The literature of World War II has emerged as an accomplished, moving, and challenging body of work, produced by writers as different as Norman Mailer and Virginia Woolf, Primo Levi and Ernest Hemingway, Jean-Paul Sartre and W. H. Auden. This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of the international literatures of the war It surveys the writing produced in the major combatant nations (Britain and the Commonwealth, the USA, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, and the USSR), and explores its common themes.
Masters: Bead weaving : Major Works by Leading ArtistsVersatility, innovation, inspiration—that’s what The Masters series offers crafters, with an engaging and up-to-date survey of the finest contemporary work by approximately 40 leading artists in specific media. Beadweaving takes the spotlight here, and readers will find the showcased pieces eye-opening in their originality.
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.
