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This paper examines the influence of Virgil on Martin Luther, paying special attention to a short verse composition of Luther's in Latin, Adversus Armatum Virum Cochlaeum, based on the first lines of the Aeneid. The study suggests that an adequate understanding of Luther's relationship to and use of Virgil needs to take into full account the fact that the Reformer not only knew Virgil's works and quoted from him frequently, but also himself composed verses based on Virgil's. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the poetry of Evelyn Araluen and Alison Whittaker, two contemporary Aboriginal writers, and their practice of "reinscribing" Aboriginal land in their work. It discusses the historical significance of Aboriginal literature in Australia, particularly Oodgeroo Noonuccal's collection "We Are Going," and challenges the classification of Aboriginal poetry as solely "protest poetry." The article also examines the settler gaze and the consumption of Aboriginal writing, highlighting the need for a more nuanced and respectful approach. It concludes by emphasizing the importance of Aboriginal writers reclaiming and reinscribing their cultural heritage in their work. [Extracted from the article]

The present study is an analysis of the ways in which Ovid's account of the myth of Echo and Narcissus (Metamorphoses vv. 357-401) serves as a foundation for models of sonority and voice within Iberian Baroque aesthetics. In more specific terms, I argue that these models enabled seventeenth-century Iberian (and Ibero-American) poets--especially Luis de Góngora and those poets in dialogue with his work--to make strategic use of gendered discourse at both the semantico-referential and pragmatic levels of signification. Grounding my analysis in a close reading of selected works by Luis de Góngora, Sóror Violante do Céu, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, I point to the implementation of specific poetic elements (such as hipérbaton, encabalgamiento, and rima abrazada) that constitute a mode of poetic composition that works in large measure to foreground prosody over semantic and syntactic order. The result is a "poetics of Echo" that draws from a specific conception of Echo's linguistic presence in the Ovidian version of the myth. I argue that a particularly Ovidian intersection of body, textuality, and voice emerges during the early seventeenth-century Ibero-Baroque poetry that I consider. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers poetry criticism of the poem "The Journey," by Eavan Boland. Topics discussed include the types of speech and language used to express darkness and calmness, the way Greek lyric poet Sappho influenced Boland's writings, and the observed lack of clarity in the vision that the poem intends to address.

The article discusses the Middle English poem "Sir Launfal" by Thomas Chestre, with particular focus given to the poem's relationship to its sources, the "Landevale" manuscript and the poem "Lanval, Graelent" by Marie de France. Chestre's use of structure and departures from his sources in style and content are also touched on.

The article compares the poems "The Sail of Ulysses," by Wallace Stevens and "Ulysses and Circe," by Robert Lowell, and explores representations of aging and death in both poems. The purpose of the composition of the poem by Stevens is commented on, and sources used by Stevens and Lowell in writing their poems are examined.