Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

The bold essays that make up Reading the Difficulties offer case studies in and strategies for reading innovative poetry.Definitions of what consti...

We Are Not Wearing Helmets is a collection of political love poems rendered through the eyes of Cheryl BoyceTaylor, an immigrant living in New York...

After years of studying piano as a young woman in her family home in Amherst, Massachusetts, Emily Dickinson curated her music book, a common pract...

Alfred Tennyson was a poet all his life, writing more than a thousand works in virtually every poetic genre. Considered by his Victorian contemp...

Scholars have long noted the deeply rooted veneration of the power of the word - both the expressive and communicative capacities of language - in ...

Explores Victorian writers' erotic investment in statuesTheorises the function of the sculptural body in Victorian poetry and proseOffers thorough ...

New essays providing fresh insights into the great 20th-century American poet Lowell, his writings, and his struggles. Robert Lowell (1917-1977)...

The essays in Phenomenal Reading entice readers to cross accepted barriers, and highlight the work of poets who challenge language-as-usual in acad...

This is the first study of Russian writer Mikhail Lermontov (1814-41) that attempts to integrate the in-depth interpretations of all his major text...

Now in paperback, considered one of the greatest works of Persian literature, The Big Red Book is one of the masterpieces of Rumi, the medieval Suf...

This interdisciplinary and archival study explores the reception of ancient Rome in the artistic, literary, and philosophical works of David Jones ...

More than any other treasure, Shijing contains the historical roots of China, from which much of modern culture grew. From a lovelorn young man to ...

More than a century-and-a-half after his death, William Blake remains a truly remarkable and controversial figure. Equally gifted as poet and paint...

There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. Jon Stallworthy's classic and celebrated a...

Broken Hierarchies collects twenty books of poems by Geoffrey Hill, written over sixty years, and presents them in their definitive form. Four of t...

Dylan Thomas: A Centenary Celebration is a unique collection of specially commissioned essays celebrating the poet''s life and work one hundred yea...

>Erickson examines the work of Marianne Moore in order to provide some consistently successful strategies for understanding her poetryIn 1935, T...

The Appleman and the Poet, the fifth volume of Hubert Butlers essays, completes a thirty-year odyssey embarked upon by The Lilliput Press in 1984. ...

A century ago Oxford University Press published the first anthology of Canadian poetry-a beautiful blue edition with gilt edges. There are selectio...

The figures we have tell that the number of new books of poetry published each year nearly doubled between 1976 and 1993 and then nearly doubled ag...

When in his seventieth year Roy Fisher published Interviews Through Time (2000), he added and Selected Prose, which meant in effect three pieces: '...

The book centres on the most significant influence in the development of Betjeman's poetic imagination and that element of his life that he took mo...

The greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profou...