Featuring the journey of life, from virtue to guilt, from idealism to the thick air of here and now, "Songs and Sonnets of Reminiscence" are pale faces that looked over the author's shoulders, are yesterdays walking in the feet of today. Wisam Khalid opens his wounded chest to the winds of fate to see that he fought well and deserves a seat in the Elysium.

The poems are a lover's complaint towards capricious love and inconsistent fate. The scholastic manner in the composition of the poems is very obliging. The author's years of study had taught him a great deal. The breath of Elizabethan...

"A Preface to Colonial American Poetry" is a practical source for anyone interested in American literature. Encyclopedic and groundbreaking, "A Preface to Colonial American Poetry" presents a critical, analytical survey of Colonial American poetry within the context of American literature in general. In clear and easy to understand language, the book chronicles significant events from the arrival of the first emigrants at the Jamestown colony to the Declaration of Independence. The poetry of New England, Middle and South colonies is discussed with its fascinating interplay of diverse...

"A Preface to Colonial American Poetry" is a practical source for anyone interested in American literature. Encyclopedic and groundbreaking, "A Preface to Colonial American Poetry" presents a critical, analytical survey of Colonial American poetry within the context of American literature in general. In clear and easy to understand language, the book chronicles significant events from the arrival of the first emigrants at the Jamestown colony to the Declaration of Independence. The poetry of New England, Middle and South colonies is discussed with its fascinating interplay of diverse...