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An Introduction to the Life and Literature by Denise Levertov an American Author (625 words, 3 pages)

Audrey T. RodgersBy 1964, Denise Levertov was more than a "presence" inAmerican poetry. The leading poets of the era, Charles Olson, Kenneth Rexroth, Robert Bly,Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Muriel Rukeyser, David Ignatow, and many other respectedher as a fellow artist for her poetic accomplishments and her stature as an articulatevoice ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life and Literature by Baraka (1487 words, 8 pages)

Jay R. Berry Baraka pays careful attention to rhythm, even in poems that do not employ or experimentwith traditional forms. "SOS," the opening poem on Black Art, containsshort, terse, telegraphic phrases that are reminiscent of a radio transmission Calling black people Calling all black people, man woman child Wherever you ... Read More

An Introduction to the Literature by an American Poet Gary Snyder (5499 words, 25 pages)

Nick Selby Forthe American poet Gary Snyder the poem is a work-place. The idea of work, I shall arguethroughout this paper, is central to Snyder's ecological poetics because it allows him tothrow explicit attention on to the act of writing the land'. This is clear from hiswell- known environmental concerns, ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life and Literature by Helen Vendler (2561 words, 10 pages)

Helen VendlerGiving up the prism, the lens, the map, and pulling herself up by her own roots, Rich,as The Will to Change closes, eats the last meal in her own neighborhood andprepares, deprived of all instruments, to move on, guided only by the fortuitous cracks inthe plaster, the innate lifeline, ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life and Literature by Kay Boyle (1157 words, 6 pages)

Kay Boyle (1) (1930) This passage from Kay Boyles tribute appeared in the June 1930 Transition in which Crosby was remembered by friends. Boyles short stories appeared in the Black Sun Press, and Boyle herself stayed with the Crosbys in Paris. Crosby knew her well enough to cash in some ... Read More

A History of Proletarian Literature in the United States (9734 words, 37 pages)

Text from the Book Flaps of Proletarian Literature in the United StatesHere isan anthology of the best and most representative American writing in the fields ofproletarian fiction, poetry, drama, reportage and criticism. It is a milepost in themovement toward the "left" that has characterized the younger and really vitalelements in ... Read More

An Introduction to the Essay on the Topic of Hawaii Literature (679 words, 3 pages)

Pleaseremember, dear reader, that some of these verses were written when, so to speak, I was aone-celled poet. I will not make a big slur on my early self--that would be outrageouspride upside down. But remember that the first of these verses were written about 1914--along time ago.It is very ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Literature by T. S. Eliot (759 words, 3 pages)

Stephen Spender"Ritualistic" is, it seems to me, the word that best describes Eliot'sattitude to life. He had a vision of the relationship of the living with the dead throughthe patterns of rituals that extend into the modern world the pieties that remainunaltered from the past. He thought that when these ... Read More

An Introduction to the History and the Literature of Native American Writers (1121 words, 5 pages)

Robin Riley FastFor many Native American writers, issues of audience and community are vexed by thequestion of "What is ethical to tell?" Can tradition be offered as a means tocommonality with an eclectic audience? These writers might, for example, honor traditionby acknowledging in their writing the stories that are their ... Read More

An Introduction to the Literary Analysis of the Literature by Black American Poets (581 words, 3 pages)

Sagri Dhairyam"Coal" . . . was, and is, widely read to be affirmingan unself-conscious Black essence. . . . The controlling metaphor of coal, staple fuel,celebrates "the total black, being spokenFrom the earth's inside," whichbecomes in its idealized form, the jewel, diamond. In the this reading, the poem's finalvisionary lines ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life and Literature by Theodore Huebner Roethke (612 words, 3 pages)

1908 Theodore Huebner Roethke born to Otto and Helen in Saginaw, Michigan. 1923 In February, his uncle, Charles commits suicide and in April his father, Otto, dies of cancer. 1925 Roethke goes to The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, the first of his family to attend a University. During ... Read More

An Introduction to the Literature by Marcello Mastroiani (1627 words, 8 pages)

Charredfrom small press review28.7-8 (JulyAugust 1998)Love After the Riots.By Juan Felipe Herrera1996 62pp Pa Curbstone Press,321 Jackson Street, Willimantic, CT 06226.10.95. Sesshu FosterThe poet as Marcello Mastroiani, and Fellini back with us directing,shooting the movie of the L.A. riots of 1992 (the sure aftermath of La Dolce Vita, in theAmerican ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life and Literature by Lola Ridge (1906 words, 9 pages)

AlthoughLola Ridge is relatively unknown to contemporary readers, she was a well-known poet andadvocate of immigrants and the working class during the first half of the twentiethcentury. She wrote five books of poetry,edited for avant-garde magazines Others and Broom, and from 1908 through1937 published at least sixty-one poems in magazines ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life and Literature by Robert Hass (2138 words, 9 pages)

by Douglas HaynesRobert Hass is a native Californian whose poetry iswell-known for its West Coast subjects and attitude. Born in San Francisco on March 1,1941, Hass grew up in the Marin County suburb of San Rafael, where he attended a privateCatholic school. His family included two figures who obviously affected ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life and Literature by Emily Dickinson (4069 words, 17 pages)

