Literary studies: poetry and poets

What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric?

Why do we need new art?

For Dante and Petrarch, posthumous love was a powerful conviction.

The first book on the central importance of literary sources in the paintings of Cy TwomblyMany of Cy Twombly's paintings and drawings include handwritten words and phrases-naming or quoting poets ranging from Sappho, Homer, and Virgil to Mallarme, Rilke, and Cavafy.

"e;We have many poets of the First Book,"e; the poet and critic Louis Simpson remarked in 1957, describing a sense that the debut poetry collection not only launched the contemporary poetic career but also had come to define it.

This book offers a novel interpretation of politics and identity in Ovid's epic poem of transformations, the Metamorphoses.

The Plural of Us is the first book to focus on the poet's use of the first-person plural voice-poetry's "e;we.

Anthropocene Poetry: Place, Environment and Planet argues that the idea of the Anthropocene is inspiring new possibilities for poetry.

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.

Ovid transformed English Renaissance literary ideas about love, erotic desire, embodiment, and gender more than any other classical poet.

This book analyses intersemiotic translation, where the translator works across sign systems and cultural boundaries.

This book is a unique contribution to scholarship of the poetics of Wallace Stevens, offering an analysis of the entire oeuvre of Stevens's poetry using the philosophical framework of Martin Heidegger.

This book traces the major writing of New Orleans through its five most famous streets as well as its outskirts.

This book traces the major writing of New Orleans through its five most famous streets as well as its outskirts.

Demonstrating how Chaucer uses the Bible in The Canterbury Tales as an authoritative literary source and model for his own literary production, this book explores the ways in which the Bible was a key tool for Chaucer's self-definition and innovation as an author.

Amrita Pritam was a prominent Punjabi poet, novelist, and essayist who captured the realities of everyday life in the India of the early 1900s India and presented the unique voices of the women of the Indian subcontinent.

The aim of the book is to propose new interpretations of poets who are among the most valued and discussed in the British Enlightenment.

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Comprised of contributions from leading international scholars, The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry incorporates political, cultural, and theoretical paradigms that help place poetic projects in their socio-political contexts as well as illuminate connections across the continuum of the Arabic tradition.

How the tropes of science fiction infuse and inform avant-garde poetics and many other kindred arts This insightful, playful monograph from Golston does exactly what it advertises: modeling poetics based on how poetry (and some parallel artistic endeavors) has filtered through a century-plus of science fiction.

Compares monumental designs and performance spaces of Christian, Buddhist, and related sanctuaries, exploring how brain networks, animal-human emotions, and cultural ideals are reflected historically and affected today as "e;inner theatre"e; elements.

What is Sappho, except a name?

Der deutsche Minnesang ist eine der wichtigsten Ausprägungen der europäischen Liebeslyrik im Mittelalter.

Amrita Pritam was a prominent Punjabi poet, novelist, and essayist who captured the realities of everyday life in the India of the early 1900s India and presented the unique voices of the women of the Indian subcontinent.

Originally published in 1956, this scholarly study of Spenser's poetry shows how the conceptions of his earlier work in complaints, visions and pastorals were of continuing importance to the development of The Faerie Queene.

This volume convenes eight noted scholars with varied positions at the interface of formal and historical literary criticism.

Do you want to write a poem?

Black Surrealist.

Dive into the intricate and mesmerizing world of James Joyce's "e;Ulysses,"e; a groundbreaking novel that has captivated readers and scholars for decades.

Best Monograph, 2026 Beat Studies Association AwardsBlack Surrealist.

The period following the Reformation saw a rapid increase in the production of funeral monuments in England.

The period following the Reformation saw a rapid increase in the production of funeral monuments in England.

Chosen by Ginsberg himself from nearly fifty years of experimental, groundbreaking verse, this selection, in his words, summarizes what I deem most honest, most penetrant of my writing , and includes lesser known and later works which go beyond his iconic Beat Generation image.

A stimulating cross-disciplinary study of how poetry taps into an embodied cognition at its various levels of signification.

Drawn from fifty years of experimental, ground-breaking verse, this selection, in Ginberg's words summarizes what I deem most honest, most penetrant of my writing .