Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

Minor Notes Vol. 1 features the work of three poets. Published in 1837, Poems by a Slave is one of the lesser-known works by George Moses Horton (1...

Few moments, certainly few speeches, in the 20th century so radically altered the flow of international events and specifically the direction of Ru...

This remarkable collection of poems lures you in, at first to stand alone in the dark, but slowly there comes a hint of light from a crack beneath ...

Bruce Meyers forté is to delve into the interconnectedness of our relationship with the physical and the spiritual. He is a poet channelling the mu...

From Torontos poet laureate (201215) comes a new book that is a tour de force in confessional verse. This autobiographical sequence in 980 lines co...

Vladimir Azarov grew up and came to maturity during a time in the Soviet Union when penal camps and the secret police were ubiquitous, but the one ...

How four American cities shaped Poe's life and writingsEdgar Allan Poe (18091849) changed residences about once a year throughout his life. Driven ...

Drawing on the methods of textual and reception studies, book history, print culture research, and visual culture, this interdisciplinary study of ...

In her third collection, Indonesian American poet Cynthia Dewi Oka dives into the implications of being parents, children, workers, and unwanted hu...

Both a commentary on and a critical appreciation of the work of the early Pound. It starts off with a luci introduction to Pound's technique in gen...

This book was born out of the curiosity aroused in me by Tennyson's Maud and Locksley Hall, ostensibly dramatic poems which were strangely flawed, ...

Both a commentary on and a critical appreciation of the work of the early Pound. It starts off with a luci introduction to Pound's technique in gen...

This book was born out of the curiosity aroused in me by Tennyson's Maud and Locksley Hall, ostensibly dramatic poems which were strangely flawed, ...

Repetition has connotations of something boring, or unoriginal, or lacking in poetic skill, but repetition - in several different senses - dominate...

Sir George Beaumont is a key figure in the history of British art. As well as being a respected amateur landscape painter, he was a prominent patro...

Edmund Spensers The Faerie Queene (1590; 1596) is an epic romance teeming with dragons, fantastic animals, giants, grotesque human-animal composite...

From Dylan Thomass eighteen straight whiskies to Sylvia Plaths desperate suicide in the gas oven of her Primrose Hill kitchen; from Chattertons Pre...

Opened in 1837 and inspired by the Pere Lachaise in Paris, West Norwood became known as the Millionaire's Cemetery. But within its opulent grounds ...

In 1990, the international bestseller, The Book of J (1990), co-authored by David Rosenberg and Harold Bloom (Grove; Faber in the U.K.) was followe...

This guide is written from the conviction that Prophets is a major work of Caribbean poetry, and that whilst it can be read with enjoyment without ...

Suicide and the Gothic is the first protracted study of how the act of self-destruction recurs and functions within one of the most enduring and po...