A Concise Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry

Stephen Fredman

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2008
• Print ISBN: 9781405120036, 9781405120029
• eBook ISBN: 9781405141444
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: North American Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

This Concise Companion gives readers a rich sense of how the poetry produced in the United States during the twentieth century is connected to the country's intellectual life more broadly.

• Helps readers to fully appreciate the poetry of the period by tracing its historical and cultural contexts.
  
• Written by prominent specialists in the field.
  
• Places the poetry of the period within contexts such as: war; feminism and the female poet; poetries of immigration and migration; communism and anti-communism; philosophy and theory.
  
• Each chapter ranges across the entire century, comparing poets from one part of the century to those of another.
  
• New syntheses make the volume of interest to scholars as well as students and general readers.

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• A Concise Companion to Twentieth-century American Poetry