Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

While Frank OConnor was known primarily as one of Irelands finest short-story writers, he was also an accomplished translator. In the long line of ...

Michael Korda, the best-selling author of Hero and Alone, tells the story of the First World War not in any conventional way but through the intert...

Since the start of the twentieth century, poets have been irresistibly drawn to the image of the poem as a kind of data-handling, a way of mediatin...

What is meant by the Puritan literary tradition, and when did the idea of Puritan literature, as distinct from Puritan beliefs and practices, come ...

Stedmond Pardy's first book of poems, The Pleasures of this Planet Aren't Enough, was published by Mosaic Press in 2020 and launched his career as ...

Uncovering how poetry refigures Black history to imagine a more just present and future Poets are lyric historians, proclaimed Langston Hughes. Tod...

The reception of the American poet Walt Whitman has been a global phenomenon. It is central to the history of modern poetry, but it goes beyond lit...

The reception of the American poet Walt Whitman has been a global phenomenon. It is central to the history of modern poetry, but it goes beyond lit...

The medieval Welsh bardic grammars were composed and transmitted during a period of intense social and political change in Wales. These documents, ...

An award-winning author presents a portrait of Black America in the nineteenth century Over the course of two decades, award-winning poet Patricia ...

David Drake is recognized as one of the United States most accomplished nineteenth-century potters. Yet, though his potsmany inscribed with origina...

First published in 1989, Piepho has translated the Latin works of Mantuans eclogues, which play such a crucial role in the culture of Western Europ...

During her lifetime, Lydia Sigourney was acclaimed as nineteenth-century America's most popular woman poet and published widely as a historian, tra...

When Susan Landgraf received an Academy of American Poets' Laureate in 2020, her project proposal included teaching more than a dozen workshops on ...

Information science was a burgeoning field in the early years of the Cold War, and while public and academic libraries acted as significant sites f...

Central to understanding the prophecy and prayer of the Hebrew Bible are the unspoken assumptions that shaped themtheir genres. Modern scholars des...

Originally published in 1974. This book discusses those aspects of Chaucers art which are concerned with the problem of specific form. These aspect...

Youth spoken word poetry groups are on the rise in the United States, offering safe spaces for young people to write and perform. These diverse gro...