Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

Seamus Heaney's prose poetics return repeatedly to the adequacy of poetry, its ameliorative, restorative response to the violence of historical lif...

The Sonnet provides a comprehensive study of one of the oldest and most popular forms of poetry, widely used by Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth...

The region of Campania with its fertility and volcanic landscape exercised great influence over the Roman cultural imagination. A hub of activity o...

The Getty Hexameters looks in detail at a series of forty-four magical verses inscribed on a recently discovered lead tablet from Sicily in the fif...

The Tabulae Iliacae (Iliac tablets) are a collection of twenty-two miniature marble reliefs from the early Roman Empire; all of them are inscribed ...

The final instalment of this substantial work of scholarship on Ovid.

The first major study in English of Vasily Zhukovsky (17831852)poet, translator of German romantic verse, and mentor of Pushkinthis book brings ove...

This critical work asks whether the formation of a poet's oeuvre must involve artistic aberration. With introductory statements exploring the natur...

A KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF 2018In 2012, Sarah Ruhl was a distinguished author and playwright, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Max Ritvo, a stud...

'The mind of David Jones is capable of such breathtaking leaps across the centuries, that nothing can appear incongruous in his writings and they a...

Piero Bigongiari (1914-1997) was among the most prolific and consistent Italian poets of the last century. He was central to the ''third generation...

One of the founding texts of Western literature, the Metamorphoses is nevertheless anything but earnest or off-putting. Ovids sequence of fifteen w...

In the early 1950s Auden began planning a prose volume that would bring together some of his published essays, lectures, and reviews, together w...

These essays cover the range of George Oppen's poetry and the ways it has been read at all stages of his career, from his overtly Objectivist roots...

In Samson Agonistes, Miltons last great work, he addresses questions that pressed insistently on the imagination of all who were unhappy with the c...

In June 2016, J.H. Prynne celebrates his 80th birthday. A major figure in contemporary British poetry, he and his work are here celebrated by frien...

This companion volume to On Performance Writing, with implicated readings, brings together most of the essays-taking a deliberately broad view of t...

Joy Davidman is known, if she is known at all, as the wife of C. S. Lewis. Their marriage was immortalized in the film Shadowlands and Lewiss memoi...

Helen Maria Williamss epic poem Peru, first published in 1784, movingly recounts the story of Francisco Pizarros brutal conquest and exploitation o...

In A Hundred Himalayas, Sydney Lea has collected a group of essays written over 30 years, representing what he refers to as the persistence of preo...

Rather than making something out of nothing, what follows is an endeavour to express the potential of language and thought to encounter what is inf...

Este libro recoge los ensayos de siete autores que reflexionan sobre la forma en que la figura del narrador chileno Jose Donoso se ha modificado tr...

Permutations of a Self grapples with issues of belonging and connection, all from the perspective of someone who does a lot more observing and rumi...

Lorca, icon and polymath in all his manifestations. A Companion to Federico García Lorca provides a clear, critical appraisal of the issues and de...

Readers of poetry are often told to leave poems alone - to learn them by heart or to enjoy how they sound and leave it at that. This is all very we...

Scholars have long noted the deeply rooted veneration of the power of the wordboth the expressive and communicative capacities of languagein Russia...

Joy Kogawa is a Member of the Order of Canada and a Member of the Order of British Columbia with numerous honorary degrees and lifetime achievement...

A body of Bedouin oral poetry which was collected in the second or third Islamic century, the pre-Islamic qasidah, or ode, stands with the Qur'an a...

Jose Marti occupies a central place in Latin American letters, and he is an unparalleled foundational figure in Cuban culture. Marti''s writing sh...

The rise of modernism marked one of the major transitional periods in contemporary literature. The American modernist poets created a rich legacy i...

Dennis Cooper is one of the most inventive and prolific artists of our time. Working in a variety of forms and media since he first exploded onto t...

Volume 1 of 2. Coleridge's Shorter Works and Fragments brings together a number of substantial essays that were not long enough to require volumes ...

The Secret Life of Poems is a primer which offers a poem - or on occasion an excerpt - succeeding with commentary in which rhythm, form, metre and ...

In much the same way that photography forced painting to move in new directions, the advent of the World Wide Web, with its proliferation of easily...