Product Description: The Life of Robert Frost presents a unique and rich approach to the poet that includes original genealogical research concerning Frost’s ancestors, and a demonstration of how mental illness plagued the Frost family and heavily influenced Frost’s poetry...read more

Product Description: The first thematic series published for American literature, THE WADSWORTH THEMES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE SERIES is currently comprised of 21 themes spanning the time period normally covered in the two-semester American literature survey course--1492 to the present...read more

Contains poems that deal with mystery and history. The characters in the poems often possess a 'double vision,' as if one eye were focused on the mystery of the cosmos, the other eye on the cycle of human creation and destruction that is history.

A fascinating account of the life of James Dickey, a renowned poet, novelist, sportsman, and womanizer, who made lying an important part of his life,discusses how eventually his own family couldn't tell the real man from the mask. Reprint. 10,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This collection of James Dickey's poems and prose includes choice selections of the author's poetry, fiction, and essays, as well as some early unpublished poetry and excerpts from his unfinished novel Crux. Organized chronologically by genre, this is the definitive collection of works by one of the twentieth century's most important talents...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This text attempts to establish the connection between Robert Lowell and the sublime. His interest in the sublime dominated his poetry from the beginning. This work examines the poetics of sublimity which traces journeys beyond English language and behaviour into exalted states.

Product Description: An assessment of Heaney's poetry and prose, tracing his contrary progressions through phases of affirmation and despair. Hart explores Heaney's work from the 1960s to The Haw Lantern, seeking in the poems those elements and traits that Heaney allusively indicates in his prose.

Product Description: The development of Geoffrey Hill’s verse over 30 years is like the topography of his homeground in the West Midlands of En­gland. There are hills and valleys but no wholly unexpected shifts of contour. Henry Hart has completed the first comprehensive mapping of this new po­etic landscape and finds Hill a deeply tra­ditional poet capable of writing in a vari­ety of forms, but also one who used his superior skills to debate tradition...read more