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The apparent thematic peg here is Plath's fascination with mirrors in her life and in her work. A developmental study of Plath's poetry, A Disturbance in Mirrors considers various aspects of her work: the social implications of mythic imagery in her early poems;

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This book provides an accessible route into Milton's complex epic poem, guiding students through the text by a combination of close textual analysis and summary of key themes and techniques. Assuming limited biblical or classical knowledge, it focuses on developing the reading skills necessary for tackling this canonical text.

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Best remembered today as the author of The Song of Hiawatha, Longfellow continues to be one of the most popular poets in American literary history.

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William Wordsworth is usually remembered as the quintessential Victorian Poet Laureate. This selection of letters and autobiographical fragments introduces us to Wordsworth: the rebellious schoolboy, who vandalised his family portraits, became a supporter of the French Revolution and fathered an illegitimate daughter in France.

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What were the medieval stylistic, aesthetic, and literary conventions that Chancer drew upon and knew that his audience would understand In this rich study Mr. Robertson has included 118 illustrations-of medieval sculpture, cathedral interiors, illuminated manuscripts, paintings, ornamental devices and decorations-to show how these conventions aff

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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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American Haiku: New Readings explores the history and development of haiku by American writers, examining individual writers from the late nineteenth century to modern times.

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