Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

Noam Reisner leads readers through the complexities of Milton's celebrated and challenging narrative poem as well as introducing them to the key cr...

This is a comprehensive study of Darwin's Legacy for relegion, ecology and the arts. In Darwin's Bards John Holmes argues that poetry can have a pr...

For many people today, the events of Good Friday and Easter Sunday raise more questions than solutions. Likewise, people are often unmoved or confu...

As Samantha C. Harvey demonstrates, Samuel Taylor Coleridge''s thought galvanized Emerson at a pivotal moment in his intellectual development in th...

Music of a Distant Drum marks a literary milestone. It collects 129 poems from the four leading literary traditions of the Middle East, all masterf...

In his own lifetime and for nearly a hundred years James Hogg was was seen as the natural, if lesser, inheritor of the mantle of Robert Burns. Hogg...

This is the first full-length critical monograph on Jack Spicer's work. In the years since his death from alcohol poisoning, San Francisco Renaissa...

A fresh and exciting approach to this great work of classical literature Henry Power provides an overview of the whole poem, key extracts from the ...

This title explores the significance of Liz Lochhead's work for the twenty-first century. The first contemporary critical investigation since Liz L...

This is a new reading of this intensely private 20th century American poet's work. Linda Anderson explores Elizabeth Bishop's poetry, from her earl...

Buried in the Egyptian desert some 4,000 years ago, the Pyramid Texts are among the world''s oldest poetry. Yet ever since the discovery of these h...

Since its initial publication, Poetry Notebook has become a must-read for any lover of poetry. Somewhat of an iconoclast, Clive James gets to the h...

Jenkins challenges the notion that Lemaire''s recourse to rhetoric was an artistic failure, arguing that rhetoric was actually his success. He demo...

Through an analysis of French hagiography and the vernacular translations of nineteen saints'' lives, Johnson and Cazelles explore the impact of sa...

In this volume Judith Rice Rothschild offers close readings and comparisons of the Lais in order to examine Marie de France''s narrative technique.

This is a study of Medieval French poet Charles de Orleans and his use of the allegorical mode in his work.

Florence L. Yudin explores the theme of silence in Jorge Guillen''s Aire nuestro.

The Innamorato, predecessor to Ariosto''s Orlando furioso, has been known in the English-speaking world since the sixteenth century, in both Italia...

This collection in prose and verse of twenty-seven historical or legendary tales adapted from the Gesta Romanorum by Pierre Gringore (1475-1538), t...

The concept of the individual or the self, central in so many modern-day contexts, has not been investigated in depth in the Anglo-Saxon period....

Spanning a period of fifteen years, these five 'Inter-views' with Richard Berengarten explore the many facets of his writings. Hospitably and expan...

The venture of this inviting collection is to look, from the many vantages that the 35 poets in this eclectic anthology chose to look, at what it w...

While scholars have chronicled Czes?aw Mi?oszs engagement with religious belief, no previous book-length treatment has focused on his struggles wit...

Focusing on literary and popular poets, as well as work by women, African Americans, and soldiers, this book considers how writers used poetry to a...

David Wojahn examines the state of American verse as it enters the first decades of a new millennium, focusing on both the challenges and opportuni...