New Anthology of American Poetry - Beginnings to the Present

Informationen zum Autor STEVEN GOULD AXELROD is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Robert Lowell: Life and Art and Sylvia Plath: The Wound and the Cure of Word, and coeditor of Robert Lowell: New Essays on the Poetry. CAMILLE ROMAN is a visiting scholar at Brown University and professor emerita at Washington State University, Pullman. She is the author of Elizabeth Bishop's World War II-Cold War View and coeditor of The Women & Language Debate: A Sourcebook and a music book series. THOMAS TRAVISANO is a professor of English at Hartwick College. He is the author of Elizabeth Bishop: Her Artistic Development and Midcentury Quartet: Bishop, Lowell, Jarrell, Berryman and the Making of a Postmodern Aesthetic. He is the principal editor of Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence of Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. Klappentext Now available for the first time as a three-volume set, The New Anthology of American Poetry offers the most compelling and wide-ranging selection of poems from the nation’s beginnings to the present day. Extensive introductions, notes, and footnotes make the great poems of each period fully accessible.Each volume invites readers into a diverse world of poetry and culture. Some of the poems are deeply personal, some explore the mystery of otherness, and some concentrate on the enigmas and beauty of poetry itself. The words are rich, contradictory, and challenging. The poets grapple with life and language, striving to say something about themselves and the world we share. Their works reflect the nation’s dizzying cultural changes and provide timeless insights. Zusammenfassung Now available for the first time as a three-volume set! The New Anthology of American Poetry offers the most compelling and wide-ranging selection of poems from the nation's beginnings to the present day. Extensive introductions! notes! and footnotes make the great poems of each period fully accessible for the first time. Inhaltsverzeichnis *DOES NOT INCLUDE POEM TITLES* Preface Acknowledgements PART ONE: FRIET-GENERATION MODERNISMS    Introduction NATIVE-AMERICAN SONGS AAND POETRY NATIVE-AMERICAN GHOST DANCE SONGS SONGS OF DISPLACEMENT, MIGRATION, AND WORK I JINSHAN GE/SONGS OF GOLD MOUNTAIN HAWAIIAN PLANTATION WORK SONGS JAPANESE IMMIGRANY POETRY WILLA CATHER (1873-1947) ALEXANDER POSEY (1873-1947) LOLA RIDGE (1873-1941) ROBERT FROST (1874-1963) AMY LOWELL (1874-1925) GERTRUDE STEIN (1874-1946) TRUMBULL STICKNEY (1874-1904) ALICE DUNBAR-NELSON (1875-1935) YONE NOGUCHI (1875-1947) AMEEN RIHANI (1876-1940) LUIS LLORENS TORRES (1876-1944) ADELAIDE CRAPSEY (1878-1914) CARL SANDBURG (1878-1967) VACHEL LINDSAY (1879-1931) WALLACE STEVENS (1879-1955) ANGELINA WELD GRIMKÉ (1880-1959) GEORGINA DOUGLAS JOHNSON (ca. 1880-1966) H. T. TSIANG [HSI-TSENG-CHIANG](1880-1971) WITTER BYNNER (1881-1968) JESSIE REDMON FAUSET (1862-1961) MINA LOY (1882-1966) ANNE SPENCER (1882-1975) KAHLIL GIBRAN [JUBRAN KHALIL JUBRAN] (1883-1931) JAMIL B. HOLWAY (1883-1946) WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883-1963) SARAH TEASDALE (1884-1933) EZRA POUND (1885-1972) ELINOR WYLIE (1885-1928) H. D. [HILDA DOOLITTLE] (1886-1961) HAZEL HALL (1886-1924) ROBINSON JEFFERS (1887-1962) MARIANNE MOORE (1887-1972) T.S. ELIOT (1888-1965) JUN FUJITA (1888-1974) JOHN CROWE RANSOM (1888-1974) CONRAD AIKEN (1889-1973) CLAUDE MCKAY (1889-1948) MIKHAIL NAIMY (1889-1988) ELIA ABU MADI [MADEY] (1890-1957) ARCHIBALD MACLEISH (1892-1982) EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY (1892-1950) DOROTHY PARKER (1893-1967) SALOMÓN DE LA SELVA (1893-1959) E. E. CUMMINGS (1894-1962) CHARLES REZNIKOFF (1894-1976) GENEVIEVE TAGGARD (1894-1948) JEAN TOOMER (1894-1967) DADA SONGS OF DISPLACEMENT, MIGRATIO, AND WORK II CORRIDOS ANGEL ISLAND POETRY PARLOR SONGS AND BALLADS WORLD WAR I-ERA SONGS PART TWO: SECOND-GENERATION MODERNISMS    Introduction BLUES JAZZ AND MUSICAL THEATER LYRICS GOSPEL MUSIC EVARISTO RIBERA CHE...

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STEVEN GOULD AXELROD is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Robert Lowell: Life and Art and Sylvia Plath: The Wound and the Cure of Word, and coeditor of Robert Lowell: New Essays on the Poetry.

CAMILLE ROMAN is a visiting scholar at Brown University and professor emerita at Washington State University, Pullman. She is the author of Elizabeth Bishop's World War II-Cold War View and coeditor of The Women & Language Debate: A Sourcebook and a music book series.

THOMAS TRAVISANO is a professor of English at Hartwick College. He is the author of Elizabeth Bishop: Her Artistic Development and Midcentury Quartet: Bishop, Lowell, Jarrell, Berryman and the Making of a Postmodern Aesthetic. He is the principal editor of Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence of Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell.

Product details

• Authors: Steven Gould (EDT)/ Roman Axelrod, Steven Gould Roman Axelrod
• Assisted by: Steven Gould Axelrod (Editor), Camille Roman (Editor), Camille P. Roman (Editor), Thomas Travisano (Editor)
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2012
• EAN: 9780813554419
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-5441-9
• No. of pages: 3
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies