Provides critical analysis of Whitman's works. The first section gives a representative sampling of the controversy that swirled about him during the period when Leaves of Grass was a new book.

Contains a collection of reviews and critical essays on The scarlet letter.

A collection of critical essays on The grapes of wrath.

This book contains both newly commissioned and reprinted critical essays and reviews on Galway Kinnell's poetry, including articles by Donald Hall, Harold Bloom, Jay Parini, Sarah Cahill, Jane Taylor, Susan B. Weston, Morris Dickstein, Fred Moramarco, Lorrie Goldensohn, and other writers.