Literary studies: poetry and poets

The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series (general editor: Elleke Boehmer) offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English.

This book uses the theme of 'debatable lands', to explore aspects of writing in the Romantic period.

Das herausragende Werk Rolf Dieter Brinkmanns hat weit über den deutschsprachigen Raum hinaus Resonanz gefunden.

Walt Whitman is widely regarded as one of the masters of American poetry.

This book is the first collection of essays dedicated to the work of C.

The Printed Voice of Victorian Poetry starts from a simple fact: our written language does not represent the way we speak.

Best remembered today as the author of The Song of Hiawatha, Longfellow continues to be one of the most popular poets in American literary history.

Homeric Stitchings is the first extended study of the Homeric Centos, a long pastiche poem on a biblical theme composed by the Theodosian Empress Eudocia using only verses from the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Highly accessible as a tool for Latin students, and a serious contribution to the study of Roman poetry.

And as I groped in darkness and felt the pain of millions,gradually, like day driving night across the continent,I saw dawn upon them like the sun a vision.

Two Studies of Friedrich Holderlin shows how the poet enacts a radical theory of meaning that culminates in a unique and still groundbreaking concept of revolution, one that begins with a revolutionary understanding of language.

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 is a collection of studies providing a unique view on two central aspects of poetry: sounds and emotive qualities, with emphasis on their interactions.

Here James O'Hara shows how the deceptive nature of prophecy in the Aeneid complicates assessment of the poem's attitude toward its hero's achievement and toward the future of Rome under Augustus Caesar.

Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) had enormous impact on the generation of American poets who came of age during the cold war, from Robert Duncan and Allen Ginsberg to Robert Creeley and Jerome Rothenberg.

Jack Wheatcroft (1925-2016) had a transformative impact on five decades of Bucknell students (1952-1996).

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

The fine tradition of the Spanish sonnet, developed during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the subject of Rutherford's The Spanish Golden Age Sonnet (2016), has been extended and developed during the subsequent centuries.

The edited transcript of revealing autobiographical audiotapes recorded by the groundbreaking poet Robin Blaser Robin Blaser moved from his native Idaho to attend the University of California, Berkeley, in 1944.

Following in the footsteps of A Glass Half Full, Lone Wolf and When Jack Sued Jill, Homeless In My Heart - Felix Dennis's long-awaited new collection of verse - is 'the story of a fool whose life was saved by poetry'.

The Other Virgil tells the story of how a classic like the Aeneid can say different things to different people.

Literary scholars often avoid the category of the aesthetic in discussions of ethics, believing that purely aesthetic judgments can vitiate analyses of a literary work's sociopolitical heft and meaning.

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What is the public value of poetry?

"e;Remembering Wordsworth"e; is a fantastic collection of essays and other assorted writings by various authors discussing the life and work of this seminal poet, not to be missed by lovers of poetry and those with an interest Wordsworth's life both public and private.

Poetry and the Creation of a Whig Literary Culture offers a new perspective on early eighteenth century poetry and literary culture, arguing that long-neglected Whig poets such as Joseph Addison, John Dennis, Thomas Tickell, and Richard Blackmore were more popular and successful in their own time than they have been since.

Groundbreaking study of the poet Simonides, approaching his work through intertextual readings of the fragments and his ancient reception.

Joe Bray's careful analysis of Jane Austen's stylistic techniques reveals that the genius of her writing is far from effortless; rather he makes the case for her as a meticulous craftswoman and a radical stylistic pioneer.

A new study of the Hamartigenia in the context of Prudentius'' work overall, covering its theological and literary contributions.

This book from renowned poetry critic Edna Longley presents fresh, dynamic perspectives on W.

The inevitability of deaththat of others and our ownis surely among our greatest anxieties.

This volume offers a glimpse into the rich tradition of literary devices in Persian language and literature.

The History of Ottoman Poetry, first published in six volumes between 1900 and 1909, was the principal product of E.

In 1401, Christine de Pizan (1365-1430?

Elizabeth Bishop is now recognized as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century-a uniquely cosmopolitan writer with connections to the US, Canada, Brazil, and also the UK, given her neglected borrowings from many English authors, and her strong influence on modern British verse.

The Poet as Phenomenologist: Rilke and the New Poems opens up new perspectives on the relation between Rilke's poetry and phenomenological philosophy, illustrating the ways in which poetry can offer an exceptional response to the philosophical problem of dualism.

This is the first book-length study to read the "e;Ancient Mariner"e; as "e;poetry,"e; in Coleridge's own particular sense of the word.

A new literary history of the origins of metaphysical poetry in the urban environment of early modern London.

Experimental texts empower the reader by encouraging self-governing approaches to reading and by placing the reader on equal footing with the author.

Argument was the basis of Renaissance education; both rhetoric and dialectic permeated early modern humanist culture, including drama.

The definitive biography of a pivotal figure in American literary historyA major poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (18721906) was one of the first African American writers to garner international recognition in the wake of emancipation.

First published in 1943, "e;The Sceptred Flute Songs of India"e; contains the complete poetical works of Indian poet and activist Sarojini Naidu (1879-1949).

Antonio Machado (1875-1939) is one of Spain's most original and renowned twentieth-century poets and thinkers.