Literary studies: poetry and poets

Spatial Representations and the Jacobean Stage offers a timely alternative to theatre criticism's neglect of the intensely spatial character of theatrical performance.

Panegyric poetry, in both Arabic and Persian, was one of the most important genres of literature in the medieval Middle East and Central Asia.

This book explores early modern ideas of chastity and their cultural, political, medical, moral and theological applications.

The single largest category of Beowulf representation and adaptation, outside of direct translation of the poem, is children's literature.

An overview of the great achievements of modern poets in Britain in the twentieth century.

Every major poet or philosopher develops their own distinctive semantic field around those terms which matter most to them, or which contribute most profoundly to the imagined world of a particular work.

A new, holistic reading of Catullus emerges from convincing solutions to centuries-old problems concerning the nature of his surviving text.

This monograph is a critical study of the medieval manuscript held in Exeter Cathedral Library, popularly known as 'The Exeter Book'.

Verse Going Viral examines what happens when poetry, a central pillar of traditional Chinese culture, encounters an era of digital media and unabashed consumerism in the early twenty-first century.

A Companion to Roman Love Elegy is the first comprehensive work dedicated solely to the study of love elegy.

This book investigates how subjectivity is encoded in the texts of a wide variety of medieval narratives and lyrics - not how they express the subjectivity of individuals, but how subjectivity, escaping the bounds of individuality, is incorporated in the linguistic fabric of their texts.

This work explores an aspect of Yeats's writing largely ignored until now: namely, his wide-ranging absorption in S.

This Companion gives an overview of Heaney''s career, with detailed readings of his major publications.

Dickinson formulates her poetics in the context of popular manuscript practices, rhetoric, philosophy, and science in the American nineteenth century.

One of the chief characteristics of nineteenth-century poetics was a tendency to test the conventions and techniques of literary genres by shifting, modifying, and combining various styles and forms.

Provides new theatrical contexts for Romantic-period literary writing, reframing the relationship between theater and poetry in Regency London.

Sooner or later, our words take on meanings other than we intended.

The Poet's Holy Craft represents the first full-length analysis and interpretation of William Gilmore Simms's poetry.

Half a century ago, Norman Jeffares wrote the definitive biography of W.

A bold study that reveals Dante''s medieval vision of Scripture as theophany through pioneering use of contemporary theory and phenomenology.

Ezra Pound - one of the most innovative and influential, if controversial, poets of the 20th century - continues to dominate the current literary landscape.

An authoritative guide to Plath''s work, her importance to contemporary literature and culture, and the controversies that surround her.

In this innovative series of public lectures at Newcastle University, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city and the university.

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism.

In Forms of Empire, Nathan K.

Guillaume de Saluste Du Bartas was the most popular and widely-imitated poet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England and Scotland.

The major edition of the three versions of Piers Plowman which the Athlone Press is in the process of publishing and of which Professor Kane is the general editor was not planned to include discussion of the authorship of the poem.

This volume presents new approaches to Dickinson, informed by twenty-first-century theory and methodologies.

Langston Hughes survived as a writer for over forty years under conditions that made survival virtually heroic.

This Companion brings together essays on some fifty-four American poets, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry.

This volume offers a stimulating introduction to one of the most influential texts of western literature, Milton''s Paradise Lost.

A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid presents more than 30 original essays written by leading scholars revealing the rich diversity of critical engagement with Ovid s poetry that spans the Western tradition from antiquity to the present day.

The early Stuart funeral elegy was a copious and digressive genre, and exceptional deaths pressed elegists to stretch beyond the usual rhetoric of grief and commemoration.

Exploring more than 100 key novels, stories, plays, and poems and the geniuses who created them, this book is the perfect introduction to literature and writing from around the world.

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

Traditionally Hellenism is seen as the uncontroversial and beneficial influence of Greece upon later culture.

The widespread and culturally significant impact of Percy Bysshe Shelley's writings in Europe constitutes a particularly interesting case for a reception study because of the variety of responses they evoked.

This Companion brings together sixteen essays that explore the full diversity of British poetry since the Second World War.

John Edgar Tidwell and Steven C.

How did Alexander Pope become the greatest poet of the eighteenth century?

The Homeric Simile in Comparative Perspectives: Oral Traditions from Saudi Arabia to Indonesia investigates both the construction of the Homeric simile and the performance of Homeric poetry from neglected comparative perspectives, offering a revealing exploration of what made the epics such powerful examples of verbal artistry.