The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry [Hardcover]

The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry offers a critical overview of major and emerging American poets of the twentieth century.The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry comprises original essays by nineteen distinguished scholars. It offers a critical overview of major and emerging American poets of the twentieth century, in addition to critical accounts of the representative schools, movements, regional settings, archival resources, and critical reception that define modern American poetry.The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry comprises original essays by nineteen distinguished scholars. It offers a critical overview of major and emerging American poets of the twentieth century, in addition to critical accounts of the representative schools, movements, regional settings, archival resources, and critical reception that define modern American poetry.The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry comprises original essays by nineteen distinguished scholars. It offers a critical overview of major and emerging American poets of the twentieth century, in addition to critical accounts of the representative schools, movements, regional settings, archival resources, and critical reception that define modern American poetry. The Companion stretches the narrow term of literary modernism  which encompasses works published from approximately 1890 to 1945  to include a more capacious and usable account of American poetry's evolution from the twentieth century to the present. The essays collected here seek to account for modern American verse against the contexts of broad political, social, and cultural fields and forces. This volume gathers together major voices that represent the best in contemporary critical approaches and methods.1. The emergence of 'the new poetry' John Timberman Newcomb; 2. Modern American archives and scrapbook modernism Bartholomew Brinkman; 3. Experimental modernism Alan Golding; 4. The legacy of New York Cary Nelsl#8