Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

Vittoria Colonna was one of the best known and most highly celebrated female poets of the Italian Renaissance. Her work went through many editions ...

First published in 1962, this book is the first of two volumes which bridge the gap between the study of classics and the study of literature and a...

Examining John Keats’s reworking of the romance genre, Rachel Schulkins argues that he is responding to and critiquing the ideals of feminine modes...

In this compelling collection, Teresa Longo gathers a diverse group of critical and poetic voices to analyze the politics of packaging and marketin...

The Oxford Handbook of John Donne presents scholars with the history of Donne studies and provides tools to orient scholarship in this field in th...

The Leaping Hare is a rare and remarkable book about every aspect of the life and legend of the wild hare, exploring nature, poetry, folklore, hi...

Includes the French text, accompanied by French-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the poems in their social and ...

There has never been a retrospective on Christopher Marlowe as comprehensive, complete and up-to-date in appraising the Marlovian landscape. Each c...

Pragmatism is a humanist philosophy. In spite of the much-debated renaissance of pragmatism, however, a detailed discussion of the relationship bet...

This bibliography, first published in 1993, attempts to provide a complete and accurate description of the manuscripts of Patrick Branwell Brontë, ...

Poetry by: Antonella Anedda Gian Maria Annovi Nadia Agustoni Mario Benedetti Antonio Bux Biagio Cepollaro Vladimir D’Amora Roberto Deidier ...

This important contribution to both Romantic and cultural studies situates literature by Wordsworth, Southey, Hunt, Clare, and Blake within the con...

First published in 1989. The ballad or romance, as it is commonly called, has played a vital role over the centuries in Hispanic culture as an oral...

Written by a team of international experts, the forty-two essays in The Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser examine the entire canon of Spenser's wor...

These seven poems, translated by A. J. Arberry in 1957, are the most famous survivors of a vast mass of poetry produced in the Arabian Desert in th...

Many scholars today believe that early Greek literature, as represented by the great poems of Homer and Hesiod, was to some extent inspired by text...

This edition of Charlotte Brontë’s poems, first published in 1985, although not "complete", provides a reliable text of all of her available verse,...

This book explores Langston Hughes's efforts to mediate problems of identity and ethics he faced as an African-American professional writer and int...

Now in its third edition Poetry: The Basics remains an engaging exploration of the world of poetry. Drawing on examples ranging from Chaucer to chi...

This volume, first published in 1999, contains all of Patrick Branwell Brontë’s known writings, excluding his letters, from 1837 to 1848. This titl...

Originally published in 1922 and partly from periodicals this book provides a methodological introduction to the reading of Dante’s The Divine Come...

Now in its third edition Poetry: The Basics remains an engaging exploration of the world of poetry. Drawing on examples ranging from Chaucer to chi...

There has been a huge revival of interest in Victorian women's poetry in the last ten years, and it has led to a major reconfiguration of the Engli...

Sally West's timely study is the first book-length exploration of Coleridge's influence on Shelley's poetic development. Beginning with a discussio...

That medicine becomes professionalized at the very moment that literature becomes "Romantic" is an important coincidence, and James Allard makes th...

Among the world’s major literary traditions, Arabic poetry is perhaps unique in that the theme of the hunt runs in a continuous, if uneven, current...

Among Ruins is the final volume of Homestead Works, a collection of four books of poetry that explore the industrial past and legacy of the old ste...

While the First World War devastated Europe, it inspired profound poetry – words in which the atmosphere and landscape of battle are evoked perhaps...

Pindar and the Cult of Heroes combines a study of Greek culture and religion (hero cult) with a literary-critical study of Pindar's epinician poetr...

Originally published in 1990. This study is of one of the world’s great narrative poems and one of the few long poems in English about physical lov...

In a provocative take on Germanic heroic poetry, Taranu reads texts like Beowulf, Maldon, and the Waltharius as participating in alternative modes ...

Originally published in 1972. This important work of Chaucerian scholarship deals with two aspects of the poet and his work - his individual achiev...

This book by a well-known translator and critic is divided into two parts, the first dealing with the linguistic and other more technical aspects o...

This work demonstrates the continued importance and relevance of the myth of Demeter and Persephone to today's society. The first three chapters pr...

Order and Disorder, the first epic poem by an Englishwoman, has never before been available in its entirety. The first five cantos were printed ano...

Extending the critical discussion which has focused on the hymns of Isaac Watts as an influence on Emily Dickinson's poetry, this study brings to b...

A vivid snapshot of America's kaleidoscopic literary tradition, A Journey Through American Literature illuminates the authors, works, and events th...

With The Highwayman's Wife, Lynnell Edwards's fierce and brazen poems breathe new life into well-known myths and tales, giving a new, bold voice to...

The most revered work composed in Old English, Beowulf is one of the landmarks of European literature. This handbook supplies a wealth of insights ...

Written by a leading authority on William Carlos Williams, this book provides a wide-ranging and stimulating guide to twentieth-century American po...

Write My Name: Authorship in the Poetry of Thomas Moore is the first monograph devoted to Moore’s poetry. The focus of the book is on Moore’s poetr...

She, This in Blak takes a fresh look at Chaucer's great Trojan romance, Troilus and Criseyde, in light of recent scholarship on late scholastic dis...

The present edition of the first book of the Epistulae ex Ponto gives a revised text with a new translation, an extended introduction, and the firs...

Suzanne Churchill's well-researched and superbly crafted study is the first book-length treatment of Others, an important and neglected little maga...

In Three American Poets, William C. Spengemann describes the very different sorts of poetry Whitman, Dickinson, and Melville wrote, their comparabl...

First published in 1980. Paradise Lost was once a favourite text for family reading; today it is confined to the educational system, which treats i...