The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry

Altieri, Charles

ISBN 10 : 1405121076 ISBN 13 : 9781405121071

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009

Synopsis

Book by Altieri Charles

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

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. It encourages readers to confront the difficulties involved in tackling this literature and to identify with the modernists sense of the revolutionary possibilities of their art.

Altieri s account embraces four generations of American poets, tracing the ambitions, the disillusionments and the continuities of modernist poetry through to the 1980s. He describes how the sense of liberation created by early modernist formal experiments was followed by disappointment as the limitations of these discoveries emerged. He contends that, in response, poets such as Wallace Stevens and W. H. Auden reformulated modernist strategies to develop new ways for poetry to take social responsibility. Finally, he shows how these transformations were carried through by later poets such as Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Adrienne Rich, and Robert Creeley.

Revue de presse :

Altieri s powerful readings [are] excellent analyses of poems by Oppen and Bishop, as well as by a host of others, [that] offer insights both into the details of the texts and the wider intellectual issues at stake, while the book s differing vocations come together powerfully when it analyses the self–projections of Prufrock. ( Year′s Work in English Studies, November 2008)

"Altieri is thoroughly captivating, especially when his precise, synthetic, and innovative interpretations focus on beloved poets such as T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop and John Ashbery."
(The Wallace Stevens Journal)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Wiley-Blackwell
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1405121076
• ISBN 13: 9781405121071
• Reliure: Livre broché
• Nombre de pages: 260