Literary studies: poetry and poets

A revisionary account of the 900-year-long history of a major poetic tradition, explored through metrics and literary history.

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

A revisionary account of the 900-year-long history of a major poetic tradition, explored through metrics and literary history.

Investigates the literary, linguistic, historical, epigraphic, and other contexts of Hellenistic epigrams in themed chapters through analyses of individual epigrams.

Surveys the complex landscape of Hesiodic reception in lyric poetry and drama in the fifth century BCE.

Surveys the complex landscape of Hesiodic reception in lyric poetry and drama in the fifth century BCE.

Investigates the literary, linguistic, historical, epigraphic, and other contexts of Hellenistic epigrams in themed chapters through analyses of individual epigrams.

The book reveals how mid-twentieth-century African, Caribbean, Irish, and British poets profoundly affected each other in person and in print.

The book reveals how mid-twentieth-century African, Caribbean, Irish, and British poets profoundly affected each other in person and in print.

The first essay collection on A Mirror for Magistrates, the most popular work of English literature in the Shakespearean age.

The first essay collection on A Mirror for Magistrates, the most popular work of English literature in the Shakespearean age.

Sultzbach''s book provides a wide-ranging investigation into how the works of Forster, Woolf, and Auden helped shape our environmental imagination.

This book offers a new interpretation of Wordsworth''s poetry, combining concepts of travel, ''states of nature'' and language.

Sultzbach''s book provides a wide-ranging investigation into how the works of Forster, Woolf, and Auden helped shape our environmental imagination.

This book offers a new interpretation of Wordsworth''s poetry, combining concepts of travel, ''states of nature'' and language.

This Companion features thirteen essays from leading international experts on William Carlos Williams, covering his major poetry and prose works.

This Companion features thirteen essays from leading international experts on William Carlos Williams, covering his major poetry and prose works.

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.

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.