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The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry: Modernism and After (Blackwell Introductions to Literature)

By Charles Altieri

Book information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2006
ISBN
1405121068, 9781405121064
LCC
PS310.M57 A577 2006
Open Library ID
OL3398763M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
737 kB (754290 bytes)
Pages
266\266
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Written by a leading critic, this invigorating introduction to modernist American poetry conveys the excitement that can be generated by a careful reading of modernist poems. Encourages readers to identify with the modernists’ sense of the revolutionary possibilities of their art.Embraces four generations of modernist American poets up through to the 1980s.Gives readers a sense of the ambitions, the disillusionments and the continuities of modernist poetry.Includes close readings of particular poems which show how readers can use these works to connect with what concerns them.

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