Reading the Middle Generation Anew : Culture, Community, and Form in Twentieth-Century American Poetry.
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Reading the Middle Generation Anew : Culture, Community, and Form in Twentieth-Century American Poetry.
Author:
Haralson, Eric.
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9781587296673
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (272 pages)
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.
Abstract:
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 1940s through the 1960s.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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