{"product_id":"twentieth-century-american-poetry-hardback-9780631220251","title":"Twentieth-Century American Poetry (Hardback) 9780631220251","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTwentieth-Century American Poetry\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eChristopher MacGowan (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780631220251, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 9 December 2003\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e352 pages\u003cbr\u003e1.5 x 25 x 15 cm, 0.652 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"[A] useful reference book, especially for sudents and teachers. [...It is] cogent and clear, sound and well-informed.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Virginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The year's most substantial and accessible reference volume.\" \u003ci\u003eAmerican Literary Scholarship\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWritten by a leading authority on William Carlos Williams, this book provides a wide-ranging and stimulating guide to twentieth-century American poetry. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA wide-ranging and stimulating critical guide to twentieth-century American poetry.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWritten by a leading authority on the innovative modernist poet, William Carlos Williams.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores the material, historical and social contexts in which twentieth-century American poetry was produced.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes a biographical dictionary of major writers with extended entries on poets ranging from Robert Frost to Adrienne Rich.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eContains a section on key texts considering major works, such as ‘The Waste Land’, ‘North \u0026amp; South’, ‘Howl’ and ‘Ariel’.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe final section draws out key themes, such as American poetry, politics and war, and the process of anthologizing at the end of the century.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements. \u003cp\u003eHow to use this Book.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChronology: Significant Dates and Events.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Some Historical And Cultural Contexts Of 20th Century American Poetry:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Romantic Legacy and the Genteel Tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTransatlantic Connections.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTradition, and the Rise of the Universities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRebellion in the Fifties and Sixties: The Two Anthologies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Poetry of Change.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Writers:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEdwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Frost (1874-1963).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCarl Sandburg (1878-1967).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWallace Stevens (1879-1955).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Carlos Williams (1883-1963).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEzra Pound (1885-1972).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eH.D. (1886-1961).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobinson Jeffers (1887-1962).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarianne Moore (1887-1972).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eT.S. Eliot (1888-1965).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Crowe Ransom (1888-1974).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClaude McKay (1889-1948).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eE.E. Cummings (1894-1962).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHart Crane (1899-1933).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLangston Hughes (1902-1967).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLouis Zukofsky (1904-1978).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Penn Warren (1905-1989).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeorge Oppen (1908-1984).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheodore Roethke (1908-1963).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharles Olson (1910-1970).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElizabeth Bishop (1911-1979).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Berryman (1914-1972).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Lowell (1917-1977).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Duncan (1919-1987).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRichard Wilbur (b. 1921).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDenise Levertov (1923-1997).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Dickey (1923-1997).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA.R. Ammons (1926-2001).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAllen Ginsberg (1926-1997).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Creeley (b. 1926).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrank O'Hara (1926-1966).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Merrill (1926-1995).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Ashbery (b. 1927).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGalway Kinnell (b. 1927).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eW.S. Merwin (b. 1927).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Sexton (1928-1974).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdrienne Rich (b. 1929).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGary Snyder (b. 1930).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSylvia Plath (1932-1966).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmiri Baraka (b. 1934).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSonia Sanchez (b. 1934).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAudre Lorde (1934-1992).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSusan Howe (b. 1937).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLouise Gluck (b. 1943).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJorie Graham (b. 1951).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGary Soto (b. 1952).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRita Dove (b. 1952).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. Key Texts\u003c\/b\u003e:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEzra Pound, ed. \u003ci\u003eDes Imagistes\u003c\/i\u003e (1914).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Frost, \u003ci\u003eNorth of Boston\u003c\/i\u003e (1914).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEdwin Arlington Robinson, \u003ci\u003eThe Man Against the Sky\u003c\/i\u003e (1916).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eT.S. Eliot, \u003ci\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/i\u003e (1922).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClaude McKay, \u003ci\u003eHarlem Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e (1922).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Carlos Williams, \u003ci\u003eSpring and All\u003c\/i\u003e (1923).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWallace Stevens, \u003ci\u003eHarmonium\u003c\/i\u003e (1923).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarianne Moore, \u003ci\u003eObservations\u003c\/i\u003e (1924).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHart Crane, \u003ci\u003eThe Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e (1930).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheodore Roethke, \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Son and Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (1948).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElizabeth Bishop, \u003ci\u003eNorth \u0026amp; South\u003c\/i\u003e(1946).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEzra Pound, \u003ci\u003eThe Pisan Cantos\u003c\/i\u003e (1948).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAllen Ginsberg, \u003ci\u003eHowl and Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (1956).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Lowell, \u003ci\u003eLife Studies\u003c\/i\u003e (1959).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDonald Allen, ed. \u003ci\u003eThe New American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e (1960).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSylvia Plath, \u003ci\u003eAriel\u003c\/i\u003e (1965).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Berryman, \u003ci\u003eThe Dream Songs\u003c\/i\u003e (1969).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmiri Baraka, \u003ci\u003eBlack Magic: Poetry 1961-1967\u003c\/i\u003e (1969).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Sexton, \u003ci\u003eTransformations\u003c\/i\u003e (1971).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Ashbery, \u003ci\u003eSelf-Portrait in a Convex Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e (1976).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Merrill \u003ci\u003eThe Changing Light at Sandover\u003c\/i\u003e (1977-82).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGalway Kinnell, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Nightmares\u003c\/i\u003e (1978).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdrienne Rich, \u003ci\u003eThe Dream of a Common Language\u003c\/i\u003e (1978).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCarolyn Forche, \u003ci\u003eThe Country Between Us\u003c\/i\u003e (1981).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRita Dove, \u003ci\u003eThomas and Beulah\u003c\/i\u003e (1986).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. 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