Literary studies: poetry and poets

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

This Element defends an interpretation of Plato''s Ion on which its primary concern is with audience reception of poetry.

This pioneering study reveals the central place held by Virgil''s ''messianic'' Eclogue in the art and literature of Renaissance Italy.

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

Wide-ranging edition of this most diverse book of the Iliad.

Accessible, authoritative essays putting one of Britain''s best-loved, but seemingly isolated, poet-artists back in touch with his times.

Homer was the greatest and most influential Greek poet: this book explores his influence on all subsequent literature and culture.

Accessible, authoritative essays putting one of Britain''s best-loved, but seemingly isolated, poet-artists back in touch with his times.

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

Essays on recent developments in Pound scholarship and research, including newly available primary sources and methodological advances in cognate fields.

Challenges canonical accounts with writings and critical perspectives that emphasize the social complexity and cultural multiplicity of Caribbean writings.

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

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

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

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

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

Presents an ecocritical study of poetic atmosphere, a concept first developed through Romanticism, particularly in the poetry of William Wordsworth.

Accessible and detailed guide to this crucial book within an important Latin epic, covering Lucan''s style, sources, language, and context.

Homer was the greatest and most influential Greek poet: this book explores his influence on all subsequent literature and culture.

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

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

Full and up-to-date commentary on a varied selection of poems from the attractive corpus of Greek lyric.

Provides a rich and varied reference resource, illuminating the different contexts for Chaucer and his work.

Provides a rich and varied reference resource, illuminating the different contexts for Chaucer and his work.

This second volume of the works of Anne Finch presents previously unpublished poems and letters alongside works in Finch''s authorised print volume.

Establishing the text of works in Anne Finch''s early manuscript book, this first volume includes previously unpublished poetry and surviving plays.

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

From Homer to the moon, this volume explores the epic journey across space and time in the ancient world.

An exciting analysis of gender and sexual desire in sixth century Greek epigram that bridges classical and early Byzantine culture.

From Homer to the moon, this volume explores the epic journey across space and time in the ancient world.

This volume presents new approaches to Dickinson, informed by twenty-first-century theory and methodologies.

An exciting analysis of gender and sexual desire in sixth century Greek epigram that bridges classical and early Byzantine culture.

This volume presents new approaches to Dickinson, informed by twenty-first-century theory and methodologies.

Explores the ways poets address the difficult question of how to remember, and commemorate, those killed in the First World War and beyond.

First full-length study of the mouth''s centrality to discourses of physical, ethical and spiritual ''good'' in Middle English literature.

This book outlines Beckett''s passion for the visual arts as he developed his signature style between the 1930s and 1970s.

This book outlines Beckett''s passion for the visual arts as he developed his signature style between the 1930s and 1970s.

A wide-ranging exploration of the influence of Keats'' world on his life and work, enhancing our engagement with his poems.

A study of remembrance in post-Reformation England in religious and secular artworks and texts by Shakespeare, Milton, and women writers.

The first substantial commentary for a generation on this book of Horace''s Odes, a great masterpiece of classical Latin literature.

The first substantial commentary for a generation on this book of Horace''s Odes, a great masterpiece of classical Latin literature.

A wide-ranging exploration of the influence of Keats'' world on his life and work, enhancing our engagement with his poems.

Robinson explains how poetry makes things happen through the interaction of its chosen words and forms with the reader''s responses.

Accessible and informative account of Dante''s great Commedia: its purpose, themes and styles, and its reception over the centuries.

Accessible and informative account of Dante''s great Commedia: its purpose, themes and styles, and its reception over the centuries.

A fresh, accessible and authoritative study that conveys the richness and diversity of Irish poets, their lives and times.

A fresh, accessible and authoritative study that conveys the richness and diversity of Irish poets, their lives and times.

Offers fresh understanding of British Romanticism by exploring how anxieties about decline impacted debates about literature''s form and meaning.

Highlights the latest currents in Whitman scholarship and demonstrates how Whitman''s work transforms discussions in literary studies.

Provides readings, interpretations, and explorations of Whitman in the many contexts through which he charted his life and wrote his texts.