Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

In 1801, some five years after Robert Burns death, nine of his friends sat down to dinner in what is now known as Burns Cottage in Alloway to celeb...

Erudite and entertaining in equal measure, Somewhere Becoming Rain is a love letter from the much-loved writer Clive James to one of the worlds mos...

This volume offers a fresh translation of a generous selection of Lorcas suites, a body of work that Federico García Lorca left largely unpublished...

This volume offers a fresh translation of a generous selection of Lorcas suites, a body of work that Federico García Lorca left largely unpublished...

Stephen Spender, along with his friends W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and C. Day Lewis, rose to prominence in the 1930s, writing powerfully of the fe...

Shortlisted for the 2016 T. S. Eliot Prize, this new collection of expert lyric poems from Whitbread Poetry Award winner Bernard O'Donoghue movingl...

Seidel is the great controversialist of American poetry. Dubbed a 'transgressive adventurer,' a 'demonic gentleman,' a 'triumphant outsider,' a 'gr...

Since it was first published in 1980, Terry Jones's study of Geoffrey Chaucer's Knight has proved to be one of the most enduringly popular and cont...

Paragon of youthful beauty, romantic symbol of a lost England, and precociously gifted poet, Rupert Chawner Brooke died in a hospital ship off the ...

The present volume of new, interdisciplinary scholarship investigates the arts with which Pound had a lifelong interaction including architecture, ...

Argues that Gertrude Stein's gender can best be described as 'transmasculine'This thoughtful and sophisticated book views Gertrude Stein's life and...

This book develops new insight into the idea of progress as improvement as the basis for an approach to literary Romanticism in the Scottish contex...

Examines the representation of landscape in the poetry of John Burnside, Kathleen Jamie, Robin Robertson and Kenneth WhiteProvides an interdiscipli...

Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That casts new light on the life, prose and poetry of Graves, without which the story of Grea...

When Jesus offers his body as a promise to his disciples, he initiates a liturgical framework that is driven by irony and betrayal. Through these d...

Collects Stan Gontarski's finest essays on the work of Samuel Beckett over a forty-year periodRepresenting a profound engagement with the work of S...

A revelatory and deeply personal history of twentieth-century poetry by prize-winning poet and memoirist John BurnsidePoetry helps us to make sense...

This anthology offers a panoramic snapshot of poetic practice today, showcasing both leading and emerging poets connected through their appearances...

How rhyme became entangled with debates about the nature of liberty in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English poetryIn his 1668 preface to Para...

When I say this book is a love story, I mean it is about things that cannot be gotten over--like this world, and some of the people in it. In 1819...

What do American poets mean when they talk about freedom? How can form help us understand questions about what shapes we want to give our poetic li...

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...

The next day Wordsworth arrived from Bristol at Coleridge''s cottage.... He answered in some degree to his friend''s description of him, but was mo...

The forerunner of our digital age, a French poem about a shipwreck published in 1897, with its mind-bending possibilities of being read up and down...

Rudyard Kipling was one of the most versatile writers of the Victorian age-a journalist, storyteller, historian and poet. One of the major subjects...

I was one of the 8,000-strong Betjemaniacs gathered at Carruan farm in Cornwall in August 2006 to celebrate the hundredth birthday of Sir John Betj...