critics

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.".

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that examine the contributions of forty-three nineteenth-century American literary critics and scholars to letters in the U.S.; each with a bibliography. Includes a cumulative index.

Author Gail Caldwell reflects on her friendship with Caroline Knapp, discussing various aspects of their relationship and Caroline's battle with terminal lung cancer.

Chronicles the life of English author V.S. Pritchett, discussing his childhood, years in pre-Civil War Spain, political involvement, literary inspirations, troubled marriage, and other related topics.

Chronicles the life of twentieth-century writer, literary critic, and social commentator Stephen Spender, discussing Spender's literary, political, and artistic interests, childhood, schooling, contributions to the literary world, personal relationships, and more.

Presents a biography of nineteenth-century American poet and writer, Edgar Allan Poe, and traces his life and works and his contribution to American literature as well as the literary worlds of New York and Philadelphia in the 1800s.

Presents a comprehensive biography of twentieth-century author Edmund Wilson, and chronicles his life and works, friends and relationships, and his influence on modern literature.

A collection of essays in which Alfred Kazin reflects on the impact of American history on literature.

Chronicles the last thirty years of Coleridge's life, focusing on his failing marriage, his opium addiction, his relationship with Wordsworth, and his later writings.