american poets

An account of how, during the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key came to write the poem that became the national anthem.

Autobiographical poems capture a thirteen-year-old boy's feelings, experiences, and aspirations in one tumultuous year of his life.

A biography of the African-American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1950 and whose poems reflect the experiences of African-Americans.

Examines the life and work of nineteenth-century American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, author of "The Song of Hiawatha," and other well-known poems.

Provides a representative selection of critical essays on the works of American poet Hart Crane. Includes a biographical profile, thematic and structural analyses, an index of themes and ideas, and a bibliography.

Presents a biography of twentieth-century American poet Gwendolyn Brooks, an original critical analysis of her works, three significant critical essays, a chronology, and primary and secondary bibliographies.

Jillian Becker chronicles the brief time she spent with Sylvia Plath during the winter of 1963, the last months of the poet's life.

Chronicles the life of poet Sylvia Plath, drawing from interviews with her mother and extensive archival research to discuss Plath's mental health, her father's early death, her battles with depression, and her volatile marriage to poet Ted Hughes.

Biography of poet Phillis Wheatley, a freed slave during the years when the colonies prepared to fight the American Revolution.