Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

My project started with a dissenting translation of Martial's Book of the Spectacles. I use that term, not because I'm adapting or appropriating th...

'In a world in which we tend to look to what's new, to cutting-edge science and to medical breakthroughs for hope in better health, there's somethi...

W H Auden, T S Eliot, William Golding, Elizabeth Jennings, C S Lewis, Flannery O'Connor, Stevie Smith. . . These are among some of the great poets ...

Humphrey Jennings was one of Britain''s greatest documentary film-makers, described by Lindsay Anderson in 1954 as ''the only real poet the British...

Humphrey Jennings was one of Britain''s greatest documentary film-makers, described by Lindsay Anderson in 1954 as ''the only real poet the British...

At a time of environmental crises, poetry can reawaken us to the beauty and fragility of our natural world Poems vivifying nature have gripped peop...

This book is a collection of poems by the great Sufi poet of Punjab, Bulleh Shah (16801758), translated into English by Taufiq Rafat, one of Pakist...

A leading critic explains what makes American poetry--a vast genre covering diverse styles, techniques, and form--distinctive. In this short and ...

In One Hundred Autobiographies, poet and scholar David Lehman applies the full measure of his intellectual powers to cope with a frightening diagno...

Contemporary translations and adaptations of ancient Greek poet Callimachus by noted writer and critic Stephanie BurtCallimachus may be the best-ke...

An intimate and thorough account of the life and times of Brenda Wootton, Cornwall''s first lady of song. From the late 1960s for over 20 years, Br...

Satirical verse on society and its hypocrisies A master of satire known for his ribald humor, self-deprecation, and invective verse (hij), the poet...

This first critical book of essays on the poetry of Peter Gizzi shows how his work extends the traditions of nineteenth- and twentieth-century mode...

This first critical book of essays on the poetry of Peter Gizzi shows how his work extends the traditions of nineteenth- and twentieth-century mode...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE Gripping and at times ineffably sad, this book would be poetic even without the poetry. It ...

Eleven More American Women Poets in the 21st Century is an exciting sequel to its predecessors in the American Poets in the 21st Century series. Li...