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

The aim of the book is to propose new interpretations of poets who are among the most valued and discussed in the Britis......more

The present book examines Williams’s negotiation with cultural modes and systems of Chinese landscape tradition in his l......more

Criticism of the Court and the Evil King in the Middle Ages: Literary-Historical Analyses, identifies and discusses the ......more

The works of Sidonius Apollinaris, poet, politician and bishop, have long been the subject of interest in historical and......more

This study examines the work of the principle architects of Anglo-American modernist poetics - T.S. Eliot, H.D., Ezra Po......more

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’At three in the morning I crept out of Carlsbad, they wouldn’t have let me go if I hadn’t. I wasn’t going to be stopped......more

"Contesting the binaries that still exist between modernist and First World War writing, this critical group study of D.......more

Roman Jakobson stands alone in his semiotic theory of poetic analysis which combines semiotics, linguistics and structur......more

In Poetry and the Built Environment Elizabeth Fowler offers a new approach to criticism that recognises poetry as one am......more

This scholarly edition offers the first reliably identified collection of Walter Scott’s original poetry in the Waverley......more

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This book is the first ever scholarly edition of one of the best-selling and most revered poets in the nineteenth centur......more

The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual strives to be the leading venue for the critical reassessment of Eliot’s life and work in......more

This book is about how Scotland responded to the dream-vision, Medieval Europe’s most widely known literary form and pre......more

This book takes a fresh look at the representation of Cornwall in literature from the nineteenth century to the present ......more

This open access book introduces readers to the craft of writing iconographic research poetry in a way that is scholarly......more

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

This book provides an ecocritical analysis of the poetry of the famous Nigerian poet Niyi Osundare. The book interrogate......more

Conversations with Michael McClure features twenty interviews from 1969 to 2015 that chronicle the capacious scope of Mc......more

Conversations with Michael McClure features twenty interviews from 1969 to 2015 that chronicle the capacious scope of Mc......more

Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in the First Word War. They came from diverse ......more

"The heart is not a metaphor - no, wait - the heart is a metaphor." King Daddy’s first volume of poetry for Bamboo Dart ......more

Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in the First Word War. They came from diverse ......more

How to Read Middle English Poetry guides readers through poetry between 1150 and 1500, for study and pleasure. Chapters ......more

Joy (Or Something Darker, but Like It), the first book of nonfiction by poet Nathaniel Perry, is a group of essays that ......more

A coy tease, enchantress, adulteress, irresponsible mother, hard-hearted wife--such are the possible images of Penelope ......more

The idea of place runs like a river through the life and works of the poet and playwright W.B. Yeats. This book focuses ......more

This book examines Chinese traditional poetry with an emphasis on the sources of pleasure in creating and enjoying class......more

The Romantic period witnessed decisive interest in how feeling might align with forms of artistic expression. Many criti......more

Beowulf is by far the most popular text of the medieval world taught in American classrooms, at both the high school and......more

The Ovidian Renaissance seems to have left the Remedia Amoris behind. The poem has remained marginal, read either as a r......more

This handsome volume presents more than twenty images of book covers, poems and other works that reflect Sligo’s presenc......more

Book 13 of Silius Italicus’ Punica marks an important turning point in this Latin epic poem on the Second Punic War. Aft......more

The March-April 2024 issue. Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we’ve been publishing n......more

Have you ever read a book that turned your world upside down? What about a poem? Poetry has the power to enliven, challe......more

Dante beyond influence is the first study to conceptualise and historicise the hermeneutic turn in Dante reception histo......more

A ground breaking new book that considers all Siddal poems with reference to female and primarily male counterparts, add......more

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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major poets of the English Romantic period. This is the fifth volume of ......more

Emily Dickinson is widely considered to be one of the greatest of American poets. The aphoristic style and wit of much o......more

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This authoritative edition of the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer presents Chaucer’s works for a new generation of st......more

"Poetry puts intent into words; singing lengthens words"--this is one of the earliest Chinese comments on artistic expre......more

Derek Walcott’s Encounter with Homer puts Derek Walcott’s epic poem Omeros in conversation with Homer, especially the Od......more

A Guest Among Stars collects recent essays by one of the most respected poet-critics of our time. Mark Ford discusses po......more

This edited volume celebrates cutting-edge research in stylistics and, more specifically, recent work on sense and the s......more

The poems, novels and novellas that draw from paramythic forms and tropes draw from its symbolic power and its performat......more

Providing an unprecedented exploration of key moments in queer literary history, Never By Itself Alone changes our sense......more

’Writing during the Disasters’ is devoted to conceptualizing the relation between suffering and poetic writing. This mon......more

Mary Sewell is best remembered as the mother of Anna Sewell, the author of Black Beauty. But before she played a pivotal......more

Boasian Verse explores the understudied poetic output of three major twentieth-century anthropologists: Edward Sapir, Ru......more

A Posthumous History of José Martí The Apostle and His Afterlife focuses on Martí’s posthumous legacy and his lasting in......more

This book discusses the intrusion, often inadvertent, of personal voice into the poetry of landscape in Britain, 1700- 1......more

A major new work by Charles Taylor: the long-awaited follow-up to The Language Animal, exploring the Romantic poetics ce......more

"Be thou the well by which I lie and rest; Be thou my tree of life, my garden ground; Be thou my home, my fire, my chamb......more

In defense of the poetic, Pascal Quignard pens an impassioned reply to von Hofmannsthal’s despondent Lord Chandos In 190......more

All This Thinking explores the deep friendship and the critical and creative thinking between Bernadette Mayer and Clark......more

Honorable Mention, Modern Language Association Prize for a Scholarly Edition, Modern Language Association This edition i......more

The Literary Mirroring of Aboriginal Australia and the Caribbean challenges the structural opposition of indigeneity and......more

A revaluation of Frost’s major lyrics, Robert Frost’s Visionary Gift: Mining and Minding the Wonder of Unexpected Supply......more

The January-February 2024 issue. Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we’ve been publish......more

Acclaimed poet and critic Maureen N. McLane offers an experimental work of criticism ranging across Romantic and contemp......more

Four Lectures by Lisa Jarnot is the seventh book in the Bagley Wright Lecture Series, comprising autobiographical essays......more

The shades and structures of the blues had an immense impact on the poetry of Langston Hughes. Steven C. Tracy provides ......more

An exploration of Wales’s deep connections to music through one specific style: the hymn. Even as many in the modern wor......more

First published in 1967, Love Songs of Chandidās provides an informative introduction which makes vividly clear the impo......more

First published in 1990, Philosophers’ Poets is a collection of case studies of philosophers’ readings of poets and othe......more

Renowned poets and scholars address the question of how poetry sounds and signifies in different contexts....more

Drawing examples from over 200 English-language and Spanish-language newspapers and periodicals published between Januar......more

Sometimes the word "lyric" seems to appear everywhere: either it’s used interchangeably with the word "poetry" or it att......more

This collection offers for the first time criticism, biographical essays, analysis, translation studies, and reminiscenc......more