books by subject
Criticism on Poetry & Poets

Summoned by Bells: A Verse Autobiography

Coleridge and the Daemonic Imagination

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics 1910-1960

Shakespeare and the Shrew: Performing the Defiant Female Voice

A Therapeutic Approach to Teaching Poetry: Individual Development, Psychology, and Social Reparation

The Tempest and New World-Utopian Politics

Violence, Narrative and Myth in Joyce and Yeats: Subjective Identity and Anarcho-Syndicalist Traditions

Shakespeare and the Institution of Theatre: 'The Best in this Kind'

The Shakespeare First Folios: A Descriptive Catalogue

Instabilities in Contemporary British Poetry

Evolving Hamlet: Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy and the Ethics of Natural Selection

Sylvia Plath - Selected Poems (Faber Poetry)

A Guidebook to Paradise Lost

Heroic Revivals from Carlyle to Yeats

The Afterlife of Ophelia

Rematerializing Shakespeare: Authority and Representation on the Early Modern English Stage

The Poetry of Susan Howe: History, Theology, Authority

The Artistic Links Between William Shakespeare and Sir Thomas More: Radically Different Richards

Wordsworth and Coleridge: Promising Losses

Lonesome Words: The Vocal Poetics of the Old English Lament and the African-American Blues Song

Romanticism and the City

War Trauma and English Modernism: T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence

Coleridge, Language and the Sublime: From Transcendence to Finitude

Modern Poetry and Ethnography: Yeats, Frost, Warren, Heaney, and the Poet as Anthropologist

Class and the Canon: Constructing Labouring-Class Poetry and Poetics, 1780-1900

'Confessional' Writing and the Twentieth-Century Literary Imagination

Next Word, Better Word: The Craft of Writing Poetry

Post-Romantic Consciousness: Dickens to Plath

Romantic Fiat: Demystification and Enchantment in Lyric Poetry
