Literary studies: poetry and poets

One of the greatest artists of all time, Michelangelo's work as a poet has been unjustly ignored.

This book explores Roman love elegy from postcolonial perspectives, arguing that the tropes, conventions, and discourses of the Augustan genre serve to reinforce the imperial identity of its elite, metropolitan audience.

Symposium of the Whole traces a discourse on poetry and culture that has profoundly influenced the art of our time, with precedents going back two centuries and more.

A bilingual volume that reveals an intriguing world of courtly love and satire in medieval Portugal and SpainThe rich tradition of troubadour poetry in western Iberia had all but vanished from history until the discovery of several ancient cancioneiros, or songbooks, in the nineteenth century.

How four American cities shaped Poe's life and writingsEdgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) changed residences about once a year throughout his life.

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A collection of specially-commissioned essays, enabling readers to explore Frost''s art and thought.

This Companion provides a fresh look at Dryden''s work in the context of his time.

A comprehensive and authoritative guide to Auden''s work.

Addresses the many facets of Samuel Taylor Coleridge''s life and work.

An international team of scholars provides an invaluable introduction to Pound''s work and life.

An essential introduction and handbook for students and other readers of T.

An accessible and rigorous introduction to Spenser''s work, in fourteen specially commissioned essays.

Poetry of the early seventeenth century set in its cultural and ideological context.

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.

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

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.

A COMPANION TO THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK A COMPANION TOTHE HISTORY OF THE BOOK Edited by Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose As a stimulating overview of the multidimensional present state of the field, the Companion has no peer.

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.

The history and philosophy of scientific ideas and the role poiesis and imagination play in our understanding of science and progress are widely explored in this book.

The Pictorial Third: An Essay into Intermedial Criticism examines the extent to which poetry intertwines with painting and the visual at large, and studies the singular relationship established between language and image, observesing the modalities and workings of what is termed 'intermedial transposition'.

The Pictorial Third: An Essay into Intermedial Criticism examines the extent to which poetry intertwines with painting and the visual at large, and studies the singular relationship established between language and image, observesing the modalities and workings of what is termed 'intermedial transposition'.

The First World War was a transformative experience for women, facilitating their entry into new spaces and alternative spheres of activity, both on the home front and on the edges of danger zones in Europe and beyond.

The First World War was a transformative experience for women, facilitating their entry into new spaces and alternative spheres of activity, both on the home front and on the edges of danger zones in Europe and beyond.

In recent years there has been a cautious movement towards seeing psychotherapy and counselling as arts not as sciences.

The God of the Left Hemisphere explores the remarkable connections between the activities and functions of the human brain that writer William Blake termed 'Urizen' and the powerful complex of rationalising and ordering processes which modern neuroscience identifies as 'left hemisphere' brain activity.

'Few people would be better qualified than the author to write this innovative and eagerly anticipated post-Kleinian book.

Psychoanalysis was neither a product of philosophy nor of academic study.

This book explores the interface of dreams, reverie, poetry, and play.

This book explores some of the ways in which an understanding of poetry, and the poetic impulse, can be fruitfully informed by psychoanalytic ideas.

In recent years there has been a cautious movement towards seeing psychotherapy and counselling as arts not as sciences.

This book is a small anthology: each chapter a kind of meditation-on poetry and psychoanalysis; on a poem, sometimes two; on poetry in general; on thought itself.

The God of the Left Hemisphere explores the remarkable connections between the activities and functions of the human brain that writer William Blake termed 'Urizen' and the powerful complex of rationalising and ordering processes which modern neuroscience identifies as 'left hemisphere' brain activity.

'Few people would be better qualified than the author to write this innovative and eagerly anticipated post-Kleinian book.

Psychoanalysis was neither a product of philosophy nor of academic study.

This book explores the interface of dreams, reverie, poetry, and play.

This book explores some of the ways in which an understanding of poetry, and the poetic impulse, can be fruitfully informed by psychoanalytic ideas.

Avant-Garde Pieties tells a new story about innovative poetry; it argues that the avant-garde-now more than a century old-persists in its ability to nurture interesting, provocative, meaningful, and moving poems, despite its profound cultural failings and its self-devouring theoretical compulsions.

Avant-Garde Pieties tells a new story about innovative poetry; it argues that the avant-garde-now more than a century old-persists in its ability to nurture interesting, provocative, meaningful, and moving poems, despite its profound cultural failings and its self-devouring theoretical compulsions.