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"This work provides a wealth of information on obscure and overlooked American playwrights as well as some famous ones; it will be a welcome addition for collections specializing in the theater arts." Reference Books Bulletin ... Read more

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"Peterson has done a great service to students of African-American theater. . . . Peterson's scholarship is impressive; the book's format is inviting . . . an indispensable reference book for academic libraries." Choice ... Read more

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This two-volume dictionary provides information about the lives and works of more than 2,000 black American writers from the early 18th century to the present. Each author entry includes a bibliography listing all known published works, with listings of biography and criticism and guides to further information. Biographical information is provided for 600 writers. ... Read more

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Providing biographical, critical, and bibliographical information, a volume includes significant modern black poets and dramatists such as Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lorrain Hansberry, Robert Hayden, Margaret Walker, and Jay Wright. ... Read more

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The plays and poems contained in this volume were written within the space of two years--the last two years of Byron's career as a poet. But that was not all. Cantos VI.-XV. of _Don Juan_, _The Vision of Judgment_, _The Blues_, _The Irish Avatar_, and other minor poems, belong to the same period. The end was near, and, as though he had received a warning, he hastened to make the roll complete. ... Read more

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The second volume of Mr. Murray's edition of Byron's 'Letters and Journals' carries the autobiographical record of the poet's life from August, 1811, to April, 1814. Between these dates were published 'Childe Harold' (Cantos I., II.),
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Of the seventy-three "Epigrams and Jeux d'Esprit," which are printed at the commencement of this volume, forty-five were included in Murray's one-volume edition of 1837, eighteen have been collected from various publications, and ten are printed and published for the first time.

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Two great collections of Byron's letters have been already printed. In Moore's 'Life', which appeared in 1830, 561 were given. These, in FitzGreene Halleck's American edition of Byron's 'Works', published in 1847, were increased to 635.
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Women writers have long been slighted in standard bibliographies, directories, and literary histories. This unique volume--the first fully international biographical and topical guide to women writers--redresses a long-standing inequity. Biographical entries of women writers outline their life and work, also setting each in the context of her time and makes clear her interest today. ... Read more

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The poems included in this volume consist of thirteen longer or more important works, written at various periods between June, 1816, and October, 1821; of eight occasional pieces (_Poems of July-September_, 1816), written in 1816; and of another collection of occasional pieces (_Poems_ 1816-1823), written at intervals between November, 1816, and September, 1823. Of this second group of minor poems five are now printed and published for the first time. ... Read more

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The text of the present edition of _Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_ is based upon a collation of volume i. of the Library Edition, 1855, with the following MSS.: (i.) the original MS. of the First and Second Cantos, in Byron's handwriting [MS. M.]; ... Read more

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The present volume contains the six metrical tales which were composed within the years 1812 and 1815, the _Hebrew Melodies_, and the minor poems of 1809-1816. With the exception of the first fifteen poems (1809-1811)-- ... Read more