Literary studies: poetry and poets

This book offers a wide-ranging analysis of the entire corpus of Medbh McGuckian's published work.

In Poetic Sisters, Deborah Kennedy explores the personal and literary connections among five early eighteenth-century women poets: Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea; Elizabeth Singer Rowe; Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford; Sarah Dixon; and Mary Jones.

Reverential, celebratory, antagonistic, and even erotic, this remarkable collection of essays interprets the Psalms as a collection of poetry.

What if the goddess Athena, who sprang fully-grown from Zeus's head and denied she had a mother, became aware of the compelling existence of her other parent?

The poems of Into These Knots, Ashley Anna McHugh's debut collection, glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, interrogating and elucidating in elegant and supercharged speech ultimate questions and intimate foibles.

"e;I was born to grow, / alongside my garden of plants, / poems / like / this one"e;So writes Alice Walker in this new book of poems, poems composed over the course of one year in response to joy and sorrow both personal and global: the death of loved ones, war, the deliciousness of love, environmental devastation, the sorrow of rejection, greed, poverty, and the sweetness of home.

FASCINATING BACKGROUND FACTS, STORIES AND MYTHOLOGICAL INFORMATION FOR THE MAGNUS CHASE AND THE GODS OF ASGARD SERIESLong ago in the legendary land of Asgard, battles raged throughout the Heavens and Earth between powerful gods, Viking heroes and deadly monsters.

Honorable Mention - American Association for Ukrainian Studies (AAUS) 2018-2019 Book PrizeHaving exploded on the margins of Europe, Chornobyl marked the end of the Soviet Union and tied the era of postmodernism in Western Europe with nuclear consciousness.

Percy Bysshe Shelley is more widely known as one of the great Romantic Poets.

Robert Browning is one of the most significant Victorian Poets and, of course, English Poetry.

Ever since their rediscovery in the 1920s, John Donne's writings have been praised for their energy, vigour and drama - yet so far, no attempt has been made to approach and define systematically these major characteristics of his work.

For hundreds of years, the inner spiritual core of Islam has been the focus of Sufi thinkers.

The spiritual traveler may carry this German/English bilingual book of poems for a lifetime and not exhaust its content.

A private eye turned moderately successful poet leads readers on a satiric, hopeful tour of how to make a life in the arts, while still having a life.

Followed by many millions of Muslims throughout the world, Sufism is the heart of Islamic spirituality.

This book presents the first full-length study of the stylistically experimental and influential novelist George Moore's (1852-1933) repeated acts of rewriting.

Pound, Frost, Moore and Poetic Precision: Science in American Modernist Poetry examines three major poets in light of the demand that poetry aspire to scientific precision.

This book argues for the importance of blasphemy in shaping the literature and readership of Percy Bysshe Shelley and of the Romantic period more broadly.

Following the Formula in Beowulf, Orvar-Odds saga, and Tolkien proposes that Beowulf was composed according to a formula.

Most of us have, at one time, been obsessed with something, but how did obsession become a mental illness?

This collection gathers together an exciting new series of critical essays on the Romantic- and Victorian-period poet John Clare, which each take a rigorous approach to both persistent and emergent themes in his life and work.

Communism and Poetry: Writing Against Capital addresses the relationship between an upsurge in collective political practice around the world since 2000, and the crystallization of newly engaged forms of poetry.

This book explores the ways in which poetic inspiration came to be associated with madness in early nineteenth-century Britain.

Polyvocal Bob Dylan brings together an interdisciplinary range of scholarly voices to explore the cultural and aesthetic impact of Dylan's musical and literary production.

This book attends to four poets - John Clare, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Edward Thomas, and Ivor Gurney - whose poems are remarkable for their personal directness and distinctiveness.

Plurality and the Poetics of Self investigates the words "e;I"e; and "e;self"e; as suggestive of eight territories of meaning.

Elizabeth Bishop and the Music of Literature brings together the latest understandings of how central music was to Bishop's writing.

This book addresses the poetics of space and place in Scottish literature.

Phenomenology and the Late Twentieth-Century American Long Poem reads major figures including Charles Olson, Lyn Hejinian, Nathaniel Mackey, Susan Howe and Rachel Blau DuPlessis within a new approach to the long poem tradition.

Poetical Matter examines the two-way exchange of language and methods between nineteenth-century poetry and the physical sciences.

Care Ethics and Poetry is the first book to address the relationship between poetry and feminist care ethics.

This book looks at a cohort of poets who studied at University College Cork during the 1970s and early 1980s.

Defining Pre-Raphaelite Poetics offers a range of Pre-Raphaelite literary scholarship, provoking innovative discussions into the poetic form, gender dynamics, political engagement, and networked communities of Pre-Raphaelitism.

This edited collection offers educators at all levels a range of practical and theoretical approaches to teaching poetry in the context of environmental sustainability.

Hundreds of animal species provide the cast of characters for these newly composed bio-limericks, arranged into 17 chapters by taxonomic group (such as Birds, Fishes, Insects) or biological subject (such as Ecology, Genetics, and Anthropology).

This book is a critical experiment that tracks the literary and poetic uses of musical notation and notational methods in North American long poems from the middle of last century to the contemporary moment.

This book explores the perception of modern Greek landscape and poetry in the writings of Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon.

This book offers a new reading of Marcell Mauss' and Lewis Hyde's theories of poetry as gift, exploring poetry exchanges within 20th and 21st century communities of poets, publishers, audiences and readers operating along a gift economy.

This book explores the decades between the Reform Acts of 1832 and 1884 when British poets such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Arthur Hugh Clough, Robert Browning, and Algernon Charles Swinburne, along with their transatlantic contemporary Walt Whitman, defended the civil rights of disenfranchised souls as Western nations slowly evolved toward modern democracies with shared transnational connections.

This book explores John Keats's reading practices and intertextual dialogues with other writers.

This book examines Uncreative Writing-the catch-all term to describe Neo-Conceptualism, Flarf and related avant-garde movements in contemporary North American poetry-against a decade of controversy.

This book presents an extended account of the language of dystopia, exploring the creativity and style of dystopian narratives and mapping the development of the genre from its early origins through to contemporary practice.

This book offers new insights into the twelfth-century Persian poet Nezami Ganjavi.

This book examines the literary impact of famed British poet, Barry MacSweeney, who worked at the forefront of poetic discovery in post-war Britain.

Gothic Romanticism: Wordsworth, Architecture, Politics, Form offers a revisionist account of both Wordsworth and the politics of antiquarianism in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

This book provides the first overview of classical presences in Anglophone Irish poetry after 1960.

This book asserts that Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) was a major precursor of W.

This book frames British Romanticism as the artistic counterpart to a revolution in subjectivity occasioned by the rise of "e;The Rule of Law"e; and as a traumatic response to the challenges mounted against that ideal after the French Revolution.

Dive into the enigmatic and intellectual world of Fulke Greville, a towering yet often misunderstood figure of the English Renaissance.