{"product_id":"twentieth-century-american-poetry-isbn-9780631220251","title":"Twentieth-Century American Poetry","description":"Written by a leading authority on William Carlos Williams, this book provides a wide-ranging and stimulating guide to twentieth-century American poetry. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA wide-ranging and stimulating critical guide to twentieth-century American poetry.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWritten by a leading authority on the innovative modernist poet, William Carlos Williams.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores the material, historical and social contexts in which twentieth-century American poetry was produced.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes a biographical dictionary of major writers with extended entries on poets ranging from Robert Frost to Adrienne Rich.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eContains a section on key texts considering major works, such as ‘The Waste Land’, ‘North \u0026amp; South’, ‘Howl’ and ‘Ariel’.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe final section draws out key themes, such as American poetry, politics and war, and the process of anthologizing at the end of the century.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Acknowledgements. \u003cp\u003eHow to use this Book.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChronology: Significant Dates and Events.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Some Historical And Cultural Contexts Of 20th Century American Poetry:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Romantic Legacy and the Genteel Tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTransatlantic Connections.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTradition, and the Rise of the Universities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRebellion in the Fifties and Sixties: The Two Anthologies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Poetry of Change.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Writers:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEdwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Frost (1874-1963).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCarl Sandburg (1878-1967).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWallace Stevens (1879-1955).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Carlos Williams (1883-1963).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEzra Pound (1885-1972).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eH.D. (1886-1961).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobinson Jeffers (1887-1962).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarianne Moore (1887-1972).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eT.S. Eliot (1888-1965).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Crowe Ransom (1888-1974).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClaude McKay (1889-1948).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eE.E. Cummings (1894-1962).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHart Crane (1899-1933).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLangston Hughes (1902-1967).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLouis Zukofsky (1904-1978).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Penn Warren (1905-1989).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeorge Oppen (1908-1984).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheodore Roethke (1908-1963).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharles Olson (1910-1970).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElizabeth Bishop (1911-1979).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Berryman (1914-1972).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Lowell (1917-1977).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Duncan (1919-1987).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRichard Wilbur (b. 1921).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDenise Levertov (1923-1997).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Dickey (1923-1997).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA.R. Ammons (1926-2001).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAllen Ginsberg (1926-1997).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Creeley (b. 1926).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrank O'Hara (1926-1966).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Merrill (1926-1995).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Ashbery (b. 1927).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGalway Kinnell (b. 1927).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eW.S. Merwin (b. 1927).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Sexton (1928-1974).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdrienne Rich (b. 1929).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGary Snyder (b. 1930).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSylvia Plath (1932-1966).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmiri Baraka (b. 1934).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSonia Sanchez (b. 1934).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAudre Lorde (1934-1992).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSusan Howe (b. 1937).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLouise Gluck (b. 1943).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJorie Graham (b. 1951).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGary Soto (b. 1952).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRita Dove (b. 1952).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. Key Texts\u003c\/b\u003e:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEzra Pound, ed. \u003ci\u003eDes Imagistes\u003c\/i\u003e (1914).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Frost, \u003ci\u003eNorth of Boston\u003c\/i\u003e (1914).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEdwin Arlington Robinson, \u003ci\u003eThe Man Against the Sky\u003c\/i\u003e (1916).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eT.S. Eliot, \u003ci\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/i\u003e (1922).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClaude McKay, \u003ci\u003eHarlem Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e (1922).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Carlos Williams, \u003ci\u003eSpring and All\u003c\/i\u003e (1923).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWallace Stevens, \u003ci\u003eHarmonium\u003c\/i\u003e (1923).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarianne Moore, \u003ci\u003eObservations\u003c\/i\u003e (1924).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHart Crane, \u003ci\u003eThe Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e (1930).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheodore Roethke, \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Son and Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (1948).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElizabeth Bishop, \u003ci\u003eNorth \u0026amp; South\u003c\/i\u003e(1946).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEzra Pound, \u003ci\u003eThe Pisan Cantos\u003c\/i\u003e (1948).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAllen Ginsberg, \u003ci\u003eHowl and Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (1956).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Lowell, \u003ci\u003eLife Studies\u003c\/i\u003e (1959).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDonald Allen, ed. \u003ci\u003eThe New American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e (1960).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSylvia Plath, \u003ci\u003eAriel\u003c\/i\u003e (1965).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Berryman, \u003ci\u003eThe Dream Songs\u003c\/i\u003e (1969).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmiri Baraka, \u003ci\u003eBlack Magic: Poetry 1961-1967\u003c\/i\u003e (1969).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Sexton, \u003ci\u003eTransformations\u003c\/i\u003e (1971).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Ashbery, \u003ci\u003eSelf-Portrait in a Convex Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e (1976).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Merrill \u003ci\u003eThe Changing Light at Sandover\u003c\/i\u003e (1977-82).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGalway Kinnell, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Nightmares\u003c\/i\u003e (1978).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdrienne Rich, \u003ci\u003eThe Dream of a Common Language\u003c\/i\u003e (1978).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCarolyn Forche, \u003ci\u003eThe Country Between Us\u003c\/i\u003e (1981).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRita Dove, \u003ci\u003eThomas and Beulah\u003c\/i\u003e (1986).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. Topics:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20th Century American Poetry and the other Arts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContinuities and Nationality in 20th Century American Poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmerican Poetry and a Century of Wars.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 20th Century American Long Poem.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnthologies: Polemical and Historical.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGuide to Further Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e  \"[A] useful reference book, especially for sudents and teachers. [...It is] cogent and clear, sound and well-informed.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Virginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The year's most substantial and accessible reference volume.\" \u003ci\u003eAmerican Literary Scholarship\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eChristopher MacGowan\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Literature at the College of William and Mary. He has published extensively on twentieth-century American poetry but is best known as the acclaimed editor of the works of William Carlos Williams.  Written by a leading authority on William Carlos Williams, this book provides a wide-ranging and stimulating guide to twentieth-century American poetry. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe guide is designed to help students familiarise themselves with this period in literature and features:\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAn exploration of the material, historical and social contexts in which twentieth-century poetry was produced, covering literary centers, little magazines, the Harlem Renaissance, sixties counterculture, and multiculturalism, among other issues.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA biographical dictionary of major writers with extended entries on poets ranging from Robert Frost and Langston Hughes to Adrienne Rich and Rita Dove. Both poets who had an impact on the development of poetry during the twentieth century and prominent contemporary poets are represented.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA section on key texts considering major works, such as \u003ci\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNorth \u0026amp; South\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAriel\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e A final section drawing out pertinent themes, such as poetry and politics, the relation of poetry to other arts, and the process of anthologizing at the end of the century.","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990419488997,"sku":"NP9780631220251","price":146.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631220251.jpg?v=1761787752","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/twentieth-century-american-poetry-isbn-9780631220251","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}