Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

Black Celebrity examines representations of postbellum black athletes and artist-entertainers by novelists Caryl Phillips and Jeffery Renard Allen ...

Goethe is the most famous German author, and the poetic drama Faust, Part I (1808) is his best-known work, one that stands in the company of other ...

Vidyan Ravinthiran was born in the north of England to Sri Lankan Tamils, and moved to the United States five years ago. Considering identity in bo...

Der Band 43 der Schiller Nationalausgabe bringt Korrekturen und Ergänzungen, darunter viele Briefe sowie Schillers Fieberschrift (seine erste Disse...

A perceptive exploration of poetry, race, and otherness from one of our most promising voices in criticism.Vidyan Ravinthiran was born in the north...

Although the Bible is the foundation of American poetic tradition, there is no study of the Bible as an ongoing force in American poetry. Not only ...

Grief faces all of us in the end. This collection explores how poets have expressed and attempted to come to some kind of understanding of this uni...

Winner of the 2023 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry PrizeThis Is My Body readily and unapologetically examines issues of race and ethnicity, ancestry...

Contributions by Ruth R. Caillouet, Mary C. Carruth, Nancy Dixon, Kathleen Downes, Edward J. Dupuy, Shari Evans, Paul Fess, Carina Evans Hoffpauir,...

Hugh MacDiarmid is widely considered the most significant Scottish poet since Robert Burns and the major literary force in twentieth-century Scotti...

John Gower's works examined as part of a tradition of official writings on behalf of the Crown. WINNER: 2013 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Awa...

Assessing the cultural history of the dandy as a figure traditionally gendered masculine, this wide-ranging study advances a critical space for the...

These six poems explore some of the courtly and chivalric themes that preoccupied late medieval Scottish society. The volume includes Sir David Lyn...

2024 erscheint der 63. Jahrgang des Heine-Jahrbuchs. Er enthält u.a. Joseph A. Kruses Auseinandersetzung mit Heinrich Heines Poetisierungen zweier ...

Actor, memoirist, novelist, playwright and poet, Stephen Haggard was a highly individual figure in the English literature and theatre of the 1930s ...

Piyyut is the art of Hebrew or Aramaic poetry composed either in place of or as adornments to Jewish statutory prayers. Laura S. Lieber uses the pi...

Gottfried Kellers Welten erscheint als dritter Band der Serie Gottfried Kellers Moderne. Kellers Jahrhundert ist das der Industrialisierung, des Im...

Kellers Wissen erscheint als vierter Band der Serie Gottfried Kellers Moderne. Kellers Texte akkumulieren, transformieren und generieren Wissen. Se...

Das Buch widmet sich der Frage, weshalb Krankheitserfahrungen in der frühneuzeitlichen Lyrik zwischen 1490 und 1720 eine beispiellose Prominenz ent...

Composed for King Henry VI in the middle of the Wars of the Roses, Of Knyghthode and Bataile adapts the most widely used military manual in the Mid...

In a masterly synthesis of historical and literary analysis, Giuseppe Mazzotta shows how medieval knowledge systems--the cycle of the liberal arts,...

Die Reihe Communicatio, nun in neuer Ausrichtung, versammelt methodisch ambitionierte Forschungsbeiträge in deutscher oder englischer Sprache, die ...

Shakespeare's Blank Verse: An Alternative History is a study both of Shakespeare's versification and of its place in the history of early modern bl...

How to Read Middle English Poetry guides readers through poetry between 1150 and 1500, for study and pleasure. Chapters give down-to-earth advice o...

A Companion to Vergils Aeneid and its Tradition presents a collection of original interpretive essays that represent an innovative addition to the ...

Don Paterson is one of Britains leading contemporary poets. A popular writer as well as a formidably intelligent one, he has won both a dedicated r...

Kostas Varnalis (1884-1974) was a Bulgarian-born Greek writer and member of the demoticist movement in Greece. An important contemporary of Angelos...

This is the first study devoted to Sylvia Plath's fiction. Plath wrote fiction throughout her life, in a wide variety of genres, including women's ...

Poet, columnist, artist, and fiction writer Gwendolyn Bennett is considered by many to have been one of the youngest leaders of the Harlem Renaissa...

Introduces Tennyson's famous elegy to first-time readers, students and teachers of the poem. In Memoriam is one of the most famous and influential ...

This book examines the work of two major poets who wrote in the second half of the twentieth century, Yves Bonnefoy of France and the Syrian-born A...

Following the editors introduction to the collection, the essays in Scholarly Milton examine the nature of Miltons own formidable scholarship and i...

Redefines Romantic sociability through a reading of social contract theoryThe Politics of Romanticism examines the relationship between two major t...

In Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics, Isobel Armstrong rescued Victorian poetry from its longstanding sepia image as a moralised form ...

Theatrical Milton brings coherence to the presence of theatre in John Milton through the concept of theatricality. In this book, theatricality iden...

The first book to look at poets' letters seriously as an art formFifteen enlightening chapters by leading international biographers, critics and po...