A Profile Of Twentieth Century American Poetry
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Author |
: Christopher MacGowan |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 2008-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780470779798 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0470779799 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Twentieth-Century American Poetry by : Christopher MacGowan
Written by a leading authority on William Carlos Williams, this book provides a wide-ranging and stimulating guide to twentieth-century American poetry. A wide-ranging and stimulating critical guide to twentieth-century American poetry. Written by a leading authority on the innovative modernist poet, William Carlos Williams. Explores 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 & 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.
Author |
: Christopher Beach |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 236 |
Release |
: 2003-10-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521891493 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521891493 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry by : Christopher Beach
The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry is designed to give readers a brief but thorough introduction to the various movements, schools, and groups of American poets in the twentieth century. It will help readers to understand and analyze modern and contemporary poems. The first part of the book deals with the transition from the nineteenth-century lyric to the modernist poem, focussing on the work of major modernists such as Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, and W. C. Williams. In the second half of the book, the focus is on groups such as the poets of the Harlem Renaissance, the New Critics, the Confessionals, and the Beats. In each chapter, discussions of the most important poems are placed in the larger context of literary, cultural, and social history.
Author |
: Ilan Stavans |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 769 |
Release |
: 2012-03-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780374533182 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0374533180 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry by : Ilan Stavans
Presents a diverse sample of twentieth century Latin American poems from eighty-four authors in Spanish, Portuguese, Ladino, Spanglish, and several indigenous languages with English translations on facing pages.
Author |
: Stephen Fredman |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2008-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781405141444 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1405141441 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Concise Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry by : Stephen Fredman
This Concise Companion gives readers a rich sense of how thepoetry produced in the United States during the twentieth centuryis connected to the country’s intellectual life more broadly. Helps readers to fully appreciate the poetry of the period bytracing its historical and cultural contexts. Written by prominent specialists in the field. Places the poetry of the period within contexts such as: war;feminism and the female poet; poetries of immigration andmigration; communism and anti-communism; philosophy andtheory. Each chapter ranges across the entire century, comparing poetsfrom one part of the century to those of another. New syntheses make the volume of interest to scholars as wellas students and general readers.
Author |
: Rita Dove |
Publisher |
: Penguin Group |
Total Pages |
: 656 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780143106432 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0143106430 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-century American Poetry by : Rita Dove
An anthology of twentieth-century American poetry, featuring Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Hayden, Gwendolyn Brooks, Derek Walcott, Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, Anne Sexton, and many others.
Author |
: Cary Nelson |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 1249 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0195122704 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780195122701 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Anthology of Modern American Poetry by : Cary Nelson
Bringing together over 100 years of creative and vital American poetry in one volume, Anthology of Modern American Poetry includes over 750 poems by 161 American poets ranging from Walt Whitman to Sherman Alexie. It represents not only the traditionally familiar poetic works of the last hundred years but also includes numerous poems by women, minority, and progressive writers only rediscovered in the past two decades. It is also the first anthology to give full treatment to American long poems and poetic sequences.
Author |
: Duane Niatum |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 434 |
Release |
: 1988-05-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780062506665 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0062506668 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Harper's Anthology of Twentieth Century Native American Poetry by : Duane Niatum
Representing the work of thirty-one poets since the turn of the century, this is the definitive anthology of Native American poetry.
Author |
: Edward Estlin Cummings |
Publisher |
: Library of America: The Americ |
Total Pages |
: 1064 |
Release |
: 2000-03-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSC:32106012272719 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Poetry: The Twentieth Century Vol. 2 (LOA #116) by : Edward Estlin Cummings
Anthology of poems by 20th century American poets.
Author |
: Dana Gioia |
Publisher |
: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages |
Total Pages |
: 560 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105111933052 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Twentieth-Century American Poetics: Poets on the Art of Poetry by : Dana Gioia
This comprehensive chronological anthology includes 58 essays on poetry by 53 poets. Starting with James Weldon Johnson and Robert Frost, the book offers diverse and often conflicting accounts of the nature and function of poetry. The collection includes rarely anthologized essays by Jack Spicer, Rhina Espaillat, Anne Stevenson, and Ron Silliman, as well as work by some of the finest younger critics in America, including William Logan, Alice Fulton, and Christian Wiman.
Author |
: Philip Larkin |
Publisher |
: Oxford Books of Verse |
Total Pages |
: 700 |
Release |
: 1973 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0198121377 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780198121374 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Book of Twentieth-century English Verse by : Philip Larkin
Anthology of about 600 poems from more than 200 twentieth century English poets.