This book, first published in 1988, compiles 77 songs and ballads (yüeh-fu) of early imperial China (200 BC – AD 300). Each song-text is newly translated and fully annotated and explicated. Dr Birrel …

Perhaps it had to rain, For the clouds to clear Perhaps I had to fall, To conquer my fear Perhaps the wind had to blow, For the trees to sway Perhaps my heart had to break, For my feet to stand and p …

Storyteller in Times Square opens with a visit to New York and the ruins of the World Trade Center. Thus begins a poetry collection that reflects in subtle and surprising ways the post World War II h …

Poems of the Pretentious Minds features a wide array of self-indulgent, darkly comical but heart-wrenching poetry that covers many topics such as love, family, friendship, death, sex addiction, abuse …

On its first appearance English Poetry of the Romantic Period was widely praised as on of the best introductions to the subject. This edition includes updated material in the light of recent work in …

This volume brings together Coward”s celebrated verse, from snappy epigrams to seven-hundred-line short stories such as ”P&O 1930” and ”Not Yet the Dodo”; from moving war-time encounters to sati …

Contemporary Caribbean Women”s Poetry provides detailed readings of individual poems by women poets whose work has not yet received the sustained critical attention it deserves. These readings are c …

First published in French in 1988, and in English in 1992, this companion explores the nature of the literary myth in a collection of over 100 essays, from Abraham to Zoroaster. Its coverage is inter …

Although today Luis Pales Matos is virtually unknown to most American readers, the eminent U.S. poet and writer William Carlos Williams once praised his younger contemporary as "one of the most …