Literary studies: poetry and poets

Beowulf is by far the most popular text of the medieval world taught in American classrooms, at both the high school and undergraduate levels.

The making of a reasonably comprehensive anthology which is intended to do more than reflect the personal literary tastes of the anthologists is not an easy task, but is certainly an exciting and challenging one.

This book begins with a reflection on dichotomies in comparative studies of Chinese and Western literature and aesthetics.

Constitutions of Self in Contemporary Irish Poetry explores the figure of the lyrical self in the work of six contemporary Irish poets: Paul Muldoon, Vona Groarke, Sinead Morrissey, Caitriona O'Reilly, Alan Gillis and Nick Laird.

Using side-by-side pairings of first drafts and final versions, including full-page reproductions from the poets' personal notebooks, as well as an insightful essay on each poem's journey from start to finish, The Art of Revising Poetry tracks the creative process of twenty-one of the United States' most influential poets as they struggle over a single word, line break, or thought.

La aproximación del presente libro apunta a entablar una conversación con, y posteriormente, responder a, un movimiento hecho desde la “absoluta modernidad” hasta una absoluta futuridad de los proyectos textuales del poeta chileno Vicente Huidobro (1893-1948).

Scottish and Irish Romanticism is the first single-author book to address the main non-English Romanticisms of the British Isles.

Joseph Addison: Tercentenary Essays is a collection of fifteen essays by a team of internationally recognized experts specially commissioned to commemorate the three hundredth anniversary of Addison's death in 2019.

Yeats's Poetry and Poetics brings together some of the finest Yeats criticism ever published, together with some new pieces specially written for this volume.

This book explores the "e;battles"e; of words, songs, poetry, and performance in Africa and the African Diaspora.

This original and scholarly work uses three detailed case studies of plays - Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra , King Lear and Cymbeline - to cast light on the ways in which early modern writers used metaphor to explore how identities emerge from the interaction of competing regional and spiritual topographies.

A Poetry of Things examines the works of four poets whose use of visual and material culture contributed to the remarkable artistic and literary production during the reign of Philip III (1598-1621).

Thomas Chatterton was a poet, forger, and adolescent suicide, and the debate over his work was a pivotal episode in the history of eighteenth-century literature.

This Companion is the first to explore postcolonial poetry through regional, historical, political, formal, textual and gender approaches.

A study of the tradition and practice of early Arabic poetry, this book provides an investigation of the multiple versions of early poems that exist in various Abbasid collections.

In The Work of Self-Representation Ivy Schweitzer examines early American poetry through the critical lens of gender.

Forty chapters, written by leading scholars across the world, describe the latest thinking on modern Irish poetry.

The essential mind-mysteries are the subject of Vance's poems.

Ideographic Modernism offers a critical account of the ideograph (Chinese writing as imagined in the West) as a modernist invention.

WINNER: 2013 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title AwardJohn Gower's works examined as part of a tradition of "e;official"e; writings on behalf of the Crown.

When Edward Thomas died at Arras in 1917 few people thought of him as a poet.

This book offers the first in-depth analysis of Lawrence Durrell's entire poetic opus, from his early collections in the 1940s up to his last one published in 1973.

The correspondence of John Dryden is the definitive edition of the letters of the most important playwright and poet of the late seventeenth century.

Against the backdrop of Britain's underground 18th and early-19th century homosexual culture, mob persecutions, and executions of homosexuals, Hobson shows how Blake's hatred of sexual and religious hypocrisy and state repression, and his revolutionary social vision, led him gradually to accept homosexuality as an integral part of human sexuality.

This volume takes as its focus an oft-neglected work of ancient philosophy: Aristotle's lost Homeric Problems.

"e;Whose Name was Writ in Water"e; contains a fantastic collection of poetry by various authors written in dedication to English Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821).

With special attention to the poems For Lancelot Andrewes, Journey of the Magi, and Ash-Wednesday , G.

Ein Logenplatz für Homer: Die Epen Ilias und Odyssee, gemeinhin dem angeblich blinden Dichter zugeschrieben, sind die ältesten literarischen Werke Europas und gehören unbestritten zu den einflussreichsten der Weltliteratur.

Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's most influential poets.

This book is the first extended critical study of the early modern poet Edmund Spenser from the perspective of animal studies.

This book explores the sublime in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's later major prose in relation to more recent theories of the sublime.

Essays on Eddic Poetry presents a selection of important articles on Old Norse literature by noted medievalist John McKinnell.

Argues that Herodotus is key to understanding genre and the relationship between past and present in Apollonius of Rhodes'' Argonautica.

As the essays in this volume reveal, Keats's places could be comforting, familiar, grounding sites, but they were also shifting, uncanny, paradoxical spaces where the geographical comes into tension with the familial, the touristic with the medical, the metropolitan with the archipelagic.

Why do we need new art?

Leading critic John Leonard explores the writings of John Milton from his early poetry to his major prose.

What's the worst thing you can do to Shakespeare?

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature contains twenty-three newly commissioned essays by major philosophers and literary scholars that investigate literature as a form of attention to human life.

This collection brings together more than fifty of Edgar Allan Poe's most important stories, poems, and critical writings, which established him as one of the most distinctive voices in American Literature, in a single accessible volume.

This exciting new title investigates the explosion of Shakespeare films during the 1990s and beyond.

This 1999 book explores concepts of human will in the poetry of Tennyson, Browning, Hopkins and Hardy.

Explores the diverse forces that shaped developments in literature in the 1880s, an often overlooked literary decade.

The 1990s have witnessed a major reassessment of Blake initiated by a new and more rigorous comprehension of his modes of production, which in turn has led to re-evaluation of other literary and cultural contexts for his work.

The Anglo-Saxon Literature Handbook presents an accessible introduction to the surviving works of prose and poetry produced in Anglo-Saxon England, from AD 410-1066.

This book defines, analyses, and theorises a late modern 'etymological poetry' that is alive to the past lives of its words, and probes the possible significance of them both explicitly and implicitly.

Thomas Owens explores some of the exultant visions inspired by Wordsworth's and Coleridge's close scrutiny of the night sky, the natural world, and the domains of science.

Reconsidering Longfellow is the first collection of scholarly essays in several decades devoted entirely to the work and afterlife of the most popular and widely read writer in American literature.