Modern American poetry, 1865-1950
Title:
Modern American poetry, 1865-1950
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Alan Shucard, Fred Moramarco, William Sullivan.
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Publication Information:
Boston : Twayne, c1989.
Physical Description:
285 p. ; 23 cm.
ISBN:
9780805784510
General Note:
Includes index.
Abstract:
Traces the origins and evolution of modernism in American verse from Emily Dickinson to the objectivist movement.
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Bibliography: p. 268-276.
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Contents:
Emily Dickinson and the two modes of romanticism: repelling attacks on the self -- The late nineteenth and early twentieth century: a tale of paucity -- On to the twentieth century: Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, the Midwestern poets, and the Harlem Renaissance -- The emergence of the modern: Amy Lowell, H.D., Gertrude Stein, Marianne Moore, and the Imagists -- A grrrreat litttttttttterary period: T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound -- A world of ideas, a world of things: Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams -- "The Visionary Company": Hart Crane, E. E. Cummings, and Robinson Jeffers -- Crosscurrents of modernism: The Fugitives and Objectivists.