Nights in The City Beautiful is a collection of confessional, free verse poems that explores sexual trauma, mental health, the exigencies of marriage, and the complexities of human desire. These interconnected poems are grounded with a braided narrative and tackle taboo themes. In Part 1: Monogamy, the reader journeys into the world of Vincent and Victoria, their profound love, and their anxiety disorders. In Part 2: Polyamory, Victoria gets caught in a love triangle when she meets her publishing coworker, Peter Langley. The book evokes the movement of Romanticism and first-and-second-generation Romantic poets such as William Blake and Lord Byron. Contemporary influences on this collection include Aaron Smith’s Primer, Stacey Waite’s Butch Geography, and Tracy K. Smith’s The Body's Question. Nights in The City Beautiful merges lyricism with narrative, the ethereal with the physical. It is a novella in verse that delves into the boundaries of sexuality, love, and intimacy.

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[pt] Empreendemos, nesta pesquisa, um estudo crítico-analítico de seleto corpus de poemas extraídos das obras de dois autores da atual poesia brasileira: Eucanaã Ferraz e Davino Ribeiro de Sena. Partimos da premissa de que suas obras ilustram uma vertente sintetizadora das demais linhas de força da poesia brasileira contemporânea — tradição, ruptura e vitalidade — conforme põe em xeque as polarizações legadas pela leitura unívoca do lírico e do moderno dominante durante grande parte do século XX. Essa recusa da univocidade — evidenciada pela tensa conjugação de procedimentos historicamente antagonizados — impele esses poetas a se reportarem a diversos cânones, sobretudo à tradição modernista, o que faz dessa síntese não só sincrônica, da diversa cena contemporânea, senão ainda diacrônica, já que se constitui como um compósito de tradições. Nessa revisitação, deslindam-se descontinuidades, sentidos imprevistos nas leituras canonizadas, reanimando o potencial crítico amiúde atribuído à poesia moderna. Porquanto tais antagonismos derivam, sobretudo, do cisma entre lirismo e antilirismo, impôs-se como conceito medular deste estudo o lírico — não apesar da sua anacronia, mas justo em virtude dela. Esse gênero, frequentemente tomado como resquício de uma temporalidade primitiva, marcada por encantamento do mundo e antropomorfismo, e, portanto, inadequado à modernidade cética e secular, prova-se uma excepcional via rumo a uma noção de contemporâneo menos constrangida pelas evidências da hora histórica. Esse caráter anacrônico traz à baila conceitos como heterogeneidade, inter-textualidade, sublime, expansão e crise, todos eles imprescindíveis à compreensão dessa safra da atual poesia brasileira. A um só tempo, reconhecendo que todo estudo empírico envolve uma série de conceitos que requerem perscrutação a fim de se evitar as armadilhas dos termos tradicionais que obnubilam seus objetos com o tempo, buscamos traçar, no primeiro capítulo, uma breve genealogia das genologias, em especial do gênero lírico, desde a sua irrupção moderna com a tripartição pseudoaristotélica, passando pela crítica pós-lírica — cuja maior expressão no Brasil é a noção de poesia de inspiração cabralino-concretista — até a noção a que chamamos contemporânea, a partir das teorias de Michel Collot e Jonathan Culler. / [en] In this research, we undertake a critical-analytical study of a select corpus of poems written by two contemporary Brazilian poets: Eucanaã Ferraz and Davino Ribeiro de Sena. We work on the premise that their poetry illustrates a trend that synthesizes all the other thrusts of current Brazilian poetry — tradition, rupture,and vitality — by questioning the polarizations bequeathed by the univocal accountof the lyric and the modern which prevailed for much of the 20th century. This refusal of univocity, made evident by the tense conjugation of historically antagonized procedures, pushes these poets to revisit canons, especially the modernist tradition, which makes this synthesis not only synchronic of the diverse contemporary scene, but also diachronic, as it constitutes a composite of diverse traditions. In this revision, discontinuities and meanings unforeseen in the canonized readingsare unveiled, reviving the critical potential often attributed to modern poetry. Since these antagonisms derive, above all, from the schism between lyric and anti-lyric, the lyric imposes itself as the core concept of this study — not despite its anachronism, but precisely thanks to it. This genre, often seen as a remnant of a primitivetemporality, marked by enchantment of the world and anthropomorphism, and therefore unsuited to skeptical and secular modernity, proves to be an exceptional route towards a notion of the contemporary less constrained by the evidence of the historical time. This anachronistic character brings up concepts such as heterogeneity, intertextuality, the sublime, expansion and crisis, all of which are essential to understanding this crop of current Brazilian poetry. At the same time, recognizing that every empirical study involves a series of concepts that require scrutiny in order to avoid the pitfalls of traditional terms that eventually obfuscate their objects, in the first chapter we try to sketch a brief genealogy of genologies, especially of the lyric genre, from its modern irruption with the pseudo-Aristotelian tripartition, through post-lyric critique — whose greatest expression in Brazil is the notion of poetry identified with João Cabral and the concretists — to the contemporary conception drawn up, above all, from the theories of Michel Collot and Jonathan Culler.

The subject of this thesis is a characterisation of key motivic units in lyrical works of Jaroslav Vrchlický and Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic, thus it explores Czech parnassian and decadent poetry of the end of 19th century. It observes and traces literal, esthetical and thought shifts of both authors from the aspect of various motives usage. The thesis is divided into five chapters, each of them dealing with one specific motivic unit. The chapters are: 1. Motives of woman, body and sexuality. 2. Motives of dream, imaginary and escape. 3. Motives of dying, disease and decay. 4. Motives of depressiveness, grief, bitterness and vanity. 5. Motives of nature and landscape. Each chapter compares these motives, examines their usage by both authors and looks at how their form and expression undergo a process of certain changes. It also focuses on those motives that appear as completely new elements in their poetry. The conclusion provides with brief summaries of all chapters and a short look through frequency word dictionary of relevant volumes of poems.

This thesis defines ‘classical lyricism’ as any mode of appropriation of Greek and Latin monodic lyric whereby a poet may develop a wider discourse on poetry. Assuming classical lyricism as an internal category of enquiry, my thesis investigates the presence of Sappho and Catullus as lyric archetypes in Italian and North American poetry of the 20th century. The analysis concentrates on translations and appropriations of Sappho and Catullus in four case studies: Giovanni Pascoli (1855-1912) and Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968) in Italy; Ezra Pound (1885-1972) and Anne Carson (b. 1950) in North America. I first trace the poetic reception of Sappho and Catullus in the oeuvres of the four authors separately. I define and evaluate the role of the respective appropriations within each author’s work and poetics. I then contextualise the four case studies within the Italian and North American literary histories. Finally, through the new outlook afforded by the comparative angle of this thesis, I uncover some of the hidden threads connecting the different types of classical lyricism transnationally. The thesis shows that the course of classical lyricism takes two opposite aesthetic directions in Italy and in North America. Moreover, despite the two aesthetic trajectories diverging, I demonstrate that the four poets’ appropriations of Sappho and Catullus share certain topical characteristics. Three out of four types of classical lyricism are defined by a preference for Sappho’s and Catullus’ lyrics which deal with marriage rituals and defloration, patterns of death and rebirth, and solar myths. They stand out as the epiphenomena of the poets’ interest in the anthropological foundations of the lyric, which is grounded in a philosophical function associated with poetry as a quest for knowledge. I therefore ultimately propose that ‘classical lyricism’ may be considered as an independent historical and interpretative category of the classical legacy.

Zdeněk Havlíček The Piano Works of Josef Bohuslav Foerster (The Lyrical Piano Pieces of the Turn of the Century) ABSTRACT: The presented thesis deals with the piano works of Josef Bohuslav Foerster - in detail, it is concerned with his lyrical piano pieces from the turn of the century. After mapping out the relevant Foerster-related literature and sources, it approaches the issue of lyrical piano piece as a music genre, and gives a relatively detailed outline of its development in the 19th century. This becomes a background against which, at some points, the nature of the analyzed pieces is to be shown. In the analysis of the piano cycle "Snění" ("Dreamings", 1898), the motivic and thematic processes are the main object, the analysis of the cycle "Růže vzpomínek" ("Roses of Memories", 1902) is dominated by the aspect of harmony and also takes into consideration the context of the various piano genres employed. From the cycle "A jabloně kvetly" ("And the Apple trees blossom", 1905), only the first piece ("Dream") is closely observed. Finally, an attempt is made to discuss the piano works in question in broader musical-historical and musical- historiographical contexts.

You Don't Have to be Good, is a nonfiction collection of prose, poetry and graphic memoir set in New Orleans, central Florida, and points in between. In this coming-of-age memoir, I recall the abrupt end of my dad's life, the 24 years of my life in which he was alive, and the years after his death—remembering him while living without him in his hometown of New Orleans. Along the way there are meditations on language, race, gender, dreams, addiction, and ecology. My family and I encounter Hurricane Katrina and Mardi Gras, and at least one shuttle launch. These are the stories I find myself telling at parties, and also those I've never voiced until now.

Although Andrew Marvell wrote and published relatively little, his poetry collects from the full range of “schools” and idiosyncratic styles present in the seventeenth century: echoes of Herbert, Donne, Milton, Traherne, Herrick, Lovelace, and Jonson, among others, permeate throughout his work. Although much of his imagery seems novel, if not strange, it is clear that Marvell has a deep engagement with several important long-running traditions. His work is conversation with Ovid, Horace, and Theocritus as much as it responds directly to the poets whose lives overlapped with his own. In his engagement with such varied sources, Marvell demonstrates an astounding degree of poetic flexibility. He is a master of imitating voice and style.

Tras exponer la metáfora aristotélica, la Teoría de la Metáfora Conceptual y la Teoría de la Amalgama (blending), propongo que esta última constituye un cambio de paradigma. Con la Teoría de la Amalgama establezco un patrón conceptual con que generalizar sobre varios estudios de figuración verbal, en distintos periodos de la poesía griega de amor: lírica griega arcaica, la aparición de las flechas del amor en los periodos arcaico y clásico, canciones populares medievales, y dos poetas del siglo veinte: Ritsos y Elytis. Todas estas imágenes poéticas comparten un patrón que responde a una red genérica de integración conceptual: la EMISIÓN ERÓTICA. Los principales factores de variación son la asignación del papel de emisor a la persona amada o a un agente externo, y la especificación del esquema de imagen EMISIÓN: luz, viento, o un objeto lanzado. La cultura y el contexto fijan otras restricciones que se pueden estudiar sistemáticamente. / This dissertation discusses Aristotle's approach to metaphor, Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Blending Theory, and proposes that the latter constitutes a change of paradigm. I use Blending Theory to model a conceptual pattern generalizing over several case studies of verbal figuration, in different periods of Greek love poetry: ancient Greek lyric, the emergence of the arrows of love in the archaic and classical periods, medieval folksongs, and two 20th century poets, Ritsos and Elytis. All these poetic images share a conceptual pattern that can be modelled with a generic integration network of EROTIC EMISSION. Variation in the realization of the pattern crucially relies on assigning the role of the emitter to the loved person or to an external agent, and on the instantiation of the EMISSION image schema, like light, wind, or an object. Culture and context impose further constraints that can be studied systematically.