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020 _a9781137324450
040 _cIGNOU Library
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_a811.509 Am35
245 _aAmerican poetry since 1945 /
_cedited by Eleanor Spencer
260 _bPalgrave,
_c2017.
_aLondon :
300 _axxii, 250 pages ;
_c22 cm
490 _aNew casebooks (Palgrave (Firm))
500 _a"A collection of all new critical essays by contemporary scholars"--Cover.
505 _a '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.
520 _aThis 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.
650 _aAmerican poetry
_xHistory and criticism.
_y20th century
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700 _aSpencer, Eleanor
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