An accessible introduction to the range, value, and diversity of Byron's poetry. Fifty short essays are each devoted to a single poetic work. The essays provide the background and context for the poem, as well as demonstrating the life of the poetry in terms of genre, form, style, and literary tradition.
This comprehensive Handbook of Melville aims to reintroduce readers to a writer whom they think they know well by re-examining his entire corpus--the novels, short prose, and poetry--in light of the diversity and vibrancy of global Melville studies.
Food and Emotions in Italian Women's Writing analyses the themes of food and emotion in fiction, poetry, and historical writing by Italian women over a period of one hundred years.