Literary studies: poetry and poets

This Companion provides an introduction to major figures such as Seamus Heaney, as well as significant precursors and vital contemporary poets.

This book provides an introduction to Victorian poetry, and will interest scholars and students alike.

A wide-ranging introduction to Byron''s life and works by a range of eminent Byron scholars.

This second edition continues the excellent tradition of the volume, offering students a comprehensive introduction to Chaucer''s work and life.

This introduction presents the major themes, forms and styles of Russian poetry.

This volume presents the most comprehensive gathering of reviews of T.

This volume offers a stimulating introduction to one of the most influential texts of western literature, Milton''s Paradise Lost.

In this accessible introduction to Dante''s Divine Comedy Kirkpatrick principally focuses on Dante as a poet and storyteller.

A comprehensive overview and critical analysis of the Nobel Laureate''s fifty-year career.

Jennifer Ashton develops important ways to read modernist and postmodernist poets through their similarities as well as their differences.

This 2005 book examines the history of archaic Greek through its poetry, particularly the work of Solon.

An examination of Ovid''s Heroides which portrays its fictional female writers as a community of authors.

A reading of Milton''s writing on the Fall of man in its theological and historical context.

This collection of essays offers an exploration of the meaning and significance of the Catalogue of Women, attributed to Hesiod.

A study of the linked themes of violation and identity in seven Shakespearean tragedies.

A study of the popularity of sonnet sequences in Renaissance England.

Mark Miller''s innovative study argues that Chaucer''s Canterbury Tales represent an extended mediation on agency, autonomy and practical reason.

Richard Badenhausen examines the crucial role collaboration with other writers played in the development of T.

A collection of essays on all aspects of gender in Milton''s works.

An examination of Hellenistic poetry and of its reception at Rome.

This book gives readers a thorough introduction to the movements and schools of American poets in the twentieth century.

This 2002 collection of essays represents twenty-five years of McGann''s work on Romanticism and Byron Studies.

Provides new perspectives on one of the most enigmatic and widely read American writers.

A fascinating exploration of one of the most influential American playwrights of the contemporary stage.

This book explores a variety of critical approaches to the whole range of Horace''s poetry.

Examines Anglo-Jewish and Christian women poets, and the connections between the discourses of nineteenth-century poetry, gender and religious identity.

Hiltner argues that Milton anticipates certain essential prevailing ecological arguments.

Reads Hesiod''s poems as complementary halves of a whole embracing the divine and human cosmos.

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

This 2003 study uses evidence from early English verse to determine when certain sound changes took place.

This book studies the structure and origins of De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), the great first-century BC poem by Lucretius.

This study examines the role of female characters in the Roman epic poetry of Virgil, Ovid and other writers.

This 2001 book features a new type of commentary on Homer''s Odyssey which concentrates on the text''s narrative art.

Re-examines Rousseau''s influence on French Revolution and English Romanticism, through the mediating figure of Robespierre.

This book reveals how Anglo-Saxons viewed and defined themselves through the descriptions of nature in their poetry.

Alternative forms of eroticism in post-Petrarchan English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Profoundly original study of Ovid''s troubling presence in Renaissance representations of gender and desire.

This 1999 book offers a theory of reception governing Romantic poetry, through its culture of posterity.

This 1999 book explores concepts of human will in the poetry of Tennyson, Browning, Hopkins and Hardy.

This book explores the links between Romantic poetry and the first burst of outspoken atheism in Britain.

This book, first published in 2000, examines Romantic poetry in relation to the philosophical, political and anthropological discourse of the period.

The book re-establishes Coleridge as a philosopher of religion and as a vital source for contemporary theological reflection.

Loewenstein explores the interactions of literature, polemics and religious politics in the English Revolution.

Jeffrey Hammond''s study takes an anthropological approach to the most popular form of poetry in early New England - the funeral elegy.

A 1999 study of Rilke''s poetic development, and ways in which his poetry is embedded in the culture of its day.

A literary study using two comparative models to offer an alternative understanding of Catullus'' poems.

Provides a complete and socially and politically contextualised survey of Roman verse satire.

The perfect introduction to poetry, The Poetry Book offers a fascinating exploration of more than 90 of the world's greatest poetic works.

This book examines the ideological reception of Virgil at specific moments in the last two millennia.

Mark Parker argues that magazines became pre-eminent literary vehicles of the 1820s and 1830s.