Literary studies: poetry and poets

A comprehensive and accessible introduction to the major themes of this important poet''s life and career.

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

An overview of Kipling''s work, his career and postcolonial views on his often controversial position on imperialism.

Explores the life, work and literary significance of the late Poet Laureate.

An authoritative guide to Plath''s work, her importance to contemporary literature and culture, and the controversies that surround her.

A fully updated 2007 edition of this useful and accessible coursebook on Dante''s works, context and reception history.

A collection of sixteen essays giving a comprehensive guide to the work of John Donne.

Companion to the work of one of the most admired of English writers and artists.

Accessible but exciting critical handbook on one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity.

This Companion casts post-1945 American poetry as a coherent literary movement, making the period''s most difficult offerings comprehensible and accessible.

The first critical collection of its kind devoted solely to this subject, this Companion covers both well-known and lesser-known poets.

Introduces readers to the scope of Milton''s work, the richness of its historical relations, and the range of current approaches to it.

A comprehensive and accessible introduction to the major themes of this important poet''s life and career.

An overview of Kipling''s work, his career and postcolonial views on his often controversial position on imperialism.

Explores the life, work and literary significance of the late Poet Laureate.

This book studies Irish poetry in English, from the union of Ireland and Great Britain in 1801 to the Irish Free State in 1921 and beyond.

Munro explores the conscious use of archaic language by poets and dramatists including Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson and Milton.

This study examines how Milton''s polemical and imaginative literature intersects with representations of English Protestant nationhood.

Crawforth presents a major re-reading of early modern poetry, demonstrating its debt to the emergence of linguistics in the period.

This Companion offers a major re-examination of the poetry of the First World War at the start of the war''s centennial commemoration.

This book from renowned poetry critic Edna Longley presents fresh, dynamic perspectives on W.

This book studies Irish poetry in English, from the union of Ireland and Great Britain in 1801 to the Irish Free State in 1921 and beyond.

Munro explores the conscious use of archaic language by poets and dramatists including Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson and Milton.

This study examines how Milton''s polemical and imaginative literature intersects with representations of English Protestant nationhood.

Crawforth presents a major re-reading of early modern poetry, demonstrating its debt to the emergence of linguistics in the period.

This Companion offers a major re-examination of the poetry of the First World War at the start of the war''s centennial commemoration.

This book from renowned poetry critic Edna Longley presents fresh, dynamic perspectives on W.

This book establishes Percy Bysshe Shelley''s view of poetry as ''living melody'' and sets it within the wider context of Romantic-era thought.

This book argues that concepts of youth and childhood were central to seventeenth-century debates about political and poetic voice.

Surveys the first millennium in the circulation of Lucretius'' De rerum natura, analysing its ancient readers, annotators, scribes and owners.

This collection of essays by leading scholars offers a comprehensive overview of contexts important for the study of Emily Dickinson''s writings.

This book establishes Percy Bysshe Shelley''s view of poetry as ''living melody'' and sets it within the wider context of Romantic-era thought.

This book argues that concepts of youth and childhood were central to seventeenth-century debates about political and poetic voice.

Surveys the first millennium in the circulation of Lucretius'' De rerum natura, analysing its ancient readers, annotators, scribes and owners.

This collection of essays by leading scholars offers a comprehensive overview of contexts important for the study of Emily Dickinson''s writings.

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

Gillian Wright combines literary and bibliographical approaches to examine the work of five English women poets in the period 1600–1730.

This fresh perspective on Byron''s relationship with Greece throws new light on its importance both for Byron and for Greece.

This book shows how Emily Dickinson used philosophy in her poetry and anticipated later philosophical movements.

A literary study of the Odyssey based on the central economic and symbolic importance of the eating of meat.

Gillian Wright combines literary and bibliographical approaches to examine the work of five English women poets in the period 1600–1730.

This fresh perspective on Byron''s relationship with Greece throws new light on its importance both for Byron and for Greece.

This book shows how Emily Dickinson used philosophy in her poetry and anticipated later philosophical movements.

A literary study of the Odyssey based on the central economic and symbolic importance of the eating of meat.

Explores the previously neglected influence on Ovid''s Metamorphoses of Hesiod, the most important archaic Greek poet after Homer.

Argues that Lucan''s Bellum Civile is a central text in the history of the sublime.

Argues that Lucan''s Bellum Civile is a central text in the history of the sublime.

Investigates the themes of recollection and commemoration in a new reading that engages with critical work on memory.

Investigates the themes of recollection and commemoration in a new reading that engages with critical work on memory.

Re-envisions epic from Homer to Nonnus through theories of the gaze.