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Wallace Stevens is one of the major poets of the 20th century, and also among the most challenging. The author goes through each of Stevens' poems in his six major collections as well as his later lyrics, in chronological order. For each poem she provides an introductory head note and a series of annotations on difficult phrases and references.

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The search for love (or failing that, sex), the passing of time and the inevitability of pain and grief, the struggle for transcendence against our awareness of limitation: these are the things that can suddenly seem to compose a life - a life not so much reduced to essentials as seen in its passionate essence, a 'shorter' life.

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Ralph Knevet's Supplement of the Faery Queene (1635) is a narrative and allegorical work, which weaves together a complex collection of tales and episodes, featuring knights, ladies, sorcerers, monsters, vertiginous fortresses and deadly battles. -- .

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'Acceptable words' comprises a series of highly individual essays covering the whole of Geoffrey Hill's poetry to date, including the remarkable late flowering of the years since 1996. The essays offer detailed readings of many poems whilst making many - often surprising - associations with history, philosophy, religion, art and music. -- .

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In this highly perceptive and original study Evert traces Keats' formulation in his early work of mythography of the imagination founded on Apollo through its radical qualification in his later work. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-prin

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This biocritical dictionary covers 46 poets from more than two centuries of African American literary history. The poets are situated within their historical and literary context, and for each a biographical sketch is given, with information on the poet's personal history and education.

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Provides the poets' personal glimpses into the effects of war on language, place, poetry, and womanhood. This book features translations of women poets living in Europe in the decades before and after World War II who chart the sheer ordinariness through which cataclysm is experienced, and by which life is cruelly shattered.

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Ranging over the tradition of verse satire from the Roman poets to their seventeenth- and eighteenth-century imitators in England and France, Howard D. Weinbrot challenges the common view of Alexander Pope as a Horatian satirist in a Horatian age. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technolog

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What is the precise relation between the "Pope" of the poems and the Pope of history Seeking to clarify the nature of the intimate link between the historical self and the idealized self of the poetry, Dustin Griffin examines the various ways in which Pope's poems may be said to be self-expressive. He brings a sensitive critical reading of the tex

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Students and academics in Victorian literature and in English poetry.|Now available in paperback, this collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of this fascinating and complex figure. -- .

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Students and academics in Victorian literature and in English poetry. -- .

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was a mystery in her own lifetime, and her poems continue to challenge their readers.

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This book is the first substantial annotated bibliography of primary and secondary materials related to Caribbean poetry written in English.

The volume begins with the rise of interest in Anglophone Caribbean poetry in the 1970s and continues through 2001.

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An introduction to the work of the famous Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, this book begins with an account of her life in pre-revolutionary St Petersburg and Stalinist Russia, and focuses on her poetry. It traces the way in which her work reflects the tumultuous times in which she lived, and her emergence as the spokeswoman of her generation.

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An introduction to the work of the famous Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, this book begins with an account of her life in pre-revolutionary St Petersburg and Stalinist Russia, and focuses on her poetry. It traces the way in which her work reflects the tumultuous times in which she lived, and her emergence as the spokeswoman of her generation.

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He charts the chronological development of Sexton's poetic aesthetic and provides a new interpretation of this major poet's work.

Informed by the poetic and philosophical works of a number of other writers, McGowan's readings of Sexton's work are detailed and thorough.

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This reference book overviews the tremendous cultural contributions of Asian American poets.

Included are alphabetically arranged entries on 48 American poets of Asian descent, most of whom have been active during the latter half of the 20th century.