A Concise Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry

This <i>Concise Companion</i> gives readers a rich sense of how the poetry produced in the United States during the twentieth century is connected to the country’s intellectual life more broadly. <br /> <ul class=”noindent”> <li>Helps readers to fully appreciate the poetry of the period by tracing its historical and cultural contexts.<br /> </li> <li>Written by prominent specialists in the field.<br /> </li> <li>Places the poetry of the period within contexts such as: war; feminism and the female poet; poetries of immigration and migration; communism and anti-communism; philosophy and theory.<br /> </li> <li>Each chapter ranges across the entire century, comparing poets from one part of the century to those of another.<br /> </li> <li>New syntheses make the volume of interest to scholars as well as students and general readers.</li> </ul>