American modernist poets / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold.

Series:

Bloom's modern critical views.

Bloom's modern critical views

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American poetry.

Modernism (Literature)--United States.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The rise of modernism marked one of the major transitional periods in contemporary literature. The American modernist poets created a rich legacy in their verse explorations of a world touched by war, rapid industrialization, and the growing perceived alienation of the individual. The innovators featured in this volume include Ezra Pound, e.e. cummings, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Carl Sandburg and their abiding influences. Critical essays examine these poets and their works, with a chronology, bibliography, index, and an introductory essay by master scholar Harold Bloom completing the title.

Contents:

Introduction / Harold Bloom

Paterson and epic tradition / Peter Schmidt

The cantos of Ezra Pound, the truth in contradiction / Jerome J. McGann

Marianne Moore: idiom and idiosyncrasy / Robert Pinsky

Taming the socialist: Carl Sandburg's Chicago poems and its critics / Mark Van Wienen

Modernism comes to American poetry: 1908-1920 / Roger Mitchell

From etymology to paronomasia: Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, and others / Eleanor Cook

Robert Frost and the poetry of survival / Jay Parini

Uncanny millay / Suzanne Clark

So many selves: the "I" as indeterminate multiplicity / Martin Heusser.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4381-3653-6

OCLC:

714569521