Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

Casey DuZ examines the figure of Briseis, the concubine of Achilles in theIliad, as an example of the traditional artistry enabled by a complex and...

This book is a bit of literary detective work. A poem, which has endeared itself as perhaps no other to Scots away from their home country, appeare...

The emergence of Taoism during the 3rd through 8th centuries as China's indigenous higher religion affected all areas of culture. This volume, one ...

The Bedouin, or 'desert dwellers', have a rich cultural heritage often expressed through music and poetry. Here, Moneera Al-Ghadeer provides us wit...

Paul Valéry was one of the most brilliant and subtle thinkers of his time. His work sums up the traditions of classical French poetry and carries i...

This volume collects and reprints many of Delbert R. Hillers’s most important published essays and articles, his long out-of-print Treaty-Curses an...

Radice, himself a recognized English poet and erudite scholar, delved into the deeper meaning of Tagore’s poems and songs, and discussed his ideas ...

"I am talking about Milton because I enjoy talking about Milton," This statement made by Northrop Frye at the beginning of The Return of Eden sets ...

Originally published in 1974. This book on comparative literature represents the first extended attempt to relate Dante's major allegorical mode to...

Goethe and Zelter spent a staggering 33 years corresponding or in the case of each artist, over two thirds of their lives. Zelter's position as dir...

As joint winner of the Gapper Book Prize, 2021, this new edition of Susan Harrow's award-winning study of modern French poetry and art writing offe...

In Mina Loy, Twentieth-Century Photography, and Contemporary Women Poets, Linda A. Kinnahan explores the making of Mina Loy’s late modernist poetic...

This volume presents a series of penetrating analyses of particular poems and problems of literary history illustrating the many sides of medieval ...

The September 1997 vote approving devolution, albeit by a tiny margin, was a watershed moment in recent Welsh history. This volume of essays consid...

Why do governments still negotiate with trade unions and employers in the design of labour market and welfare reforms despite the steady decline of...

This major biography of Shelley, England's most radical and controversial Romantic poet, is the first to appear in thirty years. Informed by the au...

Within the pantheon of world literature, the Persian poet Hafiz (born in around 1320 in the city of Shiraz) occupies an exalted position, and his p...

Unearthed recordings reveal the early days of the literary powerhouses who gave birth to CanLit in the 1960s.From 1969 to 1970, radio interviewer E...

This is a biographical study to discover where and how the poetry intersects the poet’s life. That is, whatever in the poetry is biographical is ex...

Based on an exhaustive study of the manuscripts and printed editions in which these poems have appeared, the fifth volume in the series of The Vari...