American poetry
By: Associate editor Irvin Ehrenpreis
Series: Stratford-upon-Avon studies -- 7
Publisher: E. Arnold
Published: 1965
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: American poetry
Description: Studies on American poetry by ten contributors. Notes at the end of each chapter.
Notes: Green cloth; gold printing on spine; dust jacket.

First edition.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Four southerners, by L. D. Rubin, Jr.; title: America and the poet: Whitman, Hart, Crane, and Frost, by J. A. Robbins.; title: The age of Lowell, by I. Ehrenpreis.; title: Idea and expression in Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, and Ezra Pound, by E. Jennings.; title: Imagism: a unity of gesture, by A. R. Jones.; title: The diction of American poetry, by D. Ferry.; title: An ironic romantic; three readings in Wallace Stevens, by M. Bradbury.; title: Criticism and poetry, by W. Sutton.; title: The dark voice of the sea: a theme in American poetry, by D. Welland.; title: Against the grain: poets writing today, by G. Garrett.; title: Also includes material on James Dickey, Randall Jarrell, D. H. Lawrence, Denise Levertov, Robert Lowell, William S. Merwin, Charles Olson, John Crowe Ransom, Theodore Roethke, Karl Jay Shapiro, Allen Tate, Richard Wilbur, William Carlos Williams, and James Wright.