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

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

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

Written by a practising poet and novelist who has close experience of the subject matter and has published creative work......more

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Nine-year-old Ira-Abel Rawles lives on Hook Farm in the village of Underwhelem. Next to the farm is Gore Woods, Ira’s sa......more

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Michael Korda, the best-selling author of Hero and Alone, tells the story of the First World War not in any conventional......more

Acclaimed translator Sarah Ruden shares a fresh, myth-busting reading of Sylvia Plath’s poems, revealing the full range ......more

What is the internet doing to poetry? Good question! In Nothingism, Jason Schneiderman grapples with the way that digita......more

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A comprehensive reevaluation of Chaucer’s early poetry, from the "dream visions" to Troilus and Criseyde While covering ......more

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

The first book-length study of the poet, artist and activist Anna Mendelssohn (1948-2009), this book establishes Mendels......more

Braiding together biography and criticism, Adam Plunkett challenges our understanding of Robert Frost’s life and poetic ......more

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

Arguing that the 19th century concept of "living form" (the idea that, like an organism, a poem develops itself from wit......more

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"A systematic analysis of contemporary verse novels and how textual gaps serve as symbolic interventions into current de......more

Literature has the power to help build a shelter in language for a way of being that holds integrity and love as its roo......more

Contributions by Ruth R. Caillouet, Mary C. Carruth, Nancy Dixon, Kathleen Downes, Edward J. Dupuy, Shari Evans, Paul Fe......more

Contributions by Ruth R. Caillouet, Mary C. Carruth, Nancy Dixon, Kathleen Downes, Edward J. Dupuy, Shari Evans, Paul Fe......more

Reorienting understandings of Adrienne Rich’s later work through her interest in Marx and Marxist politics, this book en......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

The seventh-century BCE Greek poet Mimnermus of Smyrna, whom C. M. Bowra called "the most accomplished and the most musi......more

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This work examines African American children’s poetry through a variety of lenses: jazz poetics, the blues, nonsense ver......more

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

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

Engaging the poetic to expand our imagination of Maghrebi literature in French Poetry, as the Moroccan writer Abdelkébir......more

In "A Serpentine Gesture" John Ashbery’s Poetry and Phenomenology Elisabeth W. Joyce examines John Ashbery’s poetry thro......more

Broad-ranging and pluralistically investigative, the essays in Thinking with the Poem document Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s a......more

Broad-ranging and pluralistically investigative, the essays in Thinking with the Poem document Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s a......more

For centuries, critics, poets, and philosophers have either openly proclaimed or tacitly assumed the long poem as the hi......more

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

"The fact of the matter," Seamus Heaney said in a 1997 interview with the Paris Review, "is that the most unexpected and......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

On the 100th anniversary of T. S. Eliot’s modernist masterpiece, a rich cultural history of The Waste Land’s creation, e......more

This book consists of a critical introduction and six chapters on two famous medieval poems by Ibn al-Anbari and Abu Tam......more

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

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. Greening Bohemia is the first boo......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

"Amphion is the figure in Greek mythology who played so beautifully on a lyre that stones moved of their own accord to b......more

"Amphion is the figure in Greek mythology who played so beautifully on a lyre that stones moved of their own accord to b......more

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

Examines the state of African poetry today, the continuing influence of Africa’s pioneer poets, today’s new generation o......more

Innovative poetry, philosophy, theology and new sciences converge in the project of rewriting the word "God" In Rewritin......more

The poetic memorialization of the Maghribi city illuminates the ways in which exilic Maghribi poets constructed idealize......more

How modernist interartistic experimentation and the proliferation of new media technologies inspired fresh insights into......more

How modernist interartistic experimentation and the proliferation of new media technologies inspired fresh insights into......more

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

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

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

Dana Gioia, one of America’s leading poet-critics, explains why poetry exists and why we need it in this sparkling colle......more

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

From 1987, when Rita Dove won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, to 2021, when Amanda Gorman skyrocketed to celebrity status......more

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The idea of the end is an essential motivic force in the poetry of Geoffrey Hill (1932-2016). This book shows that Hill’......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

Four years on from George Floyd’s murder, this volume asks if and how Shakespeare might be relevant--whether in performa......more

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Originally published in 1985, this study provides a clear and intelligent introduction to the work of the former Poet La......more