Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

An anthology of a different sort, this volume presents a representative sample of contemporary American poems in 2023, with a road map of their ...

A Critical Introduction proposes a new didactic and dynamic way of reading the great twentieth-century poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935). The aim is...

Before Pier Giorgio Di Cicco was made Poet Laureate of Toronto (2004-2007), he was instrumental in the establishment of Italian-Canadian literature...

Maurice Scully is not a poet for whom experience is shrouded in words. He doesn't begin with complicated patterns of sound that disentangle into co...

'Tread softly because you tread on my dreams' is one of the most well-known and repeated lines of poetry ever written. Less haunting, but still so...

'Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!' Robert BurnsRobert Burns, poet and lyricist, also known as Rabbie Burns,...

It has traditionally been held that Robert Southwells poetry offers a curious view of Elizabethan England, one that is from the restricted perspect...

Down to the Sunless Sea explores the time Coleridge spent in Gibraltar, Malta, Sicily and mainland Italy, where he had planned to recover his hea...

The work of Geoffrey Hill (1932-2016) often provokes bemusement or even hostility; however, he was often referred to as ''the greatest living poet'...

Algernon Charles Swinburne (18371909), dramatist, novelist and critic, was late Victorian Englands unofficial Poet Laureate. Swinburne was admired ...

Ignored by critics and readers of the time, these poems were written by Canadians who witnessed the horror of World War I first-hand, forming an an...