Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

This Dialogue of One collects thirteen essays on English, French and American poets by one of the era''''s most engaging and highly esteemed poet-c...

Few early modern poets engaged more fully with their historical circumstances than John Milton. A pamphleteer, government employee, and writer of o...

Geoffrey Chaucer is the best-known and most widely read of all medieval British writers, famous for his scurrilous humour and biting satire against...

A dazzling recreation of the most memorable Middle English poem, and one that captures the original alliterative verse in all its dimensions: sense...

Over the years, Sylvia Plath has come to inhabit a contested area of cultural production with other ambiguous authors between the highbrow, the mid...

Exile and the Narrative/Poetic Imagination is a collection of essays examining a variety of narrative and poetic responses to exile. Intended to co...

Lorna Dee Cervantes is a pivotal figure throughout the Chicano literary movement and this book gathers 30 years worth of essays and articles about ...

Standing in the Shadow of the Master? Chaucerian Influences and Interpretations grew out of a session at the 2008 International Medieval Congress a...

The poet and playwright Francis Harvey, born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, has spent most of his life in County Donegal, wher...

''Making Darkness Light is an illumination'' Adam Phillips''His sympathetic yet challenging account will undoubtedly win Milton new readers - and f...

In this innovative series of public lectures at Newcastle University, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to au...

The History of Ottoman Poetry, first published in six volumes between 1900 and 1909, was the principal product of E.J.W. Gibb''s devotion to Ottoma...

These poems erupted in the East Greenlanders heartthe human sea at the outer limit of the northon Earth's most desolate and rugged shores. They wer...

This fast-moving Modern English version of Chaucer's greatest tragic romance highlights the poem's rapid shifts in register and diction as well as ...

Byron and Italy tackles a subject to which no book has been devoted exclusively since the early 1940s. Peter Cochran writes not just about Byrons r...

This revised and augmented edition of four mythological tales translated from Ovid during the Elizabethan period calls attention to the genre of th...

What our tendency to justify the mistakes in poems reveals about our faith in poetryand about how we readKeats mixed up Cortez and Balboa. Heaney m...

William Blake is a universal artist - an inspiration to visual artists, musicians, poets and performers worldwide as well as everyone who aspires t...

William Blake is a universal artist - an inspiration to visual artists, musicians, poets and performers worldwide as well as everyone who aspires t...

An impressive new collection from a poet whose previous book was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle A...

A major new collection from the winner of the 2019 Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetryBefore Our Eyes gathers more than th...