Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

Why did Gower choose to write his most famous poem in English? New insights into his purpose and the context and tradition of the poem are presente...

This new companion to the works of Marie de France offers fresh insights into the standard critical debates. Marie de France is the author of some...

An examination of the past half-century's critical reassessments of one of the most-studied American poets. When Klaus Lubbers's meticulously deta...

This book offers a novel interpretation of politics and identity in Ovid's epic poem of transformations, the Metamorphoses. Reexamining the emphati...

New essays by outstanding European and American medievalists on major aspects of the most enduring medieval epic. The legend of Tristan and Isolde...

Key topics in important German medieval work surveyed and reassessed. Few works of the middle ages can boast the `staying power' of the 'heroic' N...

Text, with English translation in two formats, of all the Old Norse poetry attributed to women - skáldkonur. The rich and compelling corpus of Old...

A highly readable version of this remarkable and largely unexplored work. Perceforest is one of the largest and certainly the most extraordinary ...

Over the six decades it remained in print in Tudor and Stuart England, William Baldwin's collection of tragic verse narratives A Mirror for Magistr...

A thorough examination of the making of, transmission, and scholarly engagement with one of the most famous poems in the Spanish language. Complet...

Edition with English translation of Middle Dutch version of the adventures of Gawain. The gem in the crown of Middle Dutch Arthurian romance, the ...

The romances translated here are contained in the so-called Lancelot Compilation. Compiled in the early fourteenth century by five scribes, its 241...

A new study of the continuations to Chrétien's Conte du Graal shows their crucial influence on the development of Arthurian literature. Chrétien d...

J.L. Gili's selection of Lorca's poems in Spanish, with his own unassuming prose versions as guides to the originals, first appeared in 1960. With ...

This book offers a series of studies of the idea and practice of reperformance as it affects ancient lyric poetry and drama. Special attention is p...

Substantial new readings of Chaucer's poems, offering a fresh perspective on some of the major controversies in Chaucer scholarship. Chaucer's pre...

Virgil's fourth Eclogue is one of the most quoted, adapted and discussed works of classical literature. This study traces the fortunes of Eclogue 4...

In the context of recent challenges to long-standing assumptions about the nature of Ennius' Annals and the editorial methods appropriate to the po...

A vivid and original account of one of Irelands greatest poets by an acclaimed Irish historian and literary biographerThe most important Irish poet...

King Lear is believed by many feminists to be irretrievably sexist. Through detailed line readings supported by a wealth of critical commentary, Re...

Covering Brahms's 32 song opuses published during four decades of song-writing, this book offers a way of understanding what Brahms believed to be ...

No one better symbolizes the course of modern literature ­ its triumphs and defeats ­ than Pound. From the dreaminess and aestheticism of his early...

Wallace Stevens and the Poetics of Modernist Autonomy presents a rethinking of modernist claims to autonomy by focusing on the work of Wallace Stev...