Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

Christine Kitanos Dumb Luck & other poems offers a portrait of a thirty-something Asian American woman who finds herself living in the relative...

Simultaneously transnational and local, poetry in the twenty-first century is produced across digital networks, shaped through local communities, a...

In The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse, Roberta Frank peers into the northern poets workshop, eavesdropping as Old English and Old Norse verse re...

In 1976, at 2:00 one summer morning, paramilitary forces broke into a house in a quiet upscale neighborhood of Buenos Aires. Inside, sleeping, were...

The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad investigates each of the Iliad's twenty-four books, proceeding in order from book 1 to book 24 and devot...

The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad investigates each of the Iliad's twenty-four books, proceeding in order from book 1 to book 24 and devot...

Writing Celebrity is divided into three major sections. The first part traces the rise of a national celebrity culture in the United States and exa...

This critical study of the literary magazines, underground newspapers, and small press publications that had an impact on Charles Bukowski's early ...

Treating the work of Sappho, Goethe, Blake, Hölderlin, Verlaine, George, Mörike, and Yeats in detail, Bennett makes the provocative argument that t...

The first collection focused on the writing of provocative author and performance artist Sapphire, including her groundbreaking novel PUSH that has...

Phillis Wheatley, the African-born slave poet, is considered by many to be a pioneer of Anglo-American poetics. This study argues how in her 1773 P...

What do we mean by 'voice' in poetry? In this work, David Nowell Smith teases out the diverse meanings of 'voice', from a poem's soundworld to the ...

If material bodies have inherent, animating powersor virtues, in the premodern sensethen those bodies typically and most insistently associated in ...

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...

In The World Unmade Frank Ormsby explores the poetic diversity of Northern Ireland, with a particular focus on the poetry of the Troubles. He draws...

The Nonconformist's Memorial is a gathering of four long sequences that underscores Susan Howe's reputation as one of the leading experimentalists ...

The Michael Hamburger Reader is the definitive collection of poems, translations, essays, interviews and personal reflections by one of the most in...

Uncovering Wordsworth's influence on TennysonThis book explores Tennyson's poetic relationship with Wordsworth through a close analysis of Tennyson...