Literary studies: poetry & poets books

A critical and theoretical interpretation of six major modern Persian poets and the idea of a homeland, by Hamid...  Read More >>

The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet reveals how poetry is a powerful tool of connection and understanding in a fractured...  Read More >>

Prue Shaw’s absorbing, highly accessible introduction to the Commedia promises to be the essential edition for years...  Read More >>

What motivated Milton? Tobias Gregory advances a new paradigm for Milton's shifting priorities, arguing that, at...  Read More >>

Poetry is necessary because it transforms suffering into significance. Pain is universal, grief unavoidable, loss...  Read More >>

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Keegan Cook Finberg argues that poetry became an increasingly capacious force in the second half of the twentieth...  Read More >>

Freddy Cristóbal Domínguez is Associate Professor of History at the University of Arkansas. He is the author of...  Read More >>

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In the infinite expanse between a heartbeat and a supernova, where logic dances with wonder, this book of sci-fi...  Read More >>

How does modern poetry from Donne to Ashbery provide occasions for rethinking the scope and limits of the literary...  Read More >>

Uncovers the previously neglected links between the nineteenth-century American canon and twentieth-century Asian...  Read More >>

This new translation of Pindar’s songs for victorious athletes marries philological rigour with poetic sensibility...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive account of Owen Barfield's philosophical thought, surveying his meaningful and unique contributions...  Read More >>

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This book provides an overview of the literary genre of Middle English lyrics, anonymous short poems that were composed...  Read More >>

Examines the way recent Irish poems interrogate the status of a place or being or phenomenon considered 'magic'....  Read More >>

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Examines how women poets have expressed resistance against neoliberalism in Chile at times of intense political...  Read More >>

Explores the Romantic-era ballad revival in Britain, Germany and Scandinavia as a transnational phenomenon.  Read More >>

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In the infinite expanse between a heartbeat and a supernova, where logic dances with wonder, this book of sci-fi...  Read More >>

Not Everyone Is Chosen is a poetic journey through faith's hardest question - why some are lifted while others are...  Read More >>

Life Uncharted by Brandon Karl Hoffmann takes you on an intimate exploration of the human experience-from the tender...  Read More >>