Literary studies: poetry and poets

Leading scholars present the genre of Latin love elegy, its poets, features and influence on the history of Western literature.

New edition of the Greek text suitable for upper-level students, with full attention to literary-critical and linguistic matters.

This collection explores the many intellectual and social contexts in which Emerson lived, thought and wrote.

Leading scholars present the genre of Latin love elegy, its poets, features and influence on the history of Western literature.

New edition of the Greek text suitable for upper-level students, with full attention to literary-critical and linguistic matters.

An authoritative guide to Plath''s work, her importance to contemporary literature and culture, and the controversies that surround her.

A fully updated 2007 edition of this useful and accessible coursebook on Dante''s works, context and reception history.

A collection of sixteen essays giving a comprehensive guide to the work of John Donne.

This second edition continues the excellent tradition of the volume, offering students a comprehensive introduction to Chaucer''s work and life.

Provides new perspectives on one of the most enigmatic and widely read American writers.

Companion to the work of one of the most admired of English writers and artists.

Accessible but exciting critical handbook on one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity.

This Companion casts post-1945 American poetry as a coherent literary movement, making the period''s most difficult offerings comprehensible and accessible.

The first critical collection of its kind devoted solely to this subject, this Companion covers both well-known and lesser-known poets.

Introduces readers to the scope of Milton''s work, the richness of its historical relations, and the range of current approaches to it.

A comprehensive and accessible introduction to the major themes of this important poet''s life and career.

An essential introduction and handbook for students and other readers of T.

An overview of Kipling''s work, his career and postcolonial views on his often controversial position on imperialism.

Explores the life, work and literary significance of the late Poet Laureate.

An authoritative guide to Plath''s work, her importance to contemporary literature and culture, and the controversies that surround her.

A fully updated 2007 edition of this useful and accessible coursebook on Dante''s works, context and reception history.

A collection of sixteen essays giving a comprehensive guide to the work of John Donne.

Companion to the work of one of the most admired of English writers and artists.

Accessible but exciting critical handbook on one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity.

This Companion casts post-1945 American poetry as a coherent literary movement, making the period''s most difficult offerings comprehensible and accessible.

The first critical collection of its kind devoted solely to this subject, this Companion covers both well-known and lesser-known poets.

Introduces readers to the scope of Milton''s work, the richness of its historical relations, and the range of current approaches to it.

A comprehensive and accessible introduction to the major themes of this important poet''s life and career.

An overview of Kipling''s work, his career and postcolonial views on his often controversial position on imperialism.

Explores the life, work and literary significance of the late Poet Laureate.

This book studies Irish poetry in English, from the union of Ireland and Great Britain in 1801 to the Irish Free State in 1921 and beyond.

Munro explores the conscious use of archaic language by poets and dramatists including Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson and Milton.

This study examines how Milton''s polemical and imaginative literature intersects with representations of English Protestant nationhood.

Crawforth presents a major re-reading of early modern poetry, demonstrating its debt to the emergence of linguistics in the period.

This Companion offers a major re-examination of the poetry of the First World War at the start of the war''s centennial commemoration.

This book from renowned poetry critic Edna Longley presents fresh, dynamic perspectives on W.

This book studies Irish poetry in English, from the union of Ireland and Great Britain in 1801 to the Irish Free State in 1921 and beyond.

Munro explores the conscious use of archaic language by poets and dramatists including Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson and Milton.

This study examines how Milton''s polemical and imaginative literature intersects with representations of English Protestant nationhood.

Crawforth presents a major re-reading of early modern poetry, demonstrating its debt to the emergence of linguistics in the period.

This Companion offers a major re-examination of the poetry of the First World War at the start of the war''s centennial commemoration.

This book from renowned poetry critic Edna Longley presents fresh, dynamic perspectives on W.

This book establishes Percy Bysshe Shelley''s view of poetry as ''living melody'' and sets it within the wider context of Romantic-era thought.

This book argues that concepts of youth and childhood were central to seventeenth-century debates about political and poetic voice.

This collection of essays by leading scholars offers a comprehensive overview of contexts important for the study of Emily Dickinson''s writings.

This book establishes Percy Bysshe Shelley''s view of poetry as ''living melody'' and sets it within the wider context of Romantic-era thought.

This book argues that concepts of youth and childhood were central to seventeenth-century debates about political and poetic voice.

Surveys the first millennium in the circulation of Lucretius'' De rerum natura, analysing its ancient readers, annotators, scribes and owners.

This collection of essays by leading scholars offers a comprehensive overview of contexts important for the study of Emily Dickinson''s writings.

Cole examines the rich literary and cultural history of masculine intimacy in the twentieth century.