Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

This book provides an innovative approach to the Hispano-Roman Christian poet Prudentius and his poetry. It is a breakthrough in Prudentian scholar...

A History of Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry is the first book to construct a coherent history of the field and focus entirely on women'...

Aphra Behn (1640-1689) is renowned as the first professional woman of literature and drama in English. Her career in the Restoration theatre extend...

Hesiod was regarded by the Greeks as a foundational figure of their culture, alongside Homer. This book examines the rich and varied engagement of ...

Virgil's Eclogues are a fundamental text of Western literature that served as a model for the nascent poetry of the Augustan and later of the Imper...

George Herbert (15931633) is widely regarded as the greatest devotional poet in the English language. His profound influence can be seen in the las...

Edmund Spenser's poetry remains an indispensable touchstone of English literary history. Yet for modern readers his deliberate use of archaic langu...

Achilles inflicts countless agonies on the Achaeans, although he is supposed to be fighting on their side. Odysseus' return causes civil strife on ...

The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Poetry is the first collection of essays to explore postcolonial poetry through regional, historical, polit...

In the past seven centuries Dante has become world renowned, with his works translated into multiple languages and read by people of all ages and c...

The Cambridge Introduction to British Poetry, 19452010 provides a broad overview of an important body of poetry from England, Scotland, Wales, and ...

Poems ranging from La Jeune Parque and Le Cimetiere marin to occasional and light verse written as letters to friends, dedications in books, and in...

The Bilingual Muse analyzes the work of seven Russian poets who translated their own poems into English, French, German, or Italian. Investigating ...

A groundbreaking reassessment of W. H. Audens early life and poetry, shedding new light on his artistic development as well as on his shifting beli...

Reclaiming Assia Wevill: Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, and the Literary Imagination reconsiders cultural representations of Assia Wevill (1927- 1969), ...

This book analyzes the interaction between gender and species in Chaucer's poetry and strives to understand his adaptation of medieval discourse th...

Edition, translation and full critical study of a hitherto marginalised text, bringing it to full attention for the first time. The Old English po...

Fleming masterfully demonstrates Camões's debt to, and participation in, the long and continuing traditions of spiritual or allegorical scriptural ...

The kissing-poem genre was wide-spread in Renaissance literature; this book surveys its form and development. There is a great deal of kissing in ...

A consideration of Petrarch's influence on, and appearance in, French texts - and in particular, his appropriation by the Avignonese. Was Petrarch...

A magisterial exploration of poetrys place in the fine arts by one of the twentieth century's leading poetsIn this book, eminent poet Anthony Hecht...