Linda Wagner-Martin

Sylvia Plath is widely recognized as one of the outstanding poets of the twentieth century. When her Collected Poems was published it won the Pulitzer Prize. Her only published novel, The Bell Jar, has become a modern classic. Because Plath drew so heavily on her own life in both her poetry and her fiction, the outlines of her life are familiar to readers. But, like most writers, Plath changed the facts of her life in her writing. In her determination...

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

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

The purpose of this book is two-fold: i) to show the major reasons for Williams' excellence as a poet; and ii) to disprove the assumption that he was a "typical" poet who wrote "instinctively", with little critical awareness.

This literary biographical study offers a comprehensive account of Emily Dickinson's life, as a poet as well as a daughter of a prominent Amherst, Massachusetts, family. For many years accompanied by her large dog, she well knew the worlds of nature and natural beauties. For many more years, she chronicled her life -- especially her life of the imagination -- in hundreds of letters, as well as the nearly 1,800 poems that have been found. Such rich...