Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors...

Fiddled out of Reason is a study of several poems spanning the life and career of Joseph Addison, who, along with John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Ambr...

Word Toys: Poetry and Technics is an engaging and thought provoking volume that speculates on a range of textual workspoetic, novelistic, and progr...

Peral Vega explores the importance of Pierrot as a symbol of failure in matters of love in García Lorca's imagery and his literary and personal lif...

The News from Poems examines a subgenre of recent American poetrythat closely engages with contemporary political and social issues. Thisengaged po...

Examinations of the date of Beowulf have tremendous significance for Anglo-Saxon culture in general. This book will be a milestone, and deserves t...

A prolific poet, art critic, essayist, and translator, Charles Baudelaire is best known for his volumes of verse (Les Fleurs du Mal [Flowers of Evi...

The moving, richly allegorical poem Pearl was written in Middle English by the anonymous author who likely also penned Sir Gawain and the Green Kni...

The moving, richly allegorical poem Pearl was written in Middle English by the anonymous author who likely also penned Sir Gawain and the Green Kni...

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...

Love poetry in the Spanish Golden Age redefines the lyric poetry that is located at the centre of Imperial Spanish culture's own self-image and sel...

Modern English translations of a wide selection of troubadour poems. The poetry of the troubadours was famous throughout the middle ages, but the ...

Examinations of the date of Beowulf have tremendous significance for Anglo-Saxon culture in general. WINNER: 2015 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titl...

An examination of English verse translations of Beowulf, including Seamus Heaney's version alongside other influential renditions. A senior schola...

Hereford Cathedral is proud of its four stained-glass windows commemorating Traherne, but these volumes are as glorious a memorial. DAILY TELEGRAPH...

In  Robert Southey , Andrews   argues that Robert Southey's denunciation of global Catholicism is essential to understanding his life, works, and t...

Numerous claims have been made for a sexual Blake, from post-lapsarian pessimist to free-loving hippie. Queer Blake raises a flag for the weird, pe...

The world can derive much enlightenment from Muhammad Iqbal, Saadat Hasan Manto, and Faiz Ahmed Faizthree of the greatest twentieth-century authors...

Focusing in particular on pairings of writers within the larger grouping of poets, this book suggests how literary partnerships became pivotal to A...

Much as an ancient hymnist carries a familiar subject into new directions of song, the contributors to A Californian Hymn to Homer draw upon Homeri...

The first book in English to consider the full extent of the accomplishments and influence the Chilean cultural icon, Violeta Parra. Violeta Parra...

A new evaluation of one of the most significant Holocaust poets, Nelly Sachs (1891-1970), offering the first sustained critical analysis of Sachs's...