Literary studies: poetry and poets

This is an examination of how early modern poets attempt to capture the experience of being in the grip of conscience.

A study of the tradition in nineteenth-century thought that imagines the body as one of the reproductive media of poetry.

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

Connects American poetry to the emergence of the United States as the leading global economic and political power.

This is an examination of how early modern poets attempt to capture the experience of being in the grip of conscience.

The first in-depth exploration of Borges'' classicism and a major contribution to the field of global classics and Borges studies.

Suicide Century investigates suicide as an increasingly ''normalised'' but still deeply traumatic and profoundly baffling act in twentieth-century writing.

Shakespeare for Freedom shows why Shakespeare has mattered for four hundred years, and why he still matters today.

Shakespeare for Freedom shows why Shakespeare has mattered for four hundred years, and why he still matters today.

The first comprehensive study to explore the role of esoteric, occult, alchemical, shamanistic, mystical and magical traditions in the work of major Beat authors.

Explores how Propertius'' third book re-invents Latin love-elegy for the reality of Rome''s new imperial age.

Investigates the representation of the Carthaginian enemy and the revisionist history of the Punic Wars in Virgil''s Aeneid.

The first comprehensive study to explore the role of esoteric, occult, alchemical, shamanistic, mystical and magical traditions in the work of major Beat authors.

This accessible collection of essays provides an essential introduction to the volume of poetry that defined British Romanticism.

This book re-orientates the relationship between urbanization and English Romantic poetry by focusing on urban aspects of Romantic poems.

This accessible collection of essays provides an essential introduction to the volume of poetry that defined British Romanticism.

Offers a fresh interpretation of Virgil''s Aeneid via a detailed study of its child hero, Ascanius, young son of Aeneas.

Offers a fresh interpretation of Virgil''s Aeneid via a detailed study of its child hero, Ascanius, young son of Aeneas.

This Companion is the first to explore postcolonial poetry through regional, historical, political, formal, textual and gender approaches.

This Companion is the first to explore postcolonial poetry through regional, historical, political, formal, textual and gender approaches.

This book explores the history and development of English alliterative meter, and considers why the form has remained so enigmatic.

A theoretically informed, up-to-date study of the idea and practice of reperformance in ancient poetry.

This book provides an in-depth introduction to the multifaceted life and times of Wallace Stevens, one of the great twentieth-century American poets.

Investigates the idea of the human within Brontë sisters'' work, offering new insight on their writing and cultural contexts.

This book explores the history and development of English alliterative meter, and considers why the form has remained so enigmatic.

A theoretically informed, up-to-date study of the idea and practice of reperformance in ancient poetry.

This book provides an in-depth introduction to the multifaceted life and times of Wallace Stevens, one of the great twentieth-century American poets.

The first comprehensive study of the eighteenth-century response to the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser, from editions to influence.

This Companion provides a chronological survey of Latin American poetry, analysis of modern trends and six succinct essays on the major figures.

The first comprehensive study of the eighteenth-century response to the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser, from editions to influence.

This Companion provides a chronological survey of Latin American poetry, analysis of modern trends and six succinct essays on the major figures.

Examines Dante''s reception in the culture and criticism of Renaissance Italy, with a particular focus on Florence and Venice.

Provides a new appreciation of John Donne through the lens of Walter Benjamin''s critical theory of baroque allegory.

Writing in Real Time is the first book-length study of the American long poem as a complex adaptive system.

Provides a new appreciation of John Donne through the lens of Walter Benjamin''s critical theory of baroque allegory.

Writing in Real Time is the first book-length study of the American long poem as a complex adaptive system.

This book traces the evolution of traditional English verse structures from their Old and Middle origins to the Modern English period.

This book traces the evolution of traditional English verse structures from their Old and Middle origins to the Modern English period.

The first account of the bilingualism of English poetic culture from the mid-sixteenth to the early eighteenth century.

Michael Gamer explodes the myth of the unworldly Romantic poet, showing writers'' interest in public presence, and profit and loss.

This book sets Prudentius'' martyr poetry within the religious, social, and visual contexts of late antique Spain.

Michael Gamer explodes the myth of the unworldly Romantic poet, showing writers'' interest in public presence, and profit and loss.

This book sets Prudentius'' martyr poetry within the religious, social, and visual contexts of late antique Spain.

A wide-ranging analysis of the economic crisis of 1811 through the lens of a controversial poem.

This book offers a new interpretation of Augustan literature, focusing on its imaginative reading of Greek musical culture.

A wide-ranging analysis of the economic crisis of 1811 through the lens of a controversial poem.

This book offers a new interpretation of Augustan literature, focusing on its imaginative reading of Greek musical culture.

A revisionary account of the powerful myths that grew up around the production and reception of the great medieval poem.

Healy demonstrates how Renaissance alchemy shaped Shakespeare''s bawdy but spiritual sonnets, transforming our understanding of Shakespeare''s art and beliefs.

An overview of British poetry from 1830 to 1901, with a glossary of literary terms and guide to further reading.