Literary studies: poetry and poets

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.

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.