Literary studies: poetry & poets books

In fin-de-siecle and early revolutionary Russia, a group of self-educated workers produced a large body of poetry...  Read More >>

This open access book offers a groundbreaking exploration of how iconicity: language's resemblance to its referents—is...  Read More >>

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Recent news images of disastrous floods, fires and earthquakes vividly show we live in an unstable world. This book...  Read More >>

This book explores the development and features of Malawian poetry of resistance, which arguably began with the...  Read More >>

Challenging the belief that medieval marriages were loveless, this book analyzes troubadour poetry and historical...  Read More >>

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This book presents a systematic and detailed analysis of Caspian linguistics, contributing new perspectives to Western...  Read More >>

This book uses the medium of film to explore poetic history as a subtle form of psychology expressed within Islamic...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1937, this anthology of humorous poems was created for the younger reader as a supplement...  Read More >>

Dana Gioia’s characters and verses cry from the depths, their faith tried—and purified—in the furnace of doubt....  Read More >>

Ellen McLarney explores how writers in the Black Arts Movement identified with Islam as integral to the African...  Read More >>

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento explores same-sex desire in the work of three skilled medieval Italian...  Read More >>

Ellen McLarney explores how writers in the Black Arts Movement identified with Islam as integral to the African...  Read More >>

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Provides both scholars and interested readers the context necessary to understand how Allen Ginsberg's life and...  Read More >>

This book, underpinned by a database, demonstrates that rhyme is not a superficial decorative feature but rather...  Read More >>

Perhaps Greece's most important poet, Yannis Ritsos follows such eminent predecessors as Cavafy, Sikelianos, and...  Read More >>

Explores a key moment in Brazilian modernism, supplemented with primary texts by Augusto de Campos, Décio Pignatari,...  Read More >>

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento explores same-sex desire in the work of three skilled medieval Italian...  Read More >>

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Explores a key moment in Brazilian modernism, supplemented with primary texts by Augusto de Campos, Décio Pignatari,...  Read More >>

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Contextualizes Pablo Neruda's opus by including 42 essays focusing on his journeys, the Cold War, and how literary...  Read More >>

""Situates Chaucer's proverbs in their premodern cultural and intellectual contexts, arguing that Chaucer places...  Read More >>