Literary studies: poetry & poets books

A bold new interpretive approach to Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Campbell argues that the poem’s first pentad draws a programmatic...  Read More >>

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This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection...  Read More >>

Unearthing previously unseen manuscript and print evidence, the book redefines the notion of Dante's reception by...  Read More >>

The most comprehensive coverage to date of Byron's place within the English poetic tradition, this landmark study...  Read More >>

Published to coincide with his 85th birthday, Ash Keys looks back on the extraordinary career of the last surviving...  Read More >>

This book provides an in-depth analysis of Statius' Achilleid, an epic poem written in the 1st century A.D. It explores...  Read More >>

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Developing a reading of modernist poetics centred on the three-way relationship between literature, modern physics...  Read More >>

If you're looking for an informed, scholarly discussion of poetry, don't buy this book. Jim Nelson is literally...  Read More >>

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Explores how stones, rocks, and the broader mineral realm played a role in early modern England's religious and...  Read More >>

Each volume of this reference provides substantial critical essays and biographical information on four to eight...  Read More >>

Each volume of this reference provides substantial critical essays and biographical information on four to eight...  Read More >>

"""He is best known by his criticism. I have learned much from it."" -C. S. Lewis Charles Williams (1886-1945),...  Read More >>

Ertrinkende Zeit ist eine Sammlung von Worten, Gedanken und Poesie, die die tiefsten Emotionen erkunden. Es befasst...  Read More >>

This book offers an integrated study of the English princess and Castilian queen Catherine of Lancaster (1373–1418),...  Read More >>

A Happier Eden maps the largely unexplored terrain of the Stuart epithalamium, or wedding poem, focusing in particular...  Read More >>

Reveals how long poems of the long eighteenth century articulate philosophies of time in both content and form  Read More >>

Re-reading intra-war modernist poetics through war poetry  Read More >>

Provides the first commentary on the full second book of Sidonius Apollinaris' letters.  Read More >>

""This book focuses on the lonely women of the long eighteenth century-both literary characters and poets themselves-who...  Read More >>

Haiku features 80 classic poems from four poets – Matsuo Bashō, Yosa Buson, Kobayashi Issa and Masaoka Shiki – which...  Read More >>

Award-winning poet and essayist Cheryl Clarke’s illustrious career has spanned more than four decades and culminates...  Read More >>