Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

A year of hand-picked poems and commentaries from the Guardian's 'Poem of the Week' blog. Carol Rumens has been contributing 'Poem of the Week' to...

Since 1996, Sam Adams's 'Letter from Wales' column has been appearing in PN Review, one of the most highly-regarded UK poetry magazines, offering i...

Mysterious, esoteric, baffling John Ashbery is notorious for the seeming difficulty of his work. But Ashbery is also entertaining, humorous and ch...

Poetry, arguably, has a greater range of conceptual meaning than perhaps any other term in English. At the most basic level everyone can recognise ...

Geoffrey Chaucer might be considered the quintessential English writer, but he drew much of his inspiration and material from Italy. Without the tr...

'Outstanding... The best short introduction I have come across' Sunday TimesWhen he died at the age of just twenty-five, few imagined John Keats wo...

When Rilke died in 1926, his reputation as a great poet seemed secure. But as the tide of the critical avant-garde turned, he was increasingly dism...

'The mouthmark Book of Poetry' is an anthology of the individual-author titles published under the mouthmark poetry pamphlet series, comprising the...

Emily Jane Brontë was born in July 1818; along with her sisters Charlotte and Anne, she is famed as a member of the greatest literary family of all...

This comprehensive and welcoming edition draws on the whole of Stevie Smith's output in poetry, prose and drawings from Novel on Yellow Paper (1936...

The pioneer of modern Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin has exerted - through his novel in verse Eugene Onegin, his plays, his short storie...

Written by his collateral descendant, sculptor Andrew Wordsworth, this insightful biography studies Wordsworth's poetry to understand more fully th...

All Manner of Tackle brings together a selection of Brian Bartletts literary prose from the past three decades. One of Atlantic Canadas finest poet...

Running Late marks the re-emergence of a truly unique and important voice in Canadian poetry, bringing together selected earlier works by Rolf Harv...

L''enjeu de cet essai est d''entrer dans la poetique de Baudelaire par la voie du langage, specifiquement par l''analyse d''une figure rhetorique d...

The volume traces the founding critical theories of the autobiographical genre, from the Enlightenment period to the most recent developments, whic...

Through critical and creative responses, Eavan Boland: Inside History takes a fresh look at Boland's influence as a poet and critic for the twenty-...

This volume contains excerpts from several interviews conducted throughout the author's career and spliced together to form a coherent narrative of...

Poet George Ellenbogens memoir is more than a collection of anecdotes of his immigrant family and their journey from Franz Josephs Austro-Hungarian...

Turn It Up! Music in Poetry from Jazz to Hip-Hop, edited by Stephen Cramer, is a vibrant anthology of 400 pages, including poems by everyone from L...

In Don't Read Poetry, award winning poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible introduction to the seemingly daunting task of rea...