The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 5, Poetry and Criticism, 1900-1950Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell This is the fullest account to date of American poetry and literary criticism in the Modernist period. Andrew Dubois and Frank Lentricchia examine the work of Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Wallace Stevens. Irene Ramalho Santos broadens the scope of the poetic scene through attention to a wide diversity of writers--with special emphasis on writers including Gertrude Stein, Marianne Moore, and Langston Hughes. William Cain traces the rise of an internationalist academic aesthetics and the process by which the study of a distinctive national literature was instituted. |
Contents
1 Anthologies and audience genteel to modern | 15 |
2 Robert Frost | 33 |
3 Wallace Stevens | 60 |
4 T S Eliot | 97 |
5 Ezra Pound | 131 |
Epilogue | 172 |
POETRY IN THE MACHINE AGE | 177 |
Prologue | 179 |
tortured with history | 286 |
the color of modernism | 309 |
LITERARY CRITICISM | 341 |
Prologue | 343 |
1 Inventing American literature | 346 |
2 Intellectuals cultural critics men and women of letters | 402 |
the institutions of modern criticism | 480 |
Chronology | 571 |
the poet as master of repetition | 192 |
in search of a western dialect | 215 |
a poet between worlds | 237 |
a voracity of contemplation | 260 |
Bibliography | 600 |
Index | 609 |
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