LEADER 03078nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910451489003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-58729-667-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000483590 035 $a(EBL)843158 035 $a(OCoLC)216935061 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000233108 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11176143 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000233108 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10220591 035 $a(PQKB)10901340 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC843158 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse9209 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL843158 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10354701 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000483590 100 $a20050901d2006 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aReading the middle generation anew$b[electronic resource] $eculture, community, and form in twentieth-century American poetry /$fedited by Eric Haralson 210 $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (272 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-87745-956-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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; Index 330 $aTen 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. 606 $aAmerican poetry$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zUnited States$xLiterature and the war 606 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWar poetry, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterary form$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCommunities in literature 606 $aCulture in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xLiterature and the war. 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aWar poetry, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterary form$xHistory 615 0$aCommunities in literature. 615 0$aCulture in literature. 676 $a811/.5209 701 $aHaralson$b Eric L$0948439 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451489003321 996 $aReading the middle generation anew$92143990 997 $aUNINA