Reading the middle generation anew : culture, community, and form in twentieth-century American poetry / edited by Eric Haralson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haralson, Eric L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

American poetry.

World War, 1939-1945--United States--Literature and the war.

World War, 1939-1945.

Literature and society--United States--History--20th century.

Literature and society.

War poetry, American--History and criticism.

War poetry, American.

Literary form--History--20th century.

Literary form.

Communities in literature.

Culture in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ten original essays by advanced scholars and well-published poets address the middle generation of American poets, including the familiar---Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Randall Jarrell, and John Berryman---and various important contemporaries: Delmore Schwartz, Theodore Roethke, Robert Hayden, and Lorine Niedecker. This was a famously troubled cohort of writers, for reasons both personal and cultural, and collectively their poems give us powerful, moving insights into American social life in the transforming decades of the 1940's through the 1960's.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; 1 Elisa New; 2 Rei Terada; 3 Susan Rosenbaum; 4 Benjamin Friedlander; 5 Diederik Oostdijk; 6 W. Scott Howard; 7 Jim Keller; 8 Trenton Hickman; 9 Eleanor Berry; 10 Stephen Burt; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781587296673

1587296675

OCLC:

216935061