Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

There has been a huge revival of interest in Victorian women's poetry in the last ten years, and it has led to a major reconfiguration of the Engli...

Sally West's timely study is the first book-length exploration of Coleridge's influence on Shelley's poetic development. Beginning with a discussio...

That medicine becomes professionalized at the very moment that literature becomes "Romantic" is an important coincidence, and James Allard makes th...

Among the world’s major literary traditions, Arabic poetry is perhaps unique in that the theme of the hunt runs in a continuous, if uneven, current...

Among Ruins is the final volume of Homestead Works, a collection of four books of poetry that explore the industrial past and legacy of the old ste...

While the First World War devastated Europe, it inspired profound poetry – words in which the atmosphere and landscape of battle are evoked perhaps...

Pindar and the Cult of Heroes combines a study of Greek culture and religion (hero cult) with a literary-critical study of Pindar's epinician poetr...

Originally published in 1990. This study is of one of the world’s great narrative poems and one of the few long poems in English about physical lov...

In a provocative take on Germanic heroic poetry, Taranu reads texts like Beowulf, Maldon, and the Waltharius as participating in alternative modes ...

Originally published in 1972. This important work of Chaucerian scholarship deals with two aspects of the poet and his work - his individual achiev...

This book by a well-known translator and critic is divided into two parts, the first dealing with the linguistic and other more technical aspects o...

This work demonstrates the continued importance and relevance of the myth of Demeter and Persephone to today's society. The first three chapters pr...

Order and Disorder, the first epic poem by an Englishwoman, has never before been available in its entirety. The first five cantos were printed ano...

Extending the critical discussion which has focused on the hymns of Isaac Watts as an influence on Emily Dickinson's poetry, this study brings to b...

A vivid snapshot of America's kaleidoscopic literary tradition, A Journey Through American Literature illuminates the authors, works, and events th...

With The Highwayman's Wife, Lynnell Edwards's fierce and brazen poems breathe new life into well-known myths and tales, giving a new, bold voice to...

The most revered work composed in Old English, Beowulf is one of the landmarks of European literature. This handbook supplies a wealth of insights ...

Written by a leading authority on William Carlos Williams, this book provides a wide-ranging and stimulating guide to twentieth-century American po...

Write My Name: Authorship in the Poetry of Thomas Moore is the first monograph devoted to Moore’s poetry. The focus of the book is on Moore’s poetr...

She, This in Blak takes a fresh look at Chaucer's great Trojan romance, Troilus and Criseyde, in light of recent scholarship on late scholastic dis...

The present edition of the first book of the Epistulae ex Ponto gives a revised text with a new translation, an extended introduction, and the firs...

Suzanne Churchill's well-researched and superbly crafted study is the first book-length treatment of Others, an important and neglected little maga...

In Three American Poets, William C. Spengemann describes the very different sorts of poetry Whitman, Dickinson, and Melville wrote, their comparabl...

First published in 1980. Paradise Lost was once a favourite text for family reading; today it is confined to the educational system, which treats i...