Literary studies: poetry and poets

An engaging collection of new essays covering Romantic poetry, its historical and literary contexts, its forms, and its enduring appeal.

A comprehensive and accessible overview of modernist poetry, its forms, its major authors and its contexts.

In this book, leading Wallace Stevens scholars explain in clear language fundamental aspects of his work.

A completely accessible but thought-provoking 2007 introduction to one of the greatest of Latin poets, Lucretius.

A volume of essays by leading Shakespearean scholars on Shakespeare''s poetry, including the Sonnets.

The most complete guide to Pushkin''s work available in English.

The first student book available on Pope and his life and times.

This Companion gives an overview of Heaney''s career, with detailed readings of his major publications.

A comprehensive and stimulating guide to the extraordinary poet, his work, and his influence on modern literature.

In this 2007 volume a superb international cast of contributors present an assessment of Horace, his work and its themes.

An overview of this important early twentieth-century female writer''s work and career and her contribution to the development of modernism.

This book analyzes major premises and practices of eighteenth-century English poets.

This book provides specially commissioned in-depth discussions of the poetry of Catullus from ten leading Latin scholars.

Introduces students to one of the greatest Romantic writers and thinkers.

Aimed at students and poetry enthusiasts wanting to deepen their knowledge of some of the finest modern poets.

An introduction for students and general readers to a variety of contemporary issues in Whitman''s life and art.

A team of distinguished poets and scholars provides an authoritative guide to the history and development of the sonnet.

This book provides specially commissioned in-depth discussions of the poetry of Catullus from ten leading Latin scholars.

Introduces students to one of the greatest Romantic writers and thinkers.

A groundbreaking study of pre-Conquest English poets that rethinks the social role of Anglo-Saxon verse.

A comprehensive study of the fascinating medieval poem Piers Plowman, consolidating the most enduring work with groundbreaking new research.

Edition and commentary, aimed at students and scholars, providing the most accessible introduction available to this late work of Ovid.

A study of six canonical early modern lyric poets and the impact of the Eucharist on their work.

The first study of poetry by Victorian scientists, a unique record of the nature and cultures of Victorian science.

A study of Clare''s literary influences, both the rural folk culture in which he grew up and contemporary literature.

The authoritative essays in this collection provide helpful contextual models for engaging with W.

A study of six canonical early modern lyric poets and the impact of the Eucharist on their work.

The first study of poetry by Victorian scientists, a unique record of the nature and cultures of Victorian science.

The authoritative essays in this collection provide helpful contextual models for engaging with W.

A collection of papers by international experts on one of the most paradoxical and influential poetic genres of classical antiquity.

A collection of papers by international experts on one of the most paradoxical and influential poetic genres of classical antiquity.

A detailed study of Milton, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson and Stevens, tracing what lies behind their choice of blank verse.

This book argues that Milton used innovative and cunning means to persuade readers in an age distrustful of traditional rhetoric.

This work reshapes our understanding of contemporary Irish poetry and offers a new account of poetic form.

A scene-by-scene reader''s guide to Geoffrey Chaucer''s Trojan War poem specifically designed for student readers.

A detailed study of Milton, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson and Stevens, tracing what lies behind their choice of blank verse.

This book argues that Milton used innovative and cunning means to persuade readers in an age distrustful of traditional rhetoric.

This work reshapes our understanding of contemporary Irish poetry and offers a new account of poetic form.

A scene-by-scene reader''s guide to Geoffrey Chaucer''s Trojan War poem specifically designed for student readers.

As the self-styled successor of Virgil, Claudian redefines the world of late antiquity in terms of classical Latin epic.

This work provides lucid, elegant and original analyses of poetic form and its workings in a wide range of poems.

As the self-styled successor of Virgil, Claudian redefines the world of late antiquity in terms of classical Latin epic.

This work provides lucid, elegant and original analyses of poetic form and its workings in a wide range of poems.

An engaging guide to reading, understanding and enjoying Romantic verse, designed for students approaching the period for the first time.

A clear, jargon-free and comprehensible survey of a diverse and voluminous canonical British author.

Stanley Fish''s finest published work is brought together here with brand new material.

An engaging guide to reading, understanding and enjoying Romantic verse, designed for students approaching the period for the first time.

A clear, jargon-free and comprehensible survey of a diverse and voluminous canonical British author.

A collection of new essays demonstrating a wholly new approach to the complexities of Milton''s work.

Stanley Fish''s finest published work is brought together here with brand new material.