Even at the height of William Rose Benét's prominence as a man of letters in the 1930s and 1940s, no one claimed that he was a major poet or would ever be considered one. Praise for Benét tended to emphasize his goodness: the high-minded...

The troubled life of Rose Williams haunts the works of her brother Tennessee. Like a faded Southern belle eternally deserted, she is the model for the withdrawn, disabled "Laura Wingfield" who seeks refuge in her collection of glass animals in The Glass Menagerie. Her...

Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 The Rose Introduction: If Crossways was a first book of lyrics dealing with Indian and Irish themes in a rather derivative and weary pre-Raphaelite manner, the poems of 1893 which appear in the section later called The Rose make more direct...