Discusses poets such as Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, Joel Barlow, Philip Freneau, William Cullen Bryant, Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoreau, Jones Very, Poe, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, J.G. Holland, Herman Melville, Sidney Lanier, Stephen Crane, William Vaughn Moody, Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, Trumbull Stickney, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Frost, Amy Lowell, John Gould Fletcher, H.D., Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Vachel Lindsay, Edgar Lee Masters, Carl Sandburg, Sara Teasdale, Elinor Wylie, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robinson Jeffers, Conrad Aiken, Archibald MacLeish, Hart Crane, E.E. Cummings, John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, Theodore Roethke, Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Richard Wilbur, Robert Duncan, Howard Nemerov, James Dickey, Denise Levertov, Galway Kinnell, James Merrill, James Wright, W.S. Merwin, Robert Bly, John Ashbery, A.R. Ammons, and David Wagoner.

This book is designed to offer an overview of ways in which the subject areas of American Literature and World Literature have converged (and diverged) over the past twenty or thirty years. American literature is now widely regarded as engaging with global rather than merely with local or national phenomena, and American World Literature: An Introduction attempts to set these changing conceptions of the subject in both critical and historical context.

Making the case about what literary works mean, how they came to be, and how they matter (or don't , or should) requires you to read carefully, analyze texts and evaluate sources, and create well-supported arguments. Arguing about Literature will help you learn these skills. It features many real-world arguments (about free speech, for example, and about social media) with instruction on how to analyze those arguments and develop your own arguments in response. Above all it immerses you in great literature, including fiction by Flannery O'Connor and Jamaica Kincaid, poetry by Langston Hughes and Louise Erdrich, drama by William Shakespeare and Lynn Nottage, and essays by Henry David Thoreau and Richard Rodriguez. This is literature worth arguing about, and Arguing about Literature shows you how to do so. It will change how you read, think, and write about literature -- and about everything else worth arguing about.

New and expanded, with over 1,200 words and colloquial expressions--including newcomers to the language--this dictionary starts where others give up. Ever wonder where the word "nerd" came from? Thank Dr. Seuss he coined it in the 1950s. Were you given the sack? That's the bag of tools returned to masons when they were fired. You'll also learn why we say someone "makes money hand over fist," and the origins of "the full monty," "cut the mustard," and many more!

A History of American Poetry presents a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their pre-Columbian origins to the present day. Richard Gray, one of the leading authorities on American literature, situates the story of American poetry within the historical, political, cultural, and societal contexts that contributed to shapingw the genre. Through close readings of individual poems, Gray reveals how American poetry evolved to reflect the rich diversity and multicultural character of the United States.

A History of Romantic Literature provides a richly integrated account of shared themes, interests, innovations, rivalries, and disputes among the writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It examines the literatures of sensibility and intensity as well as the aesthetic dimensions of horror and terror, sublimity and ecstasy. Because Romanticism infiltrated religious, philosophical, scientific, and ideological discourse as thoroughly as it did literature and the arts, its impact was pervasive and pan-European. The authors crafted a poetry and prose of emotional extremes, and a writing style prioritizing spontaneity, improvisation, and originality.

Quem quaritis / Anonymous -- Riders to the sea / John Millington Synge -- Antigone / Sophocles -- Major Barbara / George Bernard Shaw -- Hamlet / William Shakespeare -- Misanthrope / Molière -- Hedda Gabler / Henrik Ibsen -- Glass menagerie / Tennessee Williams.