Literary studies: poetry and poets

This book examines the unresolved tensions in Milton''s writings, as he grapples with the paradox of freedom in a universe ruled by an all-powerful God.

Interdisciplinary in approach and methodologically sophisticated, this book explores the dynamic reception of Latin erotic elegy in Renaissance love poetry.

An innovative account of the literary Restoration that stresses its diversity, historical self-awareness, and openness to new voices.

Presents the first modernized and annotated edition of William Baldwin''s A Mirror for Magistrates.

This book shows how modernist poetry understood itself to be complicit in the social injustice and unhappiness of its time.

This book shows how modernist poetry understood itself to be complicit in the social injustice and unhappiness of its time.

Provides new theatrical contexts for Romantic-period literary writing, reframing the relationship between theater and poetry in Regency London.

Provides new theatrical contexts for Romantic-period literary writing, reframing the relationship between theater and poetry in Regency London.

Explores the diverse forces that shaped developments in literature in the 1880s, an often overlooked literary decade.

A fresh evaluation of Liszt''s symphonic poems, based on contextual, philosophical and musical evidence.

Explores the diverse forces that shaped developments in literature in the 1880s, an often overlooked literary decade.

A fresh evaluation of Liszt''s symphonic poems, based on contextual, philosophical and musical evidence.

A lively and accessible introduction to the variety, depth, and wonder of Chaucer''s best-known poem.

This nuanced yet accessible study is the first to examine the range of religious experience imagined in Hopkins'' writing.

This collection of essays offers a dynamic reconsideration of the places, times, and influences that made Seamus Heaney a poet.

A comprehensive guide to the literary, religious and political contexts that shape Edmund Spenser''s poetry.

A comprehensive guide to the literary, religious and political contexts that shape Edmund Spenser''s poetry.

Inclusive, cutting-edge essay collection by leading scholars on Victorian women poets and their diverse poetic forms and identities.

Inclusive, cutting-edge essay collection by leading scholars on Victorian women poets and their diverse poetic forms and identities.

A lively and accessible introduction to the variety, depth, and wonder of Chaucer''s best-known poem.

This nuanced yet accessible study is the first to examine the range of religious experience imagined in Hopkins'' writing.

This innovative book reconceptualises Roman poetry and its reception through the lens of fictional biography (''biofiction'').

This collection of essays offers a dynamic reconsideration of the places, times, and influences that made Seamus Heaney a poet.

The most comprehensive edition of the fragments of Dionysius, a key Greek epic poet of the first century CE.

A powerful new account of Hardy''s novels by a leading scholar, emphasizing their affirmative elements and their often poetic prose.

A powerful new account of Hardy''s novels by a leading scholar, emphasizing their affirmative elements and their often poetic prose.

A fresh and wide-ranging exploration across the whole of early Greek hexameter poetry, focusing on issues of poetics and metapoetics.

A fresh and wide-ranging exploration across the whole of early Greek hexameter poetry, focusing on issues of poetics and metapoetics.

This book deeply analyses the little-known tradition of oral heroic epic poetry of the Khanty, an indigenous people of Siberia.

This book deeply analyses the little-known tradition of oral heroic epic poetry of the Khanty, an indigenous people of Siberia.

An original account of the reception and influence of Shakespeare''s Sonnets in his own time and in later literary history.

A revisionary account of the 900-year-long history of a major poetic tradition, explored through metrics and literary history.

An original account of the reception and influence of Shakespeare''s Sonnets in his own time and in later literary history.

A revisionary account of the 900-year-long history of a major poetic tradition, explored through metrics and literary history.

Investigates the literary, linguistic, historical, epigraphic, and other contexts of Hellenistic epigrams in themed chapters through analyses of individual epigrams.

Surveys the complex landscape of Hesiodic reception in lyric poetry and drama in the fifth century BCE.

Surveys the complex landscape of Hesiodic reception in lyric poetry and drama in the fifth century BCE.

Investigates the literary, linguistic, historical, epigraphic, and other contexts of Hellenistic epigrams in themed chapters through analyses of individual epigrams.

The book reveals how mid-twentieth-century African, Caribbean, Irish, and British poets profoundly affected each other in person and in print.

The book reveals how mid-twentieth-century African, Caribbean, Irish, and British poets profoundly affected each other in person and in print.

The first essay collection on A Mirror for Magistrates, the most popular work of English literature in the Shakespearean age.

The first essay collection on A Mirror for Magistrates, the most popular work of English literature in the Shakespearean age.

Sultzbach''s book provides a wide-ranging investigation into how the works of Forster, Woolf, and Auden helped shape our environmental imagination.

This book offers a new interpretation of Wordsworth''s poetry, combining concepts of travel, ''states of nature'' and language.

Sultzbach''s book provides a wide-ranging investigation into how the works of Forster, Woolf, and Auden helped shape our environmental imagination.

This book offers a new interpretation of Wordsworth''s poetry, combining concepts of travel, ''states of nature'' and language.

This Companion features thirteen essays from leading international experts on William Carlos Williams, covering his major poetry and prose works.

This Companion features thirteen essays from leading international experts on William Carlos Williams, covering his major poetry and prose works.

A selection of one hundred poems by George Herbert, one of the greatest devotional poets in the English language.

A comprehensive account of features of Latin that emerge from dialogue, drawing on the data from Roman comedy and drama.