Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

Ted Hughes is one of the most important twentieth-century British poets. This book provides a radical reassessment of his relationship to the Chris...

John Donne was a writer of dazzling extremes. He was a notorious rake and eloquent preacher; he wrote poems of tender intimacy, and lyrics of gross...

Modern readings of the Roman poet Catullus' work have always been constrained by doubts about the surviving text. Does the sequence of our corpus r...

What real role can poetry have in the world? How are its truths created by the words and sounds chosen by the poet and by the way readers respond t...

Ted Hughes wrote in a wide range of modes which were informed by an even wider range of contexts to which his lifetime's reading, interests and exp...

Virgil's Aeneid XI is an important, yet sometimes overlooked, book which covers the funerals following the fierce fighting in Book X and a council ...

John, Lord Hervey (16961743), the confidant of Queen Caroline and antagonist of Alexander Pope, was a government minister, a political pamphleteer ...

The word tortillera means lesbian in EspaÑol. The moniker is familiar to most Spanish speaking cultures, but especially particular to the Cuban exp...

This work is the first academic biography of North Carolina poet laureate James Larkin Pearson (1879-1981).  Using material from Pearsons personal ...

The poetry we call 'alliterative' is recorded in English from the seventh century until the sixteenth, and includes Caedmon's 'Hymn', Beowulf, Sir ...

The representation in poetic form of political events and ideas in the Arab world since the nineteenth century is this book's principal theme. Atef...

What sort of thing is a lyric poem? An intense expression of subjective experience? The fictive speech of a specifiable persona? Theory of the Lyri...

Introduces new readers and students to a celebrated and controversial Victorian novel-poem Michele Martinez guides readers through the poem's major...

One of the masterpieces of world literature, completed in 1320, Dante's La Divina Commedia describes his journey through Hell, Purgatory and his ev...

Available as both a portable paperback volume and an enhanced digital edition, this complete collection of The Norton Chaucer: Canterbury Tales is ...

A biography of Sean O Riordain detailing his difficult life and his journey to becoming a pre-eminent Irish-language poet. O Riordain was one of th...

The discovery and decryption of Ugaritic cuneiform tablets in the 1920s has given scholars an insight into the development of alphabetic writing an...

Sparks from the Anvil: The Smith College Poetry Interviews is a collection of discussions with contemporary poets, ranging from established elders ...

W. H. Davies (1871 - 1940) was popularly though reductively known as the 'tramp-poet' due to his remarkable journey from vagrancy, in Britain and t...