The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry: Modernism and After

ISBN: 978-1-4051-2106-4

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264 pages

March 2006, Wiley-Blackwell

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An introduction to modernist American poetry written by a leading critic.
Concentrates on ways of enhancing the pleasures of reading modernist poetry.
Encourages readers to identify with the modernists’ sense of the revolutionary possibilities of their art.
Embraces four generations of modernist American poets through to the 1980s, among them T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W.H. Auden and Robert Creeley.
Gives readers a sense of the ambitions, the disillusionments and the continuities of modernist poetry.
Includes close readings of particular poems which show how readers can use these works to connect with what concerns them.