Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

Aimé Césaire is due a major critical reinterpretation and that is exactly what this book carries out. Through an in-depth grasp of the trajectory a...

In this electrifying and raw debut anthology, Maggie Nelson unpicks the everyday with the quick alchemy and precision of her later modern classics ...

Pindarthe Theban eagle, as Thomas Gray famously called himhas often been taken as the archetype of the sublime poet: soaring into the heavens on wi...

The Choice of Odysseus demonstrates how the Odyssey provided Renaissance authors and readers with a poetic ethicstools for living developed in poet...

By making his argument about In Memoriam a continuous argument for it, Timothy Peltason brings to light a wider appreciation of its greatness and o...

This is an essential companion for undergraduate students studying Ovid and this popular epic Latin poem. Perhaps no other classical text has prove...

Dante's Divine Comedy in Early Renaissance England compares the intellectual, emotional, and religious world of Dante in 13th-century Florence with...

At the end of the fifteenth century, Gavin Douglas devised his ambitious dream vision The Palyce of Honour in part to signal a new scope to Scottis...

Introducing students to the full range of approaches to the study of Renaissance poetry that they are likely to encounter in their course of study,...

Essays shedding fresh and significant light on Gower's poetry, major and minor, as it was received, read, and re-produced in England and in Iberia ...

This book is concerned with the complexities of defining 'place', of observing and 'seeing' place, and how we might write a poetics of place. From ...

The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns treats the extensive writing of and culture surrounding Scotland's national 'bard'. Robert Burns (1759-96) was ...

In the wake of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Iranian society and culture underwent massive changes. Here, Khatereh Sheibani argues that cinema evolv...

This work-a parallel-text edition that contains all four versions of Piers Plowman-constitutes a major enterprise of textual scholarship and will p...

Dubbed 'the English Virgil' in his own lifetime, Spenser has been compared to the Augustan laureate ever since. He invited the comparison, expectin...

Poetry puts intent into words; singing lengthens words--this is one of the earliest Chinese comments on artistic expression. Poetic language extend...

This volume is a study of how the poetry of Chaucer continued to give pleasure in the eighteenth century despite the immense linguistic, literary, ...

This book argues that populism has been a shaping force in Irish literary culture. Populist moments and movements have compelled authors to reject ...

Emily Brontë is one of the few modern writers in English whose distinction as a novelist is matched by her distinction as a poet. She lived and die...

Neoplatonism, the dominant philosophy of Late Antiquity, inspired not only the intellectual traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam but also ...

As the 'father' of the English literary canon, one of a very few writers to appear in every 'great books' syllabus, Chaucer is seen as an author wh...

The story of Jason and the Argonauts is one of the best known of ancient Greek myths and has captivated people for over two and a half thousand yea...

The Poetry of the Americas offers a lively and detailed history of relations among poets in the US and Latin America, spanning three decades from t...