TY  - GEN
AU  - Spencer, Eleanor 
TI  - American poetry since 1945 / 
T2  - New casebooks (Palgrave (Firm))
SN  - 9781137324450
U1  - 811.509 Am35 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London
PB  - Palgrave
KW  - American poetry
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 20th century
N1  - "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
N2  - 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
ER  -