history and criticism

Contains twenty critical essays in which the authors examine various aspects of the slave narrative, discussing its origins and development, form and content, and impact on American literature.

Traces the course of American poetry since World War II, with an examination of American poetic production as a cultural achievement and links the process of aesthetic developments to developments in the society at large.

Contains articles that provide biographical and critical information about thirty-eight of the world's best-known poets, including English and foreign-language writers; covering a period that ranges from antiquity to the late twentieth century. Arranged alphabetically from Akhmatova to Herbert.

Contains entries that provide biographical and career information about seventy-one world authors of long fiction, each with data on dates and places of birth and death, lists of principal works, a critical essay, and a bibliography; arranged alphabetically from A-to-Cap.

A collection of articles discussing "Beowulf, " its language, the different interpretations, and literary characters.

A collection of writings in which Henri Cartier-Bresson reflects on various aspects of photography.

Profiles eleven Black American writers from the middle of the 19th century through the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Features biographies of each author, critical extracts on their works, and bibliographies.