Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

A fascinating new study of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'Private Lives of the Ancient Mariner' illuminates the poet's deeply troubled personality and s...

Heaven in Ordinary is like a love affair with poetry that engages with religious questions, for good or ill, concerned with five poets who are haun...

This is a book about the conflict between history and poetry and historians and poets in Atlantic World society from the end of the seventeenth c...

From the bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes this essential primer to reading poetry like a professor that unlocks ...

The book studies the impact of Stevensian and Valeryan poetics, and symbolist poetics more broadly, on a range of Anglo-American poets in untypical...

A.E. Housman's poetry (especially A Shropshire Lad) remains well-known, widely read and often quoted. However, Housman did not view himself as a pr...

Where were you when you first read Ariel? Who were you? What has changed in your life? In the lives of women? In My Ariel, Sina Queyras barges into...

Ovid's Metamorphoses gains its ideal twenty-first-century herald in Stanley Lombardo's bracing translation of a wellspring of Western art and liter...

The popular Arthurian legends, such as the grail quests of Perceval and Galahad, and the love of Lancelot for Queen Guenevere, have largely oversha...

As an independent publisher, Jeremy Robson always punched above his weight with a roster of authors that have been the envy of many large publisher...

In this innovative series of public lectures at Newcastle University, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to au...

Keith Douglas was arguably the most important poet of the Second World War, although over three-quarters of the poems in his Collected Poems were w...

This fast-moving Modern English version of Chaucer's greatest tragic romance highlights the poem's rapid shifts in register and diction as well as ...

Splendidly various TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT Typewriters, plagiarism and the poetic line are just three of the subjects under the spotlight in this...

A dazzling literary exploration by acclaimed poet and critic Michael Schmidt, The First Poets brings to life the great Greek poets who gave our poe...

The idea of place runs like a river through the life and works of the poet and playwright W.B. Yeats. This book focuses on his time in Dublin, Lond...

Since its inception in 2012, the hugely successful online introduction to modern poetry known as ModPo has engaged some 415,000 readers, listeners,...

Acknowledged Legislator: Critical Essays on the Poetry of Martín Espada stands as the first-ever collection of essays on poet and activist Martín E...

Acknowledged Legislator: Critical Essays on the Poetry of Martín Espada stands as the first-ever collection of essays on poet and activist Martín E...

This special issue of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is devoted to William Blake. It explores the British and European reception of Blake...

Scholars of the Gothic have long recognised Blakes affinity with the genre. Yet, to date, no major scholarly study focused on Blakes intersection w...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Elizabeth Bishop has been described as the 'best-loved' poet in English of the second half ...

Ask two poets what their first drafts look like, and youll get wildly different answers. From typed pages with delicate annotation to hasty scribbl...

Spensers ethics offers a novel account of Edmund Spenser as a moral theorist, situating his ethics at the nexus of moral philosophys profound trans...

Evelyn Waugh's first book: a portrait of one of the greatest artists of the nienteenth century, from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth'B...