Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry
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- ISBN 9781405121071
- Weight: 390g
- Dimensions: 153 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jan 2006
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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- Encourages readers to identify with the modernists’ sense of the revolutionary possibilities of their art.
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- Embraces four generations of modernist American poets up through to the 1980s.
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- Gives readers a sense of the ambitions, the disillusionments and the continuities of modernist poetry.
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- Includes close readings of particular poems which show how readers can use these works to connect with what concerns them.
Charles Altieri is Stageberg Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. His previous publications include The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects (2003), Subjective Agency: A Theory of First-person Expressivity and its Social Implications (Blackwell, 1994), Postmodernism Now (1999), and Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry (1990).
