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<p>This first anthology of the longest-running poetry series in the United States includes poems by each winner of the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets competition since its inception in1919. An entertaining collection of verse by such writers as Muriel Rukeyser, Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, and Robert Hass, this book is also an essential resource for anyone interested in thehistory of twentieth-century American poetry.<br></p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Founded in 1919 as a way to exhibit the poetic precocity of Yale students, the Yale Younger Poets series has evolved over 78 years into a flagship imprimatur for a poet's first book. As this volume demonstrates, the series remained a venue for late-19th-century neo-classicism until 1933, when the able Stephen Vincent Bent took the helm as judge. James Agee, Muriel Rukeyser and Margaret Walker were all published during his tenure. As Bradley (a winner himself in 1986) describes in his informative introduction, each of the judges carried out their duties with their own styles, from the distant and difficult Archibald MacLeish and the eccentric classicist Dudley Fitts (who selected James Tate and George Starbuck), to the seri

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Author

George Bradley

Publisher

New Haven : Yale University Press

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300074734

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

3.68 / 5 (18 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14