Literary studies: poetry and poets

This collection of new essays offers the first sustained comparative reading of modern Irish and Scottish poetry.

Friedrich Schiller is justly celebrated for his dramas and poetry.

As the self-styled successor of Virgil, Claudian redefines the world of late antiquity in terms of classical Latin epic.

This collection traces the intersection between writing and intoxication, from the literary to the theoretical, exploring a diversity of experiences of excess.

Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, and Adrienne Rich share nationality, gender, and an aesthetic tradition, but each expresses these experiences in the context of her own historical moment.

This book is the first comprehensive introduction to the richness and diversity of American poetry from 1945 to the present.

The aesthetic changes in late Roman literature speak to the foundations of modern Western culture.

Band I von Reiner Wilds Gesamtdarstellung der Alterslyrik Goethes behandelt die Zeitspanne zwischen dem Todesjahr Schillers 1805 und 1813/14, dem Ende der napoleonischen Ära.

At the heart of this 'Literary Life' are fresh interpretations of Keats's most loved poems, alongside other neglected but rich poems.

Shakespeare in mass media - particularly film, video, and television - is arguably the hottest, fastest growing research agenda in Shakespeare studies.

In The Cambridge Companion to Keats, leading scholars discuss Keats''s work.

Kirstie Blair explores Victorian poetry in relation to Victorian religion, with particular emphasis on the bitter contemporary debates over the use of forms in worship.

Through close readings of texts by playwright Anne Devlin, poet Medbh McGuckian, and novelist Anna Burns, this book examines the ways Irish cultural production has been disturbed by partition.

Gothic Romanticism: Wordsworth, Architecture, Politics, Form offers a revisionist account of both Wordsworth and the politics of antiquarianism in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

How can we use art to reconstruct ourselves and the material world?

This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers a comprehensive selection of the work of Robert Browning (1812-1889).

The Peacock and the Buffalo presents the first complete English translation of the poetry of the celebrated and hugely influential German thinker, Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900).

Scholars and students working on the early courtly and chivalric literature of medieval Europe will have often felt the need for contemporary theoretical material with which to illustrate their arguments about courtesy and chivalry in romances, etc.

The medieval English allegorical poem, The Court of Sapience, was written in the middle of the fifteenth century by an unknown author.

Modern poetry, at least according to the current consensus, is difficult and often depressing.

Silencing the Sea follows Palestinian poets' debates about their craft as they traverse multiple and competing realities of secularism and religion, expulsion and occupation, art, politics, immortality, death, fame, and obscurity.

Avant-garde poet and popular culture icon, Allen Ginsberg has been one of the world's most important writers for over 40 years.

Das diesjährige Kleist-Jahrbuch widmet sich schwerpunktmäßig dem Rahmenthema Kleist und die Weltliteratur", u.

A comprehensive and accessible overview of modernist poetry, its forms, its major authors and its contexts.

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Sappho, a towering figure in Western culture, is an exemplary case in the history of classical receptions.

Using the idea of a "e;flexible design,"e; John Pierce examines the ways in which Blake's mythology and his poem possess a flexibility that allows for significant change to characters, symbols, and poetic techniques within a previously constructed framework.

Sharon Olds completes her cycle of family poems in a book at once intense and harmonic, playful with language, and rich with a new self-awareness and sense of irony.

Twentieth-Century Metapoetry and the Lyric Tradition reveals the unique value of metapoems for exploring twentieth-century poetry.

The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth deploys its forty-seven original essays to present a stimulating account of Wordsworth's life and achievement and to map new directions in criticism.

Along with Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas is by any reckoning a major first world war poet.

John Dolan takes a new approach to the evolution of the modern English lyric, emphasising the way in which several generations of poets, reacting to post-Reformation readers' dislike for invented poetic narratives, competed for the right to commemorate important public occasions and slowly expanded the range of acceptable occasion.

The first complete English translation in 40 years.

A fresh and wide-ranging exploration across the whole of early Greek hexameter poetry, focusing on issues of poetics and metapoetics.

Inside "e;Paradise Lost"e; opens up new readings and ways of reading Milton's epic poem by mapping out the intricacies of its narrative and symbolic designs and by revealing and exploring the deeply allusive texture of its verse.

Music of a Distant Drum marks a literary milestone.

Sensibel und mit detektivischem Spürsinn geht Heinrich Detering der Entwicklung von Annette von Droste-Hülshoffs ökologischem Schreiben nach.

Christina Rossetti (1830-94) is regarded as one of the greatest Christian poets to write in English.

This book offers a bold critical method for reading Gertrude Stein's work on its own terms by forgoing conventional explanation and adopting Stein's radical approach to meaning and knowledge.

This book explores Shakespeare films as interpretations of Shakespeare's plays as well as interpreting the place of Shakespeare on screen within the classroom and within the English curriculum.

This book traces the process through which authors like Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton adapted, rewrote, or resisted romance, mapping a world in which new cross-cultural contacts and religious conflicts demanded a rethinking of some of the most fundamental terms of early modern identity.

Hallazgo y traducción de poesía chilena es una colección de escrituras que traza más de cincuenta años de la carrera de Dave Oliphant, aficionado y traductor de la gran tradición de la poesía de Chile.

The English language has changed dramatically over the past 500 years, making it increasingly difficult for students to read Chaucer's works.

A mature poet, Larry Thomas has an extraordinary gift which has evolved through decades at his craft.

Literary Politics identifies and debates competing definitions of 'English Studies' as an academic subject, celebrates the diversity of contemporary literary studies, and demonstrates the ways in which a range of literary texts can be understood as politically engaged, sometimes in unexpected ways.