Title Information
A Concise Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry
Edited by:
Stephen Fredman
eISBN: 9781405120036
Print publication date: 2005
Subject
Literature
»
Twentieth Century and Contemporary Literature
Place
Northern America
»
United States of America
Key-Topics
poetry
DOI: 10.1111/b.9781405120036.2005.x
A Concise Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry
This Concise Companion gives readers a rich sene of how the poetry produced in the United States during the twentieth century is connected to the country's intellectual life.
Written by prominent specialists in the fields, this text will help readers to appreciate the poetry by situating it within overlapping historical and cultural contexts. Each chapter ranges across the entire century, comparing poets from one part of the century to those of another; and each one balances documentary coverage of context with sharp commentary upon specific poems.
The Companion forms an ideal introduction to twentieth-century American poetry for students, while its new syntheses will command the attention of scholars.
Cite this title
Fredman, Stephen (ed). A Concise Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry. Blackwell Publishing, 2005. Blackwell Reference Online. 19 June 2013 <http://www.blackwellreference.com/public/book.html?id=g9781405120036_9781405120036>