Literary studies: poetry and poets

A new, exciting and accessible approach to reading William Blake, in which leading scholar Saree Makdisi explores key themes.

With contributions from leading scholars, this is a unique cross-cultural comparison of historical epics across a wide range of cultures and time periods, which presents crucial insights into how history is treated in narrative poetry.

Why are there so few 'happily ever afters' in the Romantic-period verse romance?

Ever since their rediscovery in the 1920s, John Donne's writings have been praised for their energy, vigour and drama - yet so far, no attempt has been made to approach and define systematically these major characteristics of his work.

KIPLING may be best known as a commentator on the British Empire, but he was also a vivid observer and chronicler of the sea - and of ships and all who sailed in them.

Using insights from translation theory, this book uncovers the value of female prophets'' riddling prophecies in Greek and Latin poetry.

In the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the poetry published in Britain between the Restoration and the end of the eighteenth century, forty-four authorities from six countries survey the poetry of the age in all its richness and diversity--serious and satirical, public and private, by men and women, nobles and peasants, whether published in deluxe editions or sung on the streets.

This History explores the genealogy of modern American verse by women from the early twentieth century to the millennium.

This Companion offers fresh insight into the art and politics of James Baldwin, one of the most important writers of the twentieth century.

This work contains a major revision of Douglas Thomson's Catullus: A Critical Edition (1978), with the addition of a full commentary and a wholly new introduction.

The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue in literature, theology, and philosophy, in social, political, jurisprudential, and intellectual history, the history of art, and the history of science but also that combines these subjects productively.

Through the prism of intimacy, Burleigh sheds light on eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century American texts.

Provides a new appreciation of John Donne through the lens of Walter Benjamin''s critical theory of baroque allegory.

Badiou and American Modernist Poetics explores the correspondence between Alain Badiou's thinking on art and that of the canonical modernists T.

This volume introduces students to the most important figures, movements and trends in post-war British and Irish poetry.

This book focuses on the role of the city, and its processes of mutual transformation, in poetry by experimental women writers.

A Companion to Persius and Juvenal breaks new ground in its in-depth focus on both authors as "e;satiric successors"e;; detailed individual contributions suggest original perspectives on their work, and provide an in-depth exploration of Persius' and Juvenal's afterlives.

The book presents methods for the objective analysis of poetic language.

Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth, is an experiment in interiority written in the pandemic studio.

Over the course of her career, Elizabeth Robertson has pursued innovative scholarship that investigates the overlapping domains of medieval philosophy, literature, and gender studies.

A vivid and musical rendering of the poetry of Catullus, whose passionate verses have captivated readers for centuries In the fourteenth century, a manuscript surfaced in Verona that had been lost for more than a thousand years: the poems of Catullus (c.

The Bedouin, or 'desert dwellers', have a rich cultural heritage often expressed through music and poetry.

Soviet Heroic Poetry in Context discusses key issues surrounding the composition and recording of folklore as well as its often intensely political aspect and its preoccupation with chimerical cultural authority.

Advice to young singers often follows the standard line of the great French singer Claire Croiza: "e;Study the poem away from the music, so that you know what the words really mean.

Dante's Persons explores the concept of personhood as it appears in Dante's Commedia and seeks out the constituent ethical modes that the poem presents as necessary for attaining a fullness of persona.

In this essay on what the imagination has made of the phenomenon of echo,' John Hollander examines aspects of the figure of echo in light of their significance for poetry.

In recent years, a series of major collections of posthumous writings by Elizabeth Bishop--one of the most widely read and discussed poets of the twentieth century--have been published, profoundly affecting how we look at her life and work.

John Fuller is one of the most accomplished, prolific and popular of contemporary poets.

This book offers a broad re-evaluation of the key ideas developed by the German Romantics concerning philosophy and literature.

Drawing on a broad concept of desire, informed by poststructuralist theorists this book examines the range of Hardy's work.

Wallace Stevens is one of the major poets of the twentieth century, and also among the most challenging.

In an updated edition of his hugely successful student introduction to English literature from 1100 to 1500, J.

Milton''s Visual Imagination contends that Milton enriches his biblical source text with acute and sometimes astonishing visual details.

Authority, Piracy, and Captivity in Colonial Spanish American Writing examines the intricate bond between poetry and history writing that shaped the theory and practice of empire in early colonial Spanish-American society.

This book examines six plays by Shakespeare (Love's Labour's Lost, Hamlet, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest) as dramatizations of the Renaissance court in its developing history - a history searched by Shakespeare to disclose its most characteristic gains and losses.

The classic work on the sublime interplay between the arts and poeticsThis book explores the rich and complex relationship between art and poetry, shedding invaluable light on what makes each art form unique yet wholly interdependent.

Although the Bible is the foundation of American poetic tradition, there is no study of the Bible as an ongoing force in American poetry.

Dreams are the currency of Okri's writing, particularly in this first book of poems, An African Elegy, but also in his books of short stories and prize-winning novel The Famished Road.

Erich Frieds Lyrik zeichnet sich durch die Klarheit seiner Sprache sowie seinen geschickten, aber nie über die Maßen ästhetisierten, lyrischen Stil aus, der seine didaktischen Absichten nicht versteckt.

The great religious poetry of R.