Literary studies: poetry and poets

A wide-ranging study of the lyric as a literary genre in Renaissance Europe, by a leading scholar of the period.

Essays by leading scholars offer new insights into a remarkable poet and early advocate of environmental ethics and aesthetics.

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

A wide-ranging study of the lyric as a literary genre in Renaissance Europe, by a leading scholar of the period.

Essays by leading scholars offer new insights into a remarkable poet and early advocate of environmental ethics and aesthetics.

This book provides all the help that an intermediate Latin learner will need to read the first two books of the Aeneid.

In this book, David Bergman argues that post-war poetry underwent a significant shift from a visual to oral emphasis.

In this book, David Bergman argues that post-war poetry underwent a significant shift from a visual to oral emphasis.

A History of Modernist Poetry examines innovative anglophone poetries from decadence to the post-war period.

An up-to-date translation of Catullus with a contemporary feel that showcases his radical voice and edgy sensibility.

A major re-evaluation of Boccaccio''s status as literary innovator and cultural mediator equal to that of Petrarch and Dante.

A thorough introduction to these important, but fragmentary, early Greek narrative poems so crucial for understanding Homer and Greek mythology.

This book explores John Keats''s major works in the context of his reading and the world in which he shaped his career.

Essays by leading scholars explore the work, life and times of the notorious libertine poet John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester.

Explores how Victorian poetry and translation dynamically influenced one another in an age of empire.

Explores how Victorian poetry and translation dynamically influenced one another in an age of empire.

Essays by leading scholars explore the work, life and times of the notorious libertine poet John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester.

A History of Modernist Poetry examines innovative anglophone poetries from decadence to the post-war period.

A major re-evaluation of Boccaccio''s status as literary innovator and cultural mediator equal to that of Petrarch and Dante.

A commentary on seven of Ovid''s twenty-one epistles in elegiac verse.

This book explores John Keats''s major works in the context of his reading and the world in which he shaped his career.

A thorough introduction to these important, but fragmentary, early Greek narrative poems so crucial for understanding Homer and Greek mythology.

A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary collection exploring different ways of visualising Greek and Roman epic in both ancient and modern culture.

A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary collection exploring different ways of visualising Greek and Roman epic in both ancient and modern culture.

This book examines the relationship between Lord Byron''s life and work, and the Regency culture of scandal.

This Companion offers fresh insight into the art and politics of James Baldwin, one of the most important writers of the twentieth century.

This book provides the essential contexts for an understanding of all aspects of the major English Romantic poet, William Wordsworth.

Albert Gelpi''s American Poetry after Modernism is a study of sixteen major American poets of the postwar period.

A new, exciting and accessible approach to reading William Blake, in which leading scholar Saree Makdisi explores key themes.

This book examines the relationship between Lord Byron''s life and work, and the Regency culture of scandal.

This Companion offers fresh insight into the art and politics of James Baldwin, one of the most important writers of the twentieth century.

This book provides the essential contexts for an understanding of all aspects of the major English Romantic poet, William Wordsworth.

Albert Gelpi''s American Poetry after Modernism is a study of sixteen major American poets of the postwar period.

A new, exciting and accessible approach to reading William Blake, in which leading scholar Saree Makdisi explores key themes.

Presents a selection from Metamorphoses, designed for those who have completed an introductory Latin course.

The first full-scale treatment, with introduction and commentary, that this important ancient Greek poet has ever received.

Presents a selection from Metamorphoses, designed for those who have completed an introductory Latin course.

The definitive scholarly edition of Herbert''s complete English poems, accompanied by extensive explanatory and textual apparatus.

The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry offers a critical overview of major and emerging American poets of the twentieth century.

This volume brings John Milton''s Paradise Lost into dialogue with the challenges of cosmology and the world of Galileo.

The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry offers a critical overview of major and emerging American poets of the twentieth century.

This volume brings John Milton''s Paradise Lost into dialogue with the challenges of cosmology and the world of Galileo.

A literary-historical account of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon writings to the present.

A major new history of the literary traditions, oral and print, of African-descended peoples in the United States.

A literary-historical account of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon writings to the present.

A major new history of the literary traditions, oral and print, of African-descended peoples in the United States.

An important new exploration of the early poetry of Ovid, one of the greatest poets in the Roman and Western tradition.

An important new exploration of the early poetry of Ovid, one of the greatest poets in the Roman and Western tradition.

The first full commentary in English since the nineteenth century, suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students.

The first full commentary in English since the nineteenth century, suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students.