The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)

by: Christopher Beach (Author) › Visit Amazon’s Christopher Beach Page See search results for this author Christopher Beach (Author)

Publisher: Cambridge University Press (23 Oct. 2003)

Language: English

Print length: 234 pages

ISBN-10: 0521814693

ISBN-13: 9780521814690

Book Description

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 mode and contemporary poems. The first part of the book deals with the transition from the nineteenth-century lyric to the modeist poem, focussing on the work of major modeists such as Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, and W. C. Williams. In the second half of the book, the focus is on groups such as the poets of the Harlem Renaissance, the New Critics, the Confessionals, and the Beats. In each chapter, discussions of the most important poems are placed in the larger context of literary, cultural, and social history.