Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

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...

Celan gilt als einer der bedeutendsten deutschsprachigen Dichter des 20. Jahrhunderts und sein Einfluss auf Literatur, Kunst und Musik ist unumstri...

A rich anthology of pre-Islamic and early Islamic poetry on the beauties and perils of the hunt In the poems of Fate the Hunter, many of them trans...

A fresh and original introduction to the Odysseyand how it continues to shape literature, film, art and even the ways we make sense of our livesRea...

Reorienting understandings of Adrienne Richs later work through her interest in Marx and Marxist politics, this book engages with this overlooked p...

This monograph identifies and investigates the other-conscious ethics in black avant-garde poetry since the 1980s. Drawing on a long tradition in t...

Using Hannah Arendts account of the Greek polis to explain Miltons fascination with the idea of public speech, this study reveals what is distincti...

This engaging volume provides readers with the essential criticism on nineteenth-century poetry, organised around key areas of debate in the field....

First published in 1989, Piepho has translated the Latin works of Mantuans eclogues, which play such a crucial role in the culture of Western Europ...

Originally compiled and published in 1988, this volume contains the text and translation of 'The Pilgrimmage of Charlemagne' and 'Aucassin and Nico...

Published in 1994: In The Perilous Cemetery adventure, Gawain is required to fight the devil himself. In repayment for having cured a young woman o...

For eighteenth century readers, the contents of a novel were often perceived as part of reality. The first part of this study on the results of thi...

This groundbreaking work takes multimodality studies in a new direction by applying multimodal approaches to the study of poetry and poetics. The b...

Arguing that outlaw narratives become particularly popular and poignant at moments of national ecological and political crisis, Sarah Harlan-Haughe...

Treatments of synesthesia in the arts and humanities generally assume a clear distinction between the neurological condition and the literary devic...

Treatments of synesthesia in the arts and humanities generally assume a clear distinction between the neurological condition and the literary devic...

The two Muslim poets featured in Scott Kugle's comparative study lived separate lives during the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries in the D...

Challenging the idea that a writers work reflects his experiences in time and place, Andrew M. Cooper locates the action of William Blakes major il...

While historians of science have focused significant attention on Erasmus Darwins scientific ideas and milieu, relatively little attention has been...

Milton and the New Scientific Age represents significant advantages over all previous volumes on the subject of Milton and science, as it includes ...

This volume provides an in-depth comparative study of translation practices and the role of the poet-translator across different countries and in s...

In his study of Romantic naturalists and early environmentalists, Dewey W. Hall asserts that William Wordsworth and Ralph Waldo Emerson were transa...

By the 1850s, the expansion of printing and distribution technologies provided writers with more readers and literary outlets than ever before, whi...

This monograph is the study of the poetry of Fernando Pessoa and W. B. Yeats within a comparative case studies framework. It examines Yeats's and P...

The Iraqi poet Nazik al-Malaika was one of the most important Arab poets of the twentieth century. A pioneer of free verse poetry, over the course ...