Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

Since its initial publication, Poetry Notebook has become a must-read for any lover of poetry. Somewhat of an iconoclast, Clive James gets to the h...

Jenkins challenges the notion that Lemaire''s recourse to rhetoric was an artistic failure, arguing that rhetoric was actually his success. He demo...

Through an analysis of French hagiography and the vernacular translations of nineteen saints'' lives, Johnson and Cazelles explore the impact of sa...

In this volume Judith Rice Rothschild offers close readings and comparisons of the Lais in order to examine Marie de France''s narrative technique.

This is a study of Medieval French poet Charles de Orleans and his use of the allegorical mode in his work.

Florence L. Yudin explores the theme of silence in Jorge Guillen''s Aire nuestro.

The Innamorato, predecessor to Ariosto''s Orlando furioso, has been known in the English-speaking world since the sixteenth century, in both Italia...

This collection in prose and verse of twenty-seven historical or legendary tales adapted from the Gesta Romanorum by Pierre Gringore (1475-1538), t...

The concept of the individual or the self, central in so many modern-day contexts, has not been investigated in depth in the Anglo-Saxon period....

Spanning a period of fifteen years, these five 'Inter-views' with Richard Berengarten explore the many facets of his writings. Hospitably and expan...

The venture of this inviting collection is to look, from the many vantages that the 35 poets in this eclectic anthology chose to look, at what it w...

While scholars have chronicled Czes?aw Mi?oszs engagement with religious belief, no previous book-length treatment has focused on his struggles wit...

Focusing on literary and popular poets, as well as work by women, African Americans, and soldiers, this book considers how writers used poetry to a...

David Wojahn examines the state of American verse as it enters the first decades of a new millennium, focusing on both the challenges and opportuni...

The poetry of John Milton reflects Milton''s intellectual and practical involvement with the daily problems of liberty and authority, and ensures i...