Written by a leading authority on William Carlos Williams this book provides awideranging and stimulating guide to twentiethcentury American poetry. Awiderangin... » 

Written by a leading authority on William Carlos Williams this book provides awideranging and stimulating guide to twentiethcentury American poetry. Awideranging and stimulating critical guide to twentiethcentury Americanpoetry. Written by a leading authority on the innovative modernist poetWilliam Carlos Williams. Explores the material historical and social contextsin which twentiethcentury American poetry was produced. Includes abiographical dictionary of major writers with extended entries on poets rangingfrom Robert Frost to Adrienne Rich. Contains a section on key texts consideringmajor works such as 8216The Waste Land8217 8216North ampSouth8217 8216Howl8217 and 8216Ariel8217. The final sectiondraws out key themes such as American poetry politics and war and theprocess of anthologizing at the end of the century. «