A new century -- Modernist expatriates: Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot -- Lyric modernism: Wallace Stephens and Hart Crane -- Gendered modernism -- William Carlos Williams and the modernist American scene -- From the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement -- The New Criticism and poetic formalism -- The Confessional Movement -- Lyric as meditation -- The New American Poetry and the postmodern avant-garde
Summary
The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry is designed to give readers a brief but thorough introduction to the various movements, schools, and groups of American poets in the twentieth century. It will help readers to understand and analyze modern and contemporary poems
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-214) and index