Literary studies: poetry and poets

A detailed analysis of Johnson''s complicated and controversial attitude to Milton in the context of eighteenth-century literary criticism.

This book considers the poetry written by converts between Catholic and Protestant churches within post-Reformation England.

An original study of the influence of Shakespeare on twentieth-century poets, and of intertextual relations among those poets.

This book examines how Chaucer, Dante, and Jean de Meun represented medieval debates on the origin and history of language?

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

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.

A detailed analysis of Johnson''s complicated and controversial attitude to Milton in the context of eighteenth-century literary criticism.

This book considers the poetry written by converts between Catholic and Protestant churches within post-Reformation England.

An original study of the influence of Shakespeare on twentieth-century poets, and of intertextual relations among those poets.

Explores how the earliest poetry in Greece (Homeric epic and lyric) and China (the Canon of Songs) evolved.

A detailed investigation of Johnson''s response to the Ossian controversy, with a transcription of a rare anti-Ossian pamphlet he co-authored.

David Simpson''s reading of Wordsworth examines Wordsworth''s reaction to changes in the modern world at the turn of the century.

In this book, Gur Zak examines two central issues in Petrarch''s works - his humanist philosophy and his concept of the self.

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

Examines the role of psychoanalysis within Latin literary studies, focusing on what psychoanalytic theory has to contribute to interpretation.

This book examines the impact of maternal mortality on Milton''s life and work, and provides important readings of his major poems.

Explores how the earliest poetry in Greece (Homeric epic and lyric) and China (the Canon of Songs) evolved.

Examines the role of psychoanalysis within Latin literary studies, focusing on what psychoanalytic theory has to contribute to interpretation.

This book examines the impact of maternal mortality on Milton''s life and work, and provides important readings of his major poems.

A detailed investigation of Johnson''s response to the Ossian controversy, with a transcription of a rare anti-Ossian pamphlet he co-authored.

This book explores the contribution made by Chartist poetry to the struggle for fundamental democratic rights.

Explores the phenomenon of wandering poets, setting them within the wider context of ancient networks of exchange, patronage and affiliation.

David Simpson''s reading of Wordsworth examines Wordsworth''s reaction to changes in the modern world at the turn of the century.

New readings of Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes, offering fresh perspectives on Milton''s aesthetics, theology and politics.

An insightful collection of new approaches to the debate on Milton and Judaism.

A moving and engaging new book from one of the foremost scholars of First World War poetry.

The first sustained study of the Argonautica which emphasises its political, religious and ethical dimensions.

The first book to offer a universal linguistic theory of poetic meter.

A lucid overview of Plath''s life, work, influence and the critical reception of her writings to the present day.

Aimed at students new to Poe''s work, this book offers an overview of his life, works, contexts and reception.

An engaging and informative way to start studying and understanding one of America''s most popular poets.

This book offers an interpretation of the relations between theology and poetry in Milton, Donne, Shakespeare and others.

This book examines plants and botany in the writing of D.

This book examines the flourishing and subsequent decline of praise poetry as a genre from Antiquity to the present.

An examination of the importance of international cross-influences between modernist poets in the Americas.

A lively and provocative history of the great achievements of Irish poets from 1800 to the present day.

An investigation into the competing impulses of science and literary experience in the poetry of Wordsworth, Blake, Coleridge and Keats.

Considers the idea of self-consciousness in the work of Hölderlin, Hegel, Wordsworth and Beethoven.

The first comprehensive study of Dante''s evolving, transformative relationship to medieval ideas of authorship and authority.

2007 edition of Pindar''s Pythian Eleven offering text, translation, metrical discussion, full introduction, and commentary.

A radical reading of representations of gender in Shakespeare, Ralegh, Sidney and Donne.

Marion Thain recounts the development of this fascinating poetic persona, created by two female writers.

Goldberg analyses the strategies Romantic poets employed to present their work as comparable to the traditional professions.

Explores the possibility of providing literary interpretations of inconsistencies in five Roman epics.

This book is a comprehensive study of the nineteenth-century German poet Heinrich Heine.

This book examines the idea of fictionality in the poems of Theocritus.

This introduction delves behind the myth of Emily Dickinson to present her in the context of her time.

Focusing on his masterpiece Leaves of Grass, this book provides a foundation for the study of Whitman.

This Introduction, first published in 2005, is designed to help students reading Pound for the first time.