Investigates the dynamic interaction between ancient Greek political thought and practice from prehistoric times to the Roman Empire.

Who were the Classical Greeks? This is not an original question, but in this book it is given an original and challenging answer. Paul Cartledge examines the Greeks in terms of their self-image, mainly as it was presented by the supposedly ...

Though poets have always written about cities, the commonest critical categories have stressed the rural, so that poetry can seem irrelevant to a predominantly urban population. This book seeks to redress the balance by exploring work by a range ...

Stressing the Modern: Cultural Politics in Australian Women's Poetry is the first major study of women's poetic careers in early twentieth-century Australia. This was a particularly prolific period for women poets as a rapidly changing social ...

Victorian Poetry constitutes a landmark in the appreciation and understanding of the genre by one of the foremost scholars of the period. Isobel Armstrong re-evaluates Victorian poetry from the midst of contemporary critical debate.

This groundbreaking book underlines the primordial richness of language by focusing upon the spiritual qualities in poetry which serve to bridge the human and the Divine.