Literary studies: poetry and poets

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.

Drawing on the latest scholarship and criticism, this new Companion provides an authoritative, accessible introduction to Eliot''s complete oeuvre.

Drawing on the latest scholarship and criticism, this new Companion provides an authoritative, accessible introduction to Eliot''s complete oeuvre.

Offers a new approach to Pindar''s victory odes by focusing on their poetic aim of immortalization.

Offers a new approach to Pindar''s victory odes by focusing on their poetic aim of immortalization.

Leading critic John Leonard explores the writings of John Milton from his early poetry to his major prose.

A new, comprehensive study of Virgil''s Eclogues that reinterprets an ancient text and genre as imaginative fiction.

A new, comprehensive study of Virgil''s Eclogues that reinterprets an ancient text and genre as imaginative fiction.

Leading critic John Leonard explores the writings of John Milton from his early poetry to his major prose.

This History explores the genealogy of modern American verse by women from the early twentieth century to the millennium.

This History explores the genealogy of modern American verse by women from the early twentieth century to the millennium.

This History explores the genealogy of Anglophone verse in India from its nineteenth-century origins to the present day.

This History explores the genealogy of Anglophone verse in India from its nineteenth-century origins to the present day.

This Companion brings together sixteen essays that explore the full diversity of British poetry since the Second World War.

This Companion brings together sixteen essays that explore the full diversity of British poetry since the Second World War.

This book explores early modern ideas of chastity and their cultural, political, medical, moral and theological applications.

This book explores early modern ideas of chastity and their cultural, political, medical, moral and theological applications.

This book provides an overview of poetry from England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland from the postwar period through to the twenty-first century.

This book examines how Jacobean authors interpreted and responded to the works of King James VI and I.

This book examines how Jacobean authors interpreted and responded to the works of King James VI and I.

This Companion brings together essays on some fifty-four American poets, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry.

Leading international experts provide an essential framework for the interdisciplinary study of Dante and the late Middle Ages.

This Companion brings together essays on some fifty-four American poets, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry.

Leading international experts provide an essential framework for the interdisciplinary study of Dante and the late Middle Ages.

This book provides an overview of poetry from England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland from the postwar period through to the twenty-first century.

An account of the life and works of Petrarch, scholar and poet, and his influence on European literature and culture.

An account of the life and works of Petrarch, scholar and poet, and his influence on European literature and culture.

This Companion offers fresh critical perspectives on T.

This Companion offers fresh critical perspectives on T.

This collection tells the life stories of the people whom we know Shakespeare encountered, shedding new light on Shakespeare''s life and times.

This collection tells the life stories of the people whom we know Shakespeare encountered, shedding new light on Shakespeare''s life and times.

The first collection of essays, by leading scholars, on a major Greek poet whose works have only recently been recovered.

The first commentary in English on a book of this Flavian epic tailored to the needs of graduate and undergraduate students.

Illustrated by 130 languages and literatures, this book explores poetry''s unique psychological qualities.

This book demonstrates Pindar''s importance for the coming into being of literature as it has been conceived of in the West.

This book demonstrates Pindar''s importance for the coming into being of literature as it has been conceived of in the West.

The first collection of essays, by leading scholars, on a major Greek poet whose works have only recently been recovered.

The first commentary in English on a book of this Flavian epic tailored to the needs of graduate and undergraduate students.

Illustrated by 130 languages and literatures, this book explores poetry''s unique psychological qualities.

This book takes a bold new approach to the prehistory of Homeric epic, arguing for a fresh understanding of how Near Eastern influence worked.

Explores a new area of ancient literary theory and criticism by examining how landscape and metaphor shape discussions of style.

This book takes a bold new approach to the prehistory of Homeric epic, arguing for a fresh understanding of how Near Eastern influence worked.

Explores a new area of ancient literary theory and criticism by examining how landscape and metaphor shape discussions of style.

The last major work by Marilyn Butler, leading literary critic of the late twentieth century, on imaginative ideas of nationhood.

Milton''s Visual Imagination contends that Milton enriches his biblical source text with acute and sometimes astonishing visual details.

The Argonautica is the only surviving epic between Homer and Virgil; Book IV is an extraordinary product of Greek poetry.

The last major work by Marilyn Butler, leading literary critic of the late twentieth century, on imaginative ideas of nationhood.

Milton''s Visual Imagination contends that Milton enriches his biblical source text with acute and sometimes astonishing visual details.

This book explores the relationship between ideas of the East and the struggle for democratic rights in the Romantic period.