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Modern Poetry After Modernism

Modern Poetry After Modernism

Paperback

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 0195101782
ISBN13: 9780195101782
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Nov 27 1997
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.12 Depth: 9.19
Language: English
In this book, James Longenbach develops a fresh approach to major American poetry after modernism. Rethinking the influential breakthrough narrative, the oft-told story of postmodern poets throwing off their modernist shackles in the 1950s, Longenbach offers a more nuanced perspective. Reading a diverse range of poets--John Ashbery, Elizabeth Bishop, Amy Clampitt, Jorie Graham, Richard Howard, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, Robert Pinsky, and Richard Wilbur--Longenbach reveals that American poets since mid- century have not so much disowned their modernist past as extended elements of modernism that other readers have suppressed or neglected to see. In the process, Longenbach allows readers to experience the wide variety of poetries written in our time-- without asking us to choose between them.

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