1888-1965

Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.

Features analysis of the plays most frequently studied in literature classes. Entries include: introduction providing overview of play; brief biography of playwright; plot summary; discussion of play's principal themes; essays on play's construction; and excerpted critical commentary.

Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.

Features analysis of the plays most frequently studied in literature classes. Entries include: introduction providing overview of play; brief biography of playwright; plot summary; discussion of play's principal themes; essays on play's construction; and excerpted critical commentary.

Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.

Examines the later works of four twentieth century American poets--T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams--to deduce insights about aging. Explores ideas about the experience of aging, creative fulfillment, wisdom, and enjoyment in old age.

Provides in-depth analysis of the literary work The Waste Land, as well as its importance and critical reception. Includes a chronology of the life and works of the author.

Presents a comprehensive analysis of the life and works of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century author and poet T.S. Eliot that examines the major ideas and themes that run through such works as "The Waste Land" and "Animula.".

A collection of writings by T. S. Eliot.

A portrait of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's five closest advisors, who shaped his policy in the first one hundred days of his presidency.