Literary studies: poetry and poets

Rabi';a al-';Adawiyya is a figure shrouded in myth.

One of greatest Persian writers of both classical prose and poetry, Sa';di was revered in his time as a man of great wisdom and passion.

What is mysticism?

The first account of the bilingualism of English poetic culture from the mid-sixteenth to the early eighteenth century.

This edited volume celebrates cutting-edge research in stylistics and, more specifically, recent work on sense and the senses.

Poetry, for Jed Rasula, bears traces of our entanglement with our surroundings, and these traces define a collective voice in modern poetry independent of the more specific influences and backgrounds of the poets themselves.

Malin Pereira's collection of eight interviews with leading contemporary African American poets offers an in-depth look at the cultural and aesthetic perspectives of the post-Black Arts Movement generation.

Music, race, politics, and conscience.

In this intriguing literary experiment, Ian Marshall presents a collection of nearly three hundred haiku that he extracted from Henry David Thoreau's Walden and documents the underlying similarities between Thoreau's prose and the art of haiku.

Poetry, for Jed Rasula, bears traces of our entanglement with our surroundings, and these traces define a collective voice in modern poetry independent of the more specific influences and backgrounds of the poets themselves.

Many metal songs incorporate poetry into their lyrics using a broad array of techniques, both textual and musical.

A provocative examination of how Romantic imaginings of the end of the world shaped thinking about politics and political change.