Literary studies: poetry and poets

David Scott Wilson-Okamura reframes long-standing questions about Edmund Spenser''s style in the wider context of long-term, European trends.

A lucid and comprehensive study of Piers Plowman, one of the most magnificent literary works of the Middle Ages.

This book combines a critical survey of the ancient sources for Ennius'' Annales with fresh interpretation of the surviving record.

This book combines a critical survey of the ancient sources for Ennius'' Annales with fresh interpretation of the surviving record.

David Scott Wilson-Okamura reframes long-standing questions about Edmund Spenser''s style in the wider context of long-term, European trends.

This comprehensive study establishes the importance of an unexpected genre, tragedy, in the career of the most mercurial Western poet.

Combines textual, historical and even archaeological evidence to explode the orthodox view of Catullus'' life and work.

Combines textual, historical and even archaeological evidence to explode the orthodox view of Catullus'' life and work.

In his compelling new book Ian Smith addresses the pernicious influence of systemic whiteness on our interpretation of Shakespeare''s plays.

In his compelling new book Ian Smith addresses the pernicious influence of systemic whiteness on our interpretation of Shakespeare''s plays.

A unique account of the shifting cultures of poetry across the Age of Enlightenment.

A unique account of the shifting cultures of poetry across the Age of Enlightenment.

A detailed treatment of Switzerland in British literature, the book shows how a republican myth contributed to Romanticism and liberalism.

A detailed treatment of Switzerland in British literature, the book shows how a republican myth contributed to Romanticism and liberalism.

Assembles and illustrates the evolution of a major scholar''s work on early Greek poetry, above all elegy, over four decades.

Assembles and illustrates the evolution of a major scholar''s work on early Greek poetry, above all elegy, over four decades.

Across time and cultures, poets and astronomers have often asked the same questions about outer space, and about ourselves.

Comparatively studies, through both form and content, the development of Arabic and Persian modernist poetry during the mid-twentieth century.

Conversing in Verse considers when and why poets turn to conversation to explore and expand the potential of poetry.

Conversing in Verse considers when and why poets turn to conversation to explore and expand the potential of poetry.

Illuminating the poetry of birdsong in the Romantic and Victorian periods, this timely study dissects historical attitudes to nonhuman life.

Illuminating the poetry of birdsong in the Romantic and Victorian periods, this timely study dissects historical attitudes to nonhuman life.

A vivid account of the alternative, emancipatory Germany that progressive British women writers discovered and wrote about, 1833-1910.

A vivid account of the alternative, emancipatory Germany that progressive British women writers discovered and wrote about, 1833-1910.

This volume assembles exciting new scholarship canvassing the entire geographic and historical range of Langston Hughes''s storied career.

This volume assembles exciting new scholarship canvassing the entire geographic and historical range of Langston Hughes''s storied career.

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Reveals the critical importance of the ancient carpe diem motif for understanding ancient literature and its creation of vivid presents.

Reveals the critical importance of the ancient carpe diem motif for understanding ancient literature and its creation of vivid presents.

Highly accessible as a tool for Latin students, and a serious contribution to the study of Roman poetry.

A bold study that reveals Dante''s medieval vision of Scripture as theophany through pioneering use of contemporary theory and phenomenology.

A bold study that reveals Dante''s medieval vision of Scripture as theophany through pioneering use of contemporary theory and phenomenology.

Promotes a bilingual (Latin/Greek) focus to shed new light on the poetics and aesthetics of late antique poetry.

Promotes a bilingual (Latin/Greek) focus to shed new light on the poetics and aesthetics of late antique poetry.

Compares monumental designs and performance spaces of Christian, Buddhist, and related sanctuaries, exploring how brain networks, animal-human emotions, and cultural ideals are reflected historically and affected today as "e;inner theatre"e; elements.

This volume is the only collected edition of poems by Jean Toomer, the enigmatic American writer, Gurdjieffian guru, and Quaker convert who is perhaps best known for his 1923 lyrical narrative Cane.