theory, etc

Examines the critical ideas, personalities, careers, social backgrounds, and politics of critics, editors, statesmen, radicals, gossipmongers, and others who have played a role in shaping literary opinion in England since 1800.

Explores the reasons why women do not have the same influence, power, and wealth as men do. Meditates on the writer-temperament and explores the need for a woman to have a room of her own and five hundred pounds a year being symbols of the power to think for oneself and contemplate.

Contains thirteen essays in which various authors discuss aspects of the reading, writing, and teaching of young adult novels; and includes a searchable CD-ROM with nearly two thousand review of young adult books.

A collection of interviews in which fifteen Latino and Latina poets discuss their work.

Presents interviews with twelve significant contemporary poets, including Seamus Heaney, Donald Hall, Rita Dove, and Bei Dao, about their lives and their craft.

Examines the basic rules of scansion--the analysis of verse to show its meter; provides the author's thoughts on metrical prosody; and features a collection of metrical poems.

Explores the relation of the black vernacular tradition to the African-American literary tradition, focusing on the two trickster figures of Esu-Elegbara and the Signifying Monkey, in whose myths are registered certain principles of both formal language use and its interpretation.

Collection of interviews with sixteen African-American writers, including novelists, poets, journalists, and playwrights, discussing race, gender, and their work.

A collection of all of Edgar Allan Poe's poems and three of his essays on poetry. Includes an introduction by C.H. Sisson.