03078nam 2200673 a 450 991045148900332120200520144314.01-58729-667-5(CKB)1000000000483590(EBL)843158(OCoLC)216935061(SSID)ssj0000233108(PQKBManifestationID)11176143(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000233108(PQKBWorkID)10220591(PQKB)10901340(MiAaPQ)EBC843158(MdBmJHUP)muse9209(Au-PeEL)EBL843158(CaPaEBR)ebr10354701(EXLCZ)99100000000048359020050901d2006 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrReading the middle generation anew[electronic resource] culture, community, and form in twentieth-century American poetry /edited by Eric HaralsonIowa City University of Iowa Press20061 online resource (272 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-87745-956-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Introduction; 1 Elisa New; 2 Rei Terada; 3 Susan Rosenbaum; 4 Benjamin Friedlander; 5 Diederik Oostdijk; 6 W. Scott Howard; 7 Jim Keller; 8 Trenton Hickman; 9 Eleanor Berry; 10 Stephen Burt; Contributors; Acknowledgments; IndexTen original essays by advanced scholars and well-published poets address the middle generation of American poets, including the familiar---Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Randall Jarrell, and John Berryman---and various important contemporaries: Delmore Schwartz, Theodore Roethke, Robert Hayden, and Lorine Niedecker. This was a famously troubled cohort of writers, for reasons both personal and cultural, and collectively their poems give us powerful, moving insights into American social life in the transforming decades of the 1940's through the 1960's.American poetry20th centuryHistory and criticismWorld War, 1939-1945United StatesLiterature and the warLiterature and societyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryWar poetry, AmericanHistory and criticismLiterary formHistory20th centuryCommunities in literatureCulture in literatureElectronic books.American poetryHistory and criticism.World War, 1939-1945Literature and the war.Literature and societyHistoryWar poetry, AmericanHistory and criticism.Literary formHistoryCommunities in literature.Culture in literature.811/.5209Haralson Eric L948439MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451489003321Reading the middle generation anew2143990UNINA