Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

Collects Stan Gontarski's finest essays on the work of Samuel Beckett over a forty-year periodRepresenting a profound engagement with the work of S...

A revelatory and deeply personal history of twentieth-century poetry by prize-winning poet and memoirist John BurnsidePoetry helps us to make sense...

This anthology offers a panoramic snapshot of poetic practice today, showcasing both leading and emerging poets connected through their appearances...

How rhyme became entangled with debates about the nature of liberty in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English poetryIn his 1668 preface to Para...

When I say this book is a love story, I mean it is about things that cannot be gotten over--like this world, and some of the people in it. In 1819...

What do American poets mean when they talk about freedom? How can form help us understand questions about what shapes we want to give our poetic li...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

The next day Wordsworth arrived from Bristol at Coleridge''s cottage.... He answered in some degree to his friend''s description of him, but was mo...

The forerunner of our digital age, a French poem about a shipwreck published in 1897, with its mind-bending possibilities of being read up and down...

Rudyard Kipling was one of the most versatile writers of the Victorian age-a journalist, storyteller, historian and poet. One of the major subjects...

I was one of the 8,000-strong Betjemaniacs gathered at Carruan farm in Cornwall in August 2006 to celebrate the hundredth birthday of Sir John Betj...

A fascinating new study of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'Private Lives of the Ancient Mariner' illuminates the poet's deeply troubled personality and s...

Heaven in Ordinary is like a love affair with poetry that engages with religious questions, for good or ill, concerned with five poets who are haun...

This is a book about the conflict between history and poetry and historians and poets in Atlantic World society from the end of the seventeenth c...

From the bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes this essential primer to reading poetry like a professor that unlocks ...

The book studies the impact of Stevensian and Valeryan poetics, and symbolist poetics more broadly, on a range of Anglo-American poets in untypical...

A.E. Housman's poetry (especially A Shropshire Lad) remains well-known, widely read and often quoted. However, Housman did not view himself as a pr...

Where were you when you first read Ariel? Who were you? What has changed in your life? In the lives of women? In My Ariel, Sina Queyras barges into...

Ovid's Metamorphoses gains its ideal twenty-first-century herald in Stanley Lombardo's bracing translation of a wellspring of Western art and liter...

The popular Arthurian legends, such as the grail quests of Perceval and Galahad, and the love of Lancelot for Queen Guenevere, have largely oversha...