Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

This second edition of Approaches to Teaching Miltons Paradise Lost addresses Milton in the light of the digital age, new critical approaches to hi...

The Oxford Handbook of Dante contains forty-four specially written chapters that provide a thorough and creative reading of Dante's oeuvre. It gath...

Woman Much Missed is the first book-length study of the many poems (over 150) that Thomas Hardy composed in the wake of the death of his first wife...

The forty-two chapters in this book consider Yeats's early toil, his practical and esoteric concerns as his career developed, his friends and enemi...

The most comprehensive publication of Kodojin beautiful and mysterious a collection of more than 100 paintings with the English translations of h...

The most comprehensive publication of Kodojin beautiful and mysterious a collection of more than 100 paintings with the English translations of h...

For the sake of contraption (like Frost) and of character (like Robinson), John Burt will do a great deal, and his scope and scansion require a gre...

A Concise Companion to MILTON A Concise Companion to Milton provides readers with essential guides to appreciating the works of John Milton, and to...

The quintessential depiction of the Byronic hero is accompanied in this edition by a substantial selection of contextual materials, including Byron...

The Life of Mr Richard Savage was the first important book by a then-unknown Grub Street hack, Samuel Johnson. Richard Savage (16971743) was a poet...

Jerome Mazzaro examines Dante's Vita Nuova as an artistic correlative to what Dante conceived as an image of himself. Specifically, he explores the...

A poet's tradition provides him with a sense of community that may be regarded as a necessary condition for poetry. Jenijoy La Belle, who studied w...

Poems ranging from La Jeune Parque and Le Cimetiere marin to occasional and light verse written as letters to friends, dedications in books, and in...

Stately verse.Statius Silvae, thirty-two occasional poems, were written probably between 89 and 96 AD. Here the poet congratulates friends, console...

The history of China, as any history, is a story of and in translation. Translating Early Modern China tells the story of translation in China to a...

Volume IV of the Collected Works of John Ford is the first of two volumes in the series to contain his sole-authored plays. It contains three of hi...

The Bilingual Muse analyzes the work of seven Russian poets who translated their own poems into English, French, German, or Italian. Investigating ...

Geoffrey Chaucer is the best-known and most widely read of all medieval British writers, famous for his scurrilous humour and biting satire against...

John Milton was born in 1608 and in the late 1630s he travelled to the Continent where he met, among others, Galileo and Grotius. A staunch republi...

This book develops key advances in Pound studies, responding to newly available primary sources and recent methodological developments in associate...

Ovid is today best known for his grand epic, Metamorphoses, and elegiac works like the Ars Amatoria and Heroides. Yet he also wrote a Medea, now un...