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"A substantial addition to our understanding of how American poets from Frost to Lowell achieved that remarkable range of voice that distinguishes modern poetry. It is a pleasure to read."--A. Walton Litz, Holmes Professor of Literature, Princeton University "Sophistication, popular critical wisdom has it, is not American. But Doreski makes us see that very sophistication as part of a twentieth-century version of American literary self-assertion."-- Times Literary Supplement "Doreski persuasively demonstrates how much poetry has changed since Wordsworth and Browning both in terms of form and also, perhaps more significantly, in terms of address and subject matter. . . . Offers many specific and detailed examples of how modern American poetry has extended the possibilities of the lyric poem even as it works within an increasingly autobiographical vocabulary."-- Harvard Review Proposing that modern American poetry requires "limber criticism" informed but not straitjacketed by contemporary theory, William Doreski links the major American modernists to each other and to the larger social and cultural world. Concentrating on such poets as Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Wi

Author

Doreski, William

Publisher

Gainesville : University Press Of Florida, C1995.

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813019406

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, History