Reader's Encyclopaedia of American Literature by William Rose Benet
This guide to the field of American literature contains approximately 6500 entries on novelists, playwrights, poets, short-story writers, essayists and critics, important literary works, literary groups and movements, newspapers, journals and magazines, and places and events in American history frequently referred to in literature. This book is designed to be of interest to libraries, university departments, researchers, writers and journalists. A feature of this book is the inclusion of Canadian writing.