Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

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...

During her lifetime, Lydia Sigourney was acclaimed as nineteenth-century America's most popular woman poet and published widely as a historian, tra...

Why is it that for many people 'England' has always meant an unspoilt rural landscape rather than the ever-changing urban world in which most Engli...

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Wilbur (b. 1921) is part of a notable literary cohort, American poets who came to prominence in the mid-twentie...

This is a passionately argued account of the value of experience and emotion in reading Shakespeare's sonnets and of the importance of reading poet...