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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Gail McDonald, University of North Carolina-Greensboro <!--end-->
“Charles Altieri has the almost uncanny capacity to
synthesize complex entities, such as the entire body of poetry of a
major figure or the fraught interplay of a poetic movement, into a
series of clear and incisive philosophical statements. It's not
that he reduces poetry to philosophy--in fact, he gives many
sensitive readings of individual poems--but that he is able to
ferret out what is most crucially at stake in modern poetry and to
present it crisply and succinctly. No one does a better job than
Altieri of showing how much modern poetry has to contribute to an
understanding of modern life.”
Stephen Fredman, University of Notre Dame
“The close readings of sometimes quite familiar poems are
fresh and provocative, and the argument is one that makes a
valuable contribution to our understanding of the legacy of the
major modernist poets."
Christopher MacGowan, College of William and Mary
"Altieri is thoroughly captivating, especially when his precise,
synthetic, and innovative interpretations focus on beloved poets
such as T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, W.H. Auden,
Elizabeth Bishop and John Ashbery."
The Wallace Stevens Journal