A series of biographical sketches of ten women poets: Dickinson, Lowell, Stein, Teasdale, Wylie, H.D., Moore, Millay, Bogan and Deutsch. Gould's purpose in these biographical studies is to show not only the important role played by outstanding women in the evolution of modern poetry, but also to give a sense of the struggle waged by these women for equality of treatment in the arts.

Here is a full-scale portrait of a man who became one of America's foremost painters--one who chose to walk alone in his search for truth in artistic expression. Whether in his native New england or the tropical isles of the Bahamas, his singleness of purpose asserted itself in a life that sacrificed the fulfillment of marriage for the goal he had set for himself ... from his boyhood days in a Boston lithographer's shop to his mature achievement as...