Literary studies: poetry and poets

In his compelling new book Ian Smith addresses the pernicious influence of systemic whiteness on our interpretation of Shakespeare''s plays.

A unique account of the shifting cultures of poetry across the Age of Enlightenment.

A unique account of the shifting cultures of poetry across the Age of Enlightenment.

A detailed treatment of Switzerland in British literature, the book shows how a republican myth contributed to Romanticism and liberalism.

Assembles and illustrates the evolution of a major scholar''s work on early Greek poetry, above all elegy, over four decades.

Assembles and illustrates the evolution of a major scholar''s work on early Greek poetry, above all elegy, over four decades.

Across time and cultures, poets and astronomers have often asked the same questions about outer space, and about ourselves.

Comparatively studies, through both form and content, the development of Arabic and Persian modernist poetry during the mid-twentieth century.

Conversing in Verse considers when and why poets turn to conversation to explore and expand the potential of poetry.

Conversing in Verse considers when and why poets turn to conversation to explore and expand the potential of poetry.

Illuminating the poetry of birdsong in the Romantic and Victorian periods, this timely study dissects historical attitudes to nonhuman life.

Illuminating the poetry of birdsong in the Romantic and Victorian periods, this timely study dissects historical attitudes to nonhuman life.

A vivid account of the alternative, emancipatory Germany that progressive British women writers discovered and wrote about, 1833-1910.

This volume assembles exciting new scholarship canvassing the entire geographic and historical range of Langston Hughes''s storied career.

This volume assembles exciting new scholarship canvassing the entire geographic and historical range of Langston Hughes''s storied career.

Reveals the critical importance of the ancient carpe diem motif for understanding ancient literature and its creation of vivid presents.

Reveals the critical importance of the ancient carpe diem motif for understanding ancient literature and its creation of vivid presents.

Highly accessible as a tool for Latin students, and a serious contribution to the study of Roman poetry.

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

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

Promotes a bilingual (Latin/Greek) focus to shed new light on the poetics and aesthetics of late antique poetry.

Promotes a bilingual (Latin/Greek) focus to shed new light on the poetics and aesthetics of late antique poetry.

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.

Virgil, Horace and Ovid are often cited as the three great canonical poets of classical Roman literature.

What reader could fail to be enthralled by the Iliad and the Odyssey, those greatest heroic epics of antiquity?

The romantic lyricism of the great Persian poet Hafiz (1315-1390) continues to be admired around the world.

KIPLING may be best known as a commentator on the British Empire, but he was also a vivid observer and chronicler of the sea - and of ships and all who sailed in them.

The 6th/5th century BCE Greek melic (or songwriting) poet Pindar was one of the most celebrated lyricists of antiquity.

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'Horace tells us in his poetry almost everything we need to know about his life; it is curiously entangled with the Italian earth, with the history of his times, and an exact moment in that brief early summer of Latin poetry which had no autumn.

At the heart of the Castilian plateau, far from the coastal towns and ports of Spain, sits the great city of Madrid.

Peter Levi teases a remarkably vivid life from Virgil's poems, a life-long study of poetry and the few facts that have come down to us through Suetonius.

The pioneering Iranian poet and filmmaker Forugh Farrokhzad was an iconic figure in her own day and has come to represent the spirit of revolt against patriarchal and cultural norms in 1960s Iran.

Newlands provides an extensive overview and analysis of Ovid s works.

The 6th/5th century bce Greek melic (or songwriting) poet Pindar was the most celebrated lyricist of antiquity.

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The pioneering Iranian poet and filmmaker Forugh Farrokhzad was an iconic figure in her own day and has come to represent the spirit of revolt against patriarchal and cultural norms in 1960s Iran.

Peter Levi teases a remarkably vivid life from Virgil's poems, a life-long study of poetry and the few facts that have come down to us through Suetonius.

In the wake of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Iranian society and culture underwent massive changes.

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

Dante is one of the towering figures of medieval European literature.

The Bedouin, or 'desert dwellers', have a rich cultural heritage often expressed through music and poetry.

Few figures who were active in the English Romantic Movement are as fascinating as Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834).

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Seeking to Make the World Anew is a collection of poems that confront the crisis of modern society, that yearn for change, and that wonder about what kind of social order might replace the one we have.

Stephen Hartnett merges the evocative power of poetry with scholarly research to produce both a genre-bending critique of the prison industrial complex and an innovative new method of qualitative research.

In this landmark collection of essays, renowned classicist Charles Segal offers detailed analyses of major texts from archaic and early classical Greek poetry; in particular, works of Alcman, Mimnermus, Sappho, Pindar, Bacchylides, and Corinna.