A concise companion to twentieth-century American poetry / edited by Stephen Fredman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fredman, Stephen, 1948-

Series:

Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

American poetry.

Intellectual life.

United States--Intellectual life--20th century--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

United States.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2005.

Summary:

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. Written by prominent specialists in the field, the volume helps readers to appreciate the poetry by situating it within overlapping historical and cultural contexts, including: war; feminism and the female poet; ?queer cities?; the influence of the New York art world; African-American poetry and blues; poetries of immigration and migration; communism and anti-communism; and philosophy and theory. Each chapter ranges across the entire century, comparing poets from one part of the century to those of another; and each one balances documentary coverage of context with sharp commentary upon specific poems. The Companion forms an ideal introduction to twentieth-century American poetry for students, while its new syntheses will make it of interest to scholars as well.

Contents:

1 Wars I Have Seen / Peter Nicholls 11

2 Pleasure at Home: How Twentieth-century American Poets Read the British / David Herd 33

3 American Poet-teachers and the Academy / Alan Golding 55

4 Feminism and the Female Poet / Lynn Keller, Cristanne Miller 75

5 Queer Cities / Maria Damon 95

6 Twentieth-century Poetry and the New York Art World / Brian M. Reed 113

7 The Blue Century: Brief Notes on Twentieth-century African-American Poetry / Rowan Ricardo Phillips 135

8 Home and Away: US Poetries of Immigration and Migrancy / A. Robert Lee 151

9 Modern Poetry and Anticommunism / Alan Filreis 173

10 Mysticism: Neo-paganism, Buddhism, and Christianity / Stephen Fredman 191

11 Poets and Scientists / Peter Middleton 212

12 Philosophy and Theory in US Modern Poetry / Michael Davidson 231.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1405120029

1405120037

OCLC:

56913304

Publisher Number:

9781405120029

9781405120036