Literary studies: poetry and poets

Why did poets continue to call themselves singers, and their poems songs, long after the formal link between poetry and music had been severed?

Scholarly accounts of Joyce's early work have traditionally resorted to two historical keys to try to unlock it: a concept of the Dublin and Ireland in which he grew to adulthood as stagnant and backward, and an emphasis on 1904, the year of the supposedly crucial break in which Joyce quit Ireland for continental Europe and could begin his great modernist literary project.

As the 'father' of the English literary canon, one of a very few writers to appear in every 'great books' syllabus, Chaucer is seen as an author whose works are fundamentally timeless: an author who, like Shakespeare, exemplifies the almost magical power of poetry to appeal to each generation of readers.

As the 'father' of the English literary canon, one of a very few writers to appear in every 'great books' syllabus, Chaucer is seen as an author whose works are fundamentally timeless: an author who, like Shakespeare, exemplifies the almost magical power of poetry to appeal to each generation of readers.

'Tell me, Muse, of the man of many turns, who was driven far and wide after he had sacked the sacred city of Troy'Twenty years after setting out to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus is yet to return home to Ithaca.

'Tell me, Muse, of the man of many turns, who was driven far and wide after he had sacked the sacred city of Troy'Twenty years after setting out to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus is yet to return home to Ithaca.

Faithful Labourers surveys and evaluates existing criticism of John Milton's epic Paradise Lost, tracing the major debates as they have unfolded over the past three centuries.

This collection of essays by an international group of scholars offers an account of Dante's reception in a wide range of media: visual art, literature, theatre, cinema, and music, from the late eighteenth century through to the early twentieth.

Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum offers unique insight into the works of Samuel Johnson by re-considering William Hazlitt's oft-cited comparison between Johnson's prose and a pendulum.

The rhymes in poems are important to understanding how poets write; and in the nineteenth century, rhyme conditioned the ways in which poets heard both themselves and each other writing.

Forty chapters, written by leading scholars across the world, describe the latest thinking on modern Irish poetry.

Forty chapters, written by leading scholars across the world, describe the latest thinking on modern Irish poetry.

Kirstie Blair explores Victorian poetry in relation to Victorian religion, with particular emphasis on the bitter contemporary debates over the use of forms in worship.

Conscience and the Composition of Piers Plowman provides a detailed account of one of the central personified figures in William Langland's Piers Plowman.

Gender, Violence, and the Past in Edda and Saga is the first book to investigate both the relation between gender and violence in the Old Norse Poetic Edda and key family and contemporary sagas, and the interrelated nature of these genres.

The experimental and diverse writings of John Milton's early career offer tantalizing evidence of a precocious and steadily ripening author.

Ben Jonson was the greatest of Shakespeare's contemporaries.

Ben Jonson was the greatest of Shakespeare's contemporaries.

Chris Stamatakis reappraises Sir Thomas Wyatt (c.

'What is poetry, how many kinds of it are there, and what are their specific effects?

'What is poetry, how many kinds of it are there, and what are their specific effects?

The Poet's Mind is a major study of how Victorian poets thought and wrote about the human mind.

Speaking to You examines our pleasures in, accounts of, and uses for British poetry today.

'Whoever best acquits himself, and tells The most amusing and instructive tale, Shall have a dinner, paid for by us all.

'With fair-tressed Demeter, the sacred goddess, my song begins, With herself and her slim-ankled daughter, whom Aidoneus once Abducted.

'sense too definite cancels your indistinct literature' Stephane Mallarme was the most radically innovative of nineteenth-century poets.

'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.

Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy is the most thorough and detailed life of Marlowe since John Bakeless's in 1942.

'War, the bringer of tears.

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

The poet and preacher John Donne (1572-1631) was one of the most influential authors of early modern England.

Poetry is supposed to be untranslatable.

Before etching Jerusalem William Blake wrote about creating 'the grandest poem that this world contains.

Conversable Worlds addresses the emergence of the idea of 'the conversation of culture'.

This is the first collection of scholarly essays on the Homeric Hymns, a corpus of 33 hexameter poems celebrating gods that were probably recited at religious festivals, among other possible performance venues, and were frequently attributed in antiquity to Homer.

'Nowhere, beloved, can world be but within us' Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the leading poets of European Modernism, and one of the greatest twentieth-century lyric poets in German.

'War, the bringer of tears.

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

Scottish and Irish Romanticism is the first single-author book to address the main non-English Romanticisms of the British Isles.

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The Movement was the preeminent poetical grouping of post-war Britain.

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.

Derek Mahon is one of the leading poets of his time, both in Ireland and beyond, famously offering a perspective that is displaced from as much as grounded in his native country.

This collection of essays explores the crucial place of Homer in the shifting cultural landscape of the twentieth century.

Writing After Sidney examines the literary response to Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86), author of the Arcadia, Astrophil and Stella, and The Defence of Poesy, and the most immediately influential writer of the Elizabethan period.

Pindar and the Cult of Heroes combines a study of Greek culture and religion (hero cult) with a literary-critical study of Pindar's epinician poetry.

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'The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line Nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.

Strange Likeness provides the first full account of how Old English (or Anglo-Saxon) was rediscovered by twentieth-century poets, and the uses to which they put that discovery in their own writing.

This is a collection of studies on ancient (especially Latin) poetry and historiography, concentrating especially on the impact of rhetoric on both genres, and on the importance of considering the literature to illuminate the historical Roman context and the historical context to illuminate the literature.