A chronicle of African-American writers and their work encompasses two centuries and includes profiles of James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, and many others. Reprint.

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Includes essays, analysis, and biographies of prominent literary figures of various genres and backgrounds in American literature. (view table of contents)

Includes essays, analysis, and biographies of prominent literary figures of various genres and backgrounds in American literature. (view table of contents)

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Includes essays, analysis, and biographies of prominent literary figures of various genres and backgrounds in American literature. (view table of contents)

Includes essays, analysis, and biographies of prominent literary figures of various genres and backgrounds in American literature. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This collection of critical and biographical articles covers notable authors from the 17th century to the present day.

A collection of sixty-four articles by contemporary scholars examines such authors as Willa Cather, T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner, and Herman Melville

Includes essays, analysis, and biographies of prominent literary figures of various genres and backgrounds in American literature.

Product Description: This volume provides a thorough account of the critical tradition emerging with the modernist and avant-garde writers of the early twentieth century (Eliot, Pound, Stein, Yeats), continuing with the New Critics (Richards, Empson, Burke, Winters), and feeding into the influential work of Leavis, Trilling and others...read more

Gathers, chronologically, all the major poems of Williams' career

Critical essays and background materials supplement Joyce's stories about the people of his native city

The essays in this new collection, all by outstanding experts in the field of modern literature, provide a different and more complex sense of Eliot's place in literary history. The eight essays are: "The Waste Land Fifty Years After," by A. Walton Litz; "The Urban Apocalypse," by Hugh Kenner; "The First Waste Land:' by Richard Ellmann;" The Waste Land: Paris 1922," by Helen Gardner; "New Modes of Characterization in The Waste Land," by Robert Langbaum; "Precipitating Eliot," by Robert M. Adams; "Fear in the Way: The Design of Eliot's Drama," by Michael Goldman; and "Anglican Eliot," by Donald Davie.Originally published in 1973.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Product Description: This is the only extant play by the great Irish novelist and is of interest both for its autobiographical content and for formal reasons. In the characters and their circumstances details of Joyce's life are evident. The main character, Richard Rowan, the moody, tormented writer who is at odds with both his wife and the parochial Irish society around him, is clearly a portrait of Joyce himself...read more

Almost two hundred letters, thoroughly annotated, bring to light the poet's search for a new and personal style in the crucial years of his development and in the shaping of modernism

Product Description: First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A general account of the development of Joyce's works and his methods of artistic approach