Literary studies: poetry and poets

Stanley Fish's Surprised by Sin argues here that Paradise Lost is a poem about how its readers came to be the way they are and therefore the fact of their divided responses makes perfect sense.

Im Gegensatz zu den bisher vorrangig werkorientierten Untersuchungen zur frühbarocken Dichterin Sibylla Schwarz (1621-1638) versteht sich dieser Band durch eine kulturgeschichtliche Kontextualisierung ihrer Poesie als Korrektur und Erweiterung früherer Forschungen.

Estética del error es una invitación a repensar qué es el arte, qué son la belleza y la verdad.

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.

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.