Whitman: The American Singer
Thomas Klise
Walt Whitman was the first American to take the common experience of man as the very source of high poetry. His masterpiece Leaves of Grass is mor...
View full detailsWalt Whitman was the first American to take the common experience of man as the very source of high poetry. His masterpiece Leaves of Grass is mor...
View full detailsThis program provides a bright and thoughtful analysis of five of Shakespeare’s most important and influential plays: Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Romeo...
View full details“Show me a hero,” Scott Fitzgerald once said, “and I’ll write you a tragedy.” And while Fitzgerald’s life was as heroic as any he ever created for ...
View full detailsFour hundred years ago, there lived in England an actor, poet, and playwright named William Shakespeare. This superb two-part set offers a look at ...
View full detailsShakespeare’s Hamlet is a work of drama and movement, full of stalking ghosts and fencing matches, pirate ships and dark castles. Despite this cons...
View full detailsThis presentation of the life and works of George Orwell offers a portrait of a political writer whose major themes are man and his state, surely a...
View full detailsWhen The Great Gatsby appeared in 1925, it was hailed by T.S. Eliot as the first step forward in American fiction since Henry James, and the interv...
View full detailsGeoffrey Chaucer was the first major personality in English literature, and his accounts of the medieval world are unmatched by an historian. Part ...
View full detailsIn this program, students will review twelve individual lessons on the basic terms in literature including plot, setting, theme, character, conflic...
View full detailsHere we explain the most common literary terms encountered in typical units of poetry, short story, novel, and drama. Terms for poetry classes incl...
View full detailsWilliam Wordsworth is the greatest figure of the Romantic Age in English literature, and ranks with Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton as one of the ...
View full detailsAleksandr Solzhenitsyn symbolizes the conscience of the Soviet Union, and his literature presents the inhumanity of any society that fails to value...
View full detailsJane Austen is one of the few writers that is a favorite of both literary scholars and the reading public, and her six novels rank among the classi...
View full detailsGuy DeMaupassant fashioned many unforgettable stories and characters and, for himself, a place in history as the father of the modern short story. ...
View full detailsFor Algerian-born Albert Camus, World War II raised ethical doubts and questions about the “dilemma of existence itself.” In his plays, essays, and...
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