Literary studies: poetry and poets

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to studying the diversity of American poetry in the twenty-first century.

In American Poetic Materialism from Whitman to Stevens, Mark Noble examines writers who rethink the human in material terms.

This book uses Ezra Pound's The Cantos as a lens to understand modernism's ambition to revolutionize literature through mythical and scientific methods.

A team of distinguished poets and scholars provides an authoritative guide to the history and development of the sonnet.

The Romance of the Lyric in Nineteenth-Century Women's Poetry: Experiments in Form offers a new account of the nature of the lyric as nineteenth-century women poets developed the form.

At the close of the Second World War, modernist poets found themselves in an increasingly scientific world, where natural and social sciences claimed exclusive rights to knowledge of both matter and mind.

The place of poetry in modern democracy is no place, according to conventional wisdom.

The expressive and literary capacities of post-Reformation English were largely shaped in response to the Bible.

The poems in this extraordinary book deal in familiar emotions - love, grief, rage, loneliness - but do so with such a fresh and fierce eye, such lived intensity, that the familiar is given again the force to touch our nerves, to seem raw and new.

Cognitive approaches to early medieval texts have tended to focus on the mind in isolation.

This study argues that Shakespeare can now be understood as part of public culture.

In this study of Yeats' poetry between 1902 and 1916, Greaves strongly reacts to the tendency in literary criticism to categorize Yeats' work as 'modernist', Instead, Greaves offer a different way of looking at the transition in Yeats' work in this period, by examining the poems in the context of Yeats' life.

Suddenly, the Sight of War is a genealogy of Hebrew poetry written in pre-state Israel between the beginning of World War II and the War of Independence in 1948.

Examines possible and fictional worlds, author and authority, otherness and recognition, translation, alternative critique, empire, education, imagination, comedy, history, poetry, and culture.

In this book, Gur Zak examines two central issues in Petrarch''s works - his humanist philosophy and his concept of the self.

The first study of poetry by Victorian scientists, a unique record of the nature and cultures of Victorian science.

A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary collection exploring different ways of visualising Greek and Roman epic in both ancient and modern culture.

The second volume of Robert Crawford's magisterial biography of the revolutionary modernist, visionary poet and troubled man, drawing on extensive new sources.

This book explores the relationship between tropes of literary property and signification in the writings and literary politics of Wordsworth and Coleridge.

In arguing for the crucial importance of song for poets in the long nineteenth century, Elizabeth Helsinger focuses on both the effects of song on lyric forms and the mythopoetics through which poets explored the affinities of poetry with song.

Wordsworth''s aspiration to ''philosophic song'' changed the relations between philosophy and English poetry.

Examining a range of Coleridge's writings, this book uses recent scientific research to understand how we have evolved to make mental representations of the counterfactual, how such transformative essays in Imagination have enabled humans to survive, to prosper and to express themselves in the sciences, the arts and particularly in poetry.

What does it mean to feel time, to sense its passing along the sinews and nerves of the body as much as the synapses of the mind?

A comprehensive and accessible introduction to the major themes of this important poet''s life and career.

Mawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi's great poem, the Mathnawi is one of the best known and most influential works of Muslim mysticism.

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A fully revised critical overview of Atwood''s career, emphasising her recent dystopias and the televised adaptation of The Handmaid''s Tale.

Offering a new theory of poetic constraint, this book analyses contributions of bound people to the history of the lyric.

CONTRAPUNTAL by Christopher Kondrich | Free Verse Editions, Series Editor: Jon Thompson | "e;An understanding of the nature of consciousness reveals itself to be more elusive the longer one tries to approach it.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

The book reflects on the life and work of a significant poet, public figure, and influential commentator of the cultural, social, and political history of Greece post-World War II: Manolis Anagnostakis (1925-2005).

Kenneth Goldsmith's Recent Works on Paper is the first critical book devoted to Kenneth Goldsmith, the acclaimed conceptual poet, pedagogue, and provocateur.

From amateur experiments in scrapbooks and stereographs to contemporary photobook collaborations between leading practitioners, poets and photographers have created an art form that continues to evolve and deserves critical exploration.

This interdisciplinary collection explores the divergence or convergence of freedom and terror in a range of Byron's works.

Offers a new approach to Pindar''s victory odes by focusing on their poetic aim of immortalization.

This book examines sonic signals as something both heard internally and externally, through imagination, memory and direct response.

Through its recovery of the metrical principles underlying the work of some of the century's major poets, this study highlights the intricacy of the relation between the 'music' of verse and its meaning, and helping us to understand the way in which the ferment of metrical experiment eventually led to the emergence of free verse.

This book investigates the presence of disability in British Romantic literature, as subject matter, as metaphorical theme, and as lived experience.

For the second half of his long life, Christopher Logue (1926-2011) - political rebel, inventor of the poster poem, pioneer of poetry and jazz - was at work on a very different project: a rewriting of Homer's Iliad.

Phillis Wheatley, the African-born slave poet, is considered by many to be a pioneer of Anglo-American poetics.

This book explores poetry and pedagogy in practice across the lifespan.

Elizabeth Jennings was one of the most popular, prolific, and widely anthologized lyric poets in the second half of the twentieth century.

The works of Walt Whitman have been described as masculine, feminine, postcolonial, homoerotic, urban, organic, unique, and democratic, yet arguments about the extent to which Whitman could or should be considered a political poet have yet to be fully confronted.

Essays by leading scholars offer new insights into a remarkable poet and early advocate of environmental ethics and aesthetics.