Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

This original volume proposes a novel way of reading Dantes Vita nova, exemplified in a rich diversity of scholarly approaches to the text. This gr...

In Ars-Prophetica, Haim O. Rechnitzer uncovers and recovers the theological elements within the poetry of four renowned Hebrew-Israeli poets. First...

Between 1599 and 1601, no fewer than five anthologies appeared in print with extracts from Shakespeare's works. Some featured whole poems, while ot...

The history of China, as any history, is a story of and in translation. Translating Early Modern China tells the story of translation in China to a...

The scholar is transparent and accountable, the poet inward and errant: anyone who reads Anne Carson has to suspend many such separations of power....

New essays by top international Schiller scholars on the reception of the great German writer and dramatist, emphasizing his realist aspects. The ...

This book presents a sequence of six related studies of poets from classical antiquity to the present (Pindar and Sophocles at one end, Pound at th...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

Five Hundred Years of Chinese Poetry offers the only historical survey, in any language, of this important span of Chinese poetry. Written by the f...

Coleridge's Aids to Reflection was written at a time when new movements in thought were starting to unsettle belief. It was read with admiration by...

Coleridge's Aids to Reflection was written at a time when new movements in thought were starting to unsettle belief. It was read with admiration by...

Studying the nature of symbol in Coleridge's work, Father Barth shows that it is central to Coleridge's intellectual endeavor in poetry and critici...

Grouped together in this book are several smaller volumes and plaquettes in which Valery had published selections of his shorter prose writings: ap...

The search for a substitute for religion, Adalaide Kirby Morris argues, occupies Stevens' poetic energy from his earliest to his latest work. It em...

In this South American epic, poet Claudia Prado imagines her ancestors' nineteenth-century migration from the Basque Country into Argentina and, ul...

In this South American epic, poet Claudia Prado imagines her ancestors' nineteenth-century migration from the Basque Country into Argentina and, ul...

The works of Argentine writer Silvina Ocampo (190393) are enjoying unprecedented attention from international scholars, writers, journalists, trans...

Li He (790-816) holds a place in China's poetic history somewhat outside the mainstream, but in every generation of readers there have been those w...