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| Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Christopher J MacGowan |
| ISBN: | 0631220259 9780631220251 0631220267 9780631220268 |
| OCLC Number: | 52377476 |
| Description: | xvi, 331 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Chronology: Significant Dates and Events, 1900-2000 -- Some Historical and Cultural Contexts of Twentieth-Century American Poetry -- The Romantic Legacy and the Genteel Tradition -- Transatlantic Connections -- Tradition and the Rise of the Universities -- Rebellion in the Fifties and Sixties: The Two Anthologies -- The Poetry of Change -- A Rich Diversity -- Writers -- Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) -- Robert Frost (1874-1963) -- Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) -- Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) -- William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) -- Ezra Pound (1885-1972) -- H.D. (Hilda Doolittle: 1886-1961) -- Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) -- Marianne Moore (1887-1972) -- T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) -- John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974) -- Claude McKay (1890-1948) -- E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) -- Hart Crane (1899-1932) -- Langston Hughes (1902-1967) -- Louis Zukofsky (1904-1978) -- Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) -- George Oppen (1908-1984) -- Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) -- Charles Olson (1910-1970) -- Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) -- John Berryman (1914-1972) -- Robert Lowell (1917-1977) -- Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) -- Robert Duncan (1919-1988) -- Richard Wilbur (b. 1921) -- Denise Levertov (1923-1997) -- James Dickey (1923-1997) -- A.R. Ammons (1926-2001) -- Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) -- Robert Creeley (b. 1926) -- Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) -- James Merrill (1926-1995) -- John Ashbery (b. 1927) -- Galway Kinnell (b. 1927) -- W.S. Merwin (b. 1927) -- Anne Sexton (1928-1974) -- Adrienne Rich (b. 1929) -- Gary Snyder (b. 1930) -- Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) -- Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) -- Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934) -- Audre Lorde (1934-1992) -- Susan Howe (b. 1937) -- Louise Gluck (b. 1943) -- Jorie Graham (b. 1951) -- Gary Soto (b. 1952) -- Rita Dove (b. 1952) -- Texts -- North of Boston / Robert Frost -- Des Imagistes: An Anthology / Ezra Pound -- The Man Against the Sky: A Book of Poems / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- The Waste Land / T.S. Eliot -- Harlem Shadows / Claude McKay -- Harmonium / Wallace Stevens -- Spring and All / William Carlos Williams -- Observations / Marianne Moore -- The Bridge / Hart Crane -- North & South / Elizabeth Bishop -- The Pisan Cantos / Ezra Pound -- The Lost Son and Other Poems / Theodore Roethke -- Howl and Other Poems / Allen Ginsberg -- Life Studies / Robert Lowell -- The New American Poetry / Donald Allen -- Ariel / Sylvia Plath -- The Dream Songs / John Berryman -- Black Magic: Sabotage, Target Study, Black Art; Collected Poetry 1961-1967 / Amiri Baraka -- The Book of Nightmares / Galway Kinnell -- Transformations / Anne Sexton -- Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror / John Ashbery -- The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977 / Adrienne Rich -- The Country Between Us / Carolyn Forche -- The Changing Light at Sandover / James Merrill -- Thomas and Beulah / Rita Dove -- Topics -- Twentieth-Century American Poetry and Other Arts -- Continuities and Nationality in Twentieth-Century American Poetry -- American Poetry and a Century of Wars -- The Twentieth-Century American Long Poem -- Anthologies: Polemical and Historical. |
| Series Title: | Blackwell guides to literature. |
| Other Titles: | 20th-century American poetry |
| Responsibility: | Christopher MacGowan. |
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Abstract:
A guide to twentieth-century American poetry. It explores the material, historical and social contexts in which twentieth-century American poetry was produced. It also includes a biographical dictionary of major writers with entries on poets ranging from Robert Frost to Adrienne Rich.
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