American poetry
Subtitle: the modernist ideal
By: edited by Clive Bloom and Brian Docherty.
Contributors: Bloom, Clive.; Docherty, Brian.
Series: Insights Series
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Basingstoke
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Poetry -- America.; American poetry.
Description: A collection of specially commissioned essays in which leading scholars and critics define the American modernist canon. Tracing its origins back to Walt Whitman, this radical poetry is inspired by the concept of democracy and extends across American from east to west.
Notes: Includes index.