Literary studies: poetry and poets

By "e;literary criticism"e; we usually mean a self-conscious act involving the technical and aesthetic appraisal, by individuals, of autonomous works of art.

The 1870s in France - Rimbaud's moment, and the subject of this book - is a decade virtually ignored in most standard histories in France.

Robert Burns was by far and away the most iconic figure in nineteenth-century Scotland.

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

At least since the Romantic era, poetry has often been understood as a powerful vector of collective belonging.

Ethics, Politics and Justice in Dante presents new research by international scholars on the themes of ethics, politics and justice in the works of Dante Alighieri, including chapters on Dante's modern 'afterlife'.