Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

The Essential Metamorphoses, Stanley Lombardo's abridgment of his translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, preserves the epic frame of the poem as a wh...

This critical study covers the whole range of Dylan Thomas''s writing, both poetry and prose, in an accessible appraisal of the work and achievemen...

Rachel Bromwich's magisterial edition of Trioedd Ynys Prydein has long won its place as a classic of Celtic studies. This revised edition shows the...

To most literary historians, the name of Leigh Hunt does not rank very high: he is mostly known as an idiosyncratic and mediocre poet, a versatile ...

The Age of the Poets revisits the age-old problem of the relation between literature and philosophy, arguing against both Plato and Heidegger's fam...

''Smith'': a reader''s guide to the poetry of Michael Donaghy is the first substantial critical work to be written on one of the UK''s best-loved p...

Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari) is traditionally identified as one of the most important Japanese literary texts of the Heian period (7941185). Since...

Comparative Literature and Classical Persian Poetics applies comparative literary approaches to classical Persian traditions of composing and perfo...

Composed between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries, these virtually unknown erotic and satiric poems lie at the root of the Western comic tradit...

T.S. Eliot was arguably the most important poet of the twentieth century. Nonetheless, there remains much scope for reconsidering the content, form...

A groundbreaking biography of Miltons formative years that provides a new account of the poets political radicalizationJohn Milton (16081674) has a...

The early medieval Scottish philosopher and theologian John Duns Scotus shook traditional doctrines of universality and particularity by arguing fo...

Traditionally ascribed to the early third-century BCE tragedian Lykophron, the Alexandra is a powerful Greek poem by an unknown author, probably wr...

Hedi Kaddour''s poetry arises from observation, from situations both ordinary and emblematic-of contemporary life, of human stubbornness, human inv...

Whats the point of poetry? Its a question asked in classrooms all over the world, but it rarely receives a satisfactory answer. Which is why so man...

Become a poet and write poetry with ease with help from this clear and simple guide in the popular 101 series. Poetry never goes out of style. An a...

In this accessible and distilled craft guide, acclaimed poet Tony Hoagland approaches poetry through the frame of poetic voice, that mysterious con...

While famous for his celebrated novel, Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry always considered himself a poet. First published in 1962 and long out of p...