Poetry
Rousseau, Robespierre and English Romanticism
This book re-examines Rousseau's influence on the French Revolution and on English Romanticism, through his confessional writings and political theory, and their mediation in the speeches and actions of Robespierre.
The Rhetoric of the Body from Ovid to Shakespeare
This persuasive book describes the complex, often violent connections between body and voice in Ovid's Metamorphoses and works by Petrarch, Marston and Shakespeare.
Romantic Poets and the Culture of Posterity
This book offers a new theory of reception governing Romantic poetry, through its culture of posterity - a tradition of writing which demands that the poet should write for an audience of the future: the true poet, a figure of neglected genius, can only be properly appreciated af
Rilke, Modernism and Poetic Tradition
Judith Ryan traces Rilke's development from aestheticism to modernism, paying special attention to the way his work engages with other poetry and visual arts.
Romantic Atheism
Exploring links between Romanticism and the first burst of outspoken atheism in Britain, Priestman examines the major Romantic poets in their most intellectually radical periods, and many contemporary poet-intellectuals and controversialists.
Rhythm and Will in Victorian Poetry
Matthew Campbell explores the work of Tennyson, Browning, Hopkins and Hardy in the context of their concern with questions of human agency and will, and discusses more general questions of poetics.
Byron, Poetics and History
Stabler offers the first full-scale examination of Byron's poetic form in relation to historical debates of his time. Drawing on new archive research into Byron's correspondence and reading, Stabler traces the complexity of the intertextual dialogues that run through his work.
Representations of the Natural World in Old English Poetry
The author argues that Old English poetic descriptions of the natural world were not a reflection of physical conditions but a literary device used to define important issues, such as the state of humanity, the power of individuals and the relationship between God and creation.
Hesiod's Ascra
In Works and Days, one of the two long poems that have come down to us from Hesiod, the poet writes of farming, morality, and what seems to be a very nasty quarrel with his brother Perses over their inheritance. In this book, Anthony T.
Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage
This innovative study explores selected odes and epistles by the late-first-century poet Horace in light of modern anthropological and literary theory.