american poets

A biography of nineteenth-century American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow describing his life and literary career, marriage, and his contemporaries.

Describes the events of the War of 1812 and the circumstances that inspired each of the lines of the song by Francis Scott Key.

A biography of the American poet whose great love and life as a recluse have remained a mystery to scholars.

When Emily Dickinson's house is being restored in 1916, a worker discovers her secret diary, which he keeps to himself until now.

A biography of Langston Hughes, an African American poet who tried to capture in his writing the spirit and rhythms of ordinary people.

The poet recreates the life he experienced as a Chicano growing up in California's Central Valley.

A biography of the black poet whose poems were influenced greatly by jazz and blues rhythms.

Cynthia Zarin offers her own words on her life, detailing her experience in the working world as a young woman in New York, how she misses people and buildings who have faded away with time, her experience as a newlywed, her child's illness, and her insights into the secret workings of the staff of the "New Yorker.".

Presents a biography of poet Ogden Nash, from his work as an editor at Doubleday in New York, to his battle with writer's block and drinking, to his career as a distinguished writer, lyricist, and radio and television personality.