silent partner

In this guide I have given an overview of the time period and listed authors and works. In poetry it is authors only. Under fiction the author's list will mainly help if you are already familiar with that author's name or work and can now place them in a category. Other than that, I have listed the category or theme to the left of the author so you can see what themes/style come up. There may be just one example of that 'style' but the list is there to show the different types of subjects and writing. For the authors I highlighted ones that are either mentioned in the Norton preface AND in the index, or they have come up in more than one spot when I looked at some class syllabii for US colleges that are posted on the web, but it is still quite subjective and somewhat guesswork as to who I think is most important. If anyone knows of anyone major that I missed, please let me know.

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**An extra bit posted 03/11/07**
Prof. Tougaw pointed out to me that some of the authors I listed in this guide are more likely to come up than the others so I thought I should share - Plath, Rich, Roethke and Lowell - and it would be a good idea to be familiar with a few more of their works.
So here are a few other titles from Norton:
Theodore Rothke : Cuttings, My Papa's Waltz, Night Crow, I Knew a Woman, Wish for a Young Wife, In a Dark Time, The Waking.
Sylvia Plath : Morning Song, Lady Lazarus, Daddy, Blackberrying, Child.
Adrienne Rich : Storm Warnings, Snapshots of a Daughter-in Law,
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning, Diving into the Wreck, Power, Transcendental Etude.
Robert Lowell : The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket, Mr. Edwards and the Spider, Memories of West Street and Lepke, Skunk Hour, For the Union Dead