Literary studies: poetry and poets

This book studies the structure and origins of De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), the great first-century BC poem by Lucretius.

This study examines the role of female characters in the Roman epic poetry of Virgil, Ovid and other writers.

This 2001 book features a new type of commentary on Homer''s Odyssey which concentrates on the text''s narrative art.

Re-examines Rousseau''s influence on French Revolution and English Romanticism, through the mediating figure of Robespierre.

This book reveals how Anglo-Saxons viewed and defined themselves through the descriptions of nature in their poetry.

Alternative forms of eroticism in post-Petrarchan English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Profoundly original study of Ovid''s troubling presence in Renaissance representations of gender and desire.

This 1999 book offers a theory of reception governing Romantic poetry, through its culture of posterity.

This 1999 book explores concepts of human will in the poetry of Tennyson, Browning, Hopkins and Hardy.

This book explores the links between Romantic poetry and the first burst of outspoken atheism in Britain.

This book, first published in 2000, examines Romantic poetry in relation to the philosophical, political and anthropological discourse of the period.

The book re-establishes Coleridge as a philosopher of religion and as a vital source for contemporary theological reflection.

Loewenstein explores the interactions of literature, polemics and religious politics in the English Revolution.

Jeffrey Hammond''s study takes an anthropological approach to the most popular form of poetry in early New England - the funeral elegy.

A 1999 study of Rilke''s poetic development, and ways in which his poetry is embedded in the culture of its day.

A literary study using two comparative models to offer an alternative understanding of Catullus'' poems.

Provides a complete and socially and politically contextualised survey of Roman verse satire.

The perfect introduction to poetry, The Poetry Book offers a fascinating exploration of more than 90 of the world's greatest poetic works.

This book examines the ideological reception of Virgil at specific moments in the last two millennia.

Mark Parker argues that magazines became pre-eminent literary vehicles of the 1820s and 1830s.

This book explores the relationship between the Georgics and earlier works in the didactic tradition.

An exploration of the theoretical and literary legacy of Dryden to a number of prominent women writers of the time.

This book offers the first full-scale examination of Byron''s poetic form in relation to historical debates of his time.

A study of the poems of Statius'' Silvae, exploring their insights into the culture of the Flavian period.

The history of the United States has been characterized by ferventidealism, intense struggle, and radical change.

In the twentieth century more people spoke English and more people wrote poetry than in the whole of previous history, and this Companion strives to make sense of this crowded poetical era.

The diverse and controversial world of contemporary Milton studies is brought alive in this stimulating Companion.

A comprehensive guide to Dante s life and literature, with an emphasis on his Commedia.

Written by a leading authority on William Carlos Williams, this book provides a wide-ranging and stimulating guide to twentieth-century American poetry.

This concise and lively survey introduces students with no prior knowledge to Chaucer, and particularly to The Canterbury Tales.

Providing a close examination of Milton's wide-ranging prose and poetry at each stage of his life, Barbara Lewalski reveals a rather different Milton from that in earlier accounts.

This companion to America's greatest woman poet showcases the diversity and excellence that characterize the thriving field of Dickinson studies.

This volume distils into two hundred pages some of the most influential poetry of the Victorian period.

In this compelling first volume in the Blackwell Introductions to Literature series, Roy Flannagan, editor of The Milton Quarterly, provides a readable and uncluttered critical account of a complicated and sophisticated author, and his poetry and prose.

Designed as both a contribution to original research and as a stimulating and accessible text, this volume is a helpful, reliable, responsive and adaptable resource for students of Chaucer at all levels.

Presents a new view of literary history by demonstrating how the earliest known Greek poets signposted their allusions to tradition.

Browning both denied and affirmed the value of biography for an understanding of literature.

This book presents a theoretical and historicized reading of the production of the 'autonomous' subject in Milton's prose and in Paradise Lost.

In this richly illustrated portrait, a prize-winning biographer surveys the entire sweep of William Blake’s creative work while telling the story of his life William Blake, overlooked in his time, remains an enigmatic figure to contemporary readers despite his near canonical status.

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a moving inquiry into the dramatic life, epic success, and ultimate tragedy of the great Hebrew poet By the time he was twenty-eight, Hayim Nahman Bialik was already considered the National Hebrew Poet.

Avant-garde poet and popular culture icon, Allen Ginsberg has been one of the world's most important writers for over 40 years.

This comprehensive overview of Julia Alvarez's fiction, nonfiction, and poetry offers biographical information and parses the author's important works and the intentions behind them.

Often thought of as the quintessential poet of New England, Robert Frost is one of the most widely read American poets of the 20th century.

Two contemporary poets from Taiwan, Yang Mu (pen name for Wang Ching-hsien, b.

Caribbean poetry written in English has been attracting growing amounts of scholarly attention.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744) was the most important English poet of the 18th century, as well as an essayist, satirist, and critic.

"e;Mariani has emerged as one of the few significant post-Montalian poets in Italy, and Molino is a graceful, experienced, thoroughly reliable translator.