This volume provides essays by twenty-nine leading scholars and critics on the best English poets from Chaucer to Larkin.

This Companion brings together essays on some fifty-four American poets, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry. This book also examines such m

A fresh, accessible and authoritative study that conveys the richness and diversity of Irish poets, their lives and times.

For readers daunted by the formal structures and rhetorical sophistication of eighteenth-century English poetry, this introduction by John Sitter brings the tec

At the heart of this book is a belief that poetry matters, and that it enables us to enjoy and understand life. In this accessible guide, Andrew Hodgson equips