The Cambridge History of American Literature, Vol. 8
Subtitle: Poetry and Criticism, 1940-1995 (The Cambridge History of American Literature)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 29, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 576
ISBN-13: 9780521497336
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Poetry & poets: from c 1900 -; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Second World War, 1939-1945; Literature - Classics / Criticism; 19th Century American Prose; American Literature (General); American English; English; Literary Criticism; USA; Poetry; American - General; American literature - History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; American literature; History and criticism
First sentence: A HISTORY of American poetry since 1945 is uncomfortably like a history of the present.