Literary studies: poetry and poets

Culture in Camouflage aims to remap the history of British war culture by insisting on the centrality and importance of the literature of the Second World War.

Do we want to read poetry, or just like having a few poets to talk about?

Beowulf is the longest and finest literary work to have come down to us from Anglo-Saxon times, and one of the world's greatest epic poems.

Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language.

'we can speak of no greater contest than Olympia' The Greek poet Pindar (c.

The first volume to be published in the new 21st-Century Oxford Authors series presents all of the surviving writings of Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918): poetry, plays, prose works, and letters.

There is a kind of conscience some men keepe,Is like a Member that's benumb'd with sleepe;Which, as it gathers Blood, and wakes agen,It shoots, and pricks, and feeles as bigg as tenDonne, Herbert, and Vaughan see the conscience as only partly theirs, only partly under their control.

The Cromwellian Protectorate was a period of innovation in poetry and drama, as well as constitutional debate.

This volume, together with its companion on the Eclogues and the previously published volume on the Aeneid, completes the coverage of Vergil's poetry in Oxford Readings in Classical Studies.

A ground-breaking approach to the politics of late medieval texts, Lordship and Literature investigates the importance of the great household to late fourteenth-century English culture and society.

Juvenal, writing between AD 110 and 130, was one of the greatest satirists of Imperial Rome.

Richly exploited comic situations, effervescent wit, and intricate plots combine to make Sheridan's work among the best of of all English comedy.

The theme of the Metamorphoses is change and transformation, as illustrated in Graeco-Roman myth and legend.

A publishing phenomenon began in Glasgow in 1765.

Between the Civil War and the early decades of the eighteenth century, English poets of the first rank devoted more of their time and creative energies to translating than they had ever done before or have ever done since.

The Idea of Iambos is a long overdue study of the genre of Greek iambic poetry from the perspective provided by ancient testimonies.

Walking the Streets of Eighteenth-Century London will entertain and inform all who are interested in literature, history, and the city of London.

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.

The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, which tells of the seduction of the shepherd Anchises by the love-goddess Aphrodite, has long been recognized as a masterpiece of early Western literature.

In this study of poetic form in early Greek elegy, Christopher A.

Nicholas Grene explores Yeats's poetic codes of practice, the key words and habits of speech that shape the reading experience of his poetry.

Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) is Russia's greatest poet, a 'founding father' of modern Russian literature, and a major figure in world literature.

In early modern Europe it has been estimated that up to one in two children did not survive to the age of ten.

Although Coleridge's thinking and writing about the fine arts was both considerable and interesting, this has not been the subject of a book before.

Thomas Hardy's 'Poetical Matter' notebook, the last to be published from among the small group of notebooks not destroyed by Hardy himself or by his executors, has now been meticulously edited with full scholarly annotation.

Pindar is one of the greatest Greek poets, but while the metre of half of his poems is easy to grasp, that of the other half has so far remained obscure.

The Collected Poems of Amelia Alderson Opie offers the first collected, scholarly edition of poetical writings of one of the most celebrated women writers of the early nineteenth century.

Robert Herrick has long been one of the best loved of English lyric poets.

This is the first edition for fifty years of one of the greatest of English lyric poets.

Four hundred years after his birth, John Milton remains one of the greatest and most controversial figures in English literature.

The Collected Critical Writings of Geoffrey Hill gathers more than forty years of Hill's published criticism, in a revised final form, and also adds much new work.

This collection of recent articles provides convenient access to some of the best recent writing on Horace's Odes and Epodes.

This volume, together with its companion on the Georgics and the previously published volume on the Aeneid, completes the coverage of Vergil's poetry in Oxford Readings in Classical Studies.

The Sonnet provides a comprehensive study of one of the oldest and most popular forms of poetry, widely used by Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth, and still used centuries later by poets such as Seamus Heaney, Tony Harrison, and Carol Ann Duffy.

'The mystery of Life, the mystery Of Death, I see Darkly as in a glass.

In an updated edition of his hugely successful student introduction to English literature from 1100 to 1500, J.

This book offers an introductory survey of contemporary poetry in English from all the regions that have developed into modern nations from the former British Empire.

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

Emily Bronte's poems are more frequently celebrated than read.

Drawn from Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, the title of this book suggests the cultural and literary persistence of the Romantic in the work of many British, American, and Irish poets since 1900.

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Ancient sport made a huge if indirect contribution to the literature of ancient Greece, since some sixty poems by Pindar and Bacchylides ('epinikian odes'), written to commemorate victories, survive from the Classical period.

Locating John Milton's works in national and international contexts, and applying a variety of approaches from literary to historical, philosophical, and postcolonial, Milton and Toleration offers a wide-ranging exploration of how Milton's visions of tolerance reveal deeper movements in the history of the imagination.

Tristan Corbiere is often viewed as the archetypal poete maudit, a misunderstood rebel and bohemian prankster.

This is the first full-length study of the extraordinary period of intense poetic activity in Belfast known as the Ulster Renaissance - a time when young Northern Irish poets such as Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, James Simmons, and Paul Muldoon began crafting their art, and tuning their voices through each other.

This volume presents a collection of pieces from a celebrated world-class scholar and interpreter of Latin poetry, focusing on the interpretation of Virgil's Aeneid.

William Empson was one of the most important poet-critics of the twentieth century, and continues to influence and inspire writers from many divergent critical traditions.

In the midst of an age of prejudice, John Selden's immense, neglected rabbinical works contain magnificent Hebrew scholarship that respects, to an extent remarkable for the times, the self-understanding of Judaism.

Martin West is widely recognized as one of the most significant classicists of all time.