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This article analyzes the literary works of Jacques Prévert, particularly the poetic collection entitled Grand bal du printemps. Much of Prévert's artistic and literary production is widely known by academicians as well as by his favorite subject--the everyday person. There remains some work by Prévert, however, that has disappeared from the cultural radar. Why a given work becomes invisible to the literary and artistic consumer is difficult to ascertain and is specific to the unnoticed work itself. Grand bal du printemps, a poetic collection written by Prévert in the 1950s, presents one example of a comparatively unknown work by a relatively famous author. Whereas there are numerous books, special journal volumes, book chapters, journal articles, biographies, papers at conferences, and conference panels dedicated to the study of Jacques Prévert's life and work, Grand bal du printemps is rarely mentioned. Having made his debut in the poetry world with his well-received Paroles in 1946, Jacques Prévert quickly established himself as the poet laureate of the streets of Paris. Using the everyday language he found around him, he celebrated the daily life and the streets of Paris in the poems that make up Paroles. In this collection, he raised common, everyday objects from the streets to a poetic level, all the while depoeticizing his poetry in order to accomplish his task. His style is comprised of spoken discourse and simple and direct images. As a result, his poetry has appealed to and been read by people from all lifestyles.

The article provides literary criticism to poems of Emily Dickinson and influence of poet R.W. Emerson on his writing. Topics discusses include exploration by feminist critics on social powerlessness in Dickinson's poetry, structure and distinctive language of Dickinson's poems, connection between Daoism, Chan Buddhism, and the works of both R.W. Emerson and Dickinson, Dickinson's exploration of cultivation, meditation, and spontaneous action.

The article focuses on the poetry of Irish Poet W. B. Yeats in Alice McDermott's book "Charming Billy." Topics discussed include relation between Yeat's poetry and the character Billy's life, truth of Billy's life and charges of life lived in fancy, in alcohol and Yeats and embellished memory that has affected many Irish Americans.

The article presents a literary criticism of the 1700 book "Fables," which comprises of a collection of translations of classical and medieval poetry by John Dryden. Particular focus is given to how Dryden's translations explore issues of materialism, the divine and life's impermanence. The poem "Of the Pythagorean Philosophy" is also discussed in detail.

An introduction is presented in which several papers submitted for Special Session 11, 'Swift's Poetry,' at the convention of the Modern Language Association of America in December 1976 are examined.

This article offers poetry criticism of several works by American poet Robert Lowell, including the books "Life Studies" and "The Mills of the Kavanaughs." The author addresses the attention to dramatic monologues in these works, focusing on the structure and use of confession in poems such as "Man and Wife," "To Speak of the Woe That Is in Marriage," and "The Mills of the Kavanaughs."

This article presents an examination into the visual aspects of the poem "The DNA Molecule" by the American writer May Swenson. Details are given outlining how the work utilized layout effects to construct the poems visually, such as using a double-helix shape. Discussion is offered regarding Swenson's engagement with visual form in the context of the larger 20th century conventions.

This essay presents criticism of James Thomson's poetry cycle "The Seasons," particularly the poem "Winter," and discusses its relationship to the development and revision of the collective work. An overview of the textual history of the work is given, analyzing the thematic and structural revisions made between 1730-1760.

This article presents a literary criticism of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's narrative poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," discussing its use of paradoxical juxtaposition and the theme of atonement. Discussion is offered regarding the religious themes present in the work, examining Coleridge's internal debate over the Christian doctrines of the Atonement and Redemption.

This essay focuses on topography and the influence of poet William Wordsworth in the poetry of Edmund Blunden and Siegfried Sassoon. The author claims that both Blunden's and Sassoon's wartime poetry deals with the theme of the poet's relationship to nature, highlighting the conflict between the poet and the external world. The author discusses themes in Wordsworth's poetry, Blunden's book "Undertones of War," and Sassoon's "The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston."

This article focuses on "Sir Orfeo," a fourteenth-century anonymous poem that tells the story of Orfeo and his wife Heurodis. According to the author, the key to interpreting the poem is centered around the body of Heurodis. The author discusses the significance of Heurodis' self-mutilation, the connection between Heurodis and Orfeo's kingdom, and Heurodis' abduction.

In this essay the author focuses on the spirituality of poet Walt Whitman as seen in his poetry collection "Leaves of Grass." The author asserts that Whitman's spiritual message develops throughout the different editions of "Leaves of Grass," and that readers must approach Whitman's poetry as a whole in order to appreciate this message. The author analyzes themes in several of Whitman's poems.

This article focuses on place and the settings in Philip Larkin's poems. The author argues that the settings are indeterminate, citing that only 16 of 172 poems written between 1946 and 1983 refer to specific locations. The author suggests that the reason for Larkin's 'non-places' is that he has said that he preferred to be "on the periphery."

The author discusses the poetic genres and the poem "The Seasons," by James Thomson. The author argues that "The Seasons" is not an epic poem. The genre of 18th century long poems is discussed. "The Seasons" is compared to other poems that are considered long poetry, including "The Excursion," by David Mallet. The criticism that "The Seasons" received by 18th century critics is presented.

Analyzes the perception of physician Erasmus Darwin on visionary science and romantic poetry. Background of Darwin on poetry and literature; Information on the evolutionary theory formulated by Darwin; Contributions of Darwin to the field of visionary science and romantic poetry.

This article analyzes eighteenth-century poetry, particularly the poem entitled The Seasons, by James Thomson. Eighteenth-century poetry has been celebrated as a field that is becoming increasingly exciting to work in, that has opened out in several directions, and in which new poetic voices have begun to be heard. This recognition of the diversity of eighteenth-century poetry requires a new kind of critical response, one that is more flexible and varied. This call for a new approach, for a criticism that experiments with different perspectives, is one that had been made a few years earlier to readers of James Thomson. Thomson's most popular poem, The Seasons, should be reconsidered in this new and positive school of criticism. The Seasons has, in recent years, been the subject of a range of politicized readings. Thomson's poetry has been productively explored within the wider context of his patriotism and opposition politics, and there has been a strong trend for reading the passages of landscape description within The Seasons as ideologically infused, an approach that marks the prospect view as a mode of disinterested vision available only to the landowning aristocracy. Much of the writing on Thomson's prospect description within The Seasons has characterized it as demonstrating a triumph of authority over nature that inevitably involves the detachment of the speaker from the scene described.

Examines the application of food imagery among the novels, short stories and poems of several twentieth-century women especially through concretizing sensory depiction of images both literal and figurative. Purpose in using food imagery by women; Discussion on why cooking offer persuasive explanation for women to be drawn to food imagery; Origin of criticism scrutinizing how women use food references; Impact of feminism on the use of food imagery.

Presents an analysis that rehabilitates the values embedded in Dryden's poetic treatment of the male and female contributions to body and soul in procreation and how those roles are integral to the experience of the poem "Absalom and Achitophel." Analysis of Susan Greenfield's argument against the poem; Refutation of the position of Greenfield; Basis of Dryden's characterization of David's inordinate affection for his son, Absalom.

Profiles Stevie Smith, a poet and a writer. Experiences in early childhood; Personal background; Details of her career as a writer and a poet; Novels and poems written by Smith.

Discusses the views of poets William Carlos Williams and Frank O'Hara on the function of news in poetry. Hunted news on Williams' poetry; Exploration of the shifting boundaries between prose and verse in Williams' and O'Hara's works; Similarities between Williams and O'Hara.

Examines the letters written by Win Jenkins in Tobias Smollett's book "Humphrey's Clinker." Significance of the poem "The Grand Question Debated"; Poems written by Jonathan Swift.

Interviews poet W.D. Snodgrass on poetry. Problems of poets at mid-career; Interpretation of the poem 'The Fuhrer Bunker'; Dramatic monologues that he found influential.