Poetry
The Georgics
Virgil's classic poem extols the virtues of work, describes the care of crops, trees, animals, and bees, and stresses the importance of moral values.
Chapter and Verse
Chapter And Verse has one theme--love. Yet there is diversity within that unity, both in form and substance. The poems run in length from a few short lines to a several verses. The rhyme schemes are many and varied.
A Companion to Victorian Poetry
This Companion brings together specially commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars that reflect both the diversity of Victorian poetry and the variety of critical approaches that illuminate it.
Women's Poetry and Religion in Victorian England
Scheinberg examines Anglo-Jewish (Grace Aguilar and Amy Levy) and Christian (Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti) women poets, and argues that there are important connections between the discourses of nineteenth-century poetry, gender and religious identity.
Byron and Romanticism
This collection represents twenty-five years of work by Jerome McGann, one of the most important critics of Romanticism and Byron studies. Many of these essays have previously been available only in specialist scholarly journals.
César Vallejo: Autógrafos olvidados
The reputation of César Vallejo (1892-1938) rests on his complex, unclassifiable poetry written from the viewpoint of a committed Marxist.
Philosophical Chaucer
This innovative study argues that the Canterbury Tales represents Chaucer's most extended meditation on agency, autonomy, and practical reason.
The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry
The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry is designed to give readers a brief but thorough introduction to the various movements, schools, and groups of American poets in the twentieth century.
The Limits of Eroticism in Post-Petrarchan Narrative
Petrarch imagined that the hopeless but pure love of a woman could lead a man to heaven.