Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

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...

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions ...

'The book amounts to a comprehensive literary history of the time.' David Sexton, Evening StandardVolume 5 of The Letters of T. S. Eliot finds the ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was born in Sussex and died in Italy when his sailing boat overturned while returning from a visit to Byron. A r...

Siegfried Sassoon is the greatest and most famous of all British war poets. Established as a writer of some merit before the Great War broke out, h...

Profoundly original yet insistent on the derivative quality of his work, transgressive yet affirmative of tradition, Robert Duncan (1919-1988) was ...

A landmark in the publication of twentieth-century American poetry, this first volume of the long-awaited collected poetry, non-critical prose, and...

This first full-length biography of Anglo- American poet and activist Denise Levertov (1923-1997) brings to life one of the major voices of the sec...

William Butler Yeats ranks among the greatest literary talents of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Though best-known as the author of poems ...

Irish Experimental Poetry showcases a distinctive and vital body of poetry produced in contemporary Ireland which is modernist and innovative in st...

In this new interpretation of the life and work of the American poet, short-story writer and novelist Charles Bukowski, David Stephen Calonne exami...

At the age of fifty Stephane Mallarme (1842-98) spoke of his published work as very precise reference points on my mind's journey. In Stephane Mall...

In this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences--the...