Encyclopedia of American Poetry
Subtitle: The Twentieth Century
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge; Fitzroy Dearborn
Published: June 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 750
ISBN-13: 9781579582401
Subjects: Poetry & poets: from c 1900 -; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; English; USA; American - General; Poetry; Reference; Reference / General; 20th century; American poetry; Bio-bibliography; Biography; Dictionaries; Poets, American
Description: Contains over 400 entries that treat a broad range of individual poets and poems, along with many articles devoted to topics, schools, or periods of American verse in the century. Entries fall into three main categories: poet entries, which provide biographical and cultural contexts for the author's career; entries on individual works, which offer closer explication of the most resonant poems in the 20th-century canon; and topical entries, which offer analyses of a given period of literary production, school, thematically constructed category, or other verse tradition that historically has been in dialogue with the poetry of the United States.