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Modernism and Religion argues that modernism participated in broader processes of religious change in the twentieth cent......more

A New Companion to Milton builds on the critically-acclaimed original, bringing alive the diverse and controversial worl......more

The Letters of Thom Gunn presents the first complete portrait of the private life, reflections, and relationships of a m......more

Taking readers through the various stages of criticism of Emily Dickinson’s poetry, this guide identifies both the essen......more

With chapters written by leading scholars such as Steven Gould Axelrod, Cary Nelson, and Marjorie Perloff, this comprehe......more

The relationship between the made and the found is one of the most important themes in modern French literature. This co......more

A revealing look at how the Orpheus myth helped Renaissance writers and thinkers understand the force of eloquence In an......more

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Anglophone Verse Novels as Gutter Texts draws on the notion of the ’gutter’ in graphic narratives - the gap between pane......more

The Second World War is now recognized as a watershed for British poetry. The changes that arose were masked for some ti......more

Treatments of synesthesia in the arts and humanities generally assume a clear distinction between the neurological condi......more

Treatments of synesthesia in the arts and humanities generally assume a clear distinction between the neurological condi......more

Exploring the potential of poetry and poetic language as a means of conveying perspectives on later life, this book exam......more

First Published in 2004. From Philip Freneau to Walt Whitman, Herman Melville to Trumbull Stickney, this collection of t......more

How rhyme became entangled with debates about the nature of liberty in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English poetry......more

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An accessible introduction to the life and work of the inventive Welsh poet. Dylan Thomas--author of some of the century......more

An interrogation of the poetry of Mazisi Kunene that places his work in the context of African literature and the richne......more

Each volume of this reference provides substantial critical essays and biographical information on four to eight major p......more

’Key to understanding Black British history’ - The Sunday Times ’Sharp and still relevant’ - Zadie Smith One of the grea......more

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A celebration of the radical poetics of invention from Charles Bernstein. For more than four decades, Charles Bernstein ......more

A celebration of the radical poetics of invention from Charles Bernstein. For more than four decades, Charles Bernstein ......more

Focusing on the work of two of the 20th-century’s most politically engaged poets - W. B. Yeats and W. H. Auden - this bo......more

The Life of William Collins, Poet presents a much-needed biographical study of William Collins based on archival researc......more

Official Voices: Poets and the Irish State examines the poet-politicians and bureaucrats who shaped the twenty-six-count......more

Ezra Pound lived in Italy spanning six decades (1920s to 1970s) and composed here most of his ambitious American and int......more

A reintroduction to the myth of Amphion, recovering an overlooked sphere of lyric tradition. Amphion is the figure in Gr......more

Sylvia Plath is one of the most influential and iconic American writers of the twentieth century, popular with academic ......more

Literary critic Ryan Ruby uncovers the secret history of poetry in a mock-academic verse essay filled with wit and wisdo......more

In this essay collection, Amit Majmudar meditates on the poetic canon of the West and the traditions of world literature......more

Modernism cannot be reduced to a rejection of established norms. Revolutions in Verse: The Medium of Russian Modernism s......more

This book provides readers with the tools to unravel the complexities of one of the most difficult sonnet sequences, int......more

The Jargon Society, a boundary-pushing publisher of poetry and experimental writing, was founded by Jonathan Williams (1......more

The Jargon Society, a boundary-pushing publisher of poetry and experimental writing, was founded by Jonathan Williams (1......more

A fresh and original introduction to the Odyssey--and how it continues to shape literature, film, art and even the ways ......more

The first English-language study of contemporary Russian poetry and its embrace of freedom--formally, thematically, and ......more

The life and times of Dante’s soaring poetic allegory of the soul’s redemptive journey toward God Written during his exi......more

The first English-language study of contemporary Russian poetry and its embrace of freedom--formally, thematically, and ......more

Each volume of this reference provides substantial critical essays and biographical information on four to eight major p......more

Lyn Hejinian is considered one of the most important avant-garde poets of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Begi......more

An exploration of the burgeoning field of Anglophone Asian diaspora poetry, this book draws on the thematic concerns of ......more

The early twenty-first century has seen a sharp rise in Black US poets employing the mask of persona, often including an......more

Actor, memoirist, novelist, playwright and poet, Stephen Haggard was a highly individual figure in the English literatur......more

Derek Mahon (1941-2020) is widely recognized as one of the most important Irish poets of his generation. This collection......more

The Dark Side of Statius’ Achilleid explores systematically and for the first time the darker aspects of Statius’ Achill......more

The enchanting festive poem from Carol Ann Duffy, former Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, and adorned with sumptuous......more

What makes reading a poem unlike reading anything else? While there are as many ways to read a poem as there are types o......more

Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey collaborated to help achieve the biggest electoral success for socialism in recent Briti......more

Each volume of this reference provides substantial critical essays and biographical information on four to eight major p......more

Facing a transformed socio-political landscape after the An Lushan Rebellion (756-763), Tang dynasty elites questioned i......more

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In fourteenth-century Italy, literacy became accessible to a significantly larger portion of the lay population (alleged......more

Three Talks is the first prose collection by the award-winning poet and educator Brenda Hillman. These short essays on s......more

This long-awaited and much-needed volume shines new light on one of America’s most beloved, and profound, poets--Lucille......more

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The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer’s Iliad investigates each of the Iliad’s twenty-four books, proceeding in order from ......more

A major new account of Victorian poetry and its place in the field of literary studies. The Burden of Rhyme shows how th......more

The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer’s Iliad investigates each of the Iliad’s twenty-four books, proceeding in order from ......more

Women in Martial is the first monograph to treat the portrayals of women in Martial’s Epigrams in a systematic way. In t......more

What is meant by the puritan literary tradition, and when did the idea of puritan literature, as distinct from puritan b......more

In sixteen chapters devoted to avant-garde contemporary American poets, including Kenneth Goldsmith, Adeena Karasick, Ty......more

This book introduces the evocative but largely unknown tradition of Samaritan religious poetry from late antiquity to a ......more

This book reinvents aspects of the rhetorical tradition as part of a philosophical pluralism oriented to "All-in-Allness......more

Each volume of this reference provides substantial critical essays and biographical information on four to eight major p......more

Each volume of this reference provides substantial critical essays and biographical information on four to eight major p......more

Does it matter when and where a poem was written? Or on what kind of paper? How do the author’s ideas about inspiration ......more

What do we mean when call something a lyric poem? How many kinds of lyric are there? Are there fewer now than there were......more

Part exploration of a key group of Black Canadian poets, part literary, cultural, and musical history, Soundin’ Canaan d......more

Over a dozen new volumes of T. S. Eliot’s poetry, prose, and letters have been published in the past decade. This collec......more

Developing a reading of modernist poetics centred on the three-way relationship between literature, modern physics and a......more

Spanning four centuries from the Renaissance to today’s avant-garde, Migration and Mutation explores how the sonnet has ......more