Product Description: Letters--mostly of the nuts-and-bolts, practical variety--between Thomas Wolfe and his literary agent, Elizabeth Nowell. Nowell served as Wolfe's editor for many of his short stories, paring them down to make them acceptable to magazines...read more

Product Description:  The Dramatic Imagination of Robert Browning offers an accessible and authoritative guide to the essentials of Robert Browning’s life and poetry. Drawing from his personal letters and from the diaries and memoirs of his contemporaries, this literary biography provides a wealth of information about the main events of his life, including the social, political, religious, and aesthetic issues that concerned him; it offers critical commentary defining the central characteristics of his poetry; and it tracks the changes in his reputation through contemporary reviews and the growth of the Browning societies...read more

Product Description: Cleanth Brooks may have summarized it best: "New Orleans has become one of the cities of the mind, and is therefore immortal." Its writers make it so. Like Richard S. Kennedy's earlier collection Literary New Orleans,> these nine essays explore the belletristic Crescent City -- its history, authors, myths, and realities...read more

Product Description: Readers of Thomas Wolfe's autobiographical outline will better understand how his first and most widely read novel, Look Homeward, Angel, came into being. Superbly edited and annotated by Lucy Conniff and Richard S. Kennedy, this vibrant document records a young writer's determination to forge art from the details of his life, providing an unparalleled view of a novelist's mind at work...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Poems from each period of the poet's career show his development as a writer and the major themes of his works, including the celebration of love and delight in natural phenomenon. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This is an altogether engaging collection of ruminations on early New Orleans writers -- George Washington Cable, Grace King, Lafcadio Hearn, and Kate Chopin -- as well as three prolific twentieth-century authors who called the Crescent City "home" at various times: William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, and Walker Percy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

One hundred and fifty-six poems, grouped by theme, are accompanied by drawings, oils, and watercolors by the poet

Chronicles the life of one of America's leading poets, who was also a Cubist painter, champion of the little man, a romantic idealist, and husband of three beautiful women

Product Description: One of the most enduring characters in Thomas Wolfe's fiction is Francis Starwick, the Midwestern aesthete who befriends Eugene Grant at Harvard in Wolfe's second autobiographical novel, Of Time and the River. Wolfe created Starwick in order to provide a foil for the artistic development of Eugene: Starwick was the pretentious, narrow-minded dilettante whose response to the arts is all talk and pose, as compared with Eugene, who hopes to express in writing his intensity of feeling about all aspects of lifeWhile writing the novel, however, Wolfe found his manuscript proliferating beyond his control, and he turned to his editor at Scribner's Maxwell Perkins, for help in shaping the final version of the book...read more

Describes the life of the poet E.E. Cummings and analyzes his works (view table of contents)

Defines the concepts, terms, practices and rituals of the world's religions, and identifies important religious leaders

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The real estate promoters and civic leaders of Altamont, a small Southern town, attempt to buy up the Black owned central district, evict those people from their homes, and establish a new white residential section