Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century
Title | Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Eric L. Haralson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 598 |
Release | 2014-01-21 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317763246 |
With contributions from over 100 scholars, the Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Centry provides essays on the careers, works, and backgrounds of more than 100 nineteenth-century poets. It also provides entries on specialized categories of twentieth-century verse such as hymns, folk ballads, spirituals, Civil War songs, and Native American poetry. Besides presenting essential factual information, each entry amounts to an in-depth critical essay, and includes a bibliography that directs readers to other works by and about a particular poet.
The Routledge Encyclopedia of American Poetry
Title | The Routledge Encyclopedia of American Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Eric L. Haralson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781315800660 |
The Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century contains over 400 entries that treat a broad range of individual poets and poems, along with many articles devoted to topics, schools, or periods of American verse in the century. Entries fall into three main categories: poet entries, which provide biographical and cultural contexts for the author's career; entries on individual works, which offer closer explication of the most resonant poems in the 20th-century canon; and topical entries, which offer analyses of a given period of literary production, school, thematically constructed category, or other verse tradition that historically has been in dialogue with the poetry of the United States.
Encyclopedia of American Poetry
Title | Encyclopedia of American Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Eric L. Haralson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century
Title | Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Eric L. Haralson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 2479 |
Release | 2014-01-21 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317763211 |
The Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century contains over 400 entries that treat a broad range of individual poets and poems, along with many articles devoted to topics, schools, or periods of American verse in the century. Entries fall into three main categories: poet entries, which provide biographical and cultural contexts for the author's career; entries on individual works, which offer closer explication of the most resonant poems in the 20th-century canon; and topical entries, which offer analyses of a given period of literary production, school, thematically constructed category, or other verse tradition that historically has been in dialogue with the poetry of the United States.
American Poetry of the Twentieth Century
Title | American Poetry of the Twentieth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Gray |
Publisher | CUP Archive |
Total Pages | 292 |
Release | 1976-06-10 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521205160 |
Twentieth-century American Poetry
Title | Twentieth-century American Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Dana Gioia |
Publisher | McGraw-Hill Companies |
Total Pages | 1200 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN |
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Twentieth-Century American Poetry
Title | Twentieth-Century American Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher MacGowan |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | 352 |
Release | 2008-04-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0470779799 |
Written by a leading authority on William Carlos Williams, this book provides a wide-ranging and stimulating guide to twentieth-century American poetry. A wide-ranging and stimulating critical guide to twentieth-century American poetry. Written by a leading authority on the innovative modernist poet, William Carlos Williams. Explores the material, historical and social contexts in which twentieth-century American poetry was produced. Includes a biographical dictionary of major writers with extended entries on poets ranging from Robert Frost to Adrienne Rich. Contains a section on key texts considering major works, such as ‘The Waste Land’, ‘North & South’, ‘Howl’ and ‘Ariel’. The final section draws out key themes, such as American poetry, politics and war, and the process of anthologizing at the end of the century.