Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

After a preface describing the purpose and content of this work, the author presents a lengthy bibliography of sources. The proper names in the lyr...

This volume contains the complete text of the great Hopkins poem, together with Nigel Foxell's introduction and his copious notes, touching on near...

Christina Rossetti''s poetry and prose, written in 19th-century England, deals with the human fixation on appearance. Her belief in the Tractarian ...

This volume starts from the key misrepresentation of orthodox poetry criticism, that the conservative is also the new, and sets out to define the w...

A sequence of fragments seems the most appropriate form for a work of this kind, introductory, surveying, essentially personal, marked, as with all...

This book is concerned with the complex and uncertain nature of twentieth century poetry and poetics. Dealing with such major figures as Lorca, Ril...

Thomas P. Harrison here combines a lifelong interest in birds with a professional study of literature. This book, a study of birds as they are pres...

In Spite of All is a memoir by a Portuguese poet, of another Portuguese poet: Alberto de Lacerda, an almost legendary figure in expatriate circles....

This volume, featuring essays by a number of poets and critics, is the first survey of Peter Hughes' poetry, and is published simultaneously with h...

Asa Benveniste (1925-1990) who founded the legendary Trigram Press in London in 1965, ostensibly to publish Anglo-American cutting-edge poetry, was...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge is chiefly remembered as the Romantic poet who wrote The Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as Wordsworths collaborator on the...

Throughout history, men have prayed to gods and poets have interpreted ancient myths for new audiences. But what about women? With sections on t...

Horror novelist Peter Straub creates highly personalized fiction with an allusiveness and ambiguity that deny the genre's explicit nature. For him,...

Starting with William Blake's lost painting The Ancient Britons, this book shows how the visionary artist and poet reworked the Matter of Britain -...

Annette Smith and Dominic Thomas''s new translations of Aime Cesaire''s Like a Misunderstood Salvation and Solar Throat Slashed (poems deleted) exp...

Ascanius is the most prominent child hero in Virgil's Aeneid. He accompanies his father from Troy to Italy and is present from the first book of th...

The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets offers a fascinating introduction to Irish poetry from the seventeenth century to the present. Aimed primari...

Newly Recovered English Classical Translations, 1600-1800 is a unique resource: a volume presenting for the first time a wide-ranging collection of...

Poetica et Metrica 2.One of the most fascinating aspects of the poetics of multilingualism is that it reveals national literatures to be an outcome...

No American author of the early 19th century enjoys a larger international audience than Edgar Allan Poe. Widely translated, read, and studied, he ...

Le Bone Florence of Romeis a Middle English tail-rhyme romance whose unique copy dates to the late fifteenth century. An analogue of ChaucersMan of...

Le Bone Florence of Romeis a Middle English tail-rhyme romance whose unique copy dates to the late fifteenth century. An analogue of ChaucersMan of...

This book is an investigation of the foundation and evolution of romance in Iceland. The narrative type arose from the introduction of French narra...

This book aims to provide an in-depth introduction to the multifaceted life and times of Wallace Stevens, who is generally considered one of the gr...

This original and enlightening book casts fresh light on Shakespeare by examining the lives of his relatives, friends, fellow-actors, collaborators...

In 1401 Christine de Pizan (1365-1430?), one of the most renowned and prolific woman writers of the Middle Ages, wrote a letter to the provost of L...

What drives literary change? Does literature merely follow shifts in a culture, or does it play a distinctive role in shaping emergent trends? Mich...

One of a series designed to provide a new, accessible approach to the works of great poets and playwrights. Each text includes general notes on the...

Greco-Roman martial epic poetry, from Homer and Virgil to Neronian and Flavian epic, is obsessed with the treatment of dead bodies. Sometimes corps...

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

This unique and exciting collection, inspired by the scholarship of literary critic Stephanie Trigg, offers cutting-edge responses to the writings ...

The Cracks Between What We Are and What We Are Supposed to Be forms an extended consideration not only of Harryette Mullen''s own work, methods, an...

A literary genre that pervades 21st-century popular culture, science fiction creates mythologies that make statements about humanity's place in ...

This series is designed specifically to meet the curricular needs of high school and undergraduate college students studying poetry. A quick but in...