Literary studies: poetry and poets

Chaucer s Pardoner and Gender Theory, the first book-length treatment of the character, examines the Pardoner in Chaucer s Canterbury Tales from the perspective of both medieval and twentieth-century theories of sex, gender, and erotic practice.

This book investigates what it is that makes John Clare's poetic vision so unique, and asks how we use Clare for contemporary ends.

In this new edition of Best Words, Best Order, Stephen Dobyns further explains the mystery of the poet's work.

Hardy was an unknown architect in 1870, a famous novelist by 1895, and acknowledged as a great novelist, poet and epic-dramatist when he died in 1928.

Linda Wagner-Martin's emphasis in this study is the way Sylvia Plath made herself into a writer.

This critical survey of modern poetry from Thomas Hardy to Seamus Heaney considers both the self-consciously revolutionary innovations of Modernism and more traditional developments, taking fully into account the extent to which 'English' can no longer be equated solely with England.

The 1990s have witnessed a major reassessment of Blake initiated by a new and more rigorous comprehension of his modes of production, which in turn has led to re-evaluation of other literary and cultural contexts for his work.

This book discusses how masculinity is represented by women poets and gay poets - but, most of all, how it is represented by straight male poets.

John Donne's poems are some of the most challenging and stimulating in the English literary heritage.

This book explores key texts - Howards End , The Rainbow , and the poetry of Owen, Sassoon and Edward Thomas - to show the mingled continuation and rejection of convention as their characteristic achievement, exploring features often seen as failures.

This collection of essays by leading Byronists explores the development of the myth of Byron and the Byronic from the poet's self-representations to his various appearances in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and in drama, film and portraiture.

This collection of twelve critical essays on women's poetry of the eighteenth century and enlightenment is the first to range widely over individual poets and to undertake a comprehensive exploration of their work.

The first collection to make a comprehensive study of nineteenth-century women's poetry from late Romantic to late Victorian 'new woman' writers.

William Butler Yeats is considered Ireland's greatest poet.

This substantial collection includes contributions from leading international Shakespeare scholars such as Tom Craik, Philip Edwards, IngA-Stina Ewbank, R.

Shakespeare and Ireland examines the complex relationship between the most celebrated icon of the British establishment and Irish literary and cultural traditions.

Yeats and Women , published originally in the Yeats Annuals series, collects eight essays on Yeats's relationships with women, two collections of letters to him and his broadcast, 'Poems about Women'.

Dante's persistent and pervasive presence has been a remarkable feature of modern writing since the late eighteenth century.

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This collection looks at the developments in British poetry from the Movement until the present.

1798 is a significant date in literary history: in that year the Lyrical Ballads were published anonymously by Joseph Cottle, the Bristol bookseller.

This collection of multi-authored essays not only refashions and revises critical understandings of the early modern dramatist Ben Jonson and his canon of work, but is also self-reflexive about the process.

Modern ways of presenting Chaucer have often made his work seem 'normal' so that The Canterbury Tales and its much-studied General Prologue are seen as archetypes of narrative and prologue.

In a wide-ranging and compelling account of the life of metrical and free verse in the twentieth century, poet and critic Jon Silkin deepens our understanding of the way poetry works on us.

The award of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature to Seamus Heaney recognized not only the aesthetic achievement of his work, but also its political urgency.

Yeats's Poetry and Poetics brings together some of the finest Yeats criticism ever published, together with some new pieces specially written for this volume.

For the first time in an approachable, affordable volume this study treats the whole literary career of England's most distinguished protestant-republican poet and writer, considering the miscellaneous output in the light of contexts and political functions.

Tracing its origins back to Walt Whitman, the Modernist tradition in American poetry is driven by the same concern to engage with the world in revolutionary terms, inspired by the concept of democracy vital to the American dream.

This collection focuses on British poetry from the Georgians to the Second World War.

Written for performance, Shakespeare's plays are very different texts from any intended for a reader with book in hand and they require a different kind of attention.

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Shakespeare and the Nature of Women was the first full-length feminist analysis of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, ushering in a new era in research and criticism.

In William Wordsworth, John Williams provides a detailed account of Wordsworth's evolution as a poet.

`That brilliant commentator on Dylan, John Ackerman' - Andrew Sinclair, Dylan Thomas: Poet of his People John Ackerman's highly acclaimed study of the poems and prose works of Dylan Thomas traces his development as a writer, linking this for the first time with his Welsh background.

'Social Shakespeare is a thoughtful and frequently incisive book wabout an important and complex topic.

Historicizing Blake puts Blake back into the cultural context of his times.

William Blake is acknowledged as a poet of opposition and contradiction: a writer who, from Songs of Innocence and Experience to his last epic Jerusalem, ceaselessly explored the conflicts between limitation and possibility, reason and energy, torment and joy.

To what extent is the distinction between 'Romantic' and 'Victorian' valuable or just?

This book draws on examples from throughout the twentieth century to illustrate the diversity of techniques used in this century's poetry.

Throughout his long working life, Tennyson was experimenting with new forms and subjects.

These studies of Shakespeare in performance take stage history as a means of knowing the play.

A concise study of the life and poetry of the Victorian priest-poet.

New Perspectives on Thomas Hardy is a lively and varied collection of new essays on Thomas Hardy, contributed by some of the world's leading Hardy scholars.

Statutes of Liberty is the first full-length academic study of the New York School of Poets.

This poetry handbook is for anyone interested in poetry today - members of poetry workshops, students, or individuals at home.

These essays are lectures, mostly revised or expanded, given to the Tennyson Society by leading Victorianists, including one of the doyens of Tennyson studies, Jerome H.

This is a collection of essays on The Cantos by Poundian scholars of international standing.