Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

Drawing upon a wide range of biographies of literary subjects, from Shakespeare and Wordsworth to William Golding and V.S. Naipaul, this book devel...

Mit der dreibändigen Ausgabe ist die Neuedition des Wallenstein im Rahmen der Schiller-Nationalausgabe jetzt abgeschlossen und stellt die Schiller...

Ranging from soldiers reading newspapers at the front to authors' responses to the war, this book sheds new light on the reading habits and prefere...

Not much can be known about the life of Maximianus, who has been called the last of the Roman poets, beyond what can be inferred from his poetry. H...

At the turn of the seventeenth century, Spanish lyric underwent a notable development. Several Spanish poets reinvented lyric as a melancholy and m...

What kinds of pleasure do we take from writing and reading? What authority has the writer over a text? What are the limits of languages ability to ...

This book is the first to offer a comprehensive selection of Walt Whitman's Civil War poetry and prose with a full commentary on each work. Ed Fols...

Essays on teaching love, ethics, and medieval allegory.One of the most influential texts of its time, the Romance of the Rose offers readers a wind...

How Black poets have charted the direction of American poetics for the past two centuriesBefore Modernism examines how Black poetics, in antagonism...

Born in Bucharest of peasant stock, Tudor Arghezi (1880-1967) was awarded Romania's National Poetry Prize in 1946 and the State Prize for Poetry in...

In Spill, self-described queer Black troublemaker and Black feminist love evangelist Alexis Pauline Gumbs presents a commanding collection of scene...

This book is a literary biography of Shen Yueh, a statesman, historian, poet, and devout lay defender of both Buddhism and Taoism. The title Retici...

Poet and scholar team Dora Malech and Laura T. Smith collect and foreground an impressive range of sonnets, including formal and formally subversiv...

In laying the groundwork for a fresh and challenging reading of Roman satire, Kirk Freudenburg explores the literary precedents behind the situatio...

The first complete English translation of Ewa Lipskas exciting Dear Ms. Schubert poemsEwa Lipska is one of Europes most compelling and important po...

Barks recalls that in June of 1976, Robert Bly gave me a writing assignment: He handed me a copy of A.J. Arberry's translations of Rumi's poems and...

Poetry has leapt out of its world and into the world Poetry is everywhere. From Amanda Gorman performing The Hill We Climb before the nation at Joe...

This definitive biography gives a brilliant account of the life and art of Robert Duncan (1919-1988), one of America's great postwar poets. Lisa Ja...

Three foundational Roman poets.The Loeb Classical Library series Fragmentary Republican Latin continues with three highly influential pioneers in t...

Building on the strength of Keith Walkers acclaimed The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1984), leading scholar Nicholas Fisher presents a ...

This book argues that we should regard walking and talking in a single rhythmic vision. In doing so, it contributes to the theory of prosody, our u...

A masterpiece of Arabic love poetry in a new and complete English translationThe Translator of Desires, a collection of sixty-one love poems, is th...

This is the first study to consider the relationship between private confessional rituals and memory across a range of early modern writers, includ...