Firsts : 100 Years of Yale Younger Poets / Carl Phillips.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Phillips, Carl, Editor.

Series:

Yale series of younger poets.

Yale Series of Younger Poets

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

American poetry--21st century.

Genre:

Biographies.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (435 pages).

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A masterfully curated collection, drawn from a century of works in the acclaimed Yale Series of Younger Poets The Yale Younger Poets prize is the oldest annual literary award in the United States. Its winners include some of the most influential voices in American poetry, including Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, Margaret Walker, Carolyn Forché, and Robert Hass. In celebration of the prize's centennial, this collection presents three selections from each Younger Poets volume. It serves as both a testament to the enduring power and significance of poetic expression and an exploration of the ways poetry has evolved over the past century. In addition to judiciously assembling this wide-ranging anthology, Carl Phillips provides an introduction to the history and impact of the Yale Younger Poets prize and its winners in the wider context of American poetry, including the evolving roles of race, gender, and sexual orientation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Howard Buck (1884-1947) The Tempering, 1918

John Chipman Farrar (1896-1974) Forgotten Shrines, 1918

David Osborne Hamilton (1893-1953) Four Gardens, 1919

Alfred Raymond Bellinger (1893-1978) Spires and Poplars, 1919

Thomas Caldecot Chubb (1899-1972) The White God, and Other Poems, 1919

Darl MacLeod Boyle (dates unknown) Where Lilith Dances, 1919

Theodore H. Banks, Jr. (1895-1969) Wild Geese, 1920

Viola C. White (1889-1977) Horizons, 1920

Hervey Allen (1889-1949) Wampum and Old Gold, 1920

Oscar Williams (c. 1899-1964) Golden Darkness, 1920

Harold Vinal (1891-1965) White April, 1921

Medora C. Addison (1890-?) Dreams and a Sword, 1921

Bernard Raymund (1891-1977) Hidden Waters, 1921

Paul Tanaquil (1898-1972) Attitudes, 1921

Dean B. Lyman, Jr. (1896-1965) The Last Lutanist, 1922

Amos Niven Wilder (1895-1993) Battle-Retrospect, 1922

Marion M. Boyd (1894-1974) Silver Wands, 1922

Beatrice E. Harmon (dates unknown) Mosaics, 1922

Elizabeth Jessup Blake (1894-1973) Up and Down, 1923

Dorothy E. Reid (1900-?) Coach into Pumpkin, 1924

Eleanor Slater (1903-?) Quest, 1925

Thomas Hornsby Ferril (1896-1988) High Passage, 1925

Lindley Williams Hubbell (1901-1994) Dark Pavilion, 1926

Mildred Bowers (1901-1984) Twist o' Smoke, 1927

Ted Olson (1899-1981) A Stranger and Afraid, 1927

Francis Claiborne Mason (1900-?) The Unchanging Mask, 1927

Frances M. Frost (1905-1959) Hemlock Wall, 1928

Henri Faust (1899?-1976?) Half-Light and Overtones, 1928

Louise Owen (1901-1995) Virtuosa, 1929

Dorothy Belle Flanagan (1904-1993) Dark Certainty, 1930

Paul Engle (1908-1991) Worn Earth, 1931

Shirley Barker (1911-1965) The Dark Hills Under, 1932

James Agee (1909-1955) Permit Me Voyage, 1933

Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) Theory of Flight, 1934

Edward Weismiller (1915-2010) The Deer Come Down, 1935

Margaret Haley (1906-?) The Gardener Mind, 1936

Reuel Denney (1913-1995) The Connecticut River and Other Poems, 1938

Norman Rosten (1914-1995) Return Again, Traveler, 1939

Margaret Walker (1915-1998) For My People, 1941

William Meredith (1919-2007) Love Letter from an Impossible Land, 1943

Charles E. Butler (1909-1981) Cut Is the Branch, 1944

Eve Merriam (1916-1992) Family Circle, 1945

Joan Murray (1917-1942) Poems, 1946

Robert Horan (1922-1981) A Beginning, 1947

Rosalie Moore (1910-2001) The Grasshopper's Man and Other Poems, 1948

Adrienne Rich (1929-2012) A Change of World, 1950

W. S. Merwin (1927-2019) A Mask for Janus, 1951

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

0-300-24964-0

OCLC:

1138494716