A Concise Companion to Tentieth-Century American Poetry [Hardcover]

• Helps readers to fully appreciate the poetry of the period by tracing 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 and migration; communism and anti-communism; philosophy and theory.
  
• Each chapter ranges across the entire century, comparing poets from one part of the century to those of another.
  
• New syntheses make the volume of interest to scholars as well as students and general readers.

Notes on Contributors viii

Acknowledgments xi

Chronology xii

Introduction 1
Stephen Fredman

1 Wars I Have Seen 11
Peter Nicholls

American poets’ response to war, with particular attention to Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, George Oppen, Susan Howe, and Lyn Hejinian.

2 Pleasure at Home: How Twentieth-century American Poets Read the British 33
David Herd

How US poets responded and reacted to British poetry, in particular, Romanticism, focusing on Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Cleanth Brooks, Charles Olson, Frank O’Hara, and Adrienne Rich.

3 American Poet-teachers and the Academy 55
Alan Golding

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