Literary studies: poetry and poets

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.

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.