Literary studies: poetry and poets

This book explores the relationship between the Georgics and earlier works in the didactic tradition.

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

This book offers the first full-scale examination of Byron''s poetic form in relation to historical debates of his time.

A study of the poems of Statius'' Silvae, exploring their insights into the culture of the Flavian period.

The history of the United States has been characterized by ferventidealism, intense struggle, and radical change.

In the twentieth century more people spoke English and more people wrote poetry than in the whole of previous history, and this Companion strives to make sense of this crowded poetical era.

The diverse and controversial world of contemporary Milton studies is brought alive in this stimulating Companion.

A comprehensive guide to Dante s life and literature, with an emphasis on his Commedia.

Written by a leading authority on William Carlos Williams, this book provides a wide-ranging and stimulating guide to twentieth-century American poetry.

This concise and lively survey introduces students with no prior knowledge to Chaucer, and particularly to The Canterbury Tales.

Providing a close examination of Milton's wide-ranging prose and poetry at each stage of his life, Barbara Lewalski reveals a rather different Milton from that in earlier accounts.

This companion to America's greatest woman poet showcases the diversity and excellence that characterize the thriving field of Dickinson studies.

This volume distils into two hundred pages some of the most influential poetry of the Victorian period.

In this compelling first volume in the Blackwell Introductions to Literature series, Roy Flannagan, editor of The Milton Quarterly, provides a readable and uncluttered critical account of a complicated and sophisticated author, and his poetry and prose.

Designed as both a contribution to original research and as a stimulating and accessible text, this volume is a helpful, reliable, responsive and adaptable resource for students of Chaucer at all levels.

Three decades of correspondence between two great twentieth-century American poets: "e;A brilliant testament to the pleasure and power of good company.

National Book Award Finalist: This biography of the celebrated and castigated New York poet is "e;a balanced account of a notoriously unbalanced life"e; (Commentary).

The authorized and sweeping biography of one of America's most complex, influential, and enduring poetsIn the extraordinary generation of American poets who came of age in the middle of the twentieth century, James Wright (1927 1980) was frequently placed at the top of the list.

This "e;perceptive and elegant biography"e; of modernist poet Marianne Moore "e;captures well the strange and entrancing drama"e; of her life (The Wall Street Journal).

"e;Parker's beautiful Housman Country tells you everything you want to know about the life and influence of England's most satirised but inimitable poets.

Presents a new view of literary history by demonstrating how the earliest known Greek poets signposted their allusions to tradition.

Browning both denied and affirmed the value of biography for an understanding of literature.

This book presents a theoretical and historicized reading of the production of the 'autonomous' subject in Milton's prose and in Paradise Lost.

In this richly illustrated portrait, a prize-winning biographer surveys the entire sweep of William Blake’s creative work while telling the story of his life William Blake, overlooked in his time, remains an enigmatic figure to contemporary readers despite his near canonical status.

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a moving inquiry into the dramatic life, epic success, and ultimate tragedy of the great Hebrew poet By the time he was twenty-eight, Hayim Nahman Bialik was already considered the National Hebrew Poet.

Avant-garde poet and popular culture icon, Allen Ginsberg has been one of the world's most important writers for over 40 years.

This comprehensive overview of Julia Alvarez's fiction, nonfiction, and poetry offers biographical information and parses the author's important works and the intentions behind them.

Focusing on Sexton's poems rather than on the life she led, this fresh critique of her work restarts the debate about her poetry 30 years after her death.

Often thought of as the quintessential poet of New England, Robert Frost is one of the most widely read American poets of the 20th century.

Two contemporary poets from Taiwan, Yang Mu (pen name for Wang Ching-hsien, b.

Caribbean poetry written in English has been attracting growing amounts of scholarly attention.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744) was the most important English poet of the 18th century, as well as an essayist, satirist, and critic.

"e;Mariani has emerged as one of the few significant post-Montalian poets in Italy, and Molino is a graceful, experienced, thoroughly reliable translator.

The Bruges-born poet-priest Guido Gezelle (1830-1899) is generally considered one of the masters of 19th-century European lyric poetry.

For centuries, accounts of King Arthur and his court have fascinated historians, scholars, poets, and readers.

Perhaps the most important work written in Old English, Beowulf grew out of a culture very different from ours, and yet its story of war, violence, and heroism remains relevant to modern readers.

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is one of the oldest and most widely studied works of English literature.

Best remembered today as the author of The Song of Hiawatha, Longfellow continues to be one of the most popular poets in American literary history.

Even though Asian American literature is enjoying an impressive critical popularity, attention has focused primarily on longer narrative forms such as the novel.

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This book examines how the concept of the poet as a male professional emerged during the Restoration and eighteenth century.

With the great merit of Aristotle's Poetics , poetic logic became a theoretical activity endowed with a philosophical nature allowing it to be more philosophical than the pure representation of existence.

The Poet Mak Dizdar (d.

The Bible serves Wordsworth as a basis for his poetry and poetics, providing language, images, figures, and importantly, a paradigm of poetic genres.

Postmodern society seems incapable of elaborating an ethical critique of the market economy.

Set to generate and influence discussions in the field for years to come, this is an encyclopaedic work on the ever-evolving genre of poetry film.