Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

Ireland and Its Elsewheres is the next volume in UCD Press's The Poet's Chair series, publishing the public lectures of the Ireland Professors of P...

Byron and Women [and men] is a compilation of new biographical and literary essays, examining the poet''s bisexuality and the ways in which it affe...

Seeking to enrich your life with great poetry, looking for the perfect line to enhance an important speech or personal note, or simply to express y...

A GUARDIAN AND INDEPENDENT BEST MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR At last an expert classicist gets to grips wi...

Not for nothing is William Shakespeare considered possibly the most famous writer in history; his works have had a lasting effect on culture, vocab...

Josephine Hart, author of the bestselling novel Damage, had what she called 'a long love affair' with poetry. It was an affair that started as a ch...

Homer's mythological tales of war and homecoming,the Iliad and the Odyssey, are widely considered to be two of the most influential works in the hi...

In this new offering from Stanley Wells, the pre-eminent Shakespearian scholar, comes a Very Short Introduction to the life and writings of the wor...

The femme fatale appears with unceasing regularity in the texts of major poets of the nineteenth century. She symbolises an intractable mystery, a ...

Aspects of Byrons Don Juan is, in part, a proceedings volume from the 2012 conference held by the Newstead Byron Society at Nottingham Trent Univer...

A new selection of essays from Michael Hofmann - one of our most exceptional critics of contemporary literature. 'Superb and invigorating.' Nichola...