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A history of American poetry, 1900-1940

Title: A history of American poetry, 1900-1940 / Horace Gregory and Marya Zaturenska.
Author: Gregory, Horace, 1898-1982.
Publication: New York : Harcourt, Brace & Co., ©1946.

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Zaturenska, Marya, 1902-1982

Description

xi, 524 pages; 21 cm

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. 497-503.

Contents

pt. I: The "twilight interval". William Vaughn Moody and his circle ; Three poets of the Sierras: Joaquin Miller, Edwin Markham, George Sterling ; The barefoot boy of Indiana: James Whitcomb Riley ; A note on the poetry of George Santayana ; Four women of the "twilight interval": Reese, Guiney, Crapsey, and Teasdale ; "La comédie humaine" of E.A. Robinson ; A note on Stephen Crane -- pt. II: The "poetic Renaissance". Harriet Monroe and the "poetic Renaissance" ; The Horatian serenity of Robert Frost ; Ezra Pound and the spirit of romance ; Amy Lowell, literary statesman ; The islands of H.D. ; The postimpressionism of John Gould Fletcher ; A formal "objectivist": William Carlos Williams ; The heritage of "The yellow book" and Conrad Aiken ; Three Middle Western poets: Masters, Lindsay, and Sandburg -- pt. III: The 1920s. Donald Evans: preface to the 1920s ; Edna St. Vincent Millay and the poetry of feminine revolt and self-expression ; Elinor Wylie and Léonie Adams: the poetry of feminine sensibility ; "The romantic traditionists": William Ellery Leonard, Louis Untermeyer, Robert Hillyer, and Mark Van Doren ; Marianne Moore: the genius of "The dial" ; The harmonium of Wallace Stevens ; Three poets of Brattle Street: E.E. Cummings, John Wheelwright, Dudley Fitts ; John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, and a note on Laura Riding ; The Negro poet in America ; Robinson Jeffers and the birth of tragedy ; T.S. Eliot. the twentieth-century "man of feeling" in American poetry -- pt. IV: The 1930s. The national spirit of Stephen Vincent and William Rose Benét, with notes on Lola Ridge and Muriel Rukeyser ; Archibald MacLeish and the "invocation to the social muse" ; The lost generation of John Peale Bishop ; The critical realism of Kenneth Fearing ; Hart Crane: death and the sea -- Epilogue. Recent American poetry.

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46011800

OCLC

ocm00968375
968375
SCSB-119360

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Princeton University Library