Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

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...

The bold essays that make up Reading the Difficulties offer case studies in and strategies for reading innovative poetry.Definitions of what consti...

We Are Not Wearing Helmets is a collection of political love poems rendered through the eyes of Cheryl BoyceTaylor, an immigrant living in New York...

After years of studying piano as a young woman in her family home in Amherst, Massachusetts, Emily Dickinson curated her music book, a common pract...

Alfred Tennyson was a poet all his life, writing more than a thousand works in virtually every poetic genre. Considered by his Victorian contemp...

Scholars have long noted the deeply rooted veneration of the power of the word - both the expressive and communicative capacities of language - in ...

Explores Victorian writers' erotic investment in statuesTheorises the function of the sculptural body in Victorian poetry and proseOffers thorough ...

New essays providing fresh insights into the great 20th-century American poet Lowell, his writings, and his struggles. Robert Lowell (1917-1977)...