| Edition |
[First edition]. |
| Description |
xi, 524 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 497-503. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. The "twilight interval": William Vaughn Moody and his circle -- Three poets of the Sierras: Joaquin Miller, Edwin Markham, George Sterling -- The barefoot boy of India: James Whitcomb Riley -- A note on the poetry of George Santayana -- Four women of the "twilight interval": Reese, Guiney, Crapsey, and Teasdale -- "La comédie humaine" of E.A. Robinson -- A note on Stephen Crane -- pt. 2. The "poetic Renaissance": Harriet Monroe and the "poetic Renaissance" -- The Horatian serenity of Robert Frost -- Ezra Pound and the spirit of romance -- Amy Lowell, literary statesman -- The islands of H.D. -- The postimpressionism of John Gould Fletcher -- A formal "objectivist": William Carlos Williams -- The heritage of "The yellow book" and Conrad Aiken -- Three Middle Western poets: Masters, Lindsay, and Sandburg -- pt. 3. The 1920s: Donald Evans: preface to the 1920s -- Edna St. Vincent Millay and the poetry of feminine revolt and self-expression -- Elinor Wylie and Léonie Adams: the poetry of feminine sensibility -- "The romantic traditionists": William Ellery Leonard, Louis Untermeyer, Robert Hillyer, and Mark Van Doren -- Marianne Moore: the genius of "The dial" -- The harmonium of Wallace Stevens -- Three poets of Brattle Street: E.E. Cummings, John Wheelwright, Dudley Fitts -- John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, and a note on Laura Riding -- The Negro poet in America -- Robinson Jeffers and the birth of tragedy -- T.S. Eliot. the twentieth-century "man of feeling" in American poetry -- pt. 4. The 1930s: The national spirit of Stephen Vincent and William Rose Benét, with notes on Lola Ridge and Muriel Rukeyser -- Archibald MacLeish and the "invocation to the social muse" -- The lost generation of John Peale Bishop -- The critical realism of Kenneth Fearing -- Hart Crane: death and the sea. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Zaturenska, Marya, 1902-1982, author.
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