Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

The culmination of over 30 years of studying and thinking about Homer, world renowned scholar and accomplished poet Barry Powell has produced what ...

Once a byword for Protestant sobriety and moral idealism, Spenser is now better known for his irony and elusiveness. But this study argues that his...

Allan Ramsay (16841758) is a key figure in Scottish cultural history. His collections of Scottish poetry were received with great acclaim, and did ...

Scripting Empire recovers the literary and cultural history of West Indian and West African writing at the BBC in order to rethink the critical mid...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

The literary journals of a key figure in both the Beat and San Francisco Renaissance movements of the New American Poetry, and an ordained Zen Budd...

Winner of the 2022 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry PrizeFraternal Light: On Painting While Black: Poems for Beauford Delaney is a lyric evocation of the l...

The Four-Doored House evokes two key women in Pierre Nepveu s life. First, his granddaughter Lily, who he imagines maturing into a comp...

A hard-knuckled look at the other half, this collection of lively poems mix a girl-about-town cockiness with an all-too-rare emotional honesty abou...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

Every major poet or philosopher develops their own distinctive semantic field around those terms which matter most to them, or which contribute mos...

On 3 August 1845, Emily Dickinson declared, All things are readyand with this, her life as a poet began. Despite spending her days almost entirely ...

Through critical and creative responses, Eavan Boland: Inside History takes a fresh look at Boland's influence as a poet and critic for the twenty-...

This volume explores the conflicting representations of ancient Romeone of the most important European cities in the medieval imaginationin late Mi...

In literary modernism, time and space are sometimes transformed from organizational categories into aesthetic objects, a transformation that can op...