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This monumental work traces Ashbery's work from the start of his career to his establishment as the world's greatest living English-language poet. Beginning with Some Trees (1956), chosen by W.H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Prize, this volume spans a dozen of his most important collections.Ashbery supervised the publication of the present volume; he specified which variant readings he prefers, approved teh editor's correction of a few unambiguous typographical errors, and advised about stanza breaks where it is not clear from teh original printings whether a page break is also a stanza break--Note on the texts, p. 1007.

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Anne Stevenson is one of the leading women poets in England. Her poetry is unusual for its great range of mood and subject matter. This is a major selection from all of her past collections, including The Fiction-Makers, a Poetry Book Society Choice.

A study of how we should read one of America's most important poets

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Provides biographical and critical information on Native American writers and orators from North America covering more than seventy-five literary figures from a score of tribal cultures, and includes commentary on Native oral traditions such as stories, myths, and songs.

These essays, first published between 1919 and 1927, ushered in a new cosmopolitanism and skepticism in twentieth-century America. Taking on all aspects of the conformism and provincial narrowness of the American worldview that he saw, Mencken launched himself at a wide variety of targets with his usual humor and richness.

A fifth volume of definitive works combines The Counterlife with a trio of "Roth Books" including The Facts, Deception, and Patrimony. 15,000 first printing.

The author explores the impact on poetic practice in the 1970s and 1980s of recent theoretical developments, offering a criticism of the work of Seamus Heaney and of poets including Michael Hofmann, reassessing life on Mars and providing retrospective surveys of Fleur Adcock and others.

The Library of America presents this definitive collection of Cheever's novels: "The Wapshot Chronicle, The Wapshot Scandal, Bullet Park, Falconer," and "Oh What a Paradise It Seems."

Collects the complete "Prejudices" essay series, originally published between 1919 and 1927, dealing with all aspects of the conformism and provincial narrowness of American culture.

A volume of forefront writings on the sixteenth president includes works of fiction, history, and poetry by figures ranging from Churchill and Grant to Tolstoy and Twain, in a collection that offers insight into the ways in which American history and culture have contributed to the sixteenth president's legendary persona.

This landmark volume combines the entire Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, "The Stories of John Cheever," with seven selections from Cheever's first book, "The Way Some People Live."

An anthology of writings by the leading mid-20th-century classic author, compiled by the National Book Award-winning author of Them, includes The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle and 21 short pieces that reflect Jackson's work in other genres.

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