Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

Soldier, courtier, author, entertainer, and amateur spy, Thomas Churchyard (c.1529-1604) saw action in most of the principal Tudor theatres of war,...

Walt Whitman''s passionate writing style and bold subject matter have deeply influenced American poetry. Nearly all of his poems were published in ...

As poet, critic, theorist and teacher, Charles Olson extended the possibilities of modern writing. From Call Me Ishmael, his pioneering study of He...

Thomas Wyatt didn't publish They Flee from Me. It was written in a notebook, maybe abroad, maybe even in prison. Today it is in every poetry anthol...

Mark Doty has always felt haunted by Walt Whitmans bold, perennially new American voice, and by his equally radical claims about body and soul and ...

The wildly unrestrained poems in Splinters Are Children of Wood, Leia Penina Wilson's second collection and winner of the Ernest Sandeen Prize in P...

The wildly unrestrained poems in Splinters Are Children of Wood, Leia Penina Wilson''s second collection and winner of the Ernest Sandeen Prize in ...

How can literary imagination help us engage with the lives of other animals? The question represents one of the liveliest areas of inquiry in the h...

During his sojourn in England during the 1870s, a young Cavafy found himself enthralled by the aesthetic movement of cosmopolitan London. It was du...

'What's the harm in using humour to put across what is true?' Gluttony, lust, and hypocrisy are just a few of the targets of Horace's Satires. Wri...

The Old English poems attributed to Cynewulf, who flourished some time between the eighth and tenth centuries, are unusual because most vernacular ...

The definitive edition of Lives of the Poets, Johnsons crowing literary achievement  The Lives of the Poets was the crowning achievement of Samuel ...

Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy is a literary-historical study of the many surprising ways...

In Fleshly Tabernacles, Bryan Hampton examines John Miltons imaginative engagement with, and theological passion for, the Incarnation. As aesthetic...

When will American poetry and poetics stop viewing poetry by racialized persons as a secondary subject within the field? Dorothy J. Wang makes an i...

During his adult life until his death in 1834, Coleridge made entries in more than sixty notebooks. Neither commonplace books nor diaries, but some...

theological, philosophical, scientific, social, and psychological matters, plans for and fragments of works, and many other items of great interest...

Volume 2 of 2. Coleridge's Shorter Works and Fragments brings together a number of substantial essays that were not long enough to require volumes ...

Human suffering, the fear of death, war, poverty, ecological destruction and social inequality: almost 2,000 ago Lucretius proposed an ethics of mo...

Intervenesin contemporary debates about the relationship between literature and field recordingA field recording is any audio recording made outsid...

Part one of this volume is a general, but selected, guide of annotated works on Raeto-Romance with special consideration of Romansh. Part two is De...

This study focuses on the close connections between literary value and the materiality of popular print artefacts in Britain from 1890-1930. The bo...

From an award-winning poet, a collection that explores the complexities of transformation, cultures, and politics In Radioactive Starlings, award-...

''I love to think of you, Virginia, as my friend ... pray consider how rare it is to find someone with the same passion for writing, who desires to...