American poetry since 1945. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Eleanor Spencer.
• Editors: Spencer, Eleanor
• Contents: Introduction: 'I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear'; Eleanor Spencer.- PART I: POETS.- 1. 'Whims & emergencies, discoveries, losses': The Poetry of John Berryman; Stephen Matterson.- 2. Robert Lowell: Protean Poet; Steven Gould Axelrod.- 3. Making and Making Do: The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop; Linda Anderson.- 4. Adrienne Rich: Poetry and Social Change; Wendy Martin and Lauren Morrison.- 5. 'A work of art that the critic cannot even talk about': The Poetry of John Ashbery; Eleanor Spencer.- 6. Sylvia Plath in the Early Twenty-First Century; Tracy Brain.- 7. 'You Asked Me to Sing Then You Seemed Not to Hear': African American Poetry since 1945; Lauri Ramey.- PART II: FORM AND GENRE.- 8. The Great Divide? Post-confessional and Language Poetry; Paul Batchelor.- 9. The Art of Exclusion: Form and Prosody in American Poetry Since 1970; David Caplan.- 10. The American Elegy; Stephen Regan.- PART III: MOVEMENTS AND MOMENTS.- 11. 'Singularly rich': Donald Allen's The New American Poetry 1945-1960; Rory Waterman.- 12. American Poetry Now, or, Not Quite The End Of The World; Stephen Burt .- Further Reading.- Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (256 pages)
• Subjects: 811.5409; Literature; American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; America-Literatures; Literary Criticism -- American -- General; Literature: history & criticism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137324474
• Related ISBNs: 9781137324467
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