Roethke was born in 1908 in Saginaw, Michigan. He came from a family of German immigrants. He was a poet, a critic and an advocate of isolationism. According to him, Walt Whitman and Dylan Thomas were his aesthetic guidelines. Roethke … Full sample →

Martin Luther King Jr. was born in a society where racial segregation was nearly omnipresent. People of African or mixed descent could not attend the same schools, sit in the same park, be in the same restaurants or use the … Full sample →

The famous Flannery O’Connor short story A Good Man is Hard to Find has inspired much debate and insightful thinking on Christianity, charity and deceiving appearances. When the short story was adapted into a short film called Black Hearts Bleed … Full sample →

“The Catcher in the Rye” is the central piece of prose, written by J.D. Salinger during the war. The postwar period of 1950ies, which is described in the story, corresponds to the mood and psychological atmosphere of the novel. Salinger … Full sample →

Langston Hughes is a prominent essayist, playwright, novelist, poet, anthologist and translator of Spanish poetry. His literary heritage consists of more than 50 works. Hughes’s family constantly moved from place to place during his childhood and adolescence years. His mother … Full sample →