Paul CrumblyDickinson'spoetic accomplishment was recognized from the moment her first volume appeared in 1890,but never has she enjoyed more acclaim than she does today. Once Thomas H. Johnson madeher complete body of 1,775 poems available in his 1955 variorum edition, The Poems ofEmily Dickinson, interest from all quarters soared. Readers ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life and Literature by Otto Plath (5966 words, 26 pages)

Sandra Gilbert. . . . if having babies (and writing poems) was a way of escaping from the dark houseof daddy's shoe, it was also, paradoxically, a frightening re-encounter with daddy daddyalive, and daddy dead.Nowhere is that re-vision of daddy more strikingly expressed than in the bee-keepingsequence in Ariel. Otto ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Wordsworthian Preoccupation with Identity in Literature (9339 words, 47 pages)

Robert Dale ParkerThe Wordsworthian preoccupation with identity,targeted by writers as diverse as Robert Pinsky, Jacques Derrida, Kathy Acker, and CharlesBernstein, takes another kind of hit in the poetry of Ray A. Young Bear, deep-imagesurrealist, Mesquakie, cultural isolato, and--at the same time--communal culturalnationalist. Young Bear's first two books, Winter of the ... Read More

The Problems in Revolutionary Literature Within the Communist Party (2465 words, 12 pages)

Walter KalaidjianKenneth Fearing's Textual RecodingsProletarian writers in the 1930s not only composed in democratic choral and vernacularverse modes but also delved into the linguistic resources of high modernism. Divisionsthrown up within the depression era left by intellectual dissent from party-line positionswere reflected in the Partisan Review circle of the mid-1930s. ... Read More

An Introduction to the Literature and Poetry by Emily Dickinson (5996 words, 23 pages)

Adrienne RichThere is one poem which is the real "onlie begetter" ofmy thoughts here about Dickinson a poem I have mused over, repeated to myself, taken intomyself over many years. I think it is a poem about possession by the daemon, about thedangers and risks of such possession if you ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life and Literature by Hughes (1846 words, 8 pages)

James SmethurstNo portion of Hughes's literary career has been more commonlydismissed than that of the 1930s. Even many of Hughes's admirers compare unfavorably hiswritings of the 1930s to his work in other decades. In this view, Hughes's 1930s effortsin many different genres--including short and long fiction, poetry, drama, reportage, songwriting--largely ... Read More

Kim Campbell as the First Female Prime Minister of Canada (739 words, 1 pages)

Kim Campbell, Canada's first female Prime Minister, rose quickly in her political standings reaching, what she would find to be the height of her career only seven years after entering politics. It appeared like the loss of the 1993 election and the all around destruction of the Progressive Conservative party ... Read More

Female Genital Mutilation in Africa and the Middle East as a Form of Body Desecration (417 words, 1 pages)

The number of mutilated woman and girls in Africa and the Middle East is increasing due to population growth, according to Win News. But internationally financed population, health and safe motherhood programs ignore Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and have failed to implement effective preventive education. Education should be provided to ... Read More

A Look at the Differences Between Male and Females (1415 words, 2 pages)

Everyone acknowledges that there are significant differences between males and females, even if they are only physical. Others see not only the physical but also the social, emotional and intellectual differences between male and female. Gender roles influence women and men in virtually every area of life including family and ... Read More

The Influence of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau in the Literature World (2368 words, 5 pages)

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau are considered two of the most influential and inspiring transcendentalist writers of their time. Ralph Waldo Emerson, who was a lecturer, essayist, and poet, was born on May 25, 1803, and is generally considered the father of American transcendentalism , a philosophy that ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life and Literature by Rousseau a Swiss Philosopher (411 words, 1 pages)

Rousseau and Hobbes each had philosophies, but they differed. Their philosophies can be related to and proven by the story Billy Budd, by Herman Melville. Certain characters in this story exemplify the characteristics related with the philosophies of both philosophers.Rousseau was a Swiss philosopher who lived from 1712 to 1778. ... Read More

An Introduction to the Literature by D. H. Lawrence (2136 words, 4 pages)

IntroductionIn this essay I will be discussing whether it is class or not which keeps the two lovers apart or whether it is Fannys subconscious. There is a strong possibility that the story is developed around the idea of the conscious and subconscious, as many of D H Lawrences short ... Read More

A Speech About Literature as Being Dead (590 words, 1 pages)

WARNING This is a Speech!Please feel free to use this as you choose if the opportunity arises.Ladies and Gentlemen What person in their right mind could even reflect on literature as being dead? Certainly not I! Could you imagine a world without books, or plays? Could you imagine a world ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life and Literature by George Orwell or Eric Arthur Blair (1199 words, 2 pages)

Eric Arthur Blair, better known by his psuedonym George Orwell, is an English author commonly known to write about political issues. Orwell has been highly acclaimed and criticized for his novels, including one of his most famous, Animal Farm. In a satirical form, George Orwell uses personified farm animals to ... Read More

A History of the Romanticism in General Literature (2111 words, 5 pages)

"particular characteristics of the literature of romanticism includes subjectivity and an emphasis on individualism spontaneity freedom from rules solitary life rather than life in society the beliefs that imagination is superior to reason and devotion to beauty love of and worship of nature and fascination with the past, especially the ... Read More

An Introduction to the Concept of Good and Evil in Literature (410 words, 1 pages)

Good vs. evil is an important concept. It is a life long struggle inside of you. In life, you are in a constant limbo between good and evil. One day, you might be in a good mood and the other day you might be in an evil, or bad mood. ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013