American Poetry and the First World War

Connects American poetry to the emergence of the United States as the leading global economic and political power.

List of contents

1. America enters the War; 2. American intervention in the First World War: poetry as an ideological form; 3. 'Devotions loyal even to death': Alan Seeger, asceticism, Medievalism, and the martial ideal; 4. 'Dulce et Decorum': Edith Wharton's Great War; 5. Some versions of the epic: World War I and the modern American long poem; 6. 'Wristers Etcetera': Cummings, the Great War, and discursive struggle; Conclusion.

About the author

Tim Dayton graduated from Siena College (B.A. 1982), the State University of New York at Albany (M.A. 1984), and Duke University (Ph.D. 1990). He is the author of Muriel Rukeyser's The Book of the Dead (2003) and articles on American crime fiction, American poetry, and historical materialist literary theory and criticism. He is Professor of English, Kansas State University. He is currently leading a project to develop a digital archive of American First World War poetry.

Summary

This book connects American poetry to the emergence of the United States as the leading global economic and political power. It will appeal to advanced undergraduates and graduate students, students of twentieth-century American literature, and anyone interested in American involvement in the First World War.

Product details

• Authors: Tim Dayton, Tim (Kansas State University) Dayton, Dayton Tim
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781108418782
• ISBN: 978-1-108-41878-2
• No. of pages: 278
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Literary studies: poetry & poets, United States of America, USA, c 1910 to c 1919, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets