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The Cambridge History of American Literature Vol. 5: Poetry and Criticism 1900–1950

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Poetry and Criticism 1900–1950

Series The Cambridge History of American Literature, Volume 5

Edited by Sacvan Bercovitch

Publication Date 2003

Hardback ISBN-10
0521301092

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521301091

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521301091

Overview

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. They show how the conditions of literary production in a democratic, market-driven society forced the boldest of the Modernists to try to reconcile their need for commercial remuneration with their knowledge that their commitment to high art might never pay. 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 both the rise of an internationalist academic aesthetics and the process by which the study of a distinctive national literature was instituted. Considered together, these three narratives convey the astonishing Modernist poetic achievement in its full cultural, institutional, and aesthetic complexity.

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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

Introduction

Modernist Lyric in the Culture of Capital

Poetry in the Machine Age

Literary Criticism

Chronology 1910–1950
by
Jonathan Fortescue

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