Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

The medieval German poet called Neidhart is one of the most important poets of his time. Set in the village among peasant maidens and their boorish...

Celebrating both the rebozo as a cultural icon of Mexico and the series of rebozo-inspired paintings by MexicanCalifornian artist Catalina Gárate, ...

The Bright House opens with memories of Greer's life with George and Susan Garrett at their home in Maine. The ambiance of this collection is the m...

This title provides a new perspective on the documentary diversity of Muriel Rukeyser's work and influences. This study of twentieth-century Americ...

A new reading of Elizabeth Bishop's work ranging across archival, historical and theoretical materials Linda Anderson explores Elizabeth Bishop's ...

Egypt's ancient pyramids, temples, and tombs along the Nile, which have inspired artists and writers for centuries, have also inspired poets--and p...

Explore the essence of life, love, nature, and time in exquisite verse with this elegantly designed edition of Emily Dickinsons finest poems. Born ...

Elegies of Chu (in Chinese, Chuci), one of the two surviving collections of ancient Chinese poetry, is a key source for the whole tradition of Chin...

Simonides of Ceos, one of the nine lyric poets enshrined in what is conventionally thought of as the Hellenistic Lyric Canon, is a relatively myste...

Dante's Vita nuova has taken on a wide variety of different forms since its first publication in 1294. How could one work have generated such diffe...

Love's Wounds takes an in-depth look at the widespread language of violence and abjection in early modern European love poetry. Beginning in fourte...

In the midst of a multi-national comparative study of modern Catholic poets, Charles S. Kraszewski was more than a little surprised at the difficul...

Funded by Arts Council England, Faber New Poets aims to identify and support emerging talents at an early stage in their careers. Through a progr...

Funded by Arts Council England, Faber New Poets aims to identify and support emerging talents at an early stage in their careers. Through a progr...

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

Joy Davidman is known, if she is known at all, as the wife of C. S. Lewis. Their marriage was immortalized in the film Shadowlands and Lewiss memoi...

Fame and glory, rumour and reputation have fascinated through the ages. The way in which they are communicated and spread is a topic which impacts ...

This book presents a survey and evaluation of Cavafys poetical work with an emphasis on his historical and didactic poems. The poet prefers to desc...

Byron was a man of many passions, always fiercely held and defended, but his intense devotion to the poetry of Alexander Pope seemed to characteris...

Poet, novelist, dramatist, polemicist, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini continues to be one of the most influential intellectuals of post-war Ital...

Comprehensive survey of the Middle English lyric, one of the most important forms of medieval literature. Winner of a CHOICE Outstanding Academic ...