Literary studies: poetry and poets

'The most remarkable phenomenon of the English poetic scene during the last ten years or so has been the advent, or perhaps I should say the irruption, of Gavin Ewart' wrote Philip Larkin.

Lunch in Soho with a former lover - but Zanzotti's is under new management, and as the wine takes effect fond memories give way to something closer to the bone.

'Though unmarried I have had six children,' Walt Whitman claimed in a letter late in his life.

Keats is the first major biography of this tragic hero of romanticism for some thirty years, and it differs from its predecessors in important respects.

Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life won the Whitbread Award for Biography in 1993 and was championed as 'an exemplary biography of its kind' (The Times).

These lectures were delivered by Seamus Heaney while he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University.

The title, The Government of the Tongue, carries suggestions of both monastic discipline and untrammelled romanticism, and is meant to raise an old question about the rights and status of poetic utterance itself.

Philip Larkin met Monica Jones at University College Leicester in autumn 1946, when they were both twenty-four; he was the newly-appointed assistant librarian and she was an English lecturer.

Stephen Spender, the son of a journalist, was born in London in 1909.

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Hugo Williams's new collection summons the poet's past selves in order of appearance, as in an autobiography, showing in poems as clear as rock pools that the plain truth is only as plain as the props and make-up needed to stage it.

The End of the Poem contains the fifteen lectures delivered by Paul Muldoon as Oxford Professor of Poetry, from 1999 to 2004.

For the first time, Faber publish a selection from the poetry of Philip Larkin.

Mick Imlah's second and long-awaited collection The Lost Leader was published to acclaim in 2008, shortly before his early death in January 2009.

The Secret Life of Poems is a primer which offers a poem - or on occasion an excerpt - succeeding with commentary in which rhythm, form, metre and sources are the order of the day, not ethical commentary or descriptive paraphrase.

In this book Andrew Motion has made his own choice from his outstandingly fine and varied body of work.

Andrew Motion's new collection (his first since Public Property in 2002) offers a ground-breaking variety of lyrics, love poems and elegies, in which private domains of feeling infer other lives and a shared humanity - exploring how people cope with threats to and in the world around them, as soldiers, lovers, artists, writers and citizens.

Hare Soup, Dorothy Molloy's first collection of poems, was published by Faber in 2004, just weeks after the poet's untimely death.

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.

Simon Armitage's new collection is by turns a voice and a chorus: a hyper-vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, parables and tall tales.

The Iliad is still the greatest poem about war that our culture has ever produced.

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At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a prolific master of this art.

Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies; but no book-length portrait has appeared until now.

A professional man of letters - critic, editor, biographer - though never a professional poet, Ian Hamilton (1938-2001) referred to his poems as 'miraculous lyrical arrivals', and he bided their time with exemplary patience and humility.

It was as a poet that Samuel Beckett launched himself in the little reviews of 1930s Paris, and as a poet that he ended his career.

This book explores Roman love elegy from postcolonial perspectives, arguing that the tropes, conventions, and discourses of the Augustan genre serve to reinforce the imperial identity of its elite, metropolitan audience.

American Rendering showcases twenty-four new poems as well as a generous selection from Andrew Hudgins's six previous volumes, spanning a distinguished career of more than twenty-five years.

The Deoband movementa revivalist movement within Sunni Islam that quickly spread from colonial India to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and even the United Kingdom and South Africahas been poorly understood and sometimes feared.

Symposium of the Whole traces a discourse on poetry and culture that has profoundly influenced the art of our time, with precedents going back two centuries and more.

Philip Whalen was an American poet, Zen Buddhist, and key figure in the literary and artistic scene that unfolded in San Francisco in the 1950s and '60s.

This new critical volume, the second to appear in the three-volume Lectura Dantis, contains expert, focused commentary on the Purgatorio by thirty-three international scholars, each of whom presents to the nonspecialist reader one of the cantos of the transitional middle cantica of Dante's unique Christian epic.

Explores the pervasiveness of poetry''s impact on philosophy and, conversely, how philosophy has sometimes resisted or denied poetry''s influence.

Provides an essential ethical history of courtly love poetry by tracing its engagement with the late medieval reception of Aristotelian ethics.

Explores the pervasiveness of poetry''s impact on philosophy and, conversely, how philosophy has sometimes resisted or denied poetry''s influence.

Provides an essential ethical history of courtly love poetry by tracing its engagement with the late medieval reception of Aristotelian ethics.

An approachable and engaging guide to Shakespeare''s poetry, this volume provides students with ways to understand and appreciate the poems.

This volume contains over forty essays on all aspects of Pound''s life, work and career, by leading scholars in the field.

Examines four texts of the Imperial period in order to elucidate how each author formulates very different conceptions of Homer.

This volume contains over forty essays on all aspects of Pound''s life, work and career, by leading scholars in the field.

Examines four texts of the Imperial period in order to elucidate how each author formulates very different conceptions of Homer.

An approachable and engaging guide to Shakespeare''s poetry, this volume provides students with ways to understand and appreciate the poems.

A student introduction to Wordsworth''s life, works, context and reception, with a glossary and further reading.

A study of the concept of ''truth'' in romantic literature, placing important romantic writers within a tradition of ''radical empiricism''.

How four American cities shaped Poe's life and writingsEdgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) changed residences about once a year throughout his life.

This book embraces philosophical and artistic perspectives, analyzing Stevens''s place within Modernist debates concerning literature, painting, and representation.

This book explores the notion of paternity in early modern poetry, providing close readings of the major works of the time.