Author : Albert Gelpi
Release : 2015-03-09
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 249/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis American Poetry after Modernism by : Albert Gelpi
Download or read book American Poetry after Modernism written by Albert Gelpi. This book was released on 2015-03-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Albert Gelpi's American Poetry after Modernism is a study of sixteen major American poets of the postwar period, from Robert Lowell to Adrienne Rich. Gelpi argues that a distinctly American poetic tradition was solidified in the later half the twentieth century, thus severing it from British conventions.