Each volume of this reference provides substantial critical essays and biographical information on four to eight major poets from all eras.

Entries provide an introductory biographical sketch, an author portrait…

Classical and Medieval Literature CriticismM assembles and contextualizes critical responses to the works of writers of all sorts--poets, playwrights, chroniclers, philosophers, religious figures, and writers from other genres--from every region…

This illustrated series covers more than 600 writers and illustrators for children and young adults, including such notable figures as Louisa May Alcott, Judy Blume, A. A. Milne, Walter Dean…

Classical and Medieval Literature CriticismM assembles and contextualizes critical responses to the works of writers of all sorts--poets, playwrights, chroniclers, philosophers, religious figures, and writers from other genres--from every region…

An easy-to-use source for librarians, students and other researchers, each volume of this series provides illustrated biographical articles on approximately 75 childrens authors and artists. The series covers more than…

Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately 4-8 novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative writers by providing full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers…

Turn to this authoritative international resource for complete critical coverage of the careers and works of the greatest writers and thinkers of the late Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the…

This highly useful series presents substantial excerpts from the best criticism on the major literary figures and nonfiction writers, including novelists, poets, playwrights and literary theorists, of 1900 to 1999…