Literature

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...

Equine Poetics is a literary analysis of horses and horsemanship in early Greek epic and lyric poetry, especially those facets that reflect the pre...

First published in 1995 and out of print for several years, this is a comprehensive anthology comprised of the most important American poets who pr...

Mirror of Dew introduces one of Iran's outstanding female poets, whose work has not previously been available in English. Zhle Q'em-Maqmi (1883-194...

In this powerful collection of poetry, Michael Murphy examines such themes as identity, sexuality, love, gay-rights, religion and mythology. Though...

Bringing together internationally leading scholars whose work engages with the continued importance of literary experiment, this book takes up the ...

the Muses have been sacked their role in the pantheon sold up for some new real estate venture When the Muses are sacked, what are we to do? The M...

The wildly unrestrained poems in Splinters Are Children of Wood, Leia Penina Wilson's second collection and winner of the Ernest Sandeen Prize in P...

The wildly unrestrained poems in Splinters Are Children of Wood, Leia Penina Wilson''s second collection and winner of the Ernest Sandeen Prize in ...

The undisputed masterpiece of fourteenth-century Spain by Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita, affords a particularly privileged locus for the implementa...

The Broken Angel is the first book-length examination of a mythopoetic configuration that pervades Valery''s entire textual universe. The Angel is ...

Germain Nouveau (1851-1920), poet and painter, friend of Rimbaud and Verlaine, discreet disciple of Mallarme, led a vie de boheme while composing p...