A pioneering examination of the folkloric qualities of the World Wide Web, e-mail, and related digital media. These stuidies show that folk culture, sustained by a new and evolving vernacular, has been a key, since the Internet's beginnings, to language, practice, and interaction online. Users of many sorts continue to develop the Internet as a significant medium for generating, transmitting, documenting, and preserving folklore.
Though it was a century after his death before his work was appreciated, William Blake is considered the first and one of the greatest English Romantics. This text offers critical analysis of the author's work from some of the most-respected authorities on the subject. Studied is Blake's "The Tyger," "London," "The Mental Traveler," "The Crystal Cabinet," and "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell."
Wallace Stevens established himself as a preeminent person in American letters. He is said to have elucidated the path toward the supreme fiction. Learn more about Stevens with this edition of Bloom's Major Poets.
W.S. Merwin remains an active and highly influential poet. He has won a number of prizes and has served as Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. Poems such as "The Drunk in the Furnace," "For the Anniversary of My Death," and "The River of Bees" are covered in this volume.
Thomas Hardy: Comprehensive Research and Study Guide (Bloom's Major Poets)
Despite thinking of himself as a poet and abandoning prose fiction later in his career, Thomas Hardy is considered one of the crucial novelists of the last three decades of the 19th century. This volume concerns several of his best novels, including Far from the Madding Crowd, The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, and Jude the Obscure. Critical analysis is offered by numerous authorities on the subject.
