Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

This volume brings together a selection of lectures and essays in which J.A. Burrow discusses the work of English poets of the late fourteenth and ...

For centuries, investigations into the origins of words were entwined with investigations into the origins of humanity and the cosmos. With the dev...

This book examines the relationship between Romantic-period writing and the activity that Samuel Taylor Coleridge christened 'mountaineering' in 18...

This book, based on the Clarendon Lectures for 2016, is about the use made by poets and novelists of street songs and cries. Karlin begins with the...

First published in 1960, Albert B. Lords The Singer of Tales remains the fundamental study of the distinctive techniques and aesthetics of oral epi...

First published in 1960, Albert B. Lords The Singer of Tales remains the fundamental study of the distinctive techniques and aesthetics of oral epi...

Although Francesco Petrarca (1304-74) is best known today for cementing the sonnet's place in literary history, he was also a philosopher, historia...

In Revolution in Poetic Language, Julia Kristeva explicates her foundational distinction between the semiotic and the symbolic and explores their i...

A biography of a long-forgotten but vital American Transcendentalist poet.   In September of 1838, a few months after Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered...

The Geoffrey Chaucer of this book is not the Father of English Literature that you think you know. In this wide-ranging collection of essays you wi...

The Old French Lancelot-Graal is an important but massive work, providing a place for King Arthur not only in the history of Britain but also in Ch...