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The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry: Modernism and After

The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry: Modernism and After

Altieri, Charles

Paperback

Series: Wiley Blackwell Introductions to Literature, Book 1

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1405121076
ISBN13: 9781405121071
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: Mar 31 2006
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.96 Depth: 9.06
Language: English
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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