Literary studies: poetry and poets

The first commentary in English entirely devoted to the Iliad Book 6, illuminating some of the best-loved episodes in the whole poem.

Essential reading on the writing and development of American poetry from its beginnings to the end of the twentieth century.

Rufus Hallmark interprets Schumann''s famously controversial song cycle in the social, literary, and musical contexts of contemporary German society.

This book explores how the Romantic poetry of Byron, Shelley, and Keats engages with tales and themes of the Orient.

A lively, accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the life and work of the fourteenth-century poet Geoffrey Chaucer.

Essential reading on the writing and development of American poetry from its beginnings to the end of the twentieth century.

Rufus Hallmark interprets Schumann''s famously controversial song cycle in the social, literary, and musical contexts of contemporary German society.

A lively, accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the life and work of the fourteenth-century poet Geoffrey Chaucer.

This book explores how the Romantic poetry of Byron, Shelley, and Keats engages with tales and themes of the Orient.

A fresh take on Romantic writers including Byron, the Shelleys, and Keats, within the culture of the Napoleonic War years.

This book argues that Coleridge''s most important philosophical ideas were expressed not through theoretical argument but through his poems.

This monograph underscores the way in which mortality functions in the later poetry and prose of major modernist writers.

A completely revised and considerably enlarged edition of this best-selling edition of Lucretius'' account of why death does not matter.

A fresh take on Romantic writers including Byron, the Shelleys, and Keats, within the culture of the Napoleonic War years.

This book argues that Coleridge''s most important philosophical ideas were expressed not through theoretical argument but through his poems.

This monograph underscores the way in which mortality functions in the later poetry and prose of major modernist writers.

A completely revised and considerably enlarged edition of this best-selling edition of Lucretius'' account of why death does not matter.

An essential bibliographic resource for scholars, librarians, collectors and booksellers.

Covering a wide range of poets and poems, this volume narrates a compelling history of nineteenth-century American women''s poetry.

The Cambridge Companion to the American Modernist Novel offers a comprehensive analysis of US modernism as part of a global literature.

This is the first compact introduction to Dickinson to focus principally on her poems and why they matter to readers.

A survey of poetry written in Spanish from the Middle Ages to the present day.

In American Poetic Materialism from Whitman to Stevens, Mark Noble examines writers who rethink the human in material terms.

Covering a wide range of poets and poems, this volume narrates a compelling history of nineteenth-century American women''s poetry.

The Cambridge Companion to the American Modernist Novel offers a comprehensive analysis of US modernism as part of a global literature.

This is the first compact introduction to Dickinson to focus principally on her poems and why they matter to readers.

In American Poetic Materialism from Whitman to Stevens, Mark Noble examines writers who rethink the human in material terms.

A general introduction for students to the world of troubadours: poets, poetry, music and culture.

This book makes Milton''s works accessible and enjoyable by providing engaging and lucid explanations of his life, times and writings.

This book makes Milton''s works accessible and enjoyable by providing engaging and lucid explanations of his life, times and writings.

The life and times of Milton's epic poem about Satan's revolt against God and humanity's expulsion from paradiseJohn Milton's Paradise Lost has secured its place in the pantheon of epic poems, but unlike almost all other works in the pantheon, it is intimately associated with religious doctrine and its implications for how we live our lives.

Inspire English International incorporates inspirational and comprehensive student books, workbooks and teacher guides, providing everything teachers and students around the world need to meet the demands of both curricula and 21st century education.

Inspire English International incorporates inspirational and comprehensive student books, workbooks and teacher guides, providing everything teachers and students around the world need to meet the demands of both curricula and 21st century education.