Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, whose life and mystical poetry provided the inspiration for the Mevlevi Sufi order, is one of the world's best-known poets...

I pray in poems explores the intersection of great works of poetry and Christian faith, offering meditations on what these works illustrate about C...

Unashamedly a book for the bookish, yet accessible and frequently entertaining, this is the first book devoted to how libraries are depicted in ima...

Born in Tuscany in 1304, Italian poet Francesco Petrarca is widely considered one of the fathers of the modern Italian language. His writings inspi...

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 concurrent tenures of Gillian Clarke as National Poet of Wales, Carol Ann Duffy as UK Poet Laureate, Liz Lochhead as Scots Makar, and Paula Mee...

Poetry in the Mind is the first book-length cognitive analysis focused entirely on 21st century poetic texts and their conceptual effects. Addressi...

Walt Whitman created, in various editions of Leaves of Grass, what is arguably the most influential book of poems anywhere in the past 200 years...

How four American cities shaped Poe's life and writingsEdgar Allan Poe (18091849) changed residences about once a year throughout his life. Driven ...

All serious lovers of poetry will want this book. A. N. Wilson All good poetry has the power to transport and transform us, to inspire and challen...

DisPlace: The Poetry of Nduka Otiono engages actively with a diasporic world: Otiono is equally at home critiqueing petroculture in Nigeria and in ...

Lillian Allen is one of the leading creative Black feminist voices in Canada. Her work has been foundational to the dub poetry movement, which swe...

Described by W. B. Yeats as the nearest approach they have to a true poet, Susan Mitchell (18661926) was an active and valued member of Dublin soci...

Where Are the Snows takes its title from the famous refrain of FranÇois Villons 15th Century poem Ballad of the Ladies of Times Past. Like that poe...

Selected by translator Dasha C. Nisula, this unique volume traces the development of modern free verse that extends from Croatia on the Adriatic ...

This is the first dedicated commentary on the eighth and final book of Valerius Flaccus' Flavian epic Argonautica. It includes the Latin text, a ne...

The correspondence of John Dryden is the definitive edition of the letters of the most important playwright and poet of the late seventeenth centur...

A painter and writer, Mu Xin (1927-2011) received his artistic education in cosmopolitan Shanghai. During the Chinese Civil War, he fled to Taiwan;...

A wonderfully readable anthology of our greatest poetry, chosen by the author of A Little History of Poetry  Does anyone know more about poetry tha...

This volume questions and qualifies commonly accepted assumptions about the early modern English sonnet: that it was a strictly codified form, most...

Contemporary translations and adaptations of ancient Greek poet Callimachus by noted writer and critic Stephanie BurtCallimachus may be the best-ke...