Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

A careful re-evaluation of pastoral poetics in the early modern Hispanic literature of Spain and Latin America. In her analysis of the verse of r...

A major and original contribution to the debate as to Chaucer's use and knowledge of Boccaccio, finding a new source for the Shipman's Tale. A pos...

The essays here, united by their appreciation of the centrality of translation to the interpretation of the medieval past, add to our understanding...

The classic book on William Blake as prophet of the New AgeWilliam Blake (17571827) inhabited a remarkable inner world, one that he brought vividly...

Show Me Your Environment, a penetrating yet personable collection of critical essays, David Baker explores how a poem works, how a poet thinks, and...

This book presents a cutting-edge critical analysis of the trope of miscegenation and its biopolitical implications in contemporary Palestinian and...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

The epic tales of medieval France, called chansons de geste, or songs of deeds, provided the chief means of cultural and imaginative expression in ...

The making of a great Chilean poet. Pablo Neruda was without doubt one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. However, his work is extrem...

Critical edition of an important Scottish poem, highlighting its striking poetic features. The Buke of the Howlat was composed in the late 1440s f...

A collection of essays by leading scholars that examine the two facets of Juan de Mena's life as lawyer and poet. Este libro reúne un número signi...

Poetics of the Pretext is an original study of the French poet Lautréamont (1846-1870), who was rediscovered by the Surrealists in the 1920s and pr...

A superb new (and complete) translation of Rilke's luminously lyrical early book of poems, with scholarly introduction and commentary. Rainer Mari...

This is the first biography of Latin America's most important poet. the Peruvian César Vallejo. It traces the important events of his life and eval...

An adaptation of an Old French romance with parallel text, notes and a detailed introduction. Some time in the first quarter of the thirteenth cen...

Close readings of -- and the stories behind -- poems that are direct documents of the Holocaust. Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Christianstadt, Dachau. Th...

A medieval Catalan verse fantasy by Bernat Metge, the most important Catalan writer of the fourteenth century, Written around 1381 by Bernat Metge...

Accessible guide to and description of the medieval poetic tradition in Scandinavia. This is the first book in English to deal with the twin subje...

For beginning or advanced students of poetry focused on the art of structuring a poem, A Poet's Ear serves as a handbook to writing in numerous fix...

The first full-length biography of Christopher Okigbo, the most anthologized modern African poet, giving an extended narrative and rounded account ...

Translation of Christine's autobiographical Vision, both dealing with her own life and career, and offering a possible solution to the troubled sta...

Text and facing translation of an important medieval German Arthurian romance. Ulrich von Zatzikhoven's Lanzelet, dating from the end of the twelf...

First English translations of later adaptions of Chrétien's romances: a vital source for the development of Arthurian romance. In the middle of th...

Defining romance as a form that simultaneously seeks and postpones a particular end, revelation, or object, Patricia Parker interprets its implicat...