Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

Since its initial publication, Poetry Notebook has become a must-read for any lover of poetry. Somewhat of an iconoclast, Clive James gets to the h...

Jenkins challenges the notion that Lemaire''s recourse to rhetoric was an artistic failure, arguing that rhetoric was actually his success. He demo...

Through an analysis of French hagiography and the vernacular translations of nineteen saints'' lives, Johnson and Cazelles explore the impact of sa...

In this volume Judith Rice Rothschild offers close readings and comparisons of the Lais in order to examine Marie de France''s narrative technique.

This is a study of Medieval French poet Charles de Orleans and his use of the allegorical mode in his work.

Florence L. Yudin explores the theme of silence in Jorge Guillen''s Aire nuestro.

The Innamorato, predecessor to Ariosto''s Orlando furioso, has been known in the English-speaking world since the sixteenth century, in both Italia...

This collection in prose and verse of twenty-seven historical or legendary tales adapted from the Gesta Romanorum by Pierre Gringore (1475-1538), t...

The concept of the individual or the self, central in so many modern-day contexts, has not been investigated in depth in the Anglo-Saxon period....

Spanning a period of fifteen years, these five 'Inter-views' with Richard Berengarten explore the many facets of his writings. Hospitably and expan...

The venture of this inviting collection is to look, from the many vantages that the 35 poets in this eclectic anthology chose to look, at what it w...

While scholars have chronicled Czes?aw Mi?oszs engagement with religious belief, no previous book-length treatment has focused on his struggles wit...

Focusing on literary and popular poets, as well as work by women, African Americans, and soldiers, this book considers how writers used poetry to a...

David Wojahn examines the state of American verse as it enters the first decades of a new millennium, focusing on both the challenges and opportuni...

The poetry of John Milton reflects Milton''s intellectual and practical involvement with the daily problems of liberty and authority, and ensures i...

This epic French poem was most likely written in the fourteenth century. The edition contains an introduction examining the plot, structure, langua...

This is the first volume of critical essays devoted to the work of Trevor Joyce, one of the Republic of Ireland's most innovative poets of the past...

This study presents an episodic history of an epic period in British poetry, when bad times forced political subversion and textual impaction upon ...

The work of Somhairle MacGill-Eain (Sorley MacLean), the greatest Gaelic poet of the 20th century, has a significance which echoes far beyond the c...

This expanded edition adds sixteen new exercises designed to inspire creativity and help poets hone their skills. Each exercise includes a clearly-...

Milton and This Pendant World is an interpretation of the great English poet in an age increasingly skeptical, in a culture dominated by the assum...

In The Arrow-maker, D.M. Black''s sensitive attention to emotional states of mind, sometimes his own, sometimes those of others such as St. Augusti...

Modern readers can sometimes be unsure about the language and the literary conventions of medieval and Renaissance verse--lyrical works written ...

Stubborn Poetries is a study of poets whose work, because of its difficulty, apparent obduracy, or simple resistance to conventional explication, r...

Geoffrey Chaucer is widely considered the father of English literature. This introduction begins with a review of his life and the cultural milieu ...

Rant. Chant. Chisme. is the debut collection of poetry by south Texas native Amalia Ortiz, featuring writing from the first decade of her career. R...

This book places Victorian poetry within the context of a radical shift over the last 150 years in the key European model for human definition and ...

An impressive new collection from a poet whose previous book was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle A...

The most comprehensive collection in English of the founder of modern Italian poetryGiovanni Pascoli (18551912)the founder of modern Italian poetry...

The American war in Vietnam was one of the most morally contentious events of the twentieth century, and it produced an extraordinary outpouring of...