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Literature at Princeton University Press encompasses literary criticism, history, biography, and reference; primary works by notable writers; poetry, in English and in translation; and occasional works on writing, research, and teaching. The list includes studies of literature in English and in other languages around the world, and puts literary research and ideas in conversation with other disciplines, from philosophy to the arts.
From landmark works of criticism to new translations of classic works, literary biographies to folk and fairy tales, the list represents enduring contributions to literary study and promotes knowledge and understanding of literature in all its forms.
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Notes on masks
Last week I was about to enter a coffee shop in Berkeley, when a person came rushing out, mask-less and shouting. For a second I thought I could see her voice, showering the insidious droplets I have learned too much about.
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Roy Foster | On Seamus Heaney
The most important Irish poet of the postwar era, Seamus Heaney rose to prominence as his native Northern Ireland descended into sectarian violence.
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Erica McAlpine on The Poet’s Mistake
Keats mixed up Cortez and Balboa. Heaney misremembered the name of one of Wordsworth’s lakes. Poetry—even by the greats—is rife with mistakes.
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Listen in: Lives of Houses
What can a house tell us about the person who lives there? Do we shape the buildings we live in, or are we formed by the places we call home? And why are we especially fascinated by the houses of the famous and often long-dead?
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Reading Callimachus through comics
Comics and illustration—siblings or cousins, related in so many ways—are deeply hybrid art forms.
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“Canzone d’aprile” by Giovanni Pascoli
The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation embraces a wide geographic and temporal range, from the Tang dynasty to modern-day Europe, from Latin America to the subcontinent of India.
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