Literary studies: poetry & poets books

A fierce, lyrical reckoning with myth and power. Sean Murphy reimagines icons from Adam to Elon Musk, exposing conquest,...  Read More >>

What Remained Unsaid is a deeply moving collection of poems that beautifully captures the unspoken emotions of the...  Read More >>

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

This is the first work that examines the actions and conduct of both immortal and mortal female figures in the Odyssey,...  Read More >>

This book (1988) challenges widely held assumptions about Victorian culture and shows that its poetry was far more...  Read More >>

""A writer's vivid recollection of an age when every day could be a dream."" Kirkus Reviews From humble beginnings...  Read More >>

Dante’s Paradiso delivers an accessible reader’s guide to the third canticle of The Divine Comedy, while providing...  Read More >>

The first monograph to address Ben Jonson’s thought on the visual arts, Image, Word, and Catholicism in Ben Jonson’s...  Read More >>

Ben Lerner, Edges of Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Artistic Collaborations is the first comprehensive study of an acclaimed...  Read More >>

Millennium transcends boundaries – between epochs and regions, and between disciplines. Like the journal Millennium-Jahrbuch,...  Read More >>

***Longlisted for the 2025 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay*** Pathemata, Or, The Story...  Read More >>

About 25 years have passed since the publication of the Supplementum Hellenisticum by Hugh Lloyd-Jones and Peter...  Read More >>

Amherst Suite: Emily Dickinson, Spanish Translation & Poetic Transcreation includes translations of Dickinson's...  Read More >>

The edited collection explores the power of poetry as a “voice” in transforming librarians’ lives and shaping their...  Read More >>

In this standalone essay, Margaret Randall looks to poets Bertolt Brecht, Carolyn Forché, Nâzım Hikmet, Roque Dalton,...  Read More >>

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

The four prose tracts Milton published from 1643 to 1645 on divorce constitute an underappreciated body of work...  Read More >>

Believing in the transformative power of the spoken word  Read More >>

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

the dust of a contact that is everywhere moves between theoretical reflection and aesthetic practice through essays,...  Read More >>

A radically liberating collection of essays, ideas and approaches to writing and teaching poetry Do It Wrong is...  Read More >>

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