Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

Using a broad, comparative approach, this study shows how the figure of the gift structures poetic discourse and does so from the age of Homer up t...

Friendship as a poetic principle in early modern Spanish literary worksDonald Gilbert-Santamara shows how the AristotelianCiceronian notion of perf...

Redrawing the conventional map of Victorian PoeticsVictorian Poetry and the Poetics of the Literary Periodical offers an alternative history of Vic...

Examines Marianne Moore's editorship of the modernist magazine, the Dial between 1925 and 1929As editor of the Dial, Moore wielded considerable cul...

Robert Boncardo investigates how Stphane Mallarm, one of modernity's most ingenious yet obscure poets, became an object of major political signific...

Presents a major revaluation of experimental poetry's social function in the US. In 1934, the Marxist and Modernist poet Louis Zukofsky was labelle...

Hugh MacDiarmid is widely considered the most significant Scottish poet since Robert Burns and the major literary force in twentieth-century Scotti...

James Hogg (1770-1835) is increasingly recognised as a major Scottish author and one of the most original figures in European Romanticism. 16 essay...

This is both the first complete annotated edition of the letters exchanged by these major twentieth-century Scottish poets and the first major expl...

New essays on Burns' special place in Scottish, English and Irish literary culture In this volume, 17 leading Burns scholars, poetry critics and pr...

A compelling cultural reinterpretation of humanist discourses of boyhood The English epyllion, the highly erotic mythological verse that swept the ...

Introduces Tennyson's famous elegy to first-time readers, students and teachers of the poem. In Memoriam is one of the most famous and influential ...

The Middle English poem Pearl is an elegy on the death of a child, written to provide consolation for the loss of a loved one through instruction i...

In this unprecedented anthology, acclaimed poets from around the world select poems from their countries of origin to share with a wider audience. ...

In his Essay of 1815, Wordsworth asserts that a pure and refined scheme of harmony must prevail in all higher poetry. This idea of a structured and...

Poet and Hero in the Persian Book of Kings presents a far-reaching reassessment of the classical Persian epic known as the Shahnama or Book of King...

At the heart of this book is a belief that poetry matters, and that it enables us to enjoy and understand life. In this accessible guide, Andrew Ho...

This study by Neil Corcoran considers the kinds of responsibility which some exemplary modern lyric poetry takes on, or to which it makes itself su...

Fernan Gonzalez lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of a fearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies...