Offers a series of strategies and suggestions for writing essays about author Herman Melville, with instruction on developing writing and comprehension skills.

Provides a detailed introduction to writing an essay about literature and presents and discusses sample topics based on author Langston Hughes' works.

Robert Frost is considered one of the major American poets of the twentieth century. His finely tuned ear, deft sense of meter and rhyme, and lyrical prowess resulted in poems that transformed and universalized the rituals of daily life in rural New England. Seventeen of his classic works, including The Road Not Taken, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Fire and Ice, and Mending Wall, are explored in this volume, which offers suggestions and strategies...