Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

By making his argument about In Memoriam a continuous argument for it, Timothy Peltason brings to light a wider appreciation of its greatness and o...

How an early modern understanding of place and movement are embedded in a performative theory of literature   How is a garden like a poem? Early mo...

How girls of color from eight global communities strategize on questions of identity, social issues, and political policy through spoken word poetr...

Kathy Lou Schultzs Introduction to Claudia Rankine provides the first book-length introduction to this vitally important poet. Written for scholars...

The essays in this new collection, all by outstanding experts in the field of modern literature, provide a different and more complex sense of Elio...

Stumbling Blocks expands and contextualizes the unpublished works of the late African American writer Delores Phillips. Born in Cartersville, Georg...

Despite winning the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2008, Philip Schultz could never shake the feeling of being exiled to the dummy class in school, w...

This multidisciplinary volume follows on the success of Choctaw-Apache Foodways and includes several selections, including history, anthropology, f...

A deeply researched account of Joseph Brodskys evolution in English as a self-translator and a poet in translation Joseph Brodskys translations of ...

Author of The Canterbury Tales and foundation of the English literary tradition, Geoffrey Chaucer has been popular with readers, writers and schola...

Tolkien's Lost Chaucer uncovers the story of an unpublished and previously unknown book by the author of The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien worked betw...

This volume provides an in-depth comparative study of translation practices and the role of the poet-translator across different countries and in s...