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Informationen zum Autor Stephen Fredman is Professor of English and Department Chair at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of three books of criticism; Poet's Prose: The Crisis in American Verse (1983), The Grounding of American Poetry: Charles Olson and the Emersonian Tradition (1993), and A Menorah for Athena: Charles Reznikoff and the Jewish Dilemmas of Objectivist Poetry (2001). He has translated three books from Spanish and is also the author of Seaslug , a book of poetry. Klappentext This Concise Companion gives readers a rich sense of how the poetry produced in the United States during the twentieth century is connected to the country's intellectual life. Written by prominent specialists in the field, the volumehelps readers to appreciate the poetry by situating it within overlapping historical and cultural contexts, including: war; feminism and the female poet; "queer cities"; the influence of the New York art world; African-American poetry and blues; poetries of immigration and migration; communism and anti-communism; and philosophy and theory. Each chapter ranges across the entire century, comparing poets from one part of the century to those of another; and each one balances documentary coverage of context with sharp commentary upon specific poems. The Companion forms an ideal introduction to twentieth-century American poetry for students, while its new syntheses will command the attention of scholars. Zusammenfassung This Concise Companion gives readers a rich sense of how the poetry produced in the United States during the twentieth century is connected to the country's intellectual life more broadly. * Helps readers to fully appreciate the poetry of the period by tracing its historical and cultural contexts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xi Chronology xii Introduction 1 Stephen Fredman 1 Wars I Have Seen 11 Peter Nicholls American poets' response to war, with particular attention to Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, George Oppen, Susan Howe, and Lyn Hejinian. 2 Pleasure at Home: How Twentieth-century American Poets Read the British 33 David Herd How US poets responded and reacted to British poetry, in particular, Romanticism, focusing on Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Cleanth Brooks, Charles Olson, Frank O'Hara, and Adrienne Rich. 3 American Poet-teachers and the Academy 55 Alan Golding Discusses the relationship between poets and the academy, with attention to Ezra Pound, the Fugitives, Charles Olson, the anthology wars, creative writing programs, African-American poetry, Charles Bernstein, and Language poetry. 4 Feminism and the Female Poet 75 Lynn Keller and Cristanne Miller Twentieth-century poetry developed in the context of evolving feminist thought and activism, as demonstrated in the work of Marianne Moore, Gertrude Stein, H. D., Muriel Rukeyser, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, Sonia Sanchez, and Harryette Mullen. 5 Queer Cities 95 Maria Damon The relationship between gay urban sensibility and poetic form, with discussions of Gertrude Stein, Djuna Barnes, Hart Crane, Frank O'Hara, Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, and Allen Ginsberg. 6 Twentieth-century Poetry and the New York Art World 113 Brian M. Reed Poetic responses to New York's avant-garde tradition in the visual arts, with attention to Mina Loy, William Carlos Williams, Frank O'Hara, John Cage, John Ashbery, Jackson Mac Low, and Susan Howe. 7 The Blue Century: Brief Notes on Twentieth-century African-American Poetry 135 Rowan Ricardo Phillips Discusses the effect that t...
