Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

This edition, the first since 1878, offers Middle English texts accompanied by detailed notes contextualizing the poems within an apocryphal tradit...

The period from 1966 to 1999 represents a distinct era in Indonesian history. Throughout the “New Order” regime of President Suharto, the policies ...

St. Francis of Assisi (c. 1181-1226) and Jacopone da Todi (c.1236-1306) were but two exemplars of a rich school of mystical poets writing in Umbria...

The Owl and the Nightingale is one of the first and greatest long comic poems in the English language and one of the best-known and most accomplish...

At a time when poets appear tragically detached from the public for which they write, Kevin Stein persuasively demonstrates in Private Poets, World...

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

At a time when poets appear tragically detached from the public for which they write, Kevin Stein persuasively demonstrates in Private Poets, World...

The second edition of The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Collected and Selected Works greatly expands the range of one of the oldest continu...

For William Dean Howells, the 1880s throbbed with literary warfare over theory and criticism (realism), and social justice. But the terrible climax...

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

Responding to the reassertion of orality in the twentieth century in the form of electronic media such as the telegraph, film, video, computers, an...

Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critical Essays is the essential Sonnets anthology for our time. This important collection focuses exclusively on contempora...

It has often been suggested that Romanticism of its very nature has affinities with religious quest and spiritual value. These new essays, written ...

The original edition of this book studied the nature of symbol in Coleridge’s work, showing that it is central to Coleridge’s intellectual endeavor...

Perfect for the general reader of poetry, students and teachers of literature, and aspiring poets, All the Fun’s in How You Say a Thing is a lively...

In this landmark collection of essays, renowned classicist Charles Segal offers detailed analyses of major texts from archaic and early classical G...

The insights here are of such depth, and contain such beauty in them, that time and again the reader must pause for breath. At last Rilke has met a...

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

A long-awaited reevaluation of Chaucer through the lens of sacrifice by a major figure in medieval studiesHistoricism and its discontents have long...