Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

This original and enlightening book casts fresh light on Shakespeare by examining the lives of his relatives, friends, fellow-actors, collaborators...

In 1401 Christine de Pizan (1365-1430?), one of the most renowned and prolific woman writers of the Middle Ages, wrote a letter to the provost of L...

What drives literary change? Does literature merely follow shifts in a culture, or does it play a distinctive role in shaping emergent trends? Mich...

One of a series designed to provide a new, accessible approach to the works of great poets and playwrights. Each text includes general notes on the...

Greco-Roman martial epic poetry, from Homer and Virgil to Neronian and Flavian epic, is obsessed with the treatment of dead bodies. Sometimes corps...

Scholars of the Gothic have long recognised Blakes affinity with the genre. Yet, to date, no major scholarly study focused on Blakes intersection w...

This unique and exciting collection, inspired by the scholarship of literary critic Stephanie Trigg, offers cutting-edge responses to the writings ...

The Cracks Between What We Are and What We Are Supposed to Be forms an extended consideration not only of Harryette Mullen''s own work, methods, an...

A literary genre that pervades 21st-century popular culture, science fiction creates mythologies that make statements about humanity's place in ...

This series is designed specifically to meet the curricular needs of high school and undergraduate college students studying poetry. A quick but in...

The late Ted Hughes felt that healing was the most fundamental characteristic of all poetry yet until now there has been no monograph on Hughes con...

Robert Frost observed in his wife, Elinor, a desire to live a life that goes rather poetically. The same could be said of many members of the Frost...