Milton in Translation represents an unprecedented collaboration that demonstrates the breadth of John Milton’s internati......more
Dike Okoro analyzes the various manifestations of ecocriticism and political activism in the poetry of Lupenga Mphande, ......more
An authoritative commentary on the surviving fragments of Greek lyric poetry up to the death of Aristotle. No comparable......more
"Sonnet 100 was written in isolation during the COVID 19 pandemic. This collection of 100 ’new’ sonnets was written in c......more
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Arguing that Hughes’s poetry is fundamentally defined by traumatic representation, Ted Hughes and Trauma reads Hughes’s ......more
Winner of the 2023 Richard J. Finneran Award for the best book about editorial theory or practice. For more than half a ......more
Fiddled out of Reason examines Addison’s poetic oeuvre in context of the nondevotional hymn, an underexplored genre of e......more
A comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their beginnings until the end of the ......more
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Is poetry still relevant today, or is it merely a dwindling historical art? How have poets of the recent past dealt with......more
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Tang poetry is one of the most valuable cultural inheritances of Chinese history. Its distinctive aesthetics, delicate l......more
A revelatory history of twentieth-century poetry by prize-winning poet and memoirist John Burnside Poetry helps us to ma......more
Milton criticism often treats the poet as if he were the last of the Renaissance poets or a visionary prophet who remain......more
Sir George Beaumont is a key figure in the history of British art. As well as being a respected amateur landscape painte......more
Beowulf & Beyond is the first and only poetic translation to include not only Beowulf but all the best-known works of An......more
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The characteristic alliterative poem of the 14th and 15th centuries tells a story of incident and adventure: it is pre-e......more
Originally published in 1984, Brother Fabian’s Manuscript and Other Poems includes Brother Fabian’s Manuscript and thirt......more
First published in 1909, this book presents an English translation of chapters 25-42 of the Bhishma Parva from the epic ......more
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Huda J. Fakhreddine explores the ’new genre’ of the Arabic prose poem as a poetic practice and a critical lens. This poe......more
How did Alexander Pope become the greatest poet of the eighteenth century? Modern scholarship has typically taken Pope’s......more
This book is a critical study of the ancestors of contemporary poetry anthologies: the poetic miscellanies of the late s......more
Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a French poet, art critic, and essayist who was among the first people to tran......more
Lingering and its decried equivalents, such as dawdling, idling, loafing, or lolling about, are both shunned and coveted......more
Whilst religion and the secular have been continually debated contexts for literature of the Romantic era, the dominant ......more
Self-reflection, as the hallmark of the modern age, originates more profoundly with Dante than with Descartes. This book......more
What kind of knowledge, if any, does poetry provide? Poets make poems, but they also make meaning and craft a kind of le......more
The Spirit of Japanese Poetry (1914) is a collection of essays by Yone Noguchi. Although he is widely recognized as a le......more
This book provides an accessible account of the poet and politician Andrew Marvell’s life (1621-1678) and of the great e......more
Conversations with Donald Hall offers a unique glimpse into the creative process of a major American poet, writer, edito......more
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A collection of fierce, empowering poems by living, self-identified women writers intended for girls age 12-21. Full of ......more
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This book argues that Paradiso - Dante’s vision of Heaven - is not simply affirmative. It posits that Paradiso compensat......more
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Conversations with Donald Hall offers a unique glimpse into the creative process of a major American poet, writer, edito......more
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A ground breaking new book that considers all Siddal poems with reference to female and primarily male counterparts, add......more
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The poetry of John Berryman (1914-1972) is primarily concerned with the self in response to the rapid social, political,......more
In Poetry & Translation the acclaimed poet and translator Peter Robinson examines the activity of translation practised ......more
This study by Neil Corcoran considers the kinds of responsibility which some exemplary modern lyric poetry takes on, or ......more
Byron and John Murray: A Poet and His Publisher is the first comprehensive account of the relationship between Byron and......more
This book is the first academic study entirely devoted to Liverpool labouring-class poet and activist Edward Rushton (17......more
The poetry of John Berryman (1914-1972) is primarily concerned with the self in response to the rapid social, political,......more
This book examines contemporary forms of digital poetry in emerging technologies such as drones, machine learning, Insta......more
This book brings together about 2,500 quotations on various topics of interest to scientists and engineers, including st......more
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This is the first study to examine the Arabic translations of a number of major modern poems in the English language, in......more
Examines Herman Melville’s short fiction and poetry in the context of popular 1850s fiction The study focuses on Melvill......more
Teach Living Poets opens up the flourishing world of contemporary poetry to secondary teachers. It is designed to give a......more
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This collection of poems is about rediscovering oneself and feeling reignited after a period of loss and heartbreak. Cov......more
The Poetry Book Society’s quarterly poetry magazine featuring sneak preview poems, exclusive interviews with major world......more
This study discusses the representation of class in poetry in English from Britain and Ireland between the fourteenth an......more
This book attends to four poets - John Clare, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Edward Thomas, and Ivor Gurney - whose poems are re......more
This collection of original essays brings together some of the most important critics and scholars of Amiri Baraka’s oeu......more
This collection of original essays brings together some of the most important critics and scholars of Amiri Baraka’s oeu......more