Literary studies: poetry and poets

This book gives readers a thorough introduction to the movements and schools of American poets in the twentieth century.

This 2002 collection of essays represents twenty-five years of McGann''s work on Romanticism and Byron Studies.

Provides new perspectives on one of the most enigmatic and widely read American writers.

A fascinating exploration of one of the most influential American playwrights of the contemporary stage.

Hiltner argues that Milton anticipates certain essential prevailing ecological arguments.

Reads Hesiod''s poems as complementary halves of a whole embracing the divine and human cosmos.

Cole examines the rich literary and cultural history of masculine intimacy in the twentieth century.

This 2003 study uses evidence from early English verse to determine when certain sound changes took place.

This book studies the structure and origins of De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), the great first-century BC poem by Lucretius.

This study examines the role of female characters in the Roman epic poetry of Virgil, Ovid and other writers.

This 2001 book features a new type of commentary on Homer''s Odyssey which concentrates on the text''s narrative art.

This book reveals how Anglo-Saxons viewed and defined themselves through the descriptions of nature in their poetry.

Alternative forms of eroticism in post-Petrarchan English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

The book re-establishes Coleridge as a philosopher of religion and as a vital source for contemporary theological reflection.

Loewenstein explores the interactions of literature, polemics and religious politics in the English Revolution.

Jeffrey Hammond''s study takes an anthropological approach to the most popular form of poetry in early New England - the funeral elegy.

A literary study using two comparative models to offer an alternative understanding of Catullus'' poems.

Mark Parker argues that magazines became pre-eminent literary vehicles of the 1820s and 1830s.

An exploration of the theoretical and literary legacy of Dryden to a number of prominent women writers of the time.

This book offers the first full-scale examination of Byron''s poetic form in relation to historical debates of his time.

Presents a new view of literary history by demonstrating how the earliest known Greek poets signposted their allusions to tradition.

Avant-garde poet and popular culture icon, Allen Ginsberg has been one of the world's most important writers for over 40 years.

This comprehensive overview of Julia Alvarez's fiction, nonfiction, and poetry offers biographical information and parses the author's important works and the intentions behind them.

Often thought of as the quintessential poet of New England, Robert Frost is one of the most widely read American poets of the 20th century.

Caribbean poetry written in English has been attracting growing amounts of scholarly attention.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744) was the most important English poet of the 18th century, as well as an essayist, satirist, and critic.

For centuries, accounts of King Arthur and his court have fascinated historians, scholars, poets, and readers.

Perhaps the most important work written in Old English, Beowulf grew out of a culture very different from ours, and yet its story of war, violence, and heroism remains relevant to modern readers.

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is one of the oldest and most widely studied works of English literature.

Best remembered today as the author of The Song of Hiawatha, Longfellow continues to be one of the most popular poets in American literary history.

Even though Asian American literature is enjoying an impressive critical popularity, attention has focused primarily on longer narrative forms such as the novel.

Through close readings of poems covering the span of Georg Trakl's lyric output, this study traces the evolution of his strangely mild and beautiful vision of the end of days.

An investigation of how American poetry since Whitman makes its beginnings, with what means and to which political and aesthetic ends, and how it addresses fundamental questions about what the future is and how it may be affectednow.

Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) was one of the four great Russian poets of the 20th century, along with Akhmatova, Mandelstam and Pasternak.

Elizabeth Bishop is one of the greatest and most influential American poets of the 20th century.

The Poet as Phenomenologist: Rilke and the New Poems opens up new perspectives on the relation between Rilke's poetry and phenomenological philosophy, illustrating the ways in which poetry can offer an exceptional response to the philosophical problem of dualism.

The Poet as Phenomenologist: Rilke and the New Poems opens up new perspectives on the relation between Rilke's poetry and phenomenological philosophy, illustrating the ways in which poetry can offer an exceptional response to the philosophical problem of dualism.

While recent works of criticism on Frank O'Hara have focused on the technical similarities between his poetry and painting, or between his use of language and poststructuralism, Frank O'Hara and the Poetics of Saying 'I' argues that what is most significant in O'Hara's work is not such much his 'borrowing' from painters or his proto-Derridean use of language, but his preoccupation with self exploration and the temporal effects of his work as artifacts.

Voices of Angel Island is a historical and literary anthology of the writings of immigrants detained at Angel Island, designed to provide a conduit for readers today to connect with early-20th-century perspectives on the process of "e;becoming American.

Voices of Angel Island is a historical and literary anthology of the writings of immigrants detained at Angel Island, designed to provide a conduit for readers today to connect with early-20th-century perspectives on the process of "e;becoming American.

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An Introduction to Shakespeare's Poems provides a lively and informed examination of Shakespeare's non-dramatic poetry: the narrative poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece; the Sonnets; and various minor poems, including some only recently attributed to Shakespeare.

Sylvia Plath is one of the best-known and most widely-studied writers of the twentieth century.

Living Poetry demonstrates that poems are vital expressions of how we live, feel and think.

A collection of essays on one of the twentieth century's most popular yet critically neglected authors, this book explores the full range of Thomas's work.

2025 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award Finalist for Myth and Fantasy StudiesIf a literary movement arises but no one notices, is it still a movement?

This collection draws on cutting-edge work that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries to offer new perspectives on the importance of visuality and the imagination in the work of Luigi Pirandello, the great Italian modernist.