Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

Recent criticism has often overlooked William Blake's relationship to the bourgeois culture of sentimentalism, focusing instead on his association ...

This book examines the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes through one aspect of its relationship with other texts. The particular intertextual rel...

English Alliterative Verse tells the story of the medieval poetic tradition that includes Beowulf, Piers Plowman, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knig...

Poetry written in English is uniquely powerful and suggestive in its capacity to surprise, unsettle, shock, console, and move. The Cambridge Histor...

Lyrical Ballads (1798) is a work of huge cultural and literary significance. The volume of poetry, in which Coleridge's Rime of the Ancyent Mariner...

This volume examines what Caribbean literature looked like before 1920 by surveying the print culture of the period. The emphasis is on narrative, ...

This book evaluates twentieth century British and Global Anglophone literature in relation to the growth of ecological thinking in the United Kingd...

The first major twenty-first century history of four hundred years of black writing, The Cambridge History of African American Literature presents ...

This book explores the miscommunications of the prophet Cassandra - cursed to prophesy the truth but never to be understood until too late - in Gre...

The Cambridge History of American Poetry offers a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their beginnings ...

For Wallace Stevens, Poetry is the scholar's art. Susan Howetaking the poet-scholar-critics Charles Olson, H.D., and William Carlos Williams (among...

In the years of and around the First World War, American poets, fiction writers, and dramatists came to the forefront of the international movement...

The period from the 1970s to the present day has produced an extraordinarily rich and diverse body of Caribbean writing that has been widely acclai...

The mouth, responsible for both physical and spiritual functions - eating, drinking, breathing, praying and confessing - was of immediate importanc...

What does it mean to focus on the decade as a unit of literary history? Emerging from the shadows of iconic Victorian authors such as Eliot and Ten...

Modern readers mostly know Sir Philip Sidneys Arcadia in its complete old version, but it is the New Arcadia (published in 1590), a revised version...

In Coterie Poetics and the Beginnings of the English Literary Tradition, R. D. Perry reveals how poetic coteries formed and maintained the English ...

Becketts dialogue with the arts (music, painting, digital media) has found a growing critical attention, from seminal comprehensive studies (Oppenh...

In Last Looks, Last Books, the eminent critic Helen Vendler examines the ways in which five great modern American poets, writing their final books,...

First full study of Chaucer's readings and translations of Petrarch suggests a far greater influence than has hitherto been accepted. Despite the ...

New, wide-ranging essays on the controversial poet, who was both a harbinger of Modernism and a critic of modernity. Stefan George (1868-1933) is ...