7 essays analyze the universality of tragedy in literature from Sophocles to Eliot. Notes

Critical analyses of ten English poems reveal changing styles from Donne to Yeats

Explores the literary world of five contemporary writers for aesthetic expressions, and overt and subtle expositions of Christian ideals

Poetry and prose illustrate the major themes and currents of American literature from the 17th century

Poetry and prose illustrate the major themes and currents of American literature from the 17th century

Poetry and prose illustrate the major themes and currents of American literature from the 17th century

Poetry and prose illustrate the major themes and currents of American literature from the 17th century

Poems, drama, and fiction combined with critical commentary reflect five hundred years of literary achievement

Narrative and descriptive poems exemplifying the key elements are presented and analyzed

An examination of the five non-Yoknapatawpha novels, in themselves and in their relationship with Faulkner's central accomplishment, sheds light on Faulkner's development, technique, themes, and concerns

This textbook examines all the ingredients of fiction and presents samples of fiction from many noted authors

Offers a critical look at some of the early works of the famous American author

Essays discuss Faulkner's values, characters, religious views, outlook on history, supporters, and critical reception

An examination of the Yoknapatawpha novels, in themselves and in their relationship with Faulkner's central accomplishment, sheds light on Faulkner's development, technique, themes, and concerns

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In this volume Cleanth Brooks pays tribute to the language and literature of the American South. He writes of the language's unique syntax and its celebrated languorous rhythms; of the classical allusions and Addisonian locutions once favored by the gentry; and of the more earthbound eloquence, rooted in the dialect of England's southern lowlands, that is still heard in the speech of the region's plain folk.It is this rich spoken language, Brooks suggests, that has always been the life blood of southern writing. The strong tradition of storytelling in the South is reflected in the tales told by Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus and in the obsessive retellings that structure William Faulkner's novels and stories. But even more crucially, the language of the South―firmly rooted in the land but with a tendency to reach for the heavens above―has shaped the literary concerns and molded the complex visions to be found in the poetry of Robert Penn Warren and John Crowe Ransom; the stories of Flannery O'Connor, Peter Taylor, and Eudora Welty; and the novels of Warren, Allen Tate, and Walker Percy.