Literary studies: poetry & poets books

Tracing the evolution of the figure of the writer-cum-bureaucrat from the Victorian Irish Civil Service through...  Read More >>

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""""How lyric poetry allows us to rethink death not as an event but as a process of decay to reimagine the body...  Read More >>

This edited volume brings together a diverse group of scholars to examine works of poetry that engage, question,...  Read More >>

This book examines Mohja Kahf’s use of parody and allusion in E-mails from Scheherazad to deconstruct Orientalist...  Read More >>

This Element revisits the relation between Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett. It suggests that Leopardi becomes...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive study of Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Jorie Graham Since her first book appeared in 1980,...  Read More >>

The Cambridge History of Australian Poetry is the authoritative volume on Australian poetry. It provides multiple...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive study of Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Jorie Graham Since her first book appeared in 1980,...  Read More >>

Provides for the first time an inclusive and detailed view of C. P. Cavafy as a “World poet,” tracing his critical...  Read More >>

Going against most accounts of Futurism in England, this book unpacks the profound influence of Italian Futurism’s...  Read More >>

The book examines the profound influence of biblical themes on contemporary poetry written in English through the...  Read More >>

This Element revisits the relation between Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett. It suggests that Leopardi becomes...  Read More >>

Yuri Lotman's biography of Pushkin is a classic work of Soviet literary scholarship, presenting an image of Russia's...  Read More >>

This volume presents a new edition and translation into English of Book 17 of Silius Italicus' Punica. Angeliki-Nektaria...  Read More >>

This groundbreaking book shows that women’s songs of the grind mill played a foundational role in the vernacular...  Read More >>

This groundbreaking book shows that women’s songs of the grind mill played a foundational role in the vernacular...  Read More >>

An exploration of the various literary and artistic influences of a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance  Read More >>

At the Crossroads of the Avant-Garde: Ivan Aksyonov and Russian Modernism is a pioneering study of Ivan Aksyonov,...  Read More >>

An exploration of the various literary and artistic influences of a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance  Read More >>

This new volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series presents Alexander Pope's work, including An Essay on...  Read More >>

This companion is the first comprehensive study of courier poetry—in which someone, usually a lonely lover, sends...  Read More >>

This text firmly positions Whitman as a necessary and radical voice within the American poetry canon.  Read More >>

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Taking a holistic approach to performances of the Iliad and the Odyssey, this multidisciplinary volume examines...  Read More >>