English 252 Caskey American Literature II

Background and biographical information on Robert Frost.

Link out to an overview of Frost's "Mending Wall".

Link out to a critical essay on Frost's "Mending Wall" from Poetry for Students.

Link out to a Research Starter on Frost's "The Road Not Taken".

Link out to a critical essay on "The Road Not Taken" which includes biographical information, major themes, and more on Robert Frost.

Link out to the Critical Insights edition on Robert Frost for biographical information and literary criticism on his poetry.

Link out to critical essays on "Nothing Gold Can Stay".

Link out to a Research Starter on Wallace Stevens.

Link out to an overview of Stevens' poem "The Emperor of Ice-Cream" from Gale Literary Sources.

Link out to critical essays on "The Emperor of Ice-Cream" by Wallace Stevens.

Link out to a Research Starter on William Carlos Williams.

Link out to an overview of the poem.

Link out to an overview and critical essay on the poem.

Link out to an overview and analysis of the poem.

Link out to a Research Starter on T. S. Eliot.

Link out to a Research Starter on the poem.

As a poet, T. S. Eliot did not just modernize, he revolutionized. As critic and publisher, he informed literary theory and promoted a generation of major young writers. This richly resourced program provides a coise biography of Eliot, tracing the key events of his life and highlighting his many contributions to English literature. The program features readings and excerpts from his major poems and critical work, including “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “Sweeney among the Nightingales,” “Gerontion,” “The Hollow Men,” “Ash Wednesday,” The Wasteland, Four Quartets, and The Sacred Wood.

Link out to a Research Starter on Katherine Anne Porter.

A strong, delicate, idiosyncratic writer with the power to evoke vast emotions in short words and the wisdom to understand large worlds in small scenes, Katherine Anne Porter wrote some of the best American shortiction of any age. She moves, sometimes plainly, sometimes unseen, throughout her world—a complex person combining the independence of a woman raised as a tomboy, the unconventionality of the artist, and the straitlaced late-Victorian-Texas views of propriety with which she condemned others who lived as she did. This superb production by Calvin Skaggs uses dramatizations of her stories as the narrative of the childhood which provided so much material for her work, counterpointed by the commentaries of Eudora Welty, Robert Penn Warren, Eleanor Clark, and Joan Givner. (56 minutes)

Link out to a Research Starter on "Flowering Judas" by Katherine Anne Porter.

Link out to a Research Starter on William Faulkner.

Link out to a Research Starter on Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily".

Link out to an overview and critical analyses of Faulkner's "Barn Burning".

Link out to a Research Starter on Langston Hughes.

Link out to a biographical and critical essay on Langston Hughes and his poem "I, Too".

Link out to a critical essay on "Theme for English B".