American Poetry: The Modernist Ideal

✍ Scribed by Clive Bloom, Brian Docherty (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 1995
Tongue: English
Leaves: 284
Series: Insights
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Tracing its origins back to Walt Whitman, the Modernist tradition in American poetry is driven by the same concern to engage with the world in revolutionary terms, inspired by the concept of democracy vital to the American dream. But this tradition is not confined to a few writers at the beginning of the century: instead it has been an enduring force, extending from coast to coast and of varying hues: Imagist, Objectivist, Beat. International in flavour but shaped by the language and conditions of America, this poetry continues to speak to us today. This collection of specially commissioned essays brings together leading scholars and critics to define the American Modernist canon, providing a range of perspectives helpful to all those interested in this fascinating poetry.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-9
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)....Pages 10-27
Ezra Pound....Pages 28-46
Hart Crane....Pages 47-61
William Carlos Williams....Pages 62-80
Wallace Stevens....Pages 81-92
Kenneth Rexroth....Pages 93-104
Marianne Moore....Pages 105-119
e. e. cummings....Pages 120-130
Objectivism....Pages 131-142
Frank O’Hara....Pages 143-166
Charles Olson....Pages 167-198
Allen Ginsberg....Pages 199-217
Edward Dorn....Pages 218-231
Robert Creeley....Pages 232-252
Denise Levertov....Pages 253-270
Back Matter....Pages 271-274

✦ Subjects

Poetry and Poetics

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