The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry

The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 236
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ISBN-10 : 0521891493
ISBN-13 : 9780521891493
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry by : Christopher Beach

Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry written by Christopher Beach and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-23 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry is designed to give readers a brief but thorough introduction to the various movements, schools, and groups of American poets in the twentieth century. It will help readers to understand and analyze modern and contemporary poems. The first part of the book deals with the transition from the nineteenth-century lyric to the modernist poem, focussing on the work of major modernists such as Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, and W. C. Williams. In the second half of the book, the focus is on groups such as the poets of the Harlem Renaissance, the New Critics, the Confessionals, and the Beats. In each chapter, discussions of the most important poems are placed in the larger context of literary, cultural, and social history.


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