Sylvia Plath, 1932-63. American poet and novelist, established her reputation by the courageous and controlled treatment of extreme and painful states of mind. The volume covers the period 1960-1985.

Examines the departure from meter and rhyme in modern poetry and the increased use of free verse

Examines the departure from meter and rhyme in modern poetry and the increased use of free verse

McClure has not departed from his center-justified, breath-based lines in a career that has spanned more than half a century.

Like Stevens, the poet acts as an intuitive observer and an almost violently acute mystic throughout these extravagant poems. Awful Gestures is a true collision of technical expertise and grace.

Introduction -- Subjectivity and the antiquarian object: Petrarch among the ruins of Rome -- Here comes objectivity: Spenser's 1590 the Faerie Queene, book 3 -- Playing with things: reification in Marlowe's Hero and Leander -- Feeling like ...

Celebrated as a major novelist throughout the English-speaking world, Atwood has also written eleven volumes of poetry.

Leon Surette's new study of T. S. Eliot and Wallace Stevens, The Modern Dilemma, challenges the received view that Stevens' poetry expresses a Humanist world view, and - more surprisingly - documents Eliot's early Humanist phase when Eliot ...

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.

In this debut collection from Stephanie Choi, you'll find the poet's "tongue writing herself, learning to speak.""--