levy, Ian Hideo, 1950-

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Exemplary figures = Fayan by Yang, Xiong, 53 B.C.-18 A.D

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Clément Marot and religion : a reassessment in the light of his Psalm paraphrases by Wursten, Dick

Table of Contents: “…Cover13; -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Short Titles -- Introduction -- Chapter One Meeting Cl233;ment Marot -- 1.1 Until the Affaire des Placards (1534) -- 1.1.1 L8217;Enfer, a sermon from hell -- 1.1.2 Deploration de Florimond Robertet: a sermon by Death -- 1.1.3 A year of wonders (15338211;34) -- 1.2 After the Affaire des Placards (15358211;42) -- 1.2.1 Epistle to the King -- 1.2.2 A poem addressed to some very dear sisters -- 1.2.3 Janus-faced poems -- 1.2.4 Editing his Oeuvres, editing his image -- 1.2.5 A court poet in Geneva -- Chapter Two Tracing Marot8217;s Psalm Paraphrases, a Historical Survey -- 2.1 Psalm 6, a primordial paraphrase (before 1533) -- 2.2 Sounds of Silence (15348211;41) -- 2.2.1 Literary references to Psalm paraphrases -- 2.2.2 Manuscripts and clandestine editions -- 2.3 Towards the first official edition of the Trente Pseaulmes -- 2.3.1 Three inter-related manuscripts (Vind. 2644, Ars. 3632, PM 218) -- 2.3.2 Trente Pseaulmes de David (Paris, E. …”
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Montezuma : Oper in drei Akten by Graun, Karl Heinrich, 1704-1759

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The Necklace of the Pleiades : 24 Essays on Persian Literature, Culture and Religion. by Lewis, Franklin

Table of Contents: “…Shahriyar b. al-Hasan: A Persian Isma'ili da i' of the Fatimid age"In Praise of One of the Deeply Learned 'Ulama": A Mysterious Poem by Qajar Court Poet Mirza Habib Allah Shirazi "Qa'ani"; IV. The Poetic Text and Central Motifs; A Life in Poetry: Hafiz's First Ghazal; My Heart is the Ball, Your Lock the Polo-Stick: The Development of Polo Metaphors in Classical Persian Poetry; V. …”
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The Necklace of the Pleiades : 24 Essays on Persian Literature, Culture and Religion. by Lewis, Franklin

Table of Contents: “…Shahriyar b. al-Hasan: A Persian Isma'ili da i' of the Fatimid age"In Praise of One of the Deeply Learned 'Ulama": A Mysterious Poem by Qajar Court Poet Mirza Habib Allah Shirazi "Qa'ani"; IV. The Poetic Text and Central Motifs; A Life in Poetry: Hafiz's First Ghazal; My Heart is the Ball, Your Lock the Polo-Stick: The Development of Polo Metaphors in Classical Persian Poetry; V. …”
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A little history of poetry by Carey, John, 1934-

Table of Contents: “…Gods, heroes and monsters : The Epic of Gilgamesh -- War, adventure, love : Homer, Sappho -- Latin classics : Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Catullus, Juvenal -- Anglo-Saxon poetry : Beowulf, laments and riddles -- Continental masters of the Middle Ages : Dante, Daniel, Petrarch, Villon -- A European poet : Chaucer -- Poets of the seen world and the unseen : The Gawain poet, Hafez, Langland -- Tudor Court poets : Skelton, Wyatt, Surrey, Spenser -- Elizabethan love poets : Shakespeare, Marlowe, Sidney -- Copernicus in poetry : John Donne -- An age of individualism : Jonson, Herrick, Marvell -- Religious individualists : Herbert, Vaughan, Traherne -- Poetry from the world beyond : John Milton -- The Augustan age : Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Goldsmith -- The other Eighteenth Century : Montagu, Egerton, Finch, Tollet, Leapor, Yearsley, Barbauld, Blamire, Baillie, Wheatley, Duck, Clare, Thomson, Cowper, Crabbe, Gray, Smart -- Communal poetry : popular ballads and hymns -- Lyrical ballads, and after : Wordsworth and Coleridge -- Second-generation romantics : Keats and Shelley -- Romantic eccentrics : Blake, Byron, Burns -- From Romanticism to Modernism in German poetry : Goethe, Heine, Rilke -- Making Russian literature : Pushkin, Lermontov -- Great Victorians : Tennyson, Browning, Clough, Arnold -- Reform, resolve and religion, Victorian women poets : Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Brontë, Christina Rossetti -- American revolutionaries : Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson -- Shaking the foundations : Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Valéry, Dylan Thomas, Edward Lear, Charles Dodgson, Swinburne, Katharine Harris Bradley, Edith Emma Cooper, Charlotte Mew, Oscar Wilde -- New voices at the end of an era : Hardy, Housman, Kipling, Hopkins -- The Georgian poets : Edward Thomas and Robert Frost, Rupert Brooke, Walter de la Mare, W.H. …”
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After Lavinia : a literary history of premodern marriage diplomacy by Watkins, John, 1960-

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The return of Astraea : an astral-imperial myth in Calderón by De Armas, Frederick A., 1945-

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Dante's lyric poetry : poems of youth and the Vita Nuova (1283-1292) by Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321, Barolini, Teodolinda, 1951-

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