Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

First book-length treatment of a fascinating medieval French romance, underlining its influence in the genre. Partonopeus de Blois is one of the m...

New essays demonstrate Gower's mastery of the three languages of medieval England, and provide a thorough exploration of the voices he used and the...

A re-examination of the George Circle in the cultural and political contexts of Wilhelmine, Weimar, and Nazi Germany. Stefan George (1868-1933) wa...

A collection of new essays treating the most important aspects of the work of the most famous late Romantic, Heinrich Heine. As the most prominent...

New essays on Chaucer's engagement with religion and the religious controversies of the fourteenth century. How do critics, religious scholars and...

When, in 1948, Tony Harrison entered Leeds Grammar School as a scholarship boy, he found himself, as Richard Hoggart saw, at the friction point of ...

Tomasz Garbols book reconstructs Czesaw Mioszs poetic vision of the world after the Fall. The entry point to this approach is the conviction about ...

The aim of this book is to revisit Ossian, whilst broadening the scope of oral literature and translation to embrace cultural contexts outside of E...

This Festschrift marks the 50th anniversary of the Dallas Goethe Center, a nonprofit educational and cultural arts organization, dedicated to advan...

This study argues that the vernacular fable constituted a productive site for negotiating scholastic poetics in late medieval England. On the basis...

First recent full-length analysis of a major medieval poem. The late fourteenth-century English poem Winner and Waster narrates a debate between t...

These essays in the language, literature and history of the broadlyspeaking Celtic world range widely over time and space and subjectmatter. Subjec...

The Nation of Islam and Black Consciousness: The Works of Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, and Other Writers engages in the scholarly discussions about...

A Saxon of St. Bonifaces acquaintance in England observed that the two peoples, the English and Saxons, were of the same bone and blood. Certainly ...

The Persona of Czesaw Miosz considers the poetry of Miosz in the innovative light of world literature and comparative literary studies. The author ...

This book interrogates the concept of the subject in the poem, against the broader background of literary-theoretical issues related to the lyric s...

To this day, Salem, Massachusetts, is synonymous with the witch trials of 1692. Their unique pace and structure has not only made the infamous town...

The book provides the first comprehensive study of love and ethics in Middle English and Middle Scots poems written at the close of the Middle Ages...

In honour of Goethe and the 200th anniversary of the first publication of his outstanding poem sequence the West-Eastern Divan (1819), A New Divan ...

The Oxford History of Poetry in English is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon cultur...

An absorbing portrait of an extraordinary man, an analysis of the work of a great Russian poet, and the evocation of a crucial period in Russian cu...

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