Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry

von Altieri

260 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Written by a leading critic, this invigorating introduction to modernist American poetry conveys the excitement that can be generated by a careful reading of modernist poems.

- - Encourages readers to identify with the modernists' sense of the revolutionary possibilities of their art. - - Embraces four generations of modernist American poets up through to the 1980s. - - Gives readers a sense of the ambitions, the disillusionments and the continuities of modernist poetry. - - Includes close readings of particular poems which show how readers can use these works to connect with what concerns them.

• Reihe: John Wiley & Sons
• ISBN: 9781405121064
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 14.03.2006
• Größe: 240 x 161 mm
• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons