The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry [Paperback]

This book gives readers a thorough introduction to the movements and schools of American poets in the twentieth century.This book is designed to give readers a brief but thorough introduction to the various movements, schools, and groups of American poets in the twentieth century. It will help readers to understand and analyze modern and contemporary poems. The book book deals with the work of major modernists such as Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and Marianne Moore, as well as groups such as the poets of the Harlem Renaissance, the New Critics, the Confessionals, and the Beats. This volume will be invaluable for students and teachers alike.This book is designed to give readers a brief but thorough introduction to the various movements, schools, and groups of American poets in the twentieth century. It will help readers to understand and analyze modern and contemporary poems. The book book deals with the work of major modernists such as Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and Marianne Moore, as well as groups such as the poets of the Harlem Renaissance, the New Critics, the Confessionals, and the Beats. This volume will be invaluable for students and teachers alike.Intended as a concise but thorough introduction to the various movements of twentieth century American poets, this book will help readers understand and analyze modern and contemporary poems. It covers the work of major modernists such as Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and Marianne Moore, as well as the poets of the Harlem Renaissance, the New Critics, the Confessionals, and the Beats.Introduction; 1. A new century; 2. Modernist expatriates: Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot; 3. Lyric modernism: Wallace Stephens and Hart Crane; 4. Gendered modernism; 5. William Carlos Williams and the modernist American scene; 6. From the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement; 7. The New Criticism and poetic formalism; 8. The Confessional Movement; 9. Lyric as meditation; 10. The New AmerilÃ'