Literary studies: poetry and poets

A detailed investigation of Johnson''s response to the Ossian controversy, with a transcription of a rare anti-Ossian pamphlet he co-authored.

This book explores the contribution made by Chartist poetry to the struggle for fundamental democratic rights.

Explores the phenomenon of wandering poets, setting them within the wider context of ancient networks of exchange, patronage and affiliation.

David Simpson''s reading of Wordsworth examines Wordsworth''s reaction to changes in the modern world at the turn of the century.

New readings of Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes, offering fresh perspectives on Milton''s aesthetics, theology and politics.

An insightful collection of new approaches to the debate on Milton and Judaism.

A moving and engaging new book from one of the foremost scholars of First World War poetry.

The first sustained study of the Argonautica which emphasises its political, religious and ethical dimensions.

The first book to offer a universal linguistic theory of poetic meter.

A lucid overview of Plath''s life, work, influence and the critical reception of her writings to the present day.

Aimed at students new to Poe''s work, this book offers an overview of his life, works, contexts and reception.

An engaging and informative way to start studying and understanding one of America''s most popular poets.

This book offers an interpretation of the relations between theology and poetry in Milton, Donne, Shakespeare and others.

This book examines plants and botany in the writing of D.

This book examines the flourishing and subsequent decline of praise poetry as a genre from Antiquity to the present.

An examination of the importance of international cross-influences between modernist poets in the Americas.

A lively and provocative history of the great achievements of Irish poets from 1800 to the present day.

An investigation into the competing impulses of science and literary experience in the poetry of Wordsworth, Blake, Coleridge and Keats.

Considers the idea of self-consciousness in the work of Hölderlin, Hegel, Wordsworth and Beethoven.

The first comprehensive study of Dante''s evolving, transformative relationship to medieval ideas of authorship and authority.

2007 edition of Pindar''s Pythian Eleven offering text, translation, metrical discussion, full introduction, and commentary.

A radical reading of representations of gender in Shakespeare, Ralegh, Sidney and Donne.

Marion Thain recounts the development of this fascinating poetic persona, created by two female writers.

Goldberg analyses the strategies Romantic poets employed to present their work as comparable to the traditional professions.

Explores the possibility of providing literary interpretations of inconsistencies in five Roman epics.

This book is a comprehensive study of the nineteenth-century German poet Heinrich Heine.

This book examines the idea of fictionality in the poems of Theocritus.

This introduction delves behind the myth of Emily Dickinson to present her in the context of her time.

Focusing on his masterpiece Leaves of Grass, this book provides a foundation for the study of Whitman.

This Introduction, first published in 2005, is designed to help students reading Pound for the first time.

A significant reading of the epic which argues that its narrative strategies reflect the theme of internal discord.

This study sheds light on the relationships between poets and political power.

Wordsworth''s aspiration to ''philosophic song'' changed the relations between philosophy and English poetry.

A critical examination of the Roman reaction to Greek poetry of the last three pre-Christian centuries.

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This informative and accessible book provides the perfect introduction to Eliot''s life and work.

A comprehensive introduction for those beginning to study Yeats.

A collection of essays on sexuality, desire and feminism in T.

The epic genre continued to be important in the nineteenth century despite its apparent anachronism.

Twelve commissioned essays provide an essential introduction to Thomas Hardy.

A collection of specially-commissioned essays, enabling readers to explore Frost''s art and thought.

This Companion provides a fresh look at Dryden''s work in the context of his time.

In The Cambridge Companion to Keats, leading scholars discuss Keats''s work.

A comprehensive and authoritative guide to Auden''s work.

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

An international team of scholars provides an invaluable introduction to Pound''s work and life.

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

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

Provides a wide-ranging account of one of the most famous Romantic poets.

Poetry of the early seventeenth century set in its cultural and ideological context.