Literary studies: poetry & poets books

Why did the poets of the Pleiade, champions of the French language, write verse in Latin? After examining theories...  Read More >>

From visual arts to poetry, from politics to aesthetics, this volume studies the construction of a monarchic imaginary...  Read More >>

This reference work analyzes how, in Les Tragiques, Agrippa d'Aubigne appears to have offered his co-religionists...  Read More >>

An eminent and prolific sixteenth-century poet, Jean-Antoine de Baif played an active role within the Pleiade in...  Read More >>

"Recognized in his time as the ""French Horace,"" Jean Salmon Macrin was the inheritor of more than one model and...  Read More >>

The medieval Welsh bardic grammars were composed and transmitted during a period of intense social and political...  Read More >>

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This is a work of doing, of poesis, an enacting philosophy and theology through immediacy. It seeks to call to mind...  Read More >>

‘A lively picture of multiple operators scrambling to steal a march on the competition . . . Lavishly detailed’...  Read More >>

This innovative study introduces the rhythms, melodies, language, and organization of traditional Chinese poetry...  Read More >>

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An examination of metaphor in poetry as a microcosm of the human imagination—a way to understand the mechanisms...  Read More >>

Poetics of the Pretext is an original study of the French poet Lautréamont (1846-1870). It analyses closely the...  Read More >>

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"Once upon a time, She is called Mona, his longtime friend, the beloved of his soul. Personally, he called...  Read More >>

This book engages with an extensive corpus of Francophone Jewish poetry of the Shoah written from 1939 to the present...  Read More >>

Frank O'Hara's New York School and Mid-Century Mannerism offers a ground-breaking account of the poet Frank O'Hara...  Read More >>

An intimate, personal exploration of the emotional and restorative power of the Lake District landscape and its...  Read More >>

The book offers a thorough study of the early poetry (19561971) of the Ukrainian/American writer Yuriy Tarnawsky,...  Read More >>

A Collection of Jonaid Sharif's New Poetry If the tevern is torn down poems will not do, Hafiz Wine will not...  Read More >>

Grounded in the legacies of two pioneering scholars of oral literature, Milman Parry and Albert Lord, Singers and...  Read More >>

An investigation of English and Scottish dream visions written on the cusp of the ""Renaissance"", teasing out distinctive...  Read More >>

A Collection of Jonaid Sharif's New Poetry. If the tevern is torn down poems will not do, Hafiz Wine will...  Read More >>