Twentieth-Century American Poetry

ISBN: 978-0-631-22025-1

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352 pages

January 2004, Wiley-Blackwell

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A wide-ranging and stimulating guide to twentieth-century American poetry.
Written by a leading authority on the innovative modernist poet, William Carlos Williams.
Provides information on the material, historical and social contexts in which twentieth-century American poetry was produced.
Includes a biographical dictionary of major writers with extended entries on poets ranging from Robert Frost to Adrienne Rich.
Contains a section on key texts considering major works, such as ‘The Waste Land’, ‘North and South’, ‘Howl’ and ‘Ariel’.
The final section draws out key themes, such as American poetry, politics and war, and the process of anthologizing at the end of the century.