american poets

"Describes the life and times of Phillis Wheatley, the first published African-American female poet"--Provided by publisher.

An illustrated, brief overview of the life of E. E. Cummings.

A biography of Beat Generation poet, Allen Ginberg, discussing his childhood, his works, and his impact of the counterculture movement of 1960s and New York's 1970s punk scene.

The only sibling left in the Dickinson house in Amherst, Massachusetts, in the winter of 1849, Emily gets a dog who becomes her constant companion and who is featured in some of the poems she writes. Includes brief notes on the life and work of Emily Dickinson.

Examines the life and writings of Emily Dickinson.

A biography of nineteenth-century American poet Emily Dickinson, focusing on her lifelong struggle with religious belief, and relating her personal development--as it can be charted through her writings--to what is known of the politics, and religious, social, and intellectual history of her times.