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Mississippi has produced outstanding writers in numbers far out of proportion to its population. Their contributions to American literature, including poetry, rank as enormous. Mississippi Poets: A Literary Guide showcases forty-seven poets associated with the state and assesses their work with the aim of appreciating it and its place in today's culture.In Mississippi, the importance of poetry can no longer be doubted. It partakes, as Faulkner...

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This is the first of three DLB volumes to cover French literature of the 20th century. During this period, the modern French novel played the role of an instrument of social change while also reacting to change. As the individual essays in DLB Volume 65 reveal, the greatest historical upheavals of the 20th century - world war, class struggles, colonial unrest, revolutions and economic crises -- became the topics of numerous novels. The predomi...

The literary landscape after 1800 is marked by monumental achievements by fiction writers. Honore de Balzacs title La Comedie Humaine, with its suggestion of universality, fits well its creators vast ambitions, energies, and visions, both artistic and social. Victor Hugos first great novel, Notre-Dame de Paris dominates Romantic fiction the way the cathedral dominates the city in his masterful reconstruction. Add to the list such impressive wr...

This is the third of three DLB volumes to cover French literature of the 20th century. With a few exceptions, DLB Volume 83 features authors whose careers were established around 1960, or whose major works date from this period. These include the New Novelists, although in some cases their work began to appear well before 1960, because of their departures from the dominant trends of the previous decades and their continued and abundant product...

This is the second of three DLB volumes to cover French literature of the 20th century. It offers a chronological grouping of novelists whose careers often spanned more than one period but whose literary concerns are associated mainly with the decade prior to World War II, the war and Occupation years, the apres-guerre and the 1950s. In the darkening years prior to 1939, radical social changes in France were both inevitable and desirable. Havi...

To many readers of literature, in both French- and English-speaking countries, the 19th century in France is preeminently the age of the novel-nearly all the important literary figures chose it as their major form of expression. Throughout the late 19th century and part of the 20th, the popularity of French fiction was demonstrated by many editions of collected works by major realist authors. Naturalism can be considered an exaggerated form of...

Catharine Savage Brosman's singular and authoritative voice, familiar to poetry readers in the South since the late 1960s, is heard again as she brings to scenes and topics, both new and familiar, her broad range of craftsmanship and styles, using, as one critic wrote, "metaphors brilliantly fitted in detail to the moods and workings of the human heart and mind”.

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From the Preface: Directed toward discriminating readers, the volume as a whole may be taken as an exercise in seeing the world, even feeling it, and in assessing and appreciating experience (the author's, others', and one's own) and the power of literature to render it.

Louisiana Creole Literature is a broad-ranging critical reading of belles lettres--in both French and English--connected to and generally produced by the distinctive Louisiana Creole peoples, chiefly in the southeastern part of the state. The book covers primarily the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the flourishing period during which the term Creole had broad and contested cultural reference in Louisiana. The study consists in part of lit...

Always spirited and elegant, by turns witty and meditative, Catharine Savage Brosman's Under the Pergola contemplates Louisiana, past and present, before traveling a broader path that crosses Colorado landscapes and the island of Sicily. In her eighth collection of poems, Brosman evokes the Pelican State's trees, birds, rivers, swamps, bayous, New Orleans scenes, historic houses, and colorful characters. She also recounts, in free verse, forma...

Catharine Savage Brosman's ninth collection of poetry, displays once more the impressive range of her artistry and her powerful poetic vision. Divided into four parts, the volume includes free verse, blank verse, and rhymed quatrains. Taken together, the poems impart the very feeling of consciousness and illuminate both its potentialities and its burdens as it relates to the world.

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In her tenth collection, Catharine Savage Brosman's singular voice is heard again as she develops themes featured in her earlier work and adds new ones, displaying her full range of poetic craftsmanship and style and, as one critic wrote, using "metaphors brilliantly fitted in detail to the moods and workings of the human heart and mind.”