Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

A new Forum section focuses on the impact of Digital Humanities on Goethe scholarship and on eighteenth-century German Studies, alongside articles ...

First English translation of an important twelfth-century romance, giving an account of the Trojan war and its consequences. Benoît de Sainte-Maur...

Responses from the nineteenth century onwards to the medieval French poet. Medieval Paris' paradigmatic poet, François Villon, has long captured t...

Introduces Skelton and his work to readers unfamiliar with the poet, gathers together the vibrant strands of existing research, and opens up new av...

New edition of one of the most important collections of sixteenth-century Scots poetry. The Maitland Quarto Manuscript was compiled in c.1586 in t...

First full-length study of birds and their metamorphoses as treated in a wide range of medieval poetry, from the Anglo-Saxons to Chaucer and Gower....

This first biography is now in paperback marking the 50th anniversary of the start of the Nigeria-Biafra War and the anniversary of the death of Ch...

A new translation of Rilke's groundbreaking volume, following the formal properties of the original poems, especially meter and rhyme, as closely a...

A new crop of essays on topics in the literature of Goethe and the Goethezeit, with a special section providing innovative readings of Goethe's lyr...

Along with his contemporaries Edwin Morgan and Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley MacLean is recognised as one of the most important Scottish poets of the twe...

San Antonio poet laureate Carmen Tafolla captures her hometownthe city of her ancestors for the past three centuriesin poems that celebrate its his...

Seamus Heaney, the great Irish poet, made a significant contribution to classical reception in modern poetry; though occasional essays have appeare...

Secular Chains offers an original and richly contextualized account of the relationship between poetry and religious controversy between 1649 and 1...

On October 1, 1920, the city of Santiago, Chile, came to a halt as tens of thousands stopped work and their daily activities to join the funeral pr...

From the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War until the end of World War II, many poets around the world felt an obligation to write about the wars of...

A Thickness of Particulars: The Poetry of Anthony Hecht is the first book-length study of one of the great formal poets of the later twentieth ce...

Seamus Heaney's prose poetics return repeatedly to the adequacy of poetry, its ameliorative, restorative response to the violence of historical lif...

The Sonnet provides a comprehensive study of one of the oldest and most popular forms of poetry, widely used by Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth...

The region of Campania with its fertility and volcanic landscape exercised great influence over the Roman cultural imagination. A hub of activity o...

The Getty Hexameters looks in detail at a series of forty-four magical verses inscribed on a recently discovered lead tablet from Sicily in the fif...

The Tabulae Iliacae (Iliac tablets) are a collection of twenty-two miniature marble reliefs from the early Roman Empire; all of them are inscribed ...

The final instalment of this substantial work of scholarship on Ovid.

The first major study in English of Vasily Zhukovsky (17831852)poet, translator of German romantic verse, and mentor of Pushkinthis book brings ove...

This critical work asks whether the formation of a poet's oeuvre must involve artistic aberration. With introductory statements exploring the natur...

A KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF 2018In 2012, Sarah Ruhl was a distinguished author and playwright, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Max Ritvo, a stud...

'The mind of David Jones is capable of such breathtaking leaps across the centuries, that nothing can appear incongruous in his writings and they a...

Piero Bigongiari (1914-1997) was among the most prolific and consistent Italian poets of the last century. He was central to the ''third generation...

One of the founding texts of Western literature, the Metamorphoses is nevertheless anything but earnest or off-putting. Ovids sequence of fifteen w...

In the early 1950s Auden began planning a prose volume that would bring together some of his published essays, lectures, and reviews, together w...

These essays cover the range of George Oppen's poetry and the ways it has been read at all stages of his career, from his overtly Objectivist roots...

In Samson Agonistes, Miltons last great work, he addresses questions that pressed insistently on the imagination of all who were unhappy with the c...

In June 2016, J.H. Prynne celebrates his 80th birthday. A major figure in contemporary British poetry, he and his work are here celebrated by frien...

This companion volume to On Performance Writing, with implicated readings, brings together most of the essays-taking a deliberately broad view of t...