Literary studies: poetry and poets

Dante s Deadly Sins is a unique study of the moral philosophy behind Dante s master work that considers the Commedia as he intended, namely, as a practical guide to moral betterment.

Demystify and appreciate the pleasures of poetrySometimes it seems like there are as many definitions of poetry as there are poems.

Offering a new theory of poetic constraint, this book analyses contributions of bound people to the history of the lyric.

Offering a new theory of poetic constraint, this book analyses contributions of bound people to the history of the lyric.

This book offers a wide-ranging display of innovative critical perspectives on the poetry of the American modernist Wallace Stevens.

This book offers a wide-ranging display of innovative critical perspectives on the poetry of the American modernist Wallace Stevens.

This volume traces the formation of the Asian American literary canon and the field of Asian American Studies from 1965–1996.

The Frenzied Poets: Andrey Biely and the Russian Symbolists delves into the complexities of the Symbolist movement in Russia, a pivotal yet often overlooked aspect of the nations cultural history.

Featuring cutting-edge essays by leading scholars, this collection formulates a new feminist theory of eighteenth-century women''s satire.

Featuring cutting-edge essays by leading scholars, this collection formulates a new feminist theory of eighteenth-century women''s satire.

Comprehensive reading of ''late'' Wordsworth, considering his work in dialogue with the poetic, cultural and political battles of his day.

Comprehensive reading of ''late'' Wordsworth, considering his work in dialogue with the poetic, cultural and political battles of his day.

This volume traces the formation of the Asian American literary canon and the field of Asian American Studies from 1965–1996.

The first accessible modern commentary on a selection of Greek inscribed epitaphs from c.

Explores Shakespeare''s plays in their most immediate context: the hundreds of plays known to original audiences, but lost to us.

The only book that shows readers how to ask the questions which will make poems to speak to them.

Early modern skepticism contributed to literary invention, aesthetic pleasure, and the uneven process of secularization in England.

Comprehensive collection of essays by leading scholars on Byron''s place in the English poetic tradition, his influences and his afterlife.

The only book that shows readers how to ask the questions which will make poems to speak to them.

Implements stories of surgical alteration to consider how early modern individuals conceived the relationship between body, mind, and self.

Explores Shakespeare''s plays in their most immediate context: the hundreds of plays known to original audiences, but lost to us.

Early modern skepticism contributed to literary invention, aesthetic pleasure, and the uneven process of secularization in England.

Comprehensive collection of essays by leading scholars on Byron''s place in the English poetic tradition, his influences and his afterlife.

This book discusses contemporary British poetry in the context of metamodernism.

This book discusses contemporary British poetry in the context of metamodernism.

Illuminates the ways that expressive cultures of frontline communities resist environmental racism while protecting and repairing the world.

Illuminates the ways that expressive cultures of frontline communities resist environmental racism while protecting and repairing the world.

This edition includes fully annotated texts of all works known or plausibly believed to be by Aphra Behn (1640-1689).

This book explicates Jonathan Swift''s poetry, reaffirming its prominence in competing literary traditions.

Reveals the sophistication of a once-popular Greek didactic epic on the sea and its fish, addressed to the Roman emperor.

This book explicates Jonathan Swift''s poetry, reaffirming its prominence in competing literary traditions.

Argues that Catullus adapts Roman comedy to explore private ideas about love, friendship, and social rivalry.

Shows how medieval Italian poets viewed their authorship of poetry as a function of their engagement in a human community.

Analysis of the books, pamphlets and single sheets in which Jonathan Swift''s writings were first published in Dublin and London.

Renaissance poetry anthologies were crafted within the book trade and re-crafted through performance, transforming Early Modern cultures of recreation.

Argues that Catullus adapts Roman comedy to explore private ideas about love, friendship, and social rivalry.

Shows how medieval Italian poets viewed their authorship of poetry as a function of their engagement in a human community.

Analysis of the books, pamphlets and single sheets in which Jonathan Swift''s writings were first published in Dublin and London.

A complete treatment of Aeneid XI, with a thorough Introduction and line-by-line explication of the book.

Renaissance poetry anthologies were crafted within the book trade and re-crafted through performance, transforming Early Modern cultures of recreation.

This collection demonstrates the centrality of Elizabeth Bishop''s poetry and prose to twentieth-century culture.

100 Romantic-era poems, both major and lesser-known, in English and translated from six languages, with an engaging introduction and notes.

Explores how early modern Europeans responded to suffering and asks how they both described and practised compassion.

Explores how early modern Europeans responded to suffering and asks how they both described and practised compassion.

This collection demonstrates the centrality of Elizabeth Bishop''s poetry and prose to twentieth-century culture.

100 Romantic-era poems, both major and lesser-known, in English and translated from six languages, with an engaging introduction and notes.

This book is a comprehensive survey of the field of Irish women''s poetry across all periods by leading scholars.

This book is a comprehensive survey of the field of Irish women''s poetry across all periods by leading scholars.

Modern literature and environmentalism combined ecology, psychology, and aesthetics to restore communal well-being to the United Kingdom after world war.

Modern literature and environmentalism combined ecology, psychology, and aesthetics to restore communal well-being to the United Kingdom after world war.