The Facts on File Companion to World Poetry


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The Facts On File Companion to World Poetry : 1900 to the Present is a comprehensive introduction to 20th and 21st-century world poets and their most famous, most distinctive, and most influential poems.




The Facts on File Companion to Classical Drama


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Surveys important Greek and Roman authors, plays, characters, genres, historical figures and more.







The Facts on File Companion to the British Short Story


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A comprehensive reference to short fiction from Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Commonwealth. With approximately 450 entries, this A-to-Z guide explores the literary contributions of such writers as Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, D H Lawrence, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, Katherine Mansfield, Martin Amis, and others.




The Facts on File Companion to American Poetry: 1900 to the present


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A comprehensive guide to American poetry, from 1900 through the early twenty-first century, profiling a selection of poems, popular and lesser-known authors, themes, concepts, periodicals, and movements.




Critical Companion to Kurt Vonnegut


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Kurt Vonnegut is one of the most popular and admired authors of post-war American literaturefamous both for his playful and deceptively simple style as well as for his scathing critiques of social injustice and war. Criti.




The Facts on File Companion to 20th-century American Poetry


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Includes more than six hundred A-to-Z entries which provide concise information on particular poems, poets, and subjects which have contributed to this literary form.




The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry Before 1600


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Some of the most important authors in British poetry left their mark onliterature before 1600, including Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, and, of course, William Shakespeare. "The Facts On File Companion to British Poetry before 1600"is an encyclopedic guide to British poetry from the beginnings to theyear 1600, featuring approximately 600 entries ranging in length from300 to 2,500 words.




The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry, 19th Century


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Provides alphabetically arranged entries about major British poets, poetry, and poetic forms of the nineteenth century.




Companion to Literature


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