The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry Contributor(s): Beach, Christopher (Author) |
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ISBN: 0511610114 ISBN-13: 9780511610110 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $213.75 Product Type: Open Ebook - Other Formats Published: June 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General |
Dewey: 811.509 |
Series: Cambridge Introductions to Literature (Hardcover) |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. It covers the work of major modernists such as Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and Marianne Moore, as well as the poets of the Harlem Renaissance, the New Critics, the Confessionals, and the Beats. |
Contributor Bio(s): Beach, Christopher: - Christopher Beach is Adjunct Assistant Professor at Claremont Graduate University. He is the author of several books in the field of American poetry and one book on American cinema. His most recent books are Poetic Culture: Contemporary American Poetry and Institution and Class, Language, and American Film Comedy. He is also the editor of Artifice and Indeterminacy: An Anthology of New Poetics. |