American poetry since 1945 /
edited by Eleanor Spencer
- London : Palgrave, 2017.
- xxii, 250 pages ; 22 cm
- New casebooks (Palgrave (Firm)) .
"A collection of all new critical essays by contemporary scholars"--Cover.
'I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear' : introduction / Eleanor Spencer -- Part I. Poets. 'Whims & emergencies, discoveries, losses' : the poetry of John Berryman / Stephen Matterson -- Robert Lowell : Protean poet / Steven Gould Axelrod -- Making and making do : the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop / Linda Anderson -- Adrienne Rich : poetry and social change / Wendy Martin and Lauren Morrison -- 'A work of art that the critic cannot even talk about' : the poetry of John Ashbery / Eleanor Spencer -- Sylvia Plath in the early twenty-first century / Tracy Brain -- 'You asked me to sing then you seemed not to hear' : African American poetry since 1945 / Lauri Ramey -- Part II. Form and genre. The great divide? Post-confessional and language poetry / Paul Batchelor -- The art of exclusion : form and prosody in American poetry since 1970 / David Caplan -- The art of losing : American elegy since 1945 / Stephen Regan -- Part III. Movements and moments. 'Singularly rich' : Donald Allen's The new American poetry 1945-1960 / Rory Waterman -- Not quite the end of the world : American poetry since 2000 / Stephen Burt.
This collection of brand new essays by a leading team of experts encourages readers to appreciate the rich formal, thematic, and ethnic diversity and inclusivity of post-war American poetry. It provides fresh critical perspectives on, and ways of reading, familiar poets such as Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell.
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American poetry--History and criticism.--20th century