Literary studies: poetry & poets books

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

A uniquely comprehensive two-volume study of Mina Loy's relationship to the human body and soul  Read More >>

In the immemorial temple of examination, where silence makes music and shadows are vocalists, Poetry alone is mistress...  Read More >>

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

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

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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 >>

A scholarly edition of William Barnes's Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect as published in the Dorset County...  Read More >>

The second volume in E.J.W. Gibb's classic study of Ottoman Poetry, reissued with a new foreword by Christine Woodhead,...  Read More >>

Volume 1 of Reynold A. Nicholson's 8-volume authoritative translation and edition of Rm's magnum opus reissued...  Read More >>

Volume VI of E.J.W. Gibb's classic study of Ottoman Poetry reissued with a new foreword by Christine Woodhead contains...  Read More >>

Volume IV of E.J.W. Gibb's classic study of Ottoman Poetry here reissued with a new foreword by Christine Woodhead,...  Read More >>

Volume V of E.J.W. Gibb's classic study of Ottoman Poetry here reissued with a new foreword by Christine Woodhead,...  Read More >>

Volume 7 of Reynold A. Nicholson's 8-volume authoritative translation and edition of Rm's magnum opus now reissued...  Read More >>

Volume 8 of Reynold A. Nicholson's 8-volume authoritative translation and edition of Rm's magnum opus reissued...  Read More >>

Volume 3 of Reynold A. Nicholson's 8-volume authoritative translation and edition of Rm's magnum opus reissued...  Read More >>

Volume 5 of Reynold A. Nicholson's authoritative translation and edition of Rm's magnum opus here reissued with...  Read More >>

Volume 4. of Reynold A. Nicholson's authoritative translation and edition of Rm's magnum opus here reissued with...  Read More >>

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston,...  Read More >>

Stephen Crane (November 1, 1871 - June 5, 1900) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Prolific...  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 >>