Published 2008
by Gale Cengage Learning in Detroit, MI .
Written in English
Edition Notes
Statement | edited by J. Scott Bryson and Roger Thompson. |
Genre | Dictionaries. |
Series | Dictionary of literary biography -- v. 342 |
Contributions | Bryson, J. Scott, 1968-, Thompson, Roger, 1970- |
Classifications | |
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LC Classifications | PS323.5 T94 2009 |
The Physical Object | |
Pagination | p. cm. |
ID Numbers | |
Open Library | OL20988648M |
ISBN 10 | 9780787681609 |
LC Control Number | 2008022299 |
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'A History of Twentieth-Century American Women’s Poetry is a clearly written, approachable selection of current scholarship in the field of twentieth-century American women’s poetry. It is an essential purchase for university libraries contemporary American poetry.' Linda Kemp Source: Languages and Literature. Some poets of the nineteenth century, who influenced twentieth century American poetry, and other younger poets, whose primary impact results from poems published after , were not included. In addition, the artificial cutoff of for myself necessitated painful decisions as a number of poets (more than a dozen) whose works I enjoy very. 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. In the twentieth century more people spoke English and more people wrote poetry than in the whole of previous history, and this "Companion" strives to make sense of this crowded poetical era. The original contributions by leading international scholars and practising poets were written as the contributors adjusted to the idea that the possibilities of twentieth-century poetry .
Yet if the major American poets of the nineteenth century had departed, the first important generation of twentieth-century poets was still far from its maturity. Edwin Arlington Robinson was an undergraduate student at Harvard, four years away from publishing his first book of verse; Robert Frost was two years away from. American poetry is poetry of the United arose first as efforts by colonists to add their voices to English poetry in the 17th century, well before the constitutional unification of the Thirteen Colonies (although before this unification, a strong oral tradition often likened to poetry existed among Native American societies). Unsurprisingly, most of the early colonists' work . The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, published in , is the first fantasy written by an American to enjoy an immediate success upon powerful was its effect on the American imagination, so evocative its use of the forces of nature in its plots, so charming its invitation to children of all ages to look for the element of wonder in the world around them that author L. . The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry (Cambridge Introductions to Literature) Christopher Beach Intended as a concise but thorough introduction to the various movements of twentieth century American poets, this book will help readers understand and analyze modern and contemporary poems.