Literary studies: poetry and poets

This book explores the art of writing poetry from a practice-based perspective.

Passion's Triumph over Reason presents a comprehensive survey of ideas of emotion, appetite, and self-control in English literature and moral thought of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Viewing the poem as a social agent and product in women's lives, the essays in this collection examine factors influencing the relationships between writers and readers of poetry in seventeenth-century England and Scotland.

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

This new edition of Contemporaries and Snobs, a landmark collection of essays by Laura Riding, offers a counter-history of high modernist poetics.

Arion's Lyre examines how Hellenistic poetic culture adapted, reinterpreted, and transformed Archaic Greek lyric through a complex process of textual, cultural, and creative reception.

Religious poetry has often been regarded as minor poetry and dismissed in large part because poetry is taken to require direct experience; whereas religious poetry is taken to be based on faith, that is, on second or third hand experience.

'If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.

Historically, Kashmir was one of the most dynamic and influential centers of Sanskrit learning and literary production in South Asia.

"e;Kociejowski draws on all these aspects of his life in these engaging, idiosyncratic personal essays .

This book makes Milton''s works accessible and enjoyable by providing engaging and lucid explanations of his life, times and writings.

At the close of the Second World War, modernist poets found themselves in an increasingly scientific world, where natural and social sciences claimed exclusive rights to knowledge of both matter and mind.

This volume explores the development of literary culture in sixteenth-century England as a whole and seeks to explain the relationship between the Reformation and the literary renaissance of the Elizabethan period.

Perhaps no classical writer has been so consistently in vogue as Horace.

Provides a rich and varied reference resource, illuminating the different contexts for Chaucer and his work.

When a poet addresses a living personwhether friend or enemy, lover or sisterwe recognize the expression of intimacy.

This new selection of Gwen Hardwood's work includes poems from The Present Tense, published shortly before her death in 1995, as well as poems not included in earlier editions of Selected Poems.

Provides a comprehensive survey of approaches to genre in Shakespeare's work.

This study offers a comprehensive examination of the work of the young poet and scholar, Veronica Forrest-Thomson (1947-1975) in the context of a literary-critical revolution of the late sixties and seventies and evaluates her work against contemporary debates in poetry and poetics.

This book is the first collection of critical essays on Hilda Hilst (1930-2004) published in English.

Robert Burns has been a key figure in Scottish identity globally since his death in 1796.

Nothing was more important to Wordsworth than tracing the evidence that affinities had been preserved between all the stages of the life of man.

Honorable Mention - American Association for Ukrainian Studies (AAUS) 2018-2019 Book PrizeHaving exploded on the margins of Europe, Chornobyl marked the end of the Soviet Union and tied the era of postmodernism in Western Europe with nuclear consciousness.

In Spenser's famous Flight, Patrick Cheney challenges the received wisdom about the shape and goal of Spenser's literary career.

This book examines the impact of maternal mortality on Milton''s life and work, and provides important readings of his major poems.

A comprehensive and stimulating guide to the extraordinary poet, his work, and his influence on modern literature.

The Roman Poetry of Love explores the formation of a key literary genre in a troubled historical and political setting.

Der Maler Rudolf Wacker (1893 – 1939) gilt als der bedeutendste Vertreter der Neuen Sachlichkeit in Österreich.

A wide-ranging and novel study of metaphor as the generative principle giving shape and substance to Eliot''s poetic imagination.

By investigating the relationship between acoustical technologies and twentieth-century experimental poetics, this collection, with an accompanying compact disc, aims to 'turn up the volume' on printed works and rethink the way we read, hear, and talk about literary texts composed after telephones, phonographs, radios, loudspeakers, microphones, and tape recorders became facts of everyday life.

The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry gives readers a cutting-edge introduction to the kaleidoscopic world of American poetry over the last century.

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

Latin American Digital Poetics seeks to take the pulse of emergent poetic forms whose history is entangled with the computational and its AI dreams and achievements.

A fresh evaluation of Liszt''s symphonic poems, based on contextual, philosophical and musical evidence.

Committed to developing frameworks for defining and evaluating Black poetry, literary scholar Stephen E.

Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry collects personal and academic writing from Latino, Latin American, Latinx, and Luso poets about the nature of poetry and its practice.

Poor roads and transport infrastructure are key factors in the marginalization of women and other disempowered groups, but there is little understanding of the many ways in which a lack of mobility affects people's lives.

This innovative casebook introduces readers to wide-ranging critical dialogue about the work of Ted Hughes, one of the most popular and influential British poets of the 20th century.

Reflecting the surge of critical interest in Eliot renewed in recent years, A Companion to T.

Dominic Rainsford examines ways in which literary texts may seem to comment on their authors' ethical status.

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

For Dante and Petrarch, posthumous love was a powerful conviction.

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

This book is a major new study of the epic poetry of Republican Rome.

Brodsky's poetic career in the West was launched when Joseph Brodsky: Selected Poems was published in 1973.

Volume 15 in The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Browning presents poetry Browning wrote in his seventies, his last two volumes: Parleyings (1887) and Asolando (1889).