american literature

A collection of the best contemporary criticism on the most widely read Hispanic-American writers.

A collection of critical essays on this well-known American writer and her works.

Provides the essays, articles, and poetry by Robert Hayden, a famous African-American poet and includes interviews and conversations with him from 1972-1976.

A collection of poems, letters, and journal entries written by Gerard Manley Hopkins after he entered the Society of Jesus.

A collection of Western stories, poems, essays, and excerpts from more than seventy authors.

A collection of women's writing spanning four centuries, which includes short stories, poems, diaries, and plays, each preceded by a short discussion of the author and her work.

Contains essays written in the years between 1929 and the 1940s by writers employed by the Work Projects Administration who were assigned to gather information about the lives of ordinary men and women living in New York's Harlem.

A collection of poetry and prose by fifty-eight young American Indian writers, ages eleven to twenty-two.

Contains four critical essays that examine nineteenth-century American author Edgar Allan Poe's works from a historical perspective, and includes biographical and bibliographical essays, and an illustrated chronology.

Presents a selection of critical analyses of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird," and includes a brief biography of the author, thematic and structural analysis of the work, a list of characters, an extensive bibliography, and an index of themes and ideas.