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The 8 volume Masterplots II: Poetry Series provides the most comprehensive coverage of the most commonly studied poems written in or translated into English. Each article begins with birth and death dates, the dates of the poet's first publication, a section which examines the poetic devices and explores word choice and metaphor, and a section with analyzes the main focus of the poetry and the poet's overriding concerns.

It is in the spirit of the LZ that the essayists in "Fourteen Landing Zones" approach the writings of the Vietnam War. These fourteen diverse and powerful works by some of today's leading critics in Vietnam studies begin to answer the question of how we will filter the writings of the Vietnam War—including fiction, poetry, drama, and memoirs. What will survive the process of critical acclaim and societal affirmation—and why? Included is an inc...

The 8 volume Masterplots II: Poetry Series provides the most comprehensive coverage of the most commonly studied poems written in or translated into English. Each article begins with birth and death dates, the dates of the poet's first publication, a section which examines the poetic devices and explores word choice and metaphor, and a section with analyzes the main focus of the poetry and the poet's overriding concerns.

The imaginative literature of the Vietnam War participates-both overtly and covertly-in a struggle for national memory. First-generation Vietnam War literature, focusing on representations of combat and life in the battlefield, strove to give testimony, to write history. Later writings, in their range of genre and style, investigate and interrogate the very meaning of war. To reflect these two stages, Philip Jason divides his newest book of li...

This list of prominent poets in this volume reminds us that for most of the nineteenth century, American literature was the literature of New England. Poe and Lanier represent the South, Whitman, Crane, and Melville New York. Bryant, Emerson, Thoreau, Holmes, Whittier, Lowell, Longfellow, and Dickinson were citizens of New England (as were the lesser known Tuckerman and Very). Dunbar is the lone midwesterner. As a group, they were highly consc...

An assessment of the critical response to AnaAs Nin over the past 60 years.