Literary studies: poetry and poets

An introduction for university students to important poets and forms of poetry between Dryden and Wordsworth.

A guide to reading modernist poetry in English: its pleasures, frustrations, powers and problems.

A collection of the reviews of Pound''s work that were published in his lifetime.

A new, provocative treatment of the Alexandrian poet Callimachus and his reception, approaching his work from four varied yet complementary angles.

A new, provocative treatment of the Alexandrian poet Callimachus and his reception, approaching his work from four varied yet complementary angles.

This illuminating book is the first to consider Dickinson''s religious imagery outside the dynamic of her personal faith and doubt.

This illuminating book is the first to consider Dickinson''s religious imagery outside the dynamic of her personal faith and doubt.

This book investigates the relative chronology of early Greek poetry through linguistic and literary analyses of the texts themselves.

This book investigates the relative chronology of early Greek poetry through linguistic and literary analyses of the texts themselves.

An exploration of the elusive nature of representation in Plath''s poetry and the various versions of her that readers encounter.

An exploration of the elusive nature of representation in Plath''s poetry and the various versions of her that readers encounter.

Essential reading for all those interested in Irish literature and culture and its far-reaching effects on the world.

A comparative study of the imagination in literature from the Anglophone world.

This collection of new essays offers the first sustained comparative reading of modern Irish and Scottish poetry.

This collection of new essays offers the first sustained comparative reading of modern Irish and Scottish poetry.

Essential reading for all those interested in Irish literature and culture and its far-reaching effects on the world.

A comparative study of the imagination in literature from the Anglophone world.

Explains the background to Eliot''s works, from his life and career to art, politics and publishing.

Explains the background to Eliot''s works, from his life and career to art, politics and publishing.

Explores English and Scottish court poetry written in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.

This book presents the first comprehensive examination of Homer''s similes in the Iliad as arenas of heroic competition.

A new study of the Hamartigenia in the context of Prudentius'' work overall, covering its theological and literary contributions.

Explores English and Scottish court poetry written in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.

This book presents the first comprehensive examination of Homer''s similes in the Iliad as arenas of heroic competition.

A new study of the Hamartigenia in the context of Prudentius'' work overall, covering its theological and literary contributions.

This book explores the art of writing poetry from a practice-based perspective.

Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing and Screen Adaptation charts a new chapter in the changing fortunes of a unique cultural phenomenon.

During the Renaissance, moral philosophy came to permeate the minds of many, including the spectators that poured into Shakespeare's Globe theatre.

This book examines literary depictions of the construction and destruction of the armored male body in combat in relation to early modern English understandings of the past.

This book examines a pivotal moment in the history of science and women's place in it.

This book addresses the connection between political themes and literary form in the most recent Argentine poetry.

Rarity is a quality by which things flowers, leaves, light, sound fleetingly appear and disappear, leaving in their wake a resonance of something we just thought we had glimpsed.

Lucretius's long shadow falls across the disciplines of literary history and criticism, philosophy, religious studies, classics, political philosophy, and the history of science.

This book, the first to trace revenge tragedy's evolving dialogue with early modern law, draws on changing laws of evidence, food riots, piracy, and debates over royal prerogative.

Literature remains one of the few disciplines that reflect the experiences, sensibility, worldview, and living realities of its people.

Tackling topics such as globalization and political activism, this book traces engaged poetics in 20th century American poetry.

This study argues for Hogg's centrality to British Romanticism, resituating his work in relation to many of his more famous Romantic contemporaries.

This book examines the interactions between social assumptions about womanhood and women's actual voices represented in plays and writings by authors of both genders in Jacobean England, placing the special emphasis on Lady Mary Wroth.

This book is a radical re-appraisal of the poetry of Ted Hughes, placing him in the context of continental theorists such as Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Slavoj Zizek to address the traumas of his work.

This book presents a cutting-edge critical analysis of the trope of miscegenation and its biopolitical implications in contemporary Palestinian and Israeli literature, poetry, and discourse.

This is the first study to consider the relationship between private confessional rituals and memory across a range of early modern writers, including Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, and Robert Southwell.

Shakespeare and Cognition challenges orthodox approaches to Shakespeare by using recent psychological findings about human decision-making to analyse the unique characters that populate his plays.

Drawing on the work of Holocaust writer Primo Levi and political philosopher Giorgio Agamben McClellan introduces a critical turn in our reading of Chaucer.

This book reads Oscar Wilde as a queer theorist and Wilfred Owen as his symbolic son.

Drawing upon a wide range of biographies of literary subjects, from Shakespeare and Wordsworth to William Golding and V.

Exploring literary fascination as a key concept of aesthetic attraction, this book illuminates the ways in which literary texts are designed, presented, and received.

A Modern Coleridge shows the interrelatedness of the discourses of cultivation, addiction and habit in Coleridge's poetry and prose, and argues that these all revolve around the problematic nexus of a post-Kantian idea of free will, essential to Coleridge's eminently modern idea of the 'human'.

Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens is a lively and erudite collection, unusual in an especially appealing way.

Faced with the chaos and banality of modern, everyday life, a number of Victorian poets sought innovative ways of writing about the unpoetic present in their verse.

Shakespeare's Extremes is a controversial intervention in current critical debates on the status of the human in Shakespeare's work.