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Mark Twain
Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, the novelist, humorist, journalist, and orator who came to be known as Mark Twain was renowned for his wit, wisdom, and keen social commentary. He …
Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman's passionate writing style and bold subject matter have deeply influenced American poetry. Nearly all of his poems were published in ""Leaves of Grass"", which Whitman …
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe's eerie stories and poems continue to captivate readers to this day. He not only wrote such gothic classics as ""The Raven,"" ""The Tell-Tale Heart,"" and ""The …
Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau was renowned as a naturalist and a noted social critic and iconoclast. He is best known for ""Walden"", a work expressing his philosophy of individualism, and for his …
William Wordsworth
Poet laureate of England from 1843 until his death in 1850, William Wordsworth is often credited as being one of the founders of English Romanticism. The 1798 joint publication of …
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Deeply influenced by his Puritan heritage, Nathaniel Hawthorne is the author of the classic novels The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables. He also wrote brilliant …
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
This series presents a selection of the finest classic criticism on the authors most commonly studied today, to demonstrate how a work was received in its own era.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Coleridge's poetry often overshadows the brilliance of the other genres and forms of writing that occupied his interests. Classic works such as ""Kubla Khan"" have taken their …
John Donne
The poetry of John Donne, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert, Robert Herrick, and Richard Crashaw has fascinated critics for centuries. Ambivalently received but inescapably …
Oscar Wilde
Presents selections of some of the best historical criticism about an Irish poet, novelist, playwright and short story writer.
Jane Austen
Noted for her witty depictions of English country life and sharply satirical views of class structure and human behavior, 19th-century novelist, Jane Austen's works, which include …
Herman Melville
Although he spent much of his career in obscurity, Herman Melville, the author of classics such as ""Moby-Dick"", ""Billy Budd"", and ""Bartleby, the Scrivener,"" has since become …