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Criticism on Poetry & Poets

Shakespeare's Speculative Art

Gender, Sex, and the City: Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780-1870

Poetry After the Invention of America: Don't Light the Flower

Women's Poetry and Popular Culture

Wonder in Shakespeare

Filming Shakespeare in the Global Marketplace

Swift and Science: The Satire, Politics and Theology of Natural Knowledge, 1690-1730

Birthday Letters (Faber Poetry)

William Blake: The Poems

Peaceful Islamist Mobilization in the Muslim World: What Went Right

The Transnational Beat Generation

Representations of Elizabeth I in Early Modern Culture

Edmund Spenser's War on Lord Burghley

Reason and Imagination in Chaucer, the Perle-Poet, and the Cloud-Author: Seeing from the Center

Image Ethics in Shakespeare and Spenser

Pastoral, Pragmatism, and Twentieth-Century American Poetry

Aesthetics and World Politics

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

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

Romantic Fiat: Demystification and Enchantment in Lyric Poetry

Women, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England: A Feminist Literary History

The Poetry of Susan Howe: History, Theology, Authority

Coleridge, Language and the Sublime: From Transcendence to Finitude

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

Romanticism and the City

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

Wordsworth and Coleridge: Promising Losses
