Provides alphabetically arranged entries about major British poets, poetry, and poetic forms of the nineteenth century.
Features four hundred entries covering famous poetry, poets, and forms of the period.
238 “JOHN ANDERSON, MY JO” have grown old and are “only fit for nurses.” In the opinion of the speaker, “School-boys” with no experience, but only a false sense of “martial spirit,” have made false claim to the “veteran merit” that ...
... and James suffered defeat at Roxburgh as many of his nobles deserted him. Rebels captured and assassinated James I on February 21, 1437, at Perth. His son, James II, was six at the time. James I endures as a literary figure.
Features over four hundred entries covering famous poetry, poets, and forms of the period.
... chess players in Persia calmly moving their pieces “In the shade of a spacious tree” while “invaders were burning down the City” (129), and the effects of memory, which does not “distinguish / What I saw from what I was” (136).
The Facts On File Companion to American Poetry is a new and indispensable encyclopedic guide to American poetry with more than 1,100 entries, ranging in length from 500 to more...
Christened Edward J. Hughes by his parents, Edith and William Hughes, he spent his earlyyears in pre– World War II England inthis not very prosperous areaof Yorkshire peppered by defuncttextile mills and mining towns,which, however, ...
69) Labyrinth, 2-57n Laird, Paul R., 9-108 Lambiek Comiclopedia, 5-121 Lamdin, Laura Cooner, 6-91 Lamdin, Robert Thomas, ... 11-172 Lewis, Adam, 11-269 Lewis, James R., 4-10 This page intentionally left blank Author/Title Index • 435 L.
Laura Quinney teaches English and Comparative Literature at Brandeis University, Massachusetts. She is the author of Literary Power and the Criteria of Truth (1995), The Poetics of Disappointment: Wordsworth to Ashberry (1999) and ...
... Century in Poetry: A Critical Survey (London, 1999), 20. " William Flesch, The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry: 19th Century (New York, 2010), 417. * The Letters of Robert Frost: Volume 1, 1886–1920, ed. Donald Sheehy et al ...