poets, english

Contains entries on modern poets and poetry in English, from America and Britain to Trinidad and Zimbabwe, and from 1900 to the present.

A guide to 500 major poets writing in the English language. Each entry includes a biography, a bibliography, and an essay.

Presents a comprehensive biography of sixteenth-century British poet, John Donne, following his life through the religious conflict in England, his break with his family, and rise to assume the post of Dean of St. Paul's in London.

Examines the experiences of World War I soldiers who used their poetry to express the horrors of warfare, and explores the historical, political, and social background which shaped the poetry of the war.

"A William Abrahams book." A biography of the English poet focusing on the map, the poet, and the age in which he lived.

Biography of the romantic poet known for his adventurous life.

A biography of the Brownings, whose courtship and marriage resulted in one of the greatest love stories of all time.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about various aspects of the life and work of fourteenth-century poet Geoffery Chaucer; and includes cross-references, appendices, a map of the Canterbury pilgrims' route, a bibliography, and an index.

In 1917, Siegfried Sassoon, a combat officer and poet, writes a letter publicly disavowing the war. He is found to be "mentally unsound" and is sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital, where there is a psychiatrist renowned for curing such cases.