Literary studies: poetry and poets

Gillian Wright combines literary and bibliographical approaches to examine the work of five English women poets in the period 1600–1730.

This fresh perspective on Byron''s relationship with Greece throws new light on its importance both for Byron and for Greece.

This book shows how Emily Dickinson used philosophy in her poetry and anticipated later philosophical movements.

A literary study of the Odyssey based on the central economic and symbolic importance of the eating of meat.

Gillian Wright combines literary and bibliographical approaches to examine the work of five English women poets in the period 1600–1730.

This fresh perspective on Byron''s relationship with Greece throws new light on its importance both for Byron and for Greece.

This book shows how Emily Dickinson used philosophy in her poetry and anticipated later philosophical movements.

A literary study of the Odyssey based on the central economic and symbolic importance of the eating of meat.

Explores the previously neglected influence on Ovid''s Metamorphoses of Hesiod, the most important archaic Greek poet after Homer.

Argues that Lucan''s Bellum Civile is a central text in the history of the sublime.

Argues that Lucan''s Bellum Civile is a central text in the history of the sublime.

Investigates the themes of recollection and commemoration in a new reading that engages with critical work on memory.

Investigates the themes of recollection and commemoration in a new reading that engages with critical work on memory.

Re-envisions epic from Homer to Nonnus through theories of the gaze.

David Scott Wilson-Okamura reframes long-standing questions about Edmund Spenser''s style in the wider context of long-term, European trends.

A lucid and comprehensive study of Piers Plowman, one of the most magnificent literary works of the Middle Ages.

This book combines a critical survey of the ancient sources for Ennius'' Annales with fresh interpretation of the surviving record.

This book combines a critical survey of the ancient sources for Ennius'' Annales with fresh interpretation of the surviving record.

David Scott Wilson-Okamura reframes long-standing questions about Edmund Spenser''s style in the wider context of long-term, European trends.

This comprehensive study establishes the importance of an unexpected genre, tragedy, in the career of the most mercurial Western poet.

Este camino mío es un viaje a lo largo de veinte años, en el que hay un amor no correspondido que lleva inevitablemente a una crisis de identidad, desarrollándose luego en una nueva relación que llega a la coronación del sueño de amor.

Combines textual, historical and even archaeological evidence to explode the orthodox view of Catullus'' life and work.

Combines textual, historical and even archaeological evidence to explode the orthodox view of Catullus'' life and work.

In his compelling new book Ian Smith addresses the pernicious influence of systemic whiteness on our interpretation of Shakespeare''s plays.

In his compelling new book Ian Smith addresses the pernicious influence of systemic whiteness on our interpretation of Shakespeare''s plays.

A unique account of the shifting cultures of poetry across the Age of Enlightenment.

A unique account of the shifting cultures of poetry across the Age of Enlightenment.

A detailed treatment of Switzerland in British literature, the book shows how a republican myth contributed to Romanticism and liberalism.

A detailed treatment of Switzerland in British literature, the book shows how a republican myth contributed to Romanticism and liberalism.

Assembles and illustrates the evolution of a major scholar''s work on early Greek poetry, above all elegy, over four decades.

Assembles and illustrates the evolution of a major scholar''s work on early Greek poetry, above all elegy, over four decades.

Across time and cultures, poets and astronomers have often asked the same questions about outer space, and about ourselves.

Comparatively studies, through both form and content, the development of Arabic and Persian modernist poetry during the mid-twentieth century.

Conversing in Verse considers when and why poets turn to conversation to explore and expand the potential of poetry.

Conversing in Verse considers when and why poets turn to conversation to explore and expand the potential of poetry.

Illuminating the poetry of birdsong in the Romantic and Victorian periods, this timely study dissects historical attitudes to nonhuman life.

Illuminating the poetry of birdsong in the Romantic and Victorian periods, this timely study dissects historical attitudes to nonhuman life.

A vivid account of the alternative, emancipatory Germany that progressive British women writers discovered and wrote about, 1833-1910.