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Sylvia Plath's short life and intense poetry continue to draw considerable critical and popular attention. This book offers readers fresh perspectives on a writer whose highly personal oeuvre fascinates even after her tragic death.

Edgar Allan Poe not only wrote such gothic classics as ""The Raven,"" ""The Tell-Tale Heart,"" and ""The Fall of the House of Usher,"" he also lived a haunted life worthy of one of his tales. This volume features critical essays from the 19th and early 20th centuries that offer a historical look at Poe and his works.

Nineteenth-century novelist and short-story writer Nathaniel Hawthorne is a key figure in the development of American literature. ""The Scarlet Letter"" and ""The House of the Seven Gables"" are cited among his major achievements, along with several haunting short stories. This book offers an in-depth understanding of the Romantic and Gothic master.

Ralph Waldo Emerson was one of America's most influential thinkers. His essay, ""Nature"" is considered to be the founding document for the Transcendentalism movement, and his influence can be seen in the writings of Whitman, Thoreau, Melville, and countless others. This is a guide on the 19th-century essayist and philosopher.

James Baldwin was as well known in Istanbul and Paris as he was in Harlem. His reputation was made on incendiary and eloquent essays written and published to mass acclaim in the late 1950s and early 1960s as well as a trio of early novels dealing with racism, sexuality, violence, and religion. This work provides an overview of this writer.

A collection of critical essays discuss the works of the French author.