Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

This book is the cultural history of an idea which now seems so self-evident as barely to be worth stating: through writing imaginative literature,...

This wide-ranging study of one of the most innovative, daring, and important poetic voices in contemporary Ireland analyzes Mebdh McGuckian’s entir...

A primer for those with no previous knowledge of Chinese, this book introduces readers to the fundamentals of classical Chinese poetry through twen...

With contributions from over 100 scholars, the Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Centry provides essays on the careers, works, and ba...

Seamus Heaney’s Mythmaking examines Seamus Heaney’s poetic engagement with myth from his earliest work to the posthumous publication of Aeneid Book...

Poetics of the Pretext is an original study of the French poet Lautréamont (1846-1870), who was rediscovered by the Surrealists in the 1920s and pr...

The internal struggle of a Chicano poet returning to the Mexican homeland only to find his Indian realities distorted and exploited

The essays compiled in Poetry in Pedagogy: Intersections Across and Between the Disciplines offer praxes of poetry that cultivate a community aroun...

A new and completely revised edition of this authoritative work, intended to encourage personal appreciation and independent appraisal by students ...

Undergraduates frequently find the fine Old English poem JUDITH the most stimulating of the surviving texts from the Anglo-Saxon period. In the pas...

Juvenal is a central author on courses in Classical Studies and has an important place on courses in comparative literature, both in the UK and USA...

The Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century contains over 400 entries that treat a broad range of individual poets and poems, along ...

The twenty-five original essays in this remarkable book constitute both a state of the art survey of Dante scholarship and a manifesto for new unde...

Wace's "Brut" is an 1155 French verse rendering of Geoffrey of Monmouth's earlier Latin "history" of Britain, from the time of Brutus, the eponymou...

In The Pity of Achilleus, Jinyo Kim examines how the major themes of the Iliad—Achilleus' 'wrath,' heroic values such as honor and glory, and human...

In seventeen volumes, copublished with Baylor University, this acclaimed series features annotated texts of all of Robert Browning’s known writing....

In seventeen volumes, copublished with Baylor University, this acclaimed series features annotated texts of all of Robert Browning’s known writing....