Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

This epic French poem was most likely written in the fourteenth century. The edition contains an introduction examining the plot, structure, langua...

This is the first volume of critical essays devoted to the work of Trevor Joyce, one of the Republic of Ireland's most innovative poets of the past...

This study presents an episodic history of an epic period in British poetry, when bad times forced political subversion and textual impaction upon ...

The work of Somhairle MacGill-Eain (Sorley MacLean), the greatest Gaelic poet of the 20th century, has a significance which echoes far beyond the c...

This expanded edition adds sixteen new exercises designed to inspire creativity and help poets hone their skills. Each exercise includes a clearly-...

Milton and This Pendant World is an interpretation of the great English poet in an age increasingly skeptical, in a culture dominated by the assum...

In The Arrow-maker, D.M. Black''s sensitive attention to emotional states of mind, sometimes his own, sometimes those of others such as St. Augusti...

Modern readers can sometimes be unsure about the language and the literary conventions of medieval and Renaissance verse--lyrical works written ...

Stubborn Poetries is a study of poets whose work, because of its difficulty, apparent obduracy, or simple resistance to conventional explication, r...

Geoffrey Chaucer is widely considered the father of English literature. This introduction begins with a review of his life and the cultural milieu ...

Rant. Chant. Chisme. is the debut collection of poetry by south Texas native Amalia Ortiz, featuring writing from the first decade of her career. R...

This book places Victorian poetry within the context of a radical shift over the last 150 years in the key European model for human definition and ...

An impressive new collection from a poet whose previous book was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle A...

The most comprehensive collection in English of the founder of modern Italian poetryGiovanni Pascoli (18551912)the founder of modern Italian poetry...

The American war in Vietnam was one of the most morally contentious events of the twentieth century, and it produced an extraordinary outpouring of...