Technology & American history

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Lawrence S. Rainey

A Poem Containing History offers nine essays that examine Pound's major poem from a historical and contextual perspective, in which the work's textual development is brought to center stage. The result is a significant reconsideration not just a Pound's achievement, but of modernist poetics and its relations with history. The contributors, all major scholars, examine The Cantos from their beginnings in the late 1910s to their inconclusive ending with Pound's death in 1972. Together the essays reconstruct the many contexts in which Pound lived and wrote, and how these affected the evolution of his most important work. Several essays offer comprehensive surveys of the text's publication history, while most examine the development of particular groups of cantos that were produced in succeeding decades. Repeatedly the essays show that Pound's poem was an unstable work in process, one that readily accommodated input from a variety of agents other than Pound himself, and one that may ultimately have escaped his control altogether.

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edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom

Shakespeare's tragedy about two star-crossed lovers from warring families has stirred audiences and readers alike and inspired other artists for generations. This invaluable literary reference guide offers a selection of the finest contemporary criticism of this classic Shakespeare play, plus an introduction from Shakespearean scholar Harold Bloom, a list of other works by the Bard, an annotated bibliography, and an index for easy reference.

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Donna M. Zadunajsky

Tayla's family moves to a new town. She is sad to leave her friends and hopes she can find new ones in her new neighborhood.

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Honor Leigh Winks & Robin W. Winks

We board our boat at Gaspé and travel up the "River of Canada" to Niagara Falls, passing some of Canada's important cities and learning about the exploration and natural history of this region.