Literary studies: poetry and poets

William Blake's illuminated poems challenge their readers to participate fully in a highly interactive process of reading.

What have we learned from the first experiments performed at the reconstructed Globe on Bankside?

An exploration of the relationship between literature and religion, which adopts an interdisciplinary approach, aiming to provide an introduction to the variety of ways in which literature, literary theory and theology are related.

Rufus Wood contextualizes his study of The Faerie Queene through an initial discussion of attitudes towards metaphor expressed in Elizabethan poetry.

William Blake and the Daughters of Albion offers a challenge to the Blake establishment.

This book deals with interrelationships between literature and religion to examine the idea of the person in relation to the politics of culture.

In this book, Derek Cohen studies the relationship of Shakespearean drama to the Western culture of violence.

Occasioned by the spirit of celebrating Keats's 200th birthday (31 October 1995), Jeffrey C.

In the winter of 1798-99, shut up in the freezing German town of Goslar, William Wordsworth began producing a series of lyrical fragments that appeared first in letters written to Coleridge and emerged eventually as source texts for The Prelude .

The world of Macbeth, with its absolutes of good and evil, seems very remote from the shifting perspectives of Antony and Cleopatra, or the psychological and political realities of Coriolanus.

Contemporary Poetry and Postmodernism explores the fraught relationship between the poetry of the mainstream and kinds of modernist poetry that have had to make their way outside it.

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Drawing on a series of new sources, this biography of Ezra Pound - the first to appear in more than a decade - outlines his contribution to modernism through a detailed account of his development, influence and continued significance.

Renaissance Configurations is a ground-breaking collection of essays on the structures and strategies of Early Modern culture - as embodied in issues of gender, sexuality and politics - by a group of critics from the new generation of Early Modern specialists.

In this challenging study Priscilla Martin investigates the subjects of women, sex and gender in Chaucer's poetry.

John Dryden was England's most outstanding and controversial writer for the last four decades of the seventeenth century.

Dominic Rainsford examines ways in which literary texts may seem to comment on their authors' ethical status.

Salvaging Spenser is a major new work of literary revision which places Edmund Spenser's corpus, from The Shepheardes Calender to A View of the Present State of Ireland, within an elaborate cultural and political context.

Bacchus in Romantic England describes real drunkenness among writers and ordinary people in the Romantic age.

Marvell and Liberty is a collection of original essays by leading scholars which treats this major poet in an entirely new light.

Shelley's detractors since Hazlitt have noticed a division in the 'self' of his poems.

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Thomas Hardy frequently insisted that his poems were not self-expressive, but dramatic or 'impersonative'.

Challenging our understanding of ideas about psychology in Shakespeare's time, Shakespeare's Imagined Persons proposes we should view his characters as imagined persons.

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This Hopkins chronology describes the poet's family and early education, then gives a day-by-day account of what he was doing, reading and writing, and the people he met.

The poetry of the Great War is among the most powerful ever written in the English language.

In this study Daniel R.

Grounded in historical sources and informed by recent work in cultural, sociological, geographical and spatial studies, Romantic Geography illuminates the nexus between imaginative literature and geography in William Wordsworth's poetry and prose.

Myriad-minded Shakespeare introduces readers to the great variety of approaches to Shakespeare.

This book proposes the poetic link between Donne and Crashaw during the English Reformation.

The Poetry of Postmodernity reappraises key Anglo/American poets of the last fifty years in the light of debates about the postmodern situation.

In this chronology Gordon Campbell brings his unique command of manuscripts associated with John Milton to the first synthesis of the Milton documents attempted in forty years.

Matthew Arnold, the foremost Victorian 'man of letters', forged a unique literary career, first as an important post-Romantic poet and then as a prose writer who profoundly influenced the formation of modern literary and cultural studies.

Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel is an exploration of the relationship between walking and writing.

This collection of essays traces the emergence of the Western poem from the standpoint of its collision with "e;American"e; otherness, particularly, the Latin American tradition.

Siegfried Sassoon: Scorched Glory is the first survey of the poet's published work since his death and the first to draw on the edited diaries and letters.

Traditionally Hellenism is seen as the uncontroversial and beneficial influence of Greece upon later culture.

In a major reassessment of Shakespeare's dominant dramatic genre, Paola Pugliatti explores the historiographical quality of Shakespeare's histories.

This is an imaginative work of literary criticism.

Gary Waller surveys Spenser's career in terms of the material conditions of its production - the often overlooked material factors of race, gender, class, agency - and the resonant 'places' which influenced his career - court, church, nation, colony.

Marriage features to a greater or lesser extent in virtually every play Shakespeare wrote - as the festive end of comedy, as the link across the cycles of the history plays, as a marker of the difference between his own society and that depicted in the Roman plays, and, all too often, as the starting-point for the tragedies.

Curtis Breight challenges the view that Renaissance English rulers could not dominate their domestic population.

A detailed chronological account of the life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge built up from contemporary documents including the letters and journals of the writer and of his family and friends.

Romantic Visualities offers a culturally informed understanding of the literary significance of landscape in the Romantic period.

This book is an analysis of the sonnet in the English Renaissance.

This book examines the male Romantics' versions of poetic authority in theory and practice in the context of their involvement in the political debates of Regency Britain and argues that their response to Burke's gendered discourse about power effected radical changes in the definitions of masculinity and femininity.

Statutes of Liberty (1993) was the first book on The New York School of Poets, and offers the definitive critical account of its key figures: John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara and James Schuyler.

Focusing on England, Hungary and on some other European countries, the book explores the latent religious patterns in the appropriation of Shakespeare from the 1769 Stratford Jubilee to the tercentenary of Shakespeare's birth in 1864.

William Blake and the Myths of Britain is the first full-length study of Blake's use of British mythology and history.