Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

Frank O'Hara's New York School and Mid-Century Mannerism offers a ground-breaking account of the poet Frank O'Hara and the extraordinary cultural b...

The daughter of an aristocratic family, a wife, a devoted mother and a lover of women, Sappho was one of the greatest writers of her own or any age...

Critically acclaimed and award-winning poet Micheal O'Siadhail's Desire is a quartet of poems which addresses the pressing global concerns of our ...

Ovid's Tragic Heroines expands our understanding of Ovid's incorporation of Greek generic codes and the tragic heroines, Phaedra and Medea, while o...

La correspondencia de César Vallejo es la mejor puerta de entrada documental a su biografía. Esta edición recoge todas las cartas que se conocen es...

La correspondencia de César Vallejo es la mejor puerta de entrada documental a su biografía. Esta edición recoge todas las cartas que se conocen es...

Cricket in Poetry tells the fascinating story of cricket's strong ties with poetry.It may be cricket's rural origins, its slow pace or the literary...

Por razones que aquí se revelan, César Vallejo ocultó la condición vanguardista de Trilce, obra maestra de la lírica hispánica, publicada en Lima e...

Fujiwara no Teika (11621241) was born into an illustrious lineage of poets just as Japans ancien régime was ceding authority to a new political ord...

Francisco de Quevedo (Madrid, 1580-1645) was well known for his rich and dynamic style, achieved through an ingenious and complex manipulation of l...

Valery's essays on Leonardo, Poe, Mallarme, and with these the Teste Cycle, were that part of his work most central to his thought. The extensive s...

Widely considered the first poet in the Western tradition to address the matter of his own experience, Hesiod occupies a seminal position in litera...

In this elegantly written study, Nancy Mason Bradbury situates Chaucers last and most ambitious work in the context of a zeal for proverbs that was...

Nearly all of us have studied poetry and been taught to look for the symbolic as well as literal meaning of the text. Is this the way the ancients ...

This book brings together ten essays on John Donne and George Herbert composed by an international group of scholars. The volume represents the fir...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.This book offers the first full-le...

This book is about the intertextual relationships between the works of the Shelleys and the Brownings. While a lot of research has been done on the...