Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

A writer, teacher and traveller, Janice Kulyk Keefer reflects her experiences with various cultures of Eastern and Western Europe and Canada in her...

Laurence Hutchman, in Writers' Words: Conversations with Eight Canadian Poets, interviews major poets of the modernist period: Ralph Gustafson, Geo...

Quickly equips readers with the strategies to understand and deepen their engagement with individual poems Praise for the first edition: 'Wide-rang...

The 6th/5th century BCE Greek melic (or songwriting) poet Pindar was one of the most celebrated lyricists of antiquity. His famous victory odes off...

Virgil, Horace and Ovid are often cited as the three great canonical poets of classical Roman literature. And of the three, arguably it is Ovid (43...

After the collapse of the Qing dynasty in 1911 and the rise of a vernacular language movement, most scholars and writers declared the classical Chi...

Ovid Unseens provides a bank of 80 practice passages of Latin verse, half elegiac and half hexameter. Taken from across Ovids works, including the...

The Perfect Stranger was first published in the '60s and since then has continued to find a select group of passionate admirers. Evocative and enga...

Menotti Lerro is one of the most interesting poets of modern-day Europe. Born in a small village just outside of Salerno, Southern Italy, in 1980, ...

The Persian Presence in Victorian Poetry surveys the variety of ways in which Persia, and the multitude of ideological, historical, cultural and po...

Originally published in 1984 to great acclaim, including being awarded the Texas Institute of Letters Poetry Prize, this stirring collection of poe...

Edwin Morgan (1920-2010) is one of the giants of modern poetry. Scotland's national poet from 2004 to his death in 2010, in his long life he produc...

The Irish writer, Mary Blachford Tighe (17721810), is best known as author of the Spenserian epic Psyche; or, the Legend of Love, first printed pri...

Sir Ernest Shackleton, known as a tough polar explorer and inspirational leader, also held the words of poets close to his heart. 'Poetry was his o...

A personal journey that describes a mechanism to find certainty through relaxation, enabling the reader to relax deeper, feel better and enjoy life...

What reader could fail to be enthralled by the Iliad and the Odyssey, those greatest heroic epics of antiquity? Yet the author of those immortal te...

An award-winning translator presents selections from the haunting final volumes of a leading voice in contemporary Hungarian poetrySzilárd Borbély,...

An award-winning translator presents selections from the haunting final volumes of a leading voice in contemporary Hungarian poetrySzilárd Borbély,...

Edward Thomas and Wales offers a fascinating reevaluation of Thomas''s writing. Bringing together for the first time the prose and poetry centred i...

Painter, poet and actor Salvator Rosa was one of the most engaging and charismatic personalities of seventeenth-century Italy. Although a gifted la...

Born and raised with the kind of expectations that often accompany privilege, Jim Lenfestey approached his thirtieth birthday in a state of acute a...

Poet, artist, visionary and author of the unofficial English national anthem ''Jerusalem'', William Blake is an archetypal misunderstood genius. Hi...

The New Milton Criticism seeks to emphasize ambivalence and discontinuity in Milton's work and interrogate the assumptions and certainties in previ...

Byron exists in two incompatible dimensions: as fully-documented history, and as romantic myth. Often the myth predominates, describing him as a pa...

This book explores the poetics of fancy in the works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, a term often paired with imagination in well-known Romantic poetic...