Symphonic poem

Gregor Tassie describes Nikolay Myaskovsky as “one of the great enigmas of 20th-century Russian music.” Between the two world wars, the symphonies of Myaskovsky enjoyed great popul...

Published here for the first time in an accessible edition,Brasilienses Aurifodinaeor “Brazilian Goldmines” is an 18th-century hexameter poem in Latin, by Brazilian author José Bas...

An introduction by Boris de Schloezer gives the genesis of the final text in the section, the Preliminary Action, and explains its relation to Skryabin’s projected life-work, the M...

Abstract The Ars Amatoria is a poem about sex and poetry, and poetry as sex. Witty and subversive, it is a poem of seduction about seduction: the seduction of the...

This essay reassesses Chaucer’s influence on the Older Scots poem The Buke of the Howlat (c.1448), written by the Orkney poet Richard Holland (d. in or after 1483) in the mid-fifte...

This chapter articulates the different ways by which philosophy and religion approach knowledge. The philosopher seems to ascribe intrinsic value to knowledge. The religious poet, ...

Horace’s odes often make connections between different kinds of space, intimate and imperial, for instance, and it is noticeable that Horace tends to spatialize the poems themselve...

This chapter argues that, although Grattius’ poem is not ostensibly designed for Augustus—who is nowhere evoked in the poem and showed little interest in the subject of hunting—it ...