Twentieth-Century American Poetry

MacGowan, Christopher

Written by a leading authority on William Carlos Williams, this book provides a wide-ranging and stimulating guide to twentieth-century American poetry.

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• A wide-ranging and stimulating critical guide to twentieth-century American poetry.
  
• Written by a leading authority on the innovative modernist poet, William Carlos Williams.
  
• Explores the material, historical and social contexts in which twentieth-century American poetry was produced.
  
• Includes a biographical dictionary of major writers with extended entries on poets ranging from Robert Frost to Adrienne Rich.
  
• Contains a section on key texts considering major works, such as ‘The Waste Land’, ‘North & South’, ‘Howl’ and ‘Ariel’.
  
• The final section draws out key themes, such as American poetry, politics and war, and the process of anthologizing at the end of the century.