| Description |
473 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Reprints of articles originally published 1976-1987. |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
The function of criticism -- Looking for poetry in America -- Critical models : on Geoffrey Hartman -- Defensive Harmonies : on Harold Bloom -- The medley is the message : on Roland Barthes -- The hunting of Wallace Stevens : critical approaches -- Lionel Trilling and Wordsworh's immortality ode -- Keats and the use of poetry -- Reading Walt Whitman -- Seamus Heaney -- Stephen Spender : journals and poems -- Donald Davie : self-portraits in verse -- Ted Hughes -- Czeslaw Milosz -- John Ashbery, Louise Gluck -- Allen Ginsberg -- Sylvia Plath -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Anne Sexton -- A.R. Ammons : dwelling in the flow of shapes -- James Merrill -- Adrienne Rich, Jared Carter, Philip Levine -- Charles Wright -- Amy Clampitt -- Dave Smith -- Frank Bidart -- Michael Blumenthal -- Louise Gluck, Stephen Dunn, Brad Leithauser, Rita Dove -- Jorie Graham. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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English-speaking countries -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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Poetry.
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| Indexed Term |
Poetry in English American writers, 1900- - Critical studies |
| ISBN |
0674591526 alkaline paper |
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9780674591523 alkaline paper |
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0674591534 paper |
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9780674591530 paper |
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