Research--4th 2010

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

This site gives a very detailed glimpse into Hilda Doolittle's life, as well as give biographical reason to the meaning behind some of her poems and novels.

Source: American Poets, 1880-1945: First Series. Ed. Peter Quartermain. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 45. Detroit: Gale Research, 1986. From Literature Resource Center. Jones analyzes the events in MacLeish's life and analyzes the major trends in his poetry throughout the years.

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.

Interview between Scott Simon and Ms. Heade giving an overview of the relationship between Ms. Dorothy Parker and Ms. Lillian Hellmann. Tells of how Hellmann didn't allow people such as herself and John Keats to write a biography of Parker because of Hellmann personally felt about Parker.

an interview with Ferlinghetti that touches on topics including poets Dylan Thomas and Allen Ginsberg and his views on war.

an interview with Ferlinghetti that touches on topics including poets Dylan Thomas and Allen Ginsberg and his views on war.

an interview with Ferlinghetti that touches n topics including poets Dylan Thomas and Allen Ginsberg and his views on war.

an interview with Ferlinghetti that touches n topics including poets Dylan Thomas and Allen Ginsberg and his views on war.

describes the themes used in his poems as well as describing his style. also describes how his poems tries to reach the greater masses of people that are often ignored by more traditional poets

This essay discusses Millay's sonnets in depth, analyzing some of their interesting qualities, as well as the style in relation to her as a poet.

Hundreds poems read by William Carlos William recorded during his speaking tours over a twenty year period between 1920 and 1960.

In the following essay, Ramazani argues that Plath's poems expressing grief fit the criteria of modern elegy and that Plath expanded the genre by adding a tone of abiding anger.

In the following essay, Bawer contends that Plath's extreme popularity as a confessional poet in the 1960s can be attributed more to her reputation as an oppressed and victimized existentialist than to the literary merit of her works.

This website offers a biography, a few selected poems, a podcast, and audio recordings from William Carlos Williams.

In this essay, theories of Eliot having been gay are questioned. His writings, letters and lifestyle are considered and criticized so as to prove this theory. Especially the sexuality that is found in his various writings.

This article compares the works of Yeats and Eliot to that of Pound to better understand Pound and his way of writing. It contains information of how Pound weaved his beliefs in 'The Cantos'.

Adam Kirsch analyzes The Waste Land about how and why it is still considered to be modernistic.

This article analyzes Pound's famous poem and for his reasons behind it. In addition it talks about Pound's inspiration for Imagism and how he uses it in the poem.

An article exploring Lee's expresison of his adaptation to his new American culture through the poem Persimmons, and its use of language.

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.