Literary studies: poetry and poets

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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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.

The night can sweat with terror as beforeWe pieced our thoughts into philosophy,And planned to bring the world under a rule,Who are but weasels fighting in a hole.

What does it mean to have an emotional response to poetry and music?

`Now listen with good will, as I go straight to my subject matter, in which you may hear the double sorrows of Troilus in his love for Criseyde, and how she forsook him before she died' Like Romeo and Juliet, or Tristan and Iseult, the names of Troilus and Criseyde will always be united: a pair of lovers whose names are inseparable from passion and tragedy.

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`Now listen with good will, as I go straight to my subject matter, in which you may hear the double sorrows of Troilus in his love for Criseyde, and how she forsook him before she died' Like Romeo and Juliet, or Tristan and Iseult, the names of Troilus and Criseyde will always be united: a pair of lovers whose names are inseparable from passion and tragedy.

The Hidden Chorus investigates the relationship between the chorus of Greek tragedy and other types of choral song in Greek society.

Afro-Greeks examines the reception of Classics in the English-speaking Caribbean, from about 1920 to the beginning of the 21st century.

This wide-ranging and original book reappraises the role of genre, and genre theory, in British Romanticism.

This is a study of mock-epic poetry in English, French, and German from the 1720s to the 1840s.

Milton's Paradise Lost, the most eloquent, most intellectually daring, most learned, and most sublime poem in the English language, is a poem about angels.

Published to mark the bicentenary of Alfred Tennyson's birth, these essays offer an important revaluation of his achievement and its lasting importance.

In Writing, Performance, and Authority in Augustan Rome Michele Lowrie examines how the Romans conceived of their poetic media.

Elizabeth Vandiver examines the ways in which British poets of the First World War used classical literature, culture, and history as a source of images, ideas, and even phrases for their own poetry.

'The finest translation in and for our time' (Kevin Crossley-Holland) Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, with its intricate plot of enchantment and betrayal is probably the most skilfully told story in the whole of the English Arthurian cycle.

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

More than any other English monarch before or since, Queen Elizabeth I used her annual progresses to shape her royal persona and to bolster her popularity and authority.

This book is about the things which could unite, rather than divide, poets during the English Civil Wars: friendship, patronage relations, literary admiration, and anti-clericalism.

The Poetry Handbook is a lucid and entertaining guide to the poet's craft, and an invaluable introduction to practical criticism for students.

No literary figure of the past century - in America or perhaps in any other Western country - is comparable to Ezra Pound in the scope and depth of his exchange with China.

It hardly needs repeating that Plato defined philosophy partly by contrast with the work of the poets.

In God and Mystery in Words David Brown uses the way in which poetry and drama have in the past opened people to the possibility of religious experience as a launch pad for advocating less wooden approaches to Christian worship today.

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

Crossroads in the Black Aegean is a compendious, timely, and fascinating study of African rewritings of Greek tragedy.

The Other Virgil tells the story of how a classic like the Aeneid can say different things to different people.

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

What was the relationship between woman and politics in seventeenth-century England?

This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode.

`I sing of knights and ladies, of love and arms, of courtly chivalry, of courageous deeds.

Aurora Leigh is the foremost example of the mid-nineteenth-century poem of contemporary life.

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

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

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

'A countryman cleaves earth with his crooked plough.