Literary studies: poetry and poets

Comprehensive collection of essays by leading scholars on Byron''s place in the English poetic tradition, his influences and his afterlife.

The only book that shows readers how to ask the questions which will make poems to speak to them.

Implements stories of surgical alteration to consider how early modern individuals conceived the relationship between body, mind, and self.

Explores Shakespeare''s plays in their most immediate context: the hundreds of plays known to original audiences, but lost to us.

Early modern skepticism contributed to literary invention, aesthetic pleasure, and the uneven process of secularization in England.

Comprehensive collection of essays by leading scholars on Byron''s place in the English poetic tradition, his influences and his afterlife.

This book discusses contemporary British poetry in the context of metamodernism.

This book discusses contemporary British poetry in the context of metamodernism.

Illuminates the ways that expressive cultures of frontline communities resist environmental racism while protecting and repairing the world.

Illuminates the ways that expressive cultures of frontline communities resist environmental racism while protecting and repairing the world.

This edition includes fully annotated texts of all works known or plausibly believed to be by Aphra Behn (1640-1689).

This book explicates Jonathan Swift''s poetry, reaffirming its prominence in competing literary traditions.

Reveals the sophistication of a once-popular Greek didactic epic on the sea and its fish, addressed to the Roman emperor.

This book explicates Jonathan Swift''s poetry, reaffirming its prominence in competing literary traditions.

Argues that Catullus adapts Roman comedy to explore private ideas about love, friendship, and social rivalry.

Shows how medieval Italian poets viewed their authorship of poetry as a function of their engagement in a human community.

Analysis of the books, pamphlets and single sheets in which Jonathan Swift''s writings were first published in Dublin and London.

Renaissance poetry anthologies were crafted within the book trade and re-crafted through performance, transforming Early Modern cultures of recreation.

Argues that Catullus adapts Roman comedy to explore private ideas about love, friendship, and social rivalry.

Shows how medieval Italian poets viewed their authorship of poetry as a function of their engagement in a human community.

Analysis of the books, pamphlets and single sheets in which Jonathan Swift''s writings were first published in Dublin and London.

A complete treatment of Aeneid XI, with a thorough Introduction and line-by-line explication of the book.

Renaissance poetry anthologies were crafted within the book trade and re-crafted through performance, transforming Early Modern cultures of recreation.

This collection demonstrates the centrality of Elizabeth Bishop''s poetry and prose to twentieth-century culture.

100 Romantic-era poems, both major and lesser-known, in English and translated from six languages, with an engaging introduction and notes.

Explores how early modern Europeans responded to suffering and asks how they both described and practised compassion.

Explores how early modern Europeans responded to suffering and asks how they both described and practised compassion.

This collection demonstrates the centrality of Elizabeth Bishop''s poetry and prose to twentieth-century culture.

100 Romantic-era poems, both major and lesser-known, in English and translated from six languages, with an engaging introduction and notes.

This book is a comprehensive survey of the field of Irish women''s poetry across all periods by leading scholars.

This book is a comprehensive survey of the field of Irish women''s poetry across all periods by leading scholars.

Modern literature and environmentalism combined ecology, psychology, and aesthetics to restore communal well-being to the United Kingdom after world war.

Modern literature and environmentalism combined ecology, psychology, and aesthetics to restore communal well-being to the United Kingdom after world war.

A fully revised critical overview of Atwood''s career, emphasising her recent dystopias and the televised adaptation of The Handmaid''s Tale.

A fully revised critical overview of Atwood''s career, emphasising her recent dystopias and the televised adaptation of The Handmaid''s Tale.

A very full modern commentary on these poems which explains their language and thought for students, teachers and professional scholars.

Proposes a radical reassessment of Hughes as a religious poet, demonstrating his loyalty to an essentially Christian metaphysic.

Offers a new conception of modernist autonomy by focusing on Wallace Stevens, one of the renowned poets of the twentieth century.

Offers detailed reading of the Amores, oriented toward the writer''s and reader''s pleasure, that reframes the discussion around elegy and identity.

Describes how interwar modernism responded to the global crisis in the liberal world order after 1919.

Comprehensive survey of the conductus over a period of more than one hundred years, demonstrating how music and poetry interact.

Explores a literary translation dedicated more to the reader''s perception and experience of text than to textual interpretation.

An original exploration of Ancient Greek conceptions of the relationship between memory, time, knowledge and identity across diverse genres.

Brings together experts who inform new readings of Ted Hughes''s work, with a new awareness of his posthumous importance.

A new, holistic reading of Catullus emerges from convincing solutions to centuries-old problems concerning the nature of his surviving text.

This volume explores Caribbean literature from 1800–1920 across genres and in the multiple languages of the Caribbean.

Brings together historical and literary perspectives to begin charting a new course for research on Ennius'' masterpiece.

Offers a critical history of African American poetry from the transatlantic slave trade to present day hip-hop.

The first full study of corpse mistreatment and funeral violation in Greco-Roman epic poetry, illuminating many major texts.

This book explores American literature and culture of the First World War while analyzing the war''s historical context and significance.