Twentieth-Century American Poetry (Blackwell Guides to Literature)

Twentieth-Century American Poetry......Page 1
Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 10
How To Use This Book......Page 12
Chronology: Significant Dates and Events, 1900–2000......Page 14
Introduction......Page 19
Some Historical and Cultural Contexts of Twentieth-Century American Poetry......Page 25
The Romantic Legacy and the Genteel Tradition......Page 27
Transatlantic Connections......Page 32
Tradition and the Rise of the Universities......Page 37
Rebellion in the Fifties and Sixties: The Two Anthologies......Page 40
The Poetry of Change......Page 43
A Rich Diversity......Page 46
Writers......Page 49
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)......Page 51
Robert Frost (1874–1963)......Page 54
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967)......Page 58
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)......Page 60
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)......Page 64
Ezra Pound (1885–1972)......Page 68
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle; 1886–1961)......Page 73
Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)......Page 76
Marianne Moore (1887–1972)......Page 78
T. S. Eliot (1888–1965)......Page 81
John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)......Page 86
Claude McKay (1890–1948)......Page 88
E. E. Cummings (1894–1962)......Page 90
Hart Crane (1899–1932)......Page 92
Langston Hughes (1902–1967)......Page 96
Louis Zukofsky (1904–1978)......Page 100
Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)......Page 102
George Oppen (1908–1984)......Page 105
Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)......Page 107
Charles Olson (1910–1970)......Page 110
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)......Page 113
John Berryman (1914–1972)......Page 116
Robert Lowell (1917–1977)......Page 119
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000)......Page 123
Robert Duncan (1919–1988)......Page 126
Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)......Page 129
Denise Levertov (1923–1997)......Page 131
James Dickey (1923–1997)......Page 134
A. R. Ammons (1926–2001)......Page 136
Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997)......Page 138
Robert Creeley (b. 1926)......Page 142
Frank O’Hara (1926–1966)......Page 144
James Merrill (1926–1995)......Page 147
John Ashbery (b. 1927)......Page 149
Galway Kinnell (b. 1927)......Page 152
W. S. Merwin (b. 1927)......Page 154
Anne Sexton (1928–1974)......Page 157
Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)......Page 159
Gary Snyder (b. 1930)......Page 164
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)......Page 166
Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)......Page 170
Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934)......Page 172
Audre Lorde (1934–1992)......Page 174
Susan Howe (b. 1937)......Page 176
Louise Glück (b. 1943)......Page 177
Jorie Graham (b. 1951)......Page 179
Gary Soto (b. 1952)......Page 180
Rita Dove (b. 1952)......Page 182
Texts......Page 185
Robert Frost, North of Boston (1914)......Page 187
Ezra Pound, ed., Des Imagistes: An Anthology (1914)......Page 192
Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Man Against the Sky: A Book of Poems (1916)......Page 196
T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922)......Page 199
Claude McKay, Harlem Shadows (1922)......Page 205
Wallace Stevens, Harmonium (1923)......Page 208
William Carlos Williams, Spring and All (1923)......Page 213
Marianne Moore, Observations (1924)......Page 218
Hart Crane, The Bridge (1930)......Page 222
Elizabeth Bishop, North & South (1946)......Page 226
Ezra Pound, The Pisan Cantos (1948)......Page 229
Theodore Roethke, The Lost Son and Other Poems (1948)......Page 233
Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems (1956)......Page 237
Robert Lowell, Life Studies (1959)......Page 241
Donald Allen, ed., The New American Poetry (1960)......Page 246
Sylvia Plath, Ariel (1965)......Page 250
John Berryman, The Dream Songs (1969)......Page 254
Amiri Baraka, Black Magic: Sabotage, Target Study, Black Art; Collected Poetry 1961–1967 (1969)......Page 258
Galway Kinnell, The Book of Nightmares (1971)......Page 261
Anne Sexton, Transformations (1971)......Page 264
John Ashbery, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975)......Page 268
Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974–1977 (1978)......Page 271
Carolyn Forché, The Country Between Us (1981)......Page 274
James Merrill, The Changing Light at Sandover (1982)......Page 277
Rita Dove, Thomas and Beulah (1986)......Page 281
Topics......Page 285
Twentieth-Century American Poetry and Other Arts......Page 287
Continuities and Nationality in Twentieth-Century American Poetry......Page 294
American Poetry and a Century of Wars......Page 300
The Twentieth-Century American Long Poem......Page 305
Anthologies: Polemical and Historical......Page 312
Guide to Further Reading......Page 322
Index......Page 328