Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

In this book, first published in 1912 as part of the Cambridge Archaeological and Ethnological Series, Chadwick compares Teutonic and Greek heroic ...

Ted Hughes is one of the most important twentieth-century British poets. This book provides a radical reassessment of his relationship to the Chris...

John Donne was a writer of dazzling extremes. He was a notorious rake and eloquent preacher; he wrote poems of tender intimacy, and lyrics of gross...

Modern readings of the Roman poet Catullus' work have always been constrained by doubts about the surviving text. Does the sequence of our corpus r...

What real role can poetry have in the world? How are its truths created by the words and sounds chosen by the poet and by the way readers respond t...

Ted Hughes wrote in a wide range of modes which were informed by an even wider range of contexts to which his lifetime's reading, interests and exp...

Virgil's Aeneid XI is an important, yet sometimes overlooked, book which covers the funerals following the fierce fighting in Book X and a council ...

John, Lord Hervey (16961743), the confidant of Queen Caroline and antagonist of Alexander Pope, was a government minister, a political pamphleteer ...

The word tortillera means lesbian in EspaÑol. The moniker is familiar to most Spanish speaking cultures, but especially particular to the Cuban exp...

This work is the first academic biography of North Carolina poet laureate James Larkin Pearson (1879-1981).  Using material from Pearsons personal ...

The poetry we call 'alliterative' is recorded in English from the seventh century until the sixteenth, and includes Caedmon's 'Hymn', Beowulf, Sir ...

The representation in poetic form of political events and ideas in the Arab world since the nineteenth century is this book's principal theme. Atef...

What sort of thing is a lyric poem? An intense expression of subjective experience? The fictive speech of a specifiable persona? Theory of the Lyri...