A Concise Companion To Twentieth-Century American Poetry

This Concise Companion gives readers a rich sense of how the poetry producedin the United States during the twentieth century is connected to thecountry8217s in... » 

This Concise Companion gives readers a rich sense of how the poetry producedin the United States during the twentieth century is connected to thecountry8217s intellectual life more broadly. Helps readers to fullyappreciate the poetry of the period by tracing its historical and culturalcontexts. Written by prominent specialists in the field. Places the poetry ofthe period within contexts such as war feminism and the female poet poetriesof immigration and migration communism and anticommunism philosophy andtheory. Each chapter ranges across the entire century comparing poets from onepart of the century to those of another. New syntheses make the volume ofinterest to scholars as well as students and general readers. «