Reisman, Rosemary M. Canfield

Profiles nineteen English poets from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including a brief biography of each poet and a list of their works and achievements.

"Functions as both a compilation of materials from the five subsets that make up Critical survey of poetry and a reference guide that simplifies finding material in the five subsets"--P. v.

Contains profiles of 398 American poets, each with a list of principal poetry, a look at other literary forms in which the subject wrote, a biography and discussion of achievements, and analyses of major works, and includes resources for understanding poetry, a time line, and indexes.

Profiles sixty-one poets and writers that represent forty countries from the eighth century to the early twenty-first, discussing literary forms, achievements, biography, general analysis, and related information, and covering Chinua Achebe, Pablo Neruda, Daisy Zamora, and others.