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This page intentionally left blank TheCambridgeIntroductionto Twentieth-Century American Poetry TheCambridgeIntroductiontoTwentieth-CenturyAmericanPoetryisdesignedto givereadersabriefbutthoroughintroductiontothevariousmovements, schools,andgroupsofAmericanpoetsinthetwentiethcentury.Itwillhelp readerstounderstandandanalyzemodernandcontemporarypoems.The firstpartofthebookdealswiththetransitionfromthenineteenth-century lyrictothemodernistpoem,focusingontheworkofmajormodernistssuch asRobertFrost,T.S.Eliot,EzraPound,WallaceStevens,MarianneMoore, andWilliamCarlosWilliams.Inthesecondhalfofthebook,thefocusison groupssuchasthepoetsoftheHarlemRenaissance,theNewCritics,the Confessionals,andtheBeats.Ineachchapter,discussionsofthemost importantpoemsareplacedinthelargercontextofliterary,cultural,and socialhistory.Thisvolumewillbeinvaluableforstudentsandteachersalike. christopher beach isAdjunctAssistantProfessoratClaremont GraduateUniversity.Heistheauthorofseveralbooksinthefield ofAmericanpoetryandonebookonAmericancinema.Hismostrecent booksarePoeticCulture:ContemporaryAmericanPoetrybetweenCommunity andInstitutionandClass,Language,andAmericanFilmComedy.Heisalso theeditorofArtificeandIndeterminacy:anAnthologyofNewPoetics. The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry CHRISTOPHER BEACH Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge , United Kingdom Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521814690 © Christopher Beach, 2003 This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published in print format 2003 - ---- eBook (NetLibrary) - --- eBook (NetLibrary) - ---- hardback - --- hardback - ---- paperback - --- paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of s for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. For my father, Northrop Beach 1912–2002 Contents Introduction page 1 1 Anewcentury:fromthegenteelpoetstoRobinsonandFrost 7 2 Modernistexpatriates: EzraPoundandT.S.Eliot 23 3 Lyricmodernism: WallaceStevensandHartCrane 49 4 Genderedmodernism 72 5 WilliamCarlosWilliamsandthemodernistAmerican scene 93 6 FromtheHarlemRenaissancetotheBlackArts movement 114 7 TheNewCriticismandpoeticformalism 137 8 Theconfessionalmoment 154 9 Lyricasmeditation 173 10 TheNewAmericanPoetryandthepostmodern avant-garde 189 Notes 210 Glossary 215 Index 217 vii
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