Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

'I, the poet William Yeats, | With old mill boards and sea-green slates, | And smithy work from the Gort forge, | Restored this tower for my wife G...

This book constructs a new approach to the interdisciplinary study of music and poetry by examining a series of encounters between Mallarmé and Deb...

In these odes Horace creates lyric poetry in Latin which stands comparison with anything written by his brilliant predecessors in Greek. Of the thr...

In these odes Horace creates lyric poetry in Latin which stands comparison with anything written by his brilliant predecessors in Greek. Of the thr...

This is by far the most detailed commentary yet on Horace's Epodes. The line-by-line commentary on each epode is prefaced by a substantial interpre...

This is a book for all readers of Homer, whether in translation or in the original. It attempts to characterize the poetic art of the Iliad and the...

Do we want to read poetry, or just like having a few poets to talk about? The history of poetry in twentieth-century Britain and Ireland is one wh...

A comprehensive literary commentary on many of the central pieces of Greek lyric poetry, including works by Alcman, Stesichorus, Sappho, Alcaeus, I...

Addressed to all readers of poetry, this is a wide-ranging book about the poet's role throughout the last three centuries. It argues that a concept...

In the second volume, the commentaries by Heubeck (Books IX-XII) and Hoekstra (Books XIII-XVI) are both preceded by introductions, with Hoekstra pa...

'It is impossible to say just what I mean!' Prufrock's frustration in Eliot's celebrated poem underlines the pessimistic view of language at the he...

Early Modern Women Poets represents a complete reexamination of the field, based on extensive archival research in manuscripts and early modern pri...

Poetry and Revolution is a radical re-examination of the canon of mid-seventeenth-century verse. The author questions and discards the old descript...

This is an innovative and accessible study of contemporary Northern Irish poetry in the light of current debates about post-modernism, poetry and p...

In Spenser's Forms of History, Bart van Es describes six modes through which Early Modern England addressed the past: chronicle, chorography, antiq...

The collection of prose poems known as Le Spleen de Paris is an important, puzzling, and yet relatively neglected area of Baudelaire's work. This i...

William Blake's The Four Zoas is one of the most challenging poems in the English language, and one of the most profound. It is also one of the lea...

This book combines the exploration of the`ethics' of the Iliad with its poetic and narrative techniques, which extend all the way from touches of p...

This book combines one of the most famous names in Latin literature, the Roman poet Horace, with the crème de la crème of contemporary internationa...

The Roman de la Rose was a major bestseller - largely due to its robust treatment of 'natural' sexuality. This study concentrates on the ways in wh...

This new critical biography of Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) is the first to appear for more than fifty years. In this time his status as one of ...

This book sheds light on the complexity of medieval German literary culture as it evolved in the course of the thirteenth century (c. 1220-1290) by...

This book is about the ways in which rhyme in French verse produces shapes or interferes with meaning - a topic which, despite its centrality, has ...

The history of Plath's reception as a writer has been beset by the language of scandal. Psychobiographical speculation, combined with the controver...