Poems containing history : twentieth-century American poetry's engagement with the past /
Grieve-Carlson, Gary,author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-211) and index.
History and poetry -- Stephen Vincent Benét: John Brown's body and the meaning of the Civil War -- Macleish's Conquistador: history as metaphor -- A usable past: Robert Penn Warren's Brother to dragons -- T.S. Eliot: awaking from the nightmare of history -- The varieties of history in Hart Crane's The bridge -- Carolyn Forché: history and theophany -- Ezra Pound and the problem of history -- Getting the news from poems: William Carlos Williams's In the American grain and Paterson -- Charles Olson's Maximus: looking for oneself -- Looking for the evidence.
American poetry
Literature and history
History in literature.