Writers, Readers, and Reputations - Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918
Charles Dickens died in 1870, the same year in which universal elementary education was introduced. During the following generation a mass reading public emerged, and the term "best-seller" was coined. In new and cheap editions Dickens's stories sold hugely, but these were progressively outstripped in quantity by the likes of Hall Caine and Marie Corelli, Charles Garvice and Nat Gould. Who has now heard of these writers? Yet Hall Caine, for one, boasted of having made more money from his pen than any previous author.
Revision Lessons - You'll Love to Teach Highly Motivating Lessons That Give Students Tools. Skills, and Strategies to Make Meaningful Revisions—and Empower Them as Writers. Revision is a challenge for many writers—especially student writers. In this essential resource, two veteran teachers share the lively and motivating lessons they've created to help students tackle the challenge of revision. Lesson topics include identifying and targeting a focus for revision, organization, diction and sentence structure, conventions, and more. This classroom-tested approach makes teaching revision manageable for teachers and meaningful for students. For use with Grades 6 & Up.
Supplement II, Part 1: W. H. Auden to O. Henry Supplement II, Part 2: Robinson Jeffers to Yvor Winters The essays in Supplement II, all written by recognized experts and published here for the first time, carry on the tradition of writing for the general reader in a way that the specialist will also find interesting and informative. In several instances—most notably the essays on R. P. Blackmur, Malcolm Cowley, and W. E. B. Du Bois—the authors have produced the fullest account to date of the writer's life and work.
Volume Fourteen treats a wide range of authors from the past and present. Among them are several interesting but neglected authors from the nineteenth century, including Charles W. Chesnutt, the black novelist, Logan Pearsall Smith, the essayist and critic, and Alain Locke, the black critic, historian, and editor.
Poets & Writers is the primary source of information, support, and guidance for creative writers. Issue highlights the small-press champions of literature in translation, including New Directions, Two Lines Press, Open Letter Books, Europa Editions, and Archipelago Books; a profile of novelist Marilynne Robinson; an installment of Agents & Editors featuring Copper Canyon Press editor in chief Michael Wiegers; Donald Hall on a life in poetry; advice from literary agent Betsy Amster; pro self-publishing tips; new and noteworthy books; and much more.
