history and criticism

Presents study guides to a selection of poems by American poet Robert Frost, each with a thematic analysis and critical views; and includes biographical information about the author, lists of works by and about Frost, and an index of themes and ideas.

Presents biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on a selection of poems and sonnets by sixteenth-century author William Shakespeare.

Presents a variety of viewpoints by different critics on the important aspects of seven poems by seventeenth-century poet John Milton, and includes biographical and bibliographical information.

Presents a variety of viewpoints by different critics on three poems by late eighteenth-century poet William Wordsworth, and includes biographical and bibliographical information.

Presents study guides to five poems by T.S. Eliot, each including a thematic analysis and a selection of critical views; and includes biographical information about the author, lists of works by and about Eliot, and an index of themes and ideas.

Presents a variety of viewpoints by different critics on important aspects of three poems by nineteenth-century poet Emily Dickinson, and includes biographical and bibliographical information.

Presents a variety of viewpoints by different critics on six poems by nineteenth century writer Alfred Lord Tennyson and includes biographical and bibliographical information.

A collection of over forty prefaces and essays in which American playwright Arthur Miller shares his insights on drama and the theater.

Includes a brief biography of the author, thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas.

Includes a brief biography of the author, thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas.