Literary studies: poetry and poets

The first book to offer a universal linguistic theory of poetic meter.

A lucid overview of Plath''s life, work, influence and the critical reception of her writings to the present day.

Aimed at students new to Poe''s work, this book offers an overview of his life, works, contexts and reception.

An engaging and informative way to start studying and understanding one of America''s most popular poets.

This book offers an interpretation of the relations between theology and poetry in Milton, Donne, Shakespeare and others.

This book examines plants and botany in the writing of D.

This book examines the flourishing and subsequent decline of praise poetry as a genre from Antiquity to the present.

An examination of the importance of international cross-influences between modernist poets in the Americas.

A lively and provocative history of the great achievements of Irish poets from 1800 to the present day.

Considers the idea of self-consciousness in the work of Hölderlin, Hegel, Wordsworth and Beethoven.

The first comprehensive study of Dante''s evolving, transformative relationship to medieval ideas of authorship and authority.

2007 edition of Pindar''s Pythian Eleven offering text, translation, metrical discussion, full introduction, and commentary.

A radical reading of representations of gender in Shakespeare, Ralegh, Sidney and Donne.

Marion Thain recounts the development of this fascinating poetic persona, created by two female writers.

Goldberg analyses the strategies Romantic poets employed to present their work as comparable to the traditional professions.

Explores the possibility of providing literary interpretations of inconsistencies in five Roman epics.

This book is a comprehensive study of the nineteenth-century German poet Heinrich Heine.

This introduction delves behind the myth of Emily Dickinson to present her in the context of her time.

Focusing on his masterpiece Leaves of Grass, this book provides a foundation for the study of Whitman.

This Introduction, first published in 2005, is designed to help students reading Pound for the first time.

This study sheds light on the relationships between poets and political power.

This informative and accessible book provides the perfect introduction to Eliot''s life and work.

A comprehensive introduction for those beginning to study Yeats.

A collection of essays on sexuality, desire and feminism in T.

The epic genre continued to be important in the nineteenth century despite its apparent anachronism.

Twelve commissioned essays provide an essential introduction to Thomas Hardy.

A collection of specially-commissioned essays, enabling readers to explore Frost''s art and thought.

This Companion provides a fresh look at Dryden''s work in the context of his time.

In The Cambridge Companion to Keats, leading scholars discuss Keats''s work.

A comprehensive and authoritative guide to Auden''s work.

Addresses the many facets of Samuel Taylor Coleridge''s life and work.

An international team of scholars provides an invaluable introduction to Pound''s work and life.

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

An accessible and rigorous introduction to Spenser''s work, in fourteen specially commissioned essays.

Provides a wide-ranging account of one of the most famous Romantic poets.

Poetry of the early seventeenth century set in its cultural and ideological context.

This Companion provides an introduction to major figures such as Seamus Heaney, as well as significant precursors and vital contemporary poets.

This book provides an introduction to Victorian poetry, and will interest scholars and students alike.

A wide-ranging introduction to Byron''s life and works by a range of eminent Byron scholars.

This second edition continues the excellent tradition of the volume, offering students a comprehensive introduction to Chaucer''s work and life.

This introduction presents the major themes, forms and styles of Russian poetry.

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

In this accessible introduction to Dante''s Divine Comedy Kirkpatrick principally focuses on Dante as a poet and storyteller.

A comprehensive overview and critical analysis of the Nobel Laureate''s fifty-year career.

Jennifer Ashton develops important ways to read modernist and postmodernist poets through their similarities as well as their differences.

An examination of Ovid''s Heroides which portrays its fictional female writers as a community of authors.

A reading of Milton''s writing on the Fall of man in its theological and historical context.

This collection of essays offers an exploration of the meaning and significance of the Catalogue of Women, attributed to Hesiod.

Mark Miller''s innovative study argues that Chaucer''s Canterbury Tales represent an extended mediation on agency, autonomy and practical reason.

A collection of essays on all aspects of gender in Milton''s works.