Literary studies: poetry and poets

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.

Presents a selection from Metamorphoses, designed for those who have completed an introductory Latin course.

The first full-scale treatment, with introduction and commentary, that this important ancient Greek poet has ever received.

Presents a selection from Metamorphoses, designed for those who have completed an introductory Latin course.

The definitive scholarly edition of Herbert''s complete English poems, accompanied by extensive explanatory and textual apparatus.

The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry offers a critical overview of major and emerging American poets of the twentieth century.

This volume brings John Milton''s Paradise Lost into dialogue with the challenges of cosmology and the world of Galileo.

The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry offers a critical overview of major and emerging American poets of the twentieth century.

This volume brings John Milton''s Paradise Lost into dialogue with the challenges of cosmology and the world of Galileo.

A literary-historical account of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon writings to the present.

A major new history of the literary traditions, oral and print, of African-descended peoples in the United States.

A literary-historical account of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon writings to the present.

A major new history of the literary traditions, oral and print, of African-descended peoples in the United States.

An important new exploration of the early poetry of Ovid, one of the greatest poets in the Roman and Western tradition.

An important new exploration of the early poetry of Ovid, one of the greatest poets in the Roman and Western tradition.

The first full commentary in English since the nineteenth century, suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students.

The first full commentary in English since the nineteenth century, suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students.

A full treatment of this major source on ancient literary education by two of the leading scholars in the field.

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

A full treatment of this major source on ancient literary education by two of the leading scholars in the field.

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.