A Concise Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry

This Concise Companion gives readers a rich sense of how the poetry produced in the United States during the twentieth century is connected to the country's intellectual life more broadly.

• Helps readers to fully appreciate the poetry of the period by tracing its historical and cultural contexts.
  
• Written by prominent specialists in the field.
  
• Places the poetry of the period within contexts such as: war; feminism and the female poet; poetries of immigration and migration; communism and anti-communism; philosophy and theory.
  
• Each chapter ranges across the entire century, comparing poets from one part of the century to those of another.
  
• New syntheses make the volume of interest to scholars as well as students and general readers.

Author: Stephen Fredman
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 06/10/2005
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.22w x 1.04d
ISBN: 9781405120029

About the Author
Stephen Fredman is Professor of English and Department Chair at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of three books of criticism; Poet's Prose: The Crisis in American Verse (1983), The Grounding of American Poetry: Charles Olson and the Emersonian Tradition (1993), and A Menorah for Athena: Charles Reznikoff and the Jewish Dilemmas of Objectivist Poetry (2001). He has translated three books from Spanish and is also the author of Seaslug, a book of poetry.