Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

In this study, first published in 1951, the author examines the poetry of Yeats’s last years, that poetry which reached and held to the ‘intensity’...

The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms situates literary modernisms and the modernist arts in a series of unfolding relations with mass society and popu...

First published in 1959, this reprint of the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s translation of the Rubáiyát is accompanied by an introduction and...

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

First published in 1980. This title provides a critical and historical account of poetry written between 1780 and 1835. The author has been especia...

First published in 1966. Despite the intense interest in Coleridge in the twentieth century, this book represents the first study of Coleridge’s po...

Each of the book's five chapters evokes a colonial Mexican cultural and intellectual sphere: the library, anatomy and medicine, spirituality, class...

First published in 1940. This title examines the tradition of Romantic literature, and the conception of poetry held by poets and critics throughou...

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

First published in 1987, this book is written for those who are encountering Wordsworth for the first time and for those familiar with his works th...

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

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

First published in 1979, this book provides thorough a guide through Coleridge’s diverse body of work, looking not just his poetry but also his lit...

First published in 1972, this volume contains contemporary British periodical reviews of Shelley, Keats and London Radical Writers, including Willi...

This title, first published in 1987, comprises of three essays which examine Lord Byron’s poetry. Some of Byron’s most famous poems are examined, i...

Originally published in 1923, this study outlines the aims and methods of roman poets as well as focussing on technique and subject. Sikes’ critiqu...

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

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

First published in 1972, this volume contains contemporary British periodical reviews of Shelley, Keats and London Radical Writers, including Willi...

This chief aim of this title, first published in 1965, is to present a comprehensive picture of Yeats’s achievement and some of the means for an ev...

Viewing Samuel Taylor Coleridge's pursuit of continental intellectualism through the lens of cosmopolitanism, Maximiliaan van Woudenberg examines t...

First published in 2004. This study begins by surveying the field of modern hermeneutics. Noting its repeated crisis of self-legitimisation, it tra...

Arthur O'Shaughnessy's career as a natural historian in the British Museum, and his consequent preoccupation with the role of work in his life, pro...

First published in 1975. Southey first made his reputation, when he was a very young man, as a poet. Although he is now remembered primary for his ...