Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

Drawing on the entire corpus of Coleridge's prose, Emerson Marks shows how the poet's rationale was grounded in the mimetic theory that informed hi...

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...

Based on a comparison of early editions, manuscripts, and copies annotated by the poet himself, this edition provides a reliable text of Coleridge'...

During the last sixty to seventy years avant-garde poetry in France has evolved in two directions: one toward poetry conceived as a means to an end...

Claudius Claudianus (ca. 370404 n. Chr.) galt lange vor allem als panegyrischer Chronist des weströmischen Kaiserhofs ab 395 n. Chr. Auch die wohl...

The Poetry and Poetics of Michael Heller: A Nomad Memory is the first comprehensive treatment of a singularly important American poet of the twenti...

The Contemporary Leonard Cohen is an exciting new study that offers an original explanation of Leonard Cohens staying power and his various positio...

A unique collection of interviews with contemporary poets at the height of their craft. How does a subconscious thought become an award-winning poe...

An authoritative commentary on the surviving fragments of Greek lyric poetry up to the death of Aristotle. No comparable work exists, partly becaus...

In an original and provocative demonstration that Coleridge's later poetry took on a powerful metaphysical conception, Edward Kessler emphasizes Co...

Although Rene Char's distinctive voice has brought him to the forefront of contemporary French writers; his complex poetry has remained virtually i...

Coleridge began in 1795 a series of public lectures. This volume includes all the printed and manuscript versions of the Bristol lectures in chrono...

How can literary imagination help us engage with the lives of other animals? Mark Payne seeks to answer this question by exploring the relationship...

Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 B.C.), known in English as Virgil, was perhaps the single greatest poet of the Roman empirea friend to the emperor Au...

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) was a major cultural figure in post-WWII Italy, well-known as a poet, novelist, communist intellectual, and filmmak...

Despite the great literary achievements of Chaucer, Langland, and the Pearl Poet, Ricardian English books were still a niche market in 1400. As Kat...