The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry: Modernism and AfterISBN: 978-1-4051-2106-4
Hardcover
264 pages
March 2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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Written by a leading critic, this invigorating introduction to
modernist American poetry conveys the excitement that can be
generated by a careful reading of modernist poems.
- Encourages readers to identify with the modernists’ sense of the revolutionary possibilities of their art.
- Embraces four generations of modernist American poets up through to the 1980s.
- 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.