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A Companion
Alfred Tennyson was a poet all his life, writing more than a thousand works in virtually every poetic genre. Considered by his Victorian contemporarie...
The Critical Legacy
Examines the critical reputation of one of the great literary critics. From the publication of The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems in 1849, Matthew A...
The poet's reputation has weathered even the most vitriolic attempts to discredit both the man and his writings; and as criticism of the late twentiet...
Critical Perspectives 1836-2005
Undoubtedly the best-selling author of his day and well loved by readers in succeeding generations, Charles Dickens was not always a favorite among cr...
Shaping an American Literary Icon
Traces Hemingway's critical fortunes over the ninety years of his prominence, telling us something about what we value in literature and why scholarly...
1,801 Plot Stories and Critical Evaluations of the World's Finest Literature
"Entries ae arranged alphabetically by title, with the type of work, author, type and time of plot, locale, first publication date, and principal char...
A Literary Companion
James Lee Burke is an acclaimed writer of crime novels in which protagonists battle low-life thugs who commit violent crimes and corporate executives ...
Critical Reception, 1958-2010
When John Updike died in 2009, tributes from the literary establishment were immediate and fulsome. However, no one reading reviews of Updike's work i...
An Annotated Bibliography
Provides annotations to critical commentaries for more than eighty of the most widely read and taught poems by major and minor Victorian figures....
Describes important 20th-century criticism of significant British novels of the period, organized in chapters on 20 key authors, including Jane Austen...
Mother Courage
This is the remarkable story of Hertha Jurgens Schmidt, who was born in northern Germany in 1910. She grew up during the turbulent years of the Weimar...