Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

'I, the poet William Yeats, | With old mill boards and sea-green slates, | And smithy work from the Gort forge, | Restored this tower for my wife G...

This book constructs a new approach to the interdisciplinary study of music and poetry by examining a series of encounters between Mallarmé and Deb...

In these odes Horace creates lyric poetry in Latin which stands comparison with anything written by his brilliant predecessors in Greek. Of the thr...

In these odes Horace creates lyric poetry in Latin which stands comparison with anything written by his brilliant predecessors in Greek. Of the thr...

This is by far the most detailed commentary yet on Horace's Epodes. The line-by-line commentary on each epode is prefaced by a substantial interpre...

This is a book for all readers of Homer, whether in translation or in the original. It attempts to characterize the poetic art of the Iliad and the...

Do we want to read poetry, or just like having a few poets to talk about? The history of poetry in twentieth-century Britain and Ireland is one wh...

A comprehensive literary commentary on many of the central pieces of Greek lyric poetry, including works by Alcman, Stesichorus, Sappho, Alcaeus, I...

Addressed to all readers of poetry, this is a wide-ranging book about the poet's role throughout the last three centuries. It argues that a concept...

In the second volume, the commentaries by Heubeck (Books IX-XII) and Hoekstra (Books XIII-XVI) are both preceded by introductions, with Hoekstra pa...

'It is impossible to say just what I mean!' Prufrock's frustration in Eliot's celebrated poem underlines the pessimistic view of language at the he...

Early Modern Women Poets represents a complete reexamination of the field, based on extensive archival research in manuscripts and early modern pri...

Poetry and Revolution is a radical re-examination of the canon of mid-seventeenth-century verse. The author questions and discards the old descript...

This is an innovative and accessible study of contemporary Northern Irish poetry in the light of current debates about post-modernism, poetry and p...

In Spenser's Forms of History, Bart van Es describes six modes through which Early Modern England addressed the past: chronicle, chorography, antiq...

The collection of prose poems known as Le Spleen de Paris is an important, puzzling, and yet relatively neglected area of Baudelaire's work. This i...

William Blake's The Four Zoas is one of the most challenging poems in the English language, and one of the most profound. It is also one of the lea...

This book combines the exploration of the`ethics' of the Iliad with its poetic and narrative techniques, which extend all the way from touches of p...

This book combines one of the most famous names in Latin literature, the Roman poet Horace, with the crème de la crème of contemporary internationa...

The Roman de la Rose was a major bestseller - largely due to its robust treatment of 'natural' sexuality. This study concentrates on the ways in wh...

This new critical biography of Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) is the first to appear for more than fifty years. In this time his status as one of ...

This book sheds light on the complexity of medieval German literary culture as it evolved in the course of the thirteenth century (c. 1220-1290) by...

This book is about the ways in which rhyme in French verse produces shapes or interferes with meaning - a topic which, despite its centrality, has ...

The history of Plath's reception as a writer has been beset by the language of scandal. Psychobiographical speculation, combined with the controver...

How could a poet who worked in an oral tradition maintain the momentum of his song? How could a poet such as Homer weave a tale which filled an eve...

It has been said that the poems of Vaughan's Silex Scintillans (1650; 1655) are the most biblical in English: this book revises our understanding o...

This book studies Virgil's ideas of nature, history, sense of nation, and sense of identity. It is exact and patient in its probing for nuance and ...

This is an acclaimed study of the understanding of sex and gender in the early modern period, examining in particular Milton's interventions in the...

This important new verse translation of the extant works and major fragments of Callimachus includes a full Introduction, covering the poet's life ...

This is volume four of the landmark edition of Byron's poetry. Indispensable for Byron scholars, it represents the most comprehensive editing of hi...

Aeneid Book 2

This collection of essays, written over a period of almost thirty years, deals with one problem: who is the `I' in the odes of the most celebrated ...

This book provides the foremost critical edition of the Greek lyric poets: Alcman, Stesichorus, Ibycus, Anacreon, Simonides and Corinna, and other ...

Although George Crabbe (1754-1832) was acclaimed by his contemporaries--receiving high praise from Lord Byron, Sir Walter Scott, and Jane Austen, a...

This book, which is the first comprehensive study of its subject, shows how one traditionally esteemed author, the Roman poet Virgil, played an une...

This is the first of a four-volume edition of Greek lyric fragments which takes account of recent papyrus finds and new editions of those works in ...

This is the first full scholarly edition of Browning's greatest and perhaps best-known collection of short poems, Men and Women. A comprehensive in...

A scholarly edition of prose works by Fulke Greville. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, ...

This volume contains six of the eight Bells and Pomegranates, modestly-priced pamphlets published by Edward Moxon in a bid to help Browning recover...

Pre-Raphaelitism was the first avant-garde movement in Britain. It shocked its first audience, and as it modulated into Aestheticism it continued t...

A scholarly edition of works by John Donne. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and schola...

Although Housman's three collections of poems, the third published posthumously, have remained popular, they have not received much serious critica...

The first Selected Poems of John Davidson for 30 years, this new selection brings together the best of his work both from the 1890s and his later m...

AlthoughThe Decameron and The Canterbury Tales have often been linked, this is the first ever major study of the two most popular collections of me...

A scholarly edition of letters by Robert Burns. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and sc...

The additional material in this volume of poems from Clare's middle period includes some of his finest poems, such as `The Last of Summer', `The Mo...

Claudian is often called the last poet of the classical tradition. This is the first ever English edition of his last extant work, with a full intr...