Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

Volume 2 of 2. Coleridge's Shorter Works and Fragments brings together a number of substantial essays that were not long enough to require volumes ...

A visual treat as well as a literary onefor gardeners and garden lovers, connoisseurs of botanical illustration, and those who seek a deeper unders...

Innovatively extending counterfactual thought experiments from history and the social sciences to literary historiography, criticism and theory, Co...

The staggering story of the most influential Chinese political dissident of the Mao era, a devout Christian who was imprisoned, tortured, and execu...

Edmund Spensers The Faerie Queene (1590; 1596) is an epic romance teeming with dragons, fantastic animals, giants, grotesque human-animal composite...

Drawing on the work of British sculptor Antony Gormley, alongside more traditional literary scholarship, this book argues for new relationships bet...

The legendary poet and boxer Arthur Cravan, a fleeting figure on the periphery of early twentieth-century European avant-gardism, is frequently inv...

This is the first full-length study of the poet, novelist and translator Christopher Meredith, best-known for his novel Shifts (1988), the classic ...

Witty, direct and articulate, Peter Barry illustrates the key elements of poetry at work, covering many different kinds of verse, from traditional ...

This is the first collection of essays devoted to Edmund Spensers Mutabilitie Cantos (1609), and it celebrates the 400th anniversary of the first p...

The Perfect Stranger was first published in the '60s and since then has continued to find a select group of passionate admirers. Evocative and enga...

Andrzej Franaszeks award-winning biography of Czeslaw Miloszthe great Polish poet and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980offers a rich ...

This companion to America's greatest woman poet showcases the diversity and excellence that characterize the thriving field of Dickinson studies. ...

This book plumbs the virtues of the Homeric poems as scripts for solo performance. Despite academic focus on orality and on composition in performa...

William Wordsworth is the most influential of the Romantic poets, and remains widely popular, even though his work is more complex and more engaged...

Scholars and critics commonly align W. B. Yeats with Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and the modernist movement at large. This incisive study from renowned...

Jewish American Writing and World Literature: Maybe to Millions, Maybe to Nobody studies Jewish American writers' relationships with the idea of wo...

During his adult life until his death in 1834, Coleridge made entries in more than sixty notebooks. Neither commonplace books nor diaries, but some...

The God of the Bible often speaks in poetry. Beginning with an illuminating exploration of eloquence in the divine voice, a highly acclaimed profes...

Poet, columnist, artist, and fiction writer Gwendolyn Bennett is considered by many to have been one of the youngest leaders of the Harlem Renaissa...

The symposion is arguably the most significant and well-documented context for the performance, transmission, and criticism of archaic and classica...

A Sunday Times Book of the YearShortlisted for The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize 'This magnificent, highly readable double biography...brings these t...