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"Literature critics writing about Hilda Doolittle have tended to focus their discussion on one among a series of possible splittings they find in her work: the word from the object, language from experience, public from private, or even a splitting of the self into two different selves. Those critics who have recuperated H. D. into the fields of feminist criticism and gay and lesbian studies generally stress the closeting of H.D.'s work. The work published during her lifetime-mostly poetry-addresses lesbian sexuality only very indirectly. The largely autobiographical prose manuscripts unearthed after her death take her lesbian relationships as their main subject."

This critical essay on "Helen" by H.D. criticizes this poem's feminist views as well as relate them back to her own personal life.

Critical essay about Baraka's 1967 play "The Toilet", which, like his other works, criticizes racial discrimination in America and empowers the African-American race. By Brenna J. Ryan.

This essay is critical towards Millay's writing style and her actual writing, presenting new opinions.

A critical essay on Rita Dove's poem, "Geometry." It goes into depth the comparison between geometry and poetry in the sense that it allows the mind to expand and ultimately, lead to liberation.

In this essay, the author offers a differing view towards Millay's writing that is more critical and negative than other works i have seen thus far.

This essay is a criticism on Imagism and what it truly used to mean to other poets and to Pound.

Publication Details: Poetry 141.5 (Feb. 1983): p291-301. Source: Poetry Criticism. Ed. David M. Galens. Vol. 47. Detroit: Gale, 2003. From Literature Resource Center.

"Ghent, Dorothy Van. "The Poetry of Archibald MacLeish." Science & Society: A Marxian Quarterly 2.4 (Fall 1938): 500-511. Rpt. in Poetry Criticism. Ed. David M. Galens. Vol. 47. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Literature Resource Center. Web. 20 Mar. 2010."

This poem goes in depth in describing and analyzing H.D.'s poem based on "Helen of Egypt" - also known as "Helen of Troy. As war is one of her most popular topics to write poetry on, H.D. takes her audience into the minds of the Greeks at the time of the war and portrays a woman in the middle of love and war.

This poem goes in depth in describing and analyzing H.D.'s poem based on "Helen of Egypt" - also known as "Helen of Troy. As war is one of her most popular topics to write poetry on, H.D. takes her audience into the minds of the Greeks at the time of the war and portrays a woman in the middle of love and war.

Source: College Literature. 36.4 (Fall 2009): p1. From Literature Resource Center. This article analyzes traditional criticism of MacLeish's works, including his apparent desire to force all of society into general conformity. Justifications for MacLeish's thought process are offered by the author, showing how MacLeish's arguments could be interpreted to apply only to the role of the professional class.

Critical appraise for Dorothy Parker's poems and analyzes her form of writing, especially the structure of her poems.

A Critical Essay that gives an overview of some of Gary Snyder's work

This literary criticism essay touches base on the different aspects and ideas of Edna St. Vincent Millay's works.

Critical essay on the controversial works of Imamu Baraka

A critical essay on the importance and influence of Anne Sexton; Oedipus Anne: The Poetry of Anne Sexton

A thorough biography on Rita Dove including criticism and analysis of her works. It puts an emphasis on Dove's unique style of writing and her themes about past experiences.

A critical essay overview on Rita Dove's poetry exploring the role history plays in her writing. It also emphasizes the importance of experience and discovery as a deeper meaning in her poems.

Patricia de la Fuentes analyzes how Gary Soto treats time and emphasizes death in his poem Black Hair.

Michael Tomasek Manson contrasts Gary Soto's poetry to the work of Robert Hass and Robert Frost.