Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, whose life and mystical poetry provided the inspiration for the Mevlevi Sufi order, is one of the world's best-known poets...

I pray in poems explores the intersection of great works of poetry and Christian faith, offering meditations on what these works illustrate about C...

Unashamedly a book for the bookish, yet accessible and frequently entertaining, this is the first book devoted to how libraries are depicted in ima...

Born in Tuscany in 1304, Italian poet Francesco Petrarca is widely considered one of the fathers of the modern Italian language. His writings inspi...

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 concurrent tenures of Gillian Clarke as National Poet of Wales, Carol Ann Duffy as UK Poet Laureate, Liz Lochhead as Scots Makar, and Paula Mee...

Poetry in the Mind is the first book-length cognitive analysis focused entirely on 21st century poetic texts and their conceptual effects. Addressi...

Walt Whitman created, in various editions of Leaves of Grass, what is arguably the most influential book of poems anywhere in the past 200 years...

How four American cities shaped Poe's life and writingsEdgar Allan Poe (18091849) changed residences about once a year throughout his life. Driven ...

All serious lovers of poetry will want this book. A. N. Wilson All good poetry has the power to transport and transform us, to inspire and challen...

DisPlace: The Poetry of Nduka Otiono engages actively with a diasporic world: Otiono is equally at home critiqueing petroculture in Nigeria and in ...

Lillian Allen is one of the leading creative Black feminist voices in Canada. Her work has been foundational to the dub poetry movement, which swe...

Described by W. B. Yeats as the nearest approach they have to a true poet, Susan Mitchell (18661926) was an active and valued member of Dublin soci...

Where Are the Snows takes its title from the famous refrain of FranÇois Villons 15th Century poem Ballad of the Ladies of Times Past. Like that poe...