Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

Selected by translator Dasha C. Nisula, this unique volume traces the development of modern free verse that extends from Croatia on the Adriatic ...

This is the first dedicated commentary on the eighth and final book of Valerius Flaccus' Flavian epic Argonautica. It includes the Latin text, a ne...

The correspondence of John Dryden is the definitive edition of the letters of the most important playwright and poet of the late seventeenth centur...

A painter and writer, Mu Xin (1927-2011) received his artistic education in cosmopolitan Shanghai. During the Chinese Civil War, he fled to Taiwan;...

A wonderfully readable anthology of our greatest poetry, chosen by the author of A Little History of Poetry  Does anyone know more about poetry tha...

This volume questions and qualifies commonly accepted assumptions about the early modern English sonnet: that it was a strictly codified form, most...

Contemporary translations and adaptations of ancient Greek poet Callimachus by noted writer and critic Stephanie BurtCallimachus may be the best-ke...

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...

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...

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...

This collection by Teresa Palomo Acostapoet, historian, author, and activistspans three decades of her writing, from 1988 through 2018. The collect...

What is the difference between the I of a poem--the lyric subject-- and the liberal subject of rights? Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American...

Walt Whitman's short stint in New Orleans during the spring of 1848 was a crucial moment of literary and personal development, with many celebrated...

Augustine, Pertile and Zwicker celebrate the work of Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) in the quatercentenary year of his birth, combining the best histor...