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Four long poems are written in a new style which the author calls quartets.
The last major verse written by Eliot and what Eliot himself considered his finest work, Four Quartets is a rich composition that expands the spiritual vision brought out in The Waste Land. Here, in four linked poems, spiritual, philosophical, and personal themes emerge through …
"Leon Surette's new study of T.S. Eliot and Wallace Stevens challenges the received view that Stevens' poetry expresses a Humanist world view, and - more surprisingly - documents Eliot's early Humanist phase. Where Eliot's poetry is dominated by cultural, religious, and philosop…
After apple picking / by Robert Frost -- A Black man talks of reaping / by Arna Bontemps -- Everything is plundered / by Anna Akhmatova -- The explorer / by Gwendolyn Brooks -- Grudnow / by Linda Pastan -- Hanging fire / by Audre Lorde -- The horses / by Ted Hughes -- In respons…
Each entry contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.
America, America / Saadi Youssef -- An attempt at jealousy / Marina Tsvetaeva -- Babii Yar / Yevgeny Yevtushenko -- Diving into the wreck / Adrienne Rich -- From the rising of the sun / Czeslaw Milosz -- Heart's needle / W. D. Snodgrass -- Homage to my hips / Lucille Clifton -- …
Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Each entry contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.
Anyone lived in a pretty how town / e. e. cummings -- The centaur / May Swenson -- Follower / Seamus Heaney -- Freeway 280 / Lorna Dee Cervantes -- Good night, Willie Lee, I'll see you in the morning / Alice Walker -- I, too / Langston Hughes -- A nocturnal reverie / Anne Finch …
Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Each entry contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.
Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction.