Literary studies: poetry and poets

This book, based on the Clarendon Lectures for 2016, is about the use made by poets and novelists of street songs and cries.

This book brings together, in a novel and exciting combination, three authors who have written movingly about mourning: two medieval Italian poets, Dante Alighieri and Francesco Petrarca, and one early twentieth-century French novelist, Marcel Proust.

This book brings together, in a novel and exciting combination, three authors who have written movingly about mourning: two medieval Italian poets, Dante Alighieri and Francesco Petrarca, and one early twentieth-century French novelist, Marcel Proust.

No medieval text was designed to be read hundreds of years later by an audience unfamiliar with its language, situation, and author.

Pindar's Eyes is a ground-breaking interdisciplinary exploration of the interactions between Greek lyric poetry and visual and material culture in the early fifth century BCE.

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry contains thirty-eight original essays written by leading Shakespeareans around the world.

The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley takes stock of current developments in the study of a major Romantic poet and prose-writer, and seeks to advance Shelley studies in new directions.

The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley takes stock of current developments in the study of a major Romantic poet and prose-writer, and seeks to advance Shelley studies in new directions.

What does it mean for a woman to write an elegy, ode, epic, or blazon in the seventeenth century?

The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities.

The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities.

This pioneering Handbook offers a comprehensive consideration of the dynamic relationship between English literature and religion in the early modern period.

This pioneering Handbook offers a comprehensive consideration of the dynamic relationship between English literature and religion in the early modern period.

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The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry offers thirty-eight chapters of ground breaking research that form a collaborative guide to the many groupings and movements, the locations and styles, as well as concerns (aesthetic, political, cultural and ethical) that have helped shape contemporary poetry in Britain and Ireland.

The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry offers thirty-eight chapters of ground breaking research that form a collaborative guide to the many groupings and movements, the locations and styles, as well as concerns (aesthetic, political, cultural and ethical) that have helped shape contemporary poetry in Britain and Ireland.

A practical and comprehensive reference work, the Oxford Handbook provides the best single-volume source of original scholarship on all aspects of Coleridge's diverse writings.

Why do authors use pseudonyms and pen-names, or ingeniously hide names in their work with acrostics and anagrams?

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

Edmund Spenser's innovative poetic works have a central place in the canon of English literature.

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.

'Grey-eyed Athena sent them a following breeze, the fresh- blowing westerly, whistling over the wine-dark sea'Twenty years after setting out to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus is yet to return home to Ithaca.

'Grey-eyed Athena sent them a following breeze, the fresh- blowing westerly, whistling over the wine-dark sea'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.

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

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'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.

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