02836oam 22004933 450 991081989510332120220831093324.09781405152273(electronic bk.)9781405121064(MiAaPQ)EBC243601(Au-PeEL)EBL243601(CaPaEBR)ebr10158848(CaONFJC)MIL28614(OCoLC)214282100(EXLCZ)991768608460004120220831d2006 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry Modernism and After1st ed.Williston :John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,2006.©2008.1 online resource (266 pages)Wiley Blackwell Introductions to Literature Ser.Print version: Altieri, Charles The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry Williston : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,c2006 9781405121064 Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction:The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry:An Overview -- 2 The New Realism in Modernist Poetry: Pound and Williams -- 3 The Doctrine of Impersonality and Modernism 's War on Rhetoric:Eliot,Loy,and Moore -- 4 How Modernist Poetics Failed and Efforts at Renewal:Williams,Oppen,and Hughes -- 5 The Return to Rhetoric in Modernist Poetry: Stevens and Auden -- 6 Modernist Dilemmas and Early Post-Modernist Responses -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Further Reading -- Index.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. Encourages readers to identify with the modernists' sense of the revolutionary possibilities of their art. Embraces four generations of modernist American poets up through to the 1980s. Gives readers a sense of the ambitions, the disillusionments and the continuities of modernist poetry. Includes close readings of particular poems which show how readers can use these works to connect with what concerns them.Wiley Blackwell Introductions to Literature Ser.American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticismModernism (Literature) -- United StatesElectronic books.American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.Modernism (Literature) -- United States.811/.509112Altieri Charles1259100MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910819895103321The art of twentieth-century American poetry3422063UNINA