Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

Guillaume de Saluste Du Bartas was the most popular and widely-imitated poet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England and Scotland. C. S. Lewi...

What did Romantic writers mean when they wrote about progress and perfection? This book shows how Romantic writers inventively responded to familia...

Wallace Stevens and Francis Parkman: The American West and Beyond discovers a previously unacknowledged connection between the poet and the histori...

Offering a transdisciplinary analysis of works by Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherríe Moraga, Ana Castillo, Emma Pérez, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, and Sandra Cisn...

This book focuses on the role of the city, and its processes of mutual transformation, in poetry by experimental women writers. Readings of their w...

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...

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Exploring the work of William Blake within the context of Methodism the largest 'dissenting' religious group during his lifetime this book contri...

These essays extend an ongoing conversation on dialogic qualities of poetry by positing various foundations, practices, and purposes of poetic dial...

This book engages with deictics ('pointing' words like here/there, this/that) of space. It focuses on texts by Donne, Shakespeare, Spenser, and Wro...

The culmination of a trilogy that began with T.S. Eliot, Lancelot Andrewes, and the Word, and continued with T.S. Eliot: The Poet as Christian, thi...

The Event of Style in Literature brings discussions about the question of style up-to-date by schematising the principal issues relating to the top...

Northern Ireland is one hundred years old. Northern Ireland does not exist. Both of these statements are true. It just depends on who you ask. How ...

This Norton Critical Edition includes: An expanded translation from the Akkadian by Benjamin R. Foster based on new discoveries, adding lines thro...

Clarence Major is one of America's literary masters. He has published numerous books, from novels to poetry and short story collections. Among his ...

Migrant Ecologies investigates the ways in which Zheng Xiaoqiongs poetry exposes the entanglements of migrant ecologies embedded within local and g...

Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health explores the politicized role of sexual health as a concept, discourse, and subject of debate wit...

In Lyric Orientations, Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge explores the power of lyric poetry to stir the social and emotional lives of human beings in the ...

Louisa Stuart Costello (1799-1870) was a critically acclaimed poet, novelist, travel writer, historian, and artist. Here, Broom Saunders provides a...

Dilek Bulut Sarkaya scrutinizes human-plant entanglement in the poetry of Thomas Hardy and Sylvia Plath from the perspective of critical plant stud...

Book 13 of Silius Italicus' Punica marks an important turning point in this Latin epic poem on the Second Punic War. After twelve books of Carthagi...

The definitive edition of Emily Dickinsons correspondence, expanded and revised for the first time in over sixty years.Emily Dickinson was a letter...

The definitive edition of Emily Dickinsons correspondence, expanded and revised for the first time in over sixty years.Emily Dickinson was a letter...

Emperor Taizong (r. 62649) of the Tang is remembered as an exemplary ruler. This study addresses that aura of virtuous sovereignty and Taizongs con...