A Concise Companion To Twentieth Century American Poetry

Author : Stephen Fredman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405141441
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Concise Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry written by Stephen Fredman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Burt Kimmelman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816046980
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Facts on File Companion to 20th-century American Poetry written by Burt Kimmelman and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes more than six hundred A-to-Z entries which provide concise information on particular poems, poets, and subjects which have contributed to this literary form.

Author : Christopher MacGowan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470779799
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twentieth-Century American Poetry written by Christopher MacGowan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Dana Gioia
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1200 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twentieth-century American Poetry written by Dana Gioia and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 2004 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : Rita Dove
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 0143106430
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-century American Poetry written by Rita Dove and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2011 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Christopher John MacGowan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781782689829
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twentieth-century American Poetry written by Christopher John MacGowan and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Gray
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521205160
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Poetry of the Twentieth Century written by Richard Gray and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1976-06-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eric L. Haralson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415890779
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Poetry written by Eric L. Haralson and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Concise and well-written essays." - Choice "A valuable tool for students interested in 20th-century American poetry.' - Booklist/RBB This volume contains over 400 entries that treat a broad range of individual poets and poems, along with many articles devoted to topics, schools, or periods of American verse in the twentieth century. Entries fall into three main categories: poet entries, which provide biographical and cultural contexts for the author's career; entries on individual works, which offer closer explication of the most resonant poems in the 20th-century canon; topical entries, looking at eras, school, themes, and verse traditions of the USA. Comprehensive and fully indexed, this crucial resource is available now in paperback.

Author : Eric L. Haralson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317763246
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century written by Eric L. Haralson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions from over 100 scholars, the Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Centry provides essays on the careers, works, and backgrounds of more than 100 nineteenth-century poets. It also provides entries on specialized categories of twentieth-century verse such as hymns, folk ballads, spirituals, Civil War songs, and Native American poetry. Besides presenting essential factual information, each entry amounts to an in-depth critical essay, and includes a bibliography that directs readers to other works by and about a particular poet.

Author : Edward Estlin Cummings
Publisher : Library of America: The Americ
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1064 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Poetry: The Twentieth Century Vol. 2 (LOA #116) written by Edward Estlin Cummings and published by Library of America: The Americ. This book was released on 2000-03-20 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthology of poems by 20th century American poets.