In Bait & Switch, Jim Johnstone-poet, editor, and erstwhile physiologist-turns his considerable analytic powers to Canad......more

First published in 1978, Alexander Pope is an introduction to Pope’s life and work, which sets the poet solidly in his a......more

First published in 1970, The Unfolding of The Seasons provides an interpretation and evaluation of James Thomson’s poem ......more

Aldous Huxley is one of the most well-known modernist intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century - a prope......more

This book presents a range of approaches to the study of Old Norse poetry in performance. This book will be of great int......more

Focusing on the poetry and cultural practice of Frank O’Hara, the great urban poet of the New York School during the 195......more

The New Woman sought vast improvements in Victorian culture that would enlarge educational, professional, and domestic o......more

Rhetoric is an engine of social discourse and the art charged with generating and swaying emotion. The history of rhetor......more

The Bedouin, or ’desert dwellers’, have a rich cultural heritage often expressed through music and poetry. Here, Moneera......more

This book covers nineteenth-century American poet Emily Dickinson who captured the multifaceted nature of life in all of......more

In an era of social crisis and change at the end of the 19th century, the German poet Stefan George created a modern soc......more

This handbook offers analysis of diverse genres and media of neo-Victorianism, including film and television adaptations......more

William Langland’s Piers Plowman was written and read during a "golden age" of English preaching. The poem describes a w......more

The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare’s Sonnets uses Shakespeare’s poetry as a case study for the mutually formative re......more

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

This volume proposes a method for reading Milton’s De Doctrina Christiana as an artifact of his process of theological t......more

The Logical Renaissance: Literature, Cognition, and Argument, 1479-1630 is the first substantial account of early modern......more

A New Statesman, Financial Times, Observer, and Sunday Times Book of the Year "[An] impressive examination of artistic c......more

As a major source of debate on theological topics such as the resurrection of body and soul, justification by faith, and......more

"Stephen Vincent’s SLEEPING WITH SAPPHO is a fascinating investigation of how a writer envisions a way back into history......more

This edited collection explores the work of highly awarded and twice American Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin. Spanning Merwi......more

Friedrich Schiller is justly celebrated for his dramas and poetry. Yet, above all, he was a polymath, whose writings enr......more

Considers how Irish poets have drawn on discourses of locality to articulate new forms of place and belonging amid Irela......more

What "The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Vol. VI" does is collect all the first-rate poetry that the famous American ......more

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Every major poet or philosopher develops their own distinctive semantic field around those terms which matter most to th......more

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

This book is about staying together, living together, the dynamics and poetics of togetherness. It demonstrates, through......more

The Writings/Poems in this beautiful book are life challenges and personal experiences I had the opportunity to experien......more

Paradise Lost and the Making of English Literary Criticism identifies the early reception of Paradise Lost as a site of ......more

This book considers Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s engagement with ’Whig poetry’ a tradition of verse from the eighteenth cen......more

Wit’s Wild Dancing Light acts as a highly useful entry point for readers who are encountering Pope for the first time an......more

A unique collection of interviews with contemporary poets at the height of their craft. How does a subconscious thought ......more

This book provides a critical and biographical account of the fascinating hand-made book of rector William Greswell (184......more

This book reinterprets C. P. Cavafy’s historical and archaeological poetics by correlating his work to major cultural, p......more

Don Paterson is one of Britain’s leading contemporary poets. A popular writer as well as a formidably intelligent one, h......more

ONE OF THE CENTRAL WORKS OF AMERICAN POETRY First published in 1855, this poetry collection by American poet, Walt Whitm......more

Now in paperback, a significant new collection of concrete poetry that redefines what this unique literary movement mean......more

’Sharp and still relevant’ - Zadie Smith "A welcome addition to a sterling literary catalog" - Publishers Weekly ’A mosa......more

Anthony P Prior member of Greenpeace. Androgynous Lyrical Narratives, Analysing words and anecdotes, Compelled to write ......more

At its core, geopoetics proposes that a connection between language and geology has become a significant development in ......more

"The Poetics of Aristotle" by Aristotle, an ancient Greek philosopher, is a seminal work in the realm of literary theory......more

"The Life of William Ewart Gladstone Vol. 1" represents the initial installment in an all-encompassing biographical acco......more

The "Life and Letters of Robert Browning" is a profound biographical work penned by Mrs. Sutherland Orr, providing reade......more

"Richard Richard" is a fable and humorous song that became written by way of Hughes Mearns, an American author and instr......more

"The Adventures of Hugh Trevor, Vol. I" by using Thomas Holcroft is a compelling novel that portrays the tumultuous exis......more

"The Adventures of Hugh Trevor Vol. III " by using Thomas Holcroft is a compelling novel that portrays the tumultuous ex......more

"The Adventures of Hugh Trevor Vol. VI " by using Thomas Holcroft is a compelling novel that portrays the tumultuous exi......more

"The Adventures of Hugh Trevor Vol. V " by using Thomas Holcroft is a compelling novel that portrays the tumultuous exis......more

This year spoKe marks its 10th anniversary. Launched in response to the Boston Marathon bombings, we have now shared ten......more

It explores Johnson’s understanding of friendship in the private and public spheres - in particular, friendship’s therap......more

Caroline Bergvall’s celebrated trilogy of interdisciplinary medievalist texts and projects--Meddle English (2011), Drift......more

This book examines today’s massive migrations between Global South and Global North in light of Spain and Portugal’s com......more

Recognised on its first appearance as the most comprehensive single-volume guide to The Canterbury Tales yet produced, t......more

Recognised on its first appearance as the most comprehensive single-volume guide to The Canterbury Tales yet produced, t......more

This book provides a stylistic and cognitive poetic account of ekphrastic poetry (poetry whose subject matter is predomi......more

This volume explores ’the labyrinth of what we call Coleridge’ (Virginia Woolf): his poems and prose, their sources, int......more

John Montague’s writings and lectures on poetry. The Bag Apron: The Poet and His Community is part of UCD Press’s The Po......more

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

Each volume of Novels for Students contains easily accessible and content-rich discussions of the literary and historica......more

Constitutions of Self in Contemporary Irish Poetry explores the figure of the lyrical self in the work of six contempora......more

Over the last forty years, contemporary French poetry has been living in a state of crisis. Pronounced dead - or worse, ......more

Widely regarded as the greatest French poet of the eighteenth century, André Chénier (1762-1794) wrote some of his most ......more

How the tropes of science fiction infuse and inform avant-garde poetics and many other kindred arts This insightful, pla......more

Virgil’s Eclogues are a fundamental text of Western literature that served as a model for the nascent poetry of the Augu......more

This book explores how two early modern and two modern Japanese writers - Yosa Buson (1716-83), Ema Saikō (1787-1861), M......more

LOVE LETTERS FROM A BURNING PLANET details meditations on ephemeral love, memory, and the purpose of art and storytellin......more

Winner of the Lewis P. Simpson Award In Becoming Poetry, Jay Rogoff closely inspects the work of two dozen poets, his fo......more

Winner of the Lewis P. Simpson Award In Becoming Poetry, Jay Rogoff closely inspects the work of two dozen poets, his fo......more

Using a broad, comparative approach, this study shows how the figure of the gift structures poetic discourse and does so......more

Menelaos Christopoulos offers a detailed, original, and thought-provoking analysis of the major thematic questions raise......more

This study is an examination and analysis of the craft of poetry as seen in the revisions made in the poems from Journey......more

Despite being a prolific writer, Emily Dickinson’s poems were never published during her lifetime, with the exception of......more