Title Reading the middle generation anew : culture, community, and form in twentieth-century American poetry / edited by Eric Haralson

Published Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 263 pages) : illustrations Contents Confession, reformation, and counter-reformation in the career of Robert Lowell / Elisa New -- Writing as a child : Lowell's poetic penmanship / Rei Terada -- Elizabeth Bishop's theater of war / Susan Rosenbaum -- The best years of our lives : Randall Jarrell's war poetry / Benjamin Friedlander -- Randall Jarrell and the age of consumer culture / Diederik Oostdijk -- Resistance, sacrifice, and historicity in the elegies of Robert Hayden / W. Scott Howard -- Delmore Schwartz's strange times / Jim Keller -- Theodore Roethke and the poetics of place / Trenton Hickman -- Paradoxes of form in the poetry of Lorine Neidecker / Eleanor Berry -- My name is Henri : contemporary poets discover John Berryman / Stephen Burt Summary Ten original essays by advanced scholars and well-published poets address the middle generation of American poets, including the familiar--Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Randall Jarrell, and John Berryman--and various important contemporaries: Delmore Schwartz, Theodore Roethke, Robert Hayden, and Lorine Niedecker. This was a famously troubled cohort of writers, for reasons both personal and cultural, and collectively their poems give us powerful, moving insights into American social life in the transforming decades of the 1940s through the 1960s Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Literature and the war Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century War poetry, American -- History and criticism Literary form -- History -- 20th century Communities in literature. Culture in literature. Community life in literature. POETRY -- American -- General. Community life in literature War and literature American poetry Communities in literature Culture in literature Literary form Literature and society War poetry, American Tweede Wereldoorlog. Gedichten. United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book Author Haralson, Eric L. ISBN 9781587296673 1587296675

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