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The Facts on File Companion to World Poetry, 1900 to the Present (Companions to Literature) - Hardcover
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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. Containing approximately 500 entries that span the globe and cover the most prominent writers from each continent and many of the world's islands, this indispensable guide is the perfect companion to poetry courses. Appendixes include a general bibliography, a list of poets by geographic region, and a list of Nobel Prize winners.Coverage includes: poets, including Rainer Maria Rilke, Pablo Neruda, Leopold Senghor, Aime Cesaire, Derek Walcott, Anna Akhmatova, Rabindranath Tagore, Federico Garcia Lorca, Bei Dao, and many more; major poems, such as ""The Poems of Dr. Zhivago"", ""Sonnets to Orpheus"", and ""Ode To Walt Whitman""; and important concepts and movements, such as field poetics and French rap.
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"Coverage is wide-ranging...Recommended."
.,."this set's strength lies in its heavy inclusion of contemporary works and authors...Recommended..."
"Libraries will value this compact set for including classics as well as hard-to-find contemporary authors."
.,."one-of-a-kind...a useful tool for students reading and researching ancient plays. It is thorough and nothing similar is in print."
.,."thoughtful and comprehensive...The volumes stand out in regard to the number of contemporary authors and novels that are recognized..."
"These biographical sketches of novelists and analytical essays on their works provide a first-rate complement to high school literature courses...[a] fine resource."
.,."no other reference work on American fiction brings together such an array of authors and texts as this. Recommended for high-school, public, and undergraduate collections."
"It is difficult to think of any other resource quite this thorough that combines all of Greek and Roman drama into a convenient single-volume publication. Highly recommended..."
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Lauri Ramey is Associate Professor of English at California State University, Los Angeles. R. Victoria Arana is Professor of English at Howard University.
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