Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

A Preface to Hardy remains the best introduction to one of the most important and popular writers in English literature. The first section concentr...

This work addresses Yeats's "antinomies", seeing their origin and structure in his divided Anglo-Irish inheritance and examining the notion of meas...

Through her selection of fourteen essays, Tess Cosslett charts the rediscovery by feminist critics of the Victorian Women Poets such as Emily Bront...

Developing children's writing abilities boosts their confidence, creates enjoyment and relevance in the task and cultivates a range of decision-mak...

First published in 1974, this book provides a helpful overview to the ode. After introducing the reader to classical odes, it goes on to trace the ...

Taking an original approach to Robert Browning's poetics, Britta Martens focuses on a corpus of relatively neglected poems in Browning's own voice ...

First published in 1909, this book presents an English translation of chapters 25-42 of the Bhishma Parva from the epic Sanskrit poem Mahabharata —...

The Language of Poetry:* develops the student's ability to read and evaluate poetic texts of many kinds* includes activities, commentaries and exte...

The focus of this study is the perception of nature in the language of poetry and the languages of natural philosophy, technology, theology, and gl...

Bringing together diverse scholars to represent the full historical breadth of the early modern period, and a wide range of disciplines (literature...

Yeats and his shadow are one of the most closely scrutinised pairs in contemporary literary history. The meaning and significance Yeats gave to the...

Reviewing the previous scholarship for seventeen of the most important poems in Alcools, this book provides a detailed analysis of each work and in...

Nicholas Rowe was the first Poet Laureate of the Georgian era. A fascinating and important yet largely overlooked figure in eighteenth-century lite...

This bibliography, first published in 1993, attempts to provide a complete and accurate description of the manuscripts of Patrick Branwell Brontë, ...

This edition of Charlotte Brontë’s poems, first published in 1985, although not "complete", provides a reliable text of all of her available verse,...

First published in 1972, this volume contains contemporary British periodical reviews of the Lake Poets, including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey a...

First published in 1972, this volume contains contemporary British periodical reviews of Lord Byron and Regency Society Poets, including Rogers, Ca...

This title, first published in 1990, is a census of the manuscripts of William Butler Yeats. The census includes not only his books, plays and poet...

First published in 1967, this book seeks to show the causes which led to Coleridge’s breakdown in 1802 and to indicate how his views on poetry chan...

First published in 1979, this work presents the history of the ballad, including its origin, style, content and preservation. It explores how balla...

In the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the poetry published in Britain between the Restoration and the end of the eighteenth century,...

Reading the Runes in Old English and Old Norse Poetry is the first book-length study to compare responses to runic heritage in the literature of An...

The May Fourth Movement launched an era of turmoil and transformation in China, as Western ideas and education encroached on the Confucian traditio...