Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

Biographical writing about Eliot is in a more confused and contested state than is the case with any other major twentieth-century writer. No major...

The life of Siegfried Sassoon has been recorded and interpreted in literature and film for over half a century. He is one of the great figures of t...

This debut collection in English from Korean poet Moon Bo Young insists that you, as a reader, put down your expectations of what should be importa...

The Narrative Grotesque examines late medieval narratology in two Older Scots poems: Gavin Douglass The Palyce of Honour (c.1501) and William Dunba...

The early Stuart funeral elegy was a copious and digressive genre, and exceptional deaths pressed elegists to stretch beyond the usual rhetoric of ...

The dramatic story of Phillis Wheatley, a free, black poet who resisted the pressures of arranged marriage, truly embodying the ideals of the Ameri...

The work of Geoffrey Hill (1932-2016) often provokes bemusement or even hostility; however, he was often referred to as the greatest living poet an...

Witty, direct and articulate, Peter Barry illustrates the key elements of poetry at work, covering many different kinds of verse, from traditional ...

Dante beyond influence is the first study to conceptualise and historicise the hermeneutic turn in Dante reception history and Victorian cultural h...

Brinks provocative biography shows that Spenser was not the would-be court poet whom Karl Marxs described as Elizabeths arse-kissing poet. In this ...

At the heart of this book is a spectral theory of world literature that draws on Edward Said, Aamir Mufti, Jacques Derrida and world-systems theory...

From the former U.S. Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winner, an illuminating dissection of poetic form for students, enthusia...

Extra Illicit Sonnets chronicles a love affair between a man and a woman of different complexions, cultures, continents, and generations, Sonia Fue...