Literary studies: poetry and poets

A significant reading of the epic which argues that its narrative strategies reflect the theme of internal discord.

This study sheds light on the relationships between poets and political power.

Wordsworth''s aspiration to ''philosophic song'' changed the relations between philosophy and English poetry.

A critical examination of the Roman reaction to Greek poetry of the last three pre-Christian centuries.

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This informative and accessible book provides the perfect introduction to Eliot''s life and work.

A comprehensive introduction for those beginning to study Yeats.

A collection of essays on sexuality, desire and feminism in T.

The epic genre continued to be important in the nineteenth century despite its apparent anachronism.

Twelve commissioned essays provide an essential introduction to Thomas Hardy.

A collection of specially-commissioned essays, enabling readers to explore Frost''s art and thought.

This Companion provides a fresh look at Dryden''s work in the context of his time.

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

A comprehensive and authoritative guide to Auden''s work.

Addresses the many facets of Samuel Taylor Coleridge''s life and work.

An international team of scholars provides an invaluable introduction to Pound''s work and life.

An essential introduction and handbook for students and other readers of T.

An accessible and rigorous introduction to Spenser''s work, in fourteen specially commissioned essays.

Provides a wide-ranging account of one of the most famous Romantic poets.

Poetry of the early seventeenth century set in its cultural and ideological context.

This Companion provides an introduction to major figures such as Seamus Heaney, as well as significant precursors and vital contemporary poets.

This book provides an introduction to Victorian poetry, and will interest scholars and students alike.

A wide-ranging introduction to Byron''s life and works by a range of eminent Byron scholars.

This second edition continues the excellent tradition of the volume, offering students a comprehensive introduction to Chaucer''s work and life.

This introduction presents the major themes, forms and styles of Russian poetry.

This volume presents the most comprehensive gathering of reviews of T.

This volume offers a stimulating introduction to one of the most influential texts of western literature, Milton''s Paradise Lost.

In this accessible introduction to Dante''s Divine Comedy Kirkpatrick principally focuses on Dante as a poet and storyteller.

A comprehensive overview and critical analysis of the Nobel Laureate''s fifty-year career.

Jennifer Ashton develops important ways to read modernist and postmodernist poets through their similarities as well as their differences.

This 2005 book examines the history of archaic Greek through its poetry, particularly the work of Solon.

An examination of Ovid''s Heroides which portrays its fictional female writers as a community of authors.

A reading of Milton''s writing on the Fall of man in its theological and historical context.

This collection of essays offers an exploration of the meaning and significance of the Catalogue of Women, attributed to Hesiod.

A study of the linked themes of violation and identity in seven Shakespearean tragedies.

A study of the popularity of sonnet sequences in Renaissance England.

Mark Miller''s innovative study argues that Chaucer''s Canterbury Tales represent an extended mediation on agency, autonomy and practical reason.

Richard Badenhausen examines the crucial role collaboration with other writers played in the development of T.

A collection of essays on all aspects of gender in Milton''s works.

An examination of Hellenistic poetry and of its reception at Rome.

This book gives readers a thorough introduction to the movements and schools of American poets in the twentieth century.

This 2002 collection of essays represents twenty-five years of McGann''s work on Romanticism and Byron Studies.

Provides new perspectives on one of the most enigmatic and widely read American writers.

A fascinating exploration of one of the most influential American playwrights of the contemporary stage.

This book explores a variety of critical approaches to the whole range of Horace''s poetry.

Examines Anglo-Jewish and Christian women poets, and the connections between the discourses of nineteenth-century poetry, gender and religious identity.

Hiltner argues that Milton anticipates certain essential prevailing ecological arguments.

Reads Hesiod''s poems as complementary halves of a whole embracing the divine and human cosmos.

Cole examines the rich literary and cultural history of masculine intimacy in the twentieth century.

This 2003 study uses evidence from early English verse to determine when certain sound changes took place.