voigt, ellen bryant

Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.

Contains essays from Ellen Bryant Voigt that reveal her views on the art and craft of lyric poetry, discussing how writers read, works from renown poets--including William Shakespeare, Emily Dickenson, and Sylvia Plath--and other insights about writing lyric poems.