Literary studies: poetry & poets books

""Marianne Tarcov argues that early 20th century Japanese lyric poetry was able to serve as a mode of political...  Read More >>

""Marianne Tarcov argues that early 20th century Japanese lyric poetry was able to serve as a mode of political...  Read More >>

A new translation into English by G. J. Racz of José Hernández's long narrative poems The Gaucho Martín Fierro and...  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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This volume compiles critical essays that explore the evolution of progressive poetry in India from the 1920s onwards....  Read More >>

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Between Here and the Sound of a Groaning Interstate is a poetry collection. The Groaning Book, its companion, documents...  Read More >>

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An interrogation of the poetry of Mazisi Kunene that places his work in the context of African literature and the...  Read More >>

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Dieses Buch bietet einen Überblick über rhetorische Strategien, in zentralen literarischen Streitigkeiten des 18....  Read More >>

Ovid's Metamorphoses and its lasting impact on visual art The Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses is among the most...  Read More >>

Considers how a series of poets reimagined the possibilities of ""O"" as a gesture of apostrophe and, even more...  Read More >>

First published in 1925, Edmund Spenser: An Essay on Renaissance Poetry explores Spenser's poetic artistry, his...  Read More >>

Examines the transformative power of repetition in contemporary poetic practices.  Read More >>

Daniel Thaly, from Dominica, was once one of France's most celebrated poets. Then in the 1930s, came a descent into...  Read More >>

What kind of a playwright comes into being when an avant-garde poet moves on to write Christian popular theatre,...  Read More >>

Essays and translations by modern-day scholars organised along the principles of the Arabic narrative tradition....  Read More >>

A guide to reading, writing and appreciating poetry - the fun and easy way. Advice is given on how to polish and...  Read More >>

Yi Kyubo (1168–1241) was the foremost writer and poet of the Koryŏ dynasty (918–1392). Not Everything Unfolds as...  Read More >>

In this fascinating and innovative book, Rina Dudai looks at Holocaust trauma through the lens of poetic testimony:...  Read More >>

This groundbreaking study reveals how the Rossetti siblings revolutionized Victorian conceptions of selfhood through...  Read More >>

This classic study of the Elizabethan sonnet, first published in 1956, describes the development of the English...  Read More >>

Tennyson’s writing life spanned a period from the Regency to the last decade of Victoria’s reign and he is often...  Read More >>