Criticism on Poetry & Poets

The Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden

By Stan Smith (Nottingham Trent University)

Greek Lyric Poetry: Includes Sappho, Archilochus, Anacreon, Simonides and many more

By the late M. L. West (Research Fellow, Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford)

The Fat Black Woman's Poems: From the winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2021

By Grace Nichols

Rilke: Selected Poems

Selected Poems

By Roger McGough

Larkin: The Whitsun Weddings and The Less Deceived: 3 (Macmillan Master Guides)

By Swarbrick, Andrew

T. S. Eliot - The Waste Land (Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism)

By Selby, Nick

Kazuo Ishiguro (Writers & Their Work S.)

By Wong, Cynthia F.

The Art of Poetry: How to Read a Poem

By Wolosky, Shira

Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano

By Tytell, John

A Time To Love

By Steiner Rice, Helen

Dancing Sermons

By Mwamba, Trevor

A Poetry Handbook: A Prose Guide to Understanding and Writing Poetry

By Mary Oliver

The Romantic Poets: Byron, Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth

By Geoffrey Moore, Peter Porter

Romantic Poetry

By Duncan Wu (St Catherine's College, Oxford)

Ted Hughes: From Cambridge to Collected

By M. Wormald, N. Roberts

Romance on the Early Modern Stage: English Expansion Before and After Shakespeare

By Cyrus Mulready

The Landscapes of the Sublime 1700-1830: Classic Ground

By C. Duffy

Shakespeare and the Urgency of Now: Criticism and Theory in the 21st Century

By C. DiPietro, H. Grady

Shakespeare's Boys: A Cultural History

By K. Knowles

Poet Heroines in Medieval French Narrative: Gender and Fictions of Literary Creation

By B. Findley

Shakespeare's Political Wisdom

By T. Burns

Coleridge's Experimental Poetics

By J. Mays

Answering Back: Living poets reply to the poetry of the past

By Duffy, Carol Ann, Duffy DBE, Professor Carol Ann, carol-ann-duffy

Myth Into Art: Poet and Painter in Classical Greece

By H. A. Shapiro

The Epic of Gilgamesh: A Norton Critical Edition

By Benjamin R. Foster (Yale University)

Arabian Satire: Poetry from 18th-Century Najd

By Hmedan al-Shwe'ir, Marcel Kurpershoek, Jane Tylus

Paradise Lost

By John Milton, Stephen Orgel (Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor in Humanities, Stanford University), Jonathan Goldberg (Sir William Osler Professor of English Literature, Johns Hopkins University)

Selected Poems of Mick Imlah

By Mick Imlah

Fusewire (Chatto Poetry)

By Padel, Ruth