In the twentieth century, literature was under threat. Not only was there the challenge of new forms of oral and visual culture. Even literary education and literary criticism ...

Writing at the time of his retirement from an academia that after four decades has become unfamiliar, Shaw (English, U. of Toronto), says in a society where book learning is an ...

Sa'di Yusuf has long been acknowledged as Iraq's foremost living poet and one of the pre-eminent modernists of Arabic poetry. This book aims to provide a comprehensive look at ...

In the twentieth century more people spoke English and more people wrote poetry than in the whole of previous history, and this Companion strives to make sense of this crowded ...

Robert Frost's traumatic, turbulent, and triumphant life is captured here by a respected biographer. Photos.

Thirty distinguished poets from Wallace Stevens to Martin Espada demonstrate the vitality and variety of New England's poetic creation during the twentieth century.