Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry

Written by a leading critic, this invigorating introduction to modernist American poetry conveys the excitement that can be generated by a careful reading of modernist poems.

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• Encourages readers to identify with the modernists’ sense of the revolutionary possibilities of their art.
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• Embraces four generations of modernist American poets up through to the 1980s.
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• Gives readers a sense of the...