Literary studies: poetry and poets

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.

A fully revised critical overview of Atwood''s career, emphasising her recent dystopias and the televised adaptation of The Handmaid''s Tale.

A fully revised critical overview of Atwood''s career, emphasising her recent dystopias and the televised adaptation of The Handmaid''s Tale.

A very full modern commentary on these poems which explains their language and thought for students, teachers and professional scholars.

Proposes a radical reassessment of Hughes as a religious poet, demonstrating his loyalty to an essentially Christian metaphysic.

Offers a new conception of modernist autonomy by focusing on Wallace Stevens, one of the renowned poets of the twentieth century.

Offers detailed reading of the Amores, oriented toward the writer''s and reader''s pleasure, that reframes the discussion around elegy and identity.

Describes how interwar modernism responded to the global crisis in the liberal world order after 1919.

Comprehensive survey of the conductus over a period of more than one hundred years, demonstrating how music and poetry interact.

Explores a literary translation dedicated more to the reader''s perception and experience of text than to textual interpretation.

An original exploration of Ancient Greek conceptions of the relationship between memory, time, knowledge and identity across diverse genres.

Brings together experts who inform new readings of Ted Hughes''s work, with a new awareness of his posthumous importance.

A new, holistic reading of Catullus emerges from convincing solutions to centuries-old problems concerning the nature of his surviving text.

This volume explores Caribbean literature from 1800–1920 across genres and in the multiple languages of the Caribbean.

Brings together historical and literary perspectives to begin charting a new course for research on Ennius'' masterpiece.

Offers a critical history of African American poetry from the transatlantic slave trade to present day hip-hop.

The first full study of corpse mistreatment and funeral violation in Greco-Roman epic poetry, illuminating many major texts.

This book explores American literature and culture of the First World War while analyzing the war''s historical context and significance.

A new, holistic reading of Catullus emerges from convincing solutions to centuries-old problems concerning the nature of his surviving text.

Explores the developing cultural tensions and connections that created a ''sister-art'' movement between creative visual art and its literary counterparts.

A wide-ranging and novel study of metaphor as the generative principle giving shape and substance to Eliot''s poetic imagination.

Argues that Herodotus is key to understanding genre and the relationship between past and present in Apollonius of Rhodes'' Argonautica.

Presents an accessible introduction to poetry''s unusual uses of language that tackles a range of poetic features from a linguistic perspective.

Shows that modernism was concocted out of surprising sources, and that one of them was Toryism during 1900–1920.

Offers a radical re-appraisal of rhetoric''s relation to literature, with fresh insights into rhetorical sources and their reception in Roman poetry.

Dickinson formulates her poetics in the context of popular manuscript practices, rhetoric, philosophy, and science in the American nineteenth century.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to studying the diversity of American poetry in the twenty-first century.

This volume explores Caribbean literature from 1800–1920 across genres and in the multiple languages of the Caribbean.

Bertolt Brecht in Context examines Brecht''s significance and contributions as a writer and the most influential playwright of the twentieth century.

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

Groundbreaking study of the poet Simonides, approaching his work through intertextual readings of the fragments and his ancient reception.

Interdisciplinary in approach and methodologically sophisticated, this book explores the dynamic reception of Latin erotic elegy in Renaissance love poetry.

Brings together experts who inform new readings of Ted Hughes''s work, with a new awareness of his posthumous importance.

Offers detailed reading of the Amores, oriented toward the writer''s and reader''s pleasure, that reframes the discussion around elegy and identity.

Interprets the poetic meaning of the Iliad in relation to the heroic literature of the Ancient Near East.

Linking ecstasy with art and liberty, the book advances understanding of Renaissance literature as a field in the humanities today.