Literary studies: poetry and poets

Fulke Greville's reputation has always been overshadowed by that of his more famous friend, Philip Sidney, a legacy due in part to Greville's complex moulding of his authorial persona as Achates to Sidney's Aeneas, and in part to the formidable complexity of his poetry and prose.

Manuscript Matters illuminates responses to some of John Donne's most elusive texts by his contemporary audiences.

Manuscript Matters illuminates responses to some of John Donne's most elusive texts by his contemporary audiences.

This study explores the interrelationship between spatiality and subjecthood in the work of Stephane Mallarme, Guillaume Apollinaire, Maurice Maeterlinck, and Alfred Jarry.

This study explores the interrelationship between spatiality and subjecthood in the work of Stephane Mallarme, Guillaume Apollinaire, Maurice Maeterlinck, and Alfred Jarry.

This book explores the incorporation of untranslated fragments from various languages within modernist writing.

This book explores the incorporation of untranslated fragments from various languages within modernist writing.

This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers a comprehensive selection of the work of Robert Browning (1812-1889).

Throughout his career in poetry, Seamus Heaney maintained roles in education and was a visible presence in the print and broadcast media.

In Dryden's writing, enthusiasm is a source of literary authority.

In Dryden's writing, enthusiasm is a source of literary authority.

This is the first extended study of Wordsworth's complex, subtle, and often conflicted engagement with the material and cultural legacies of monasticism.

This is the first extended study of Wordsworth's complex, subtle, and often conflicted engagement with the material and cultural legacies of monasticism.

This volume tells the story of William Blake's literary reception in America and suggests that ideas about Blake's poetry and personality helped shape mythopoeic visions of America from the Abolitionists to the counterculture.

This volume tells the story of William Blake's literary reception in America and suggests that ideas about Blake's poetry and personality helped shape mythopoeic visions of America from the Abolitionists to the counterculture.

The life of Rilke's work is in its words, and this book attends closely to the life unfolding in Rilke's words over the course of his career.

The life of Rilke's work is in its words, and this book attends closely to the life unfolding in Rilke's words over the course of his career.

For centuries, investigations into the origins of words were entwined with investigations into the origins of humanity and the cosmos.

For centuries, investigations into the origins of words were entwined with investigations into the origins of humanity and the cosmos.

Poetry, arguably, has a greater range of conceptual meaning than perhaps any other term in English.

Poetry, arguably, has a greater range of conceptual meaning than perhaps any other term in English.

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The region of Campania with its fertility and volcanic landscape exercised great influence over the Roman cultural imagination.

The region of Campania with its fertility and volcanic landscape exercised great influence over the Roman cultural imagination.

Platonic concerns and conceptions profoundly affected early modern English and continental poetics, yet the effects have had little attention.

Platonic concerns and conceptions profoundly affected early modern English and continental poetics, yet the effects have had little attention.

The Hellenistic period was an era of literary canons, of privileged texts and collections.

The Hellenistic period was an era of literary canons, of privileged texts and collections.

The Johannine Renaissance in Early Modern English Literature and Theology argues that the Fourth Gospel and First Epistle of Saint John the Evangelist were so influential during the early modern period in England as to share with Pauline theology pride of place as leading apostolic texts on matters Christological, sacramental, pneumatological, and political.

The Johannine Renaissance in Early Modern English Literature and Theology argues that the Fourth Gospel and First Epistle of Saint John the Evangelist were so influential during the early modern period in England as to share with Pauline theology pride of place as leading apostolic texts on matters Christological, sacramental, pneumatological, and political.

What is the relationship between the spaces we inhabit and the spaces we create?

What is the relationship between the spaces we inhabit and the spaces we create?

The terms 'poetry' and 'realism' have a complex and often oppositional relationship in American literary histories of the postbellum period.

The terms 'poetry' and 'realism' have a complex and often oppositional relationship in American literary histories of the postbellum period.

A defence of the importance of poetry that studies one of the greatest poets of the English tradition: John Milton.

Thinking through Poetry: Field Reports on Romantic Lyric pursues two goals.

Thinking through Poetry: Field Reports on Romantic Lyric pursues two goals.

Every major poet or philosopher develops their own distinctive semantic field around those terms which matter most to them, or which contribute most profoundly to the imagined world of a particular work.

Every major poet or philosopher develops their own distinctive semantic field around those terms which matter most to them, or which contribute most profoundly to the imagined world of a particular work.

This is the first volume to offer a critical overview of the long and complicated history of translations of Virgil from the early modern period to the present day, transcending traditional studies of single translations or particular national traditions in isolation to offer an insightful comparative perspective.

This is the first volume to offer a critical overview of the long and complicated history of translations of Virgil from the early modern period to the present day, transcending traditional studies of single translations or particular national traditions in isolation to offer an insightful comparative perspective.

Sacrifice and Modern War Literature is the first book to explore how writers from the early nineteenth century to the present have addressed the intimacy of sacrifice and war.

The Mirror for Magistrates, the collection of de casibus complaint poems in the voices of medieval rulers and rebels compiled by William Baldwin in the 1550s, was central to the development of imaginative literature in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

The Mirror for Magistrates, the collection of de casibus complaint poems in the voices of medieval rulers and rebels compiled by William Baldwin in the 1550s, was central to the development of imaginative literature in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

Recent decades have seen a major expansion in our understanding of how early Greek lyric functioned in its social, political, and ritual contexts, and the fundamental role song played in the day-to-day lives of communities, groups, and individuals has been the object of intense study.

Recent decades have seen a major expansion in our understanding of how early Greek lyric functioned in its social, political, and ritual contexts, and the fundamental role song played in the day-to-day lives of communities, groups, and individuals has been the object of intense study.

Seamus Heaney, the great Irish poet, made a significant contribution to classical reception in modern poetry; though occasional essays have appeared in the past, this volume is the first to be wholly dedicated to this perspective on his work.

Seamus Heaney, the great Irish poet, made a significant contribution to classical reception in modern poetry; though occasional essays have appeared in the past, this volume is the first to be wholly dedicated to this perspective on his work.

Originally writing over 600 years ago, Geoffrey Chaucer is today enjoying a global renaissance.