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Describes the romantic style and technique that defines E. E. Cumming's poetry.

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This essay is a literary criticism that analyzes and comments on the life and personality of Edna St. Vincent Millay, as well as how they impacted her writing.

A look at the strong sexual themes in Ginsberg's poetry, specifically homoeroticism.

A retrospective of Ginsberg's poetry, observing his subject matter, and juxtaposing it in a modern light.

"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."

An overview of poet Hilda Doolittle, highlighting her works as a feminist.

This article reviews Gary Snyder as he begins to follow Zen tradition/beliefs, his life experiences after devoting himself to Zen Buddhism, the influence it had on his writing (poetry), etc.

Gary Soto describes his childhood being scared of disease and death and finally overcoming that fear.

This is an overview of Harjo's poem "Anniversary". The author analyzes the dialect of the poem line by line.

This article is an overview of one of Harjo's poems "Remember".

Critical Essay by Emanuela Jossa examines the reoccurring theme of landscape in Joy Harjo's poetry. There are other poets included in this essay.

This is an article written by Joy Harjo herself. She writes about the importance of poetry and the purpose of literature.

This critical essay analyzes the themes of Joy Harjo's writings and gives examples of poems that demonstrate those themes.

A brief article on Gary Snyder's work, "The Call of the Wild". The critical essay talks about how this was yet another one of Snyder's poems that slightly hinted at Buddhist practice. However "The Call of the Wild" was more directly related to examining the Native Americans. The main symbol of this work is the Coyote

This critical essay gives us an inside/mindful look at Gary Snyder's text, Turtle Island, and some of it's common themes